Transcendental Power Research Articles

Moral philosophy as an object of Hegel’s debate with Kant in The Phenomenology of Spirit

The history of Hegel’s critical controversy with Kant’s moral philosophy starts with the Frankfurt period of his work, when Hegel first opposed what he believed to be Kant’s absolutisation of the concept of duty and his neglect of the social content of morality. Although Hegel more than once addressed Kant’s moral philosophy, it is only in “Phenomenology of Spirit” that he formulated a more systemic and radical criticism. The basis of his critical argumentation is an attempt to reveal the main contradiction in Kant’s ethics by showing that the fulfilment of unconditional moral requirements leads to the complete elimination of morality itself. By uncovering the internal contradictions in Kant’s unconditional duty, Hegel demonstrates a certain kind of pragmatism in the interpretation of moral duty and offers instead a religious faith in the transcendental power of “communal” consciousness, which will become a principle that supposedly removes all contradictions of a moral worldview. These debates between the two most prominent classics of German idealism on the issue of whether moral demands are universal in nature or are always socially determined, has not lost its significance even today. This is because they present two substantially different ethical doctrines: one affirms the idea of the autonomy of moral consciousness and its formal unconditional character, while the other assumes that a certain moral duty can be legitimate only under specific socio-historical conditions.

Front and Back Covers, Volume 38, Number 6. December 2022

Front and back cover caption, volume 38 issue 6MOURNING THE QUEENThe death of Queen Elizabeth II left a potent absence, not only in the United Kingdom but also in the 14 other Commonwealth realms and fourteen British Overseas Territories of which she was head of state.From Hocart to Graeber and Sahlins, anthropological theories of kingship have drawn attention to the significance of separation from royalty. Social distance grants a sacred quality to the Crown, conferring on it a transcendental power, but one can abstract it so far from everyday life that it becomes an irrelevance.The long reign of Elizabeth meant that she was an everyday presence intimately engrained in the lives of a mass of people while nevertheless maintaining this social distance. Following her death, the ritualization of people queuing to pay their respects, and the mass observation of the transportation of her coffin laid out with the symbols of state, showed this absent presence at its most intense.In this issue, Richard Irvine gives an ethnographic account of the cancellation of National Day celebrations and political events in Gibraltar in the wake of the Queen's death – a particularly poignant mourning, given the sense of separation from a queen who was prevented from visiting Gibraltar for over half a decade for fear of poisoning Britain's diplomatic relations with Spain.What does it mean to express loyalty to the Crown? Here, the Queen's absent presence seems to make possible a form of intentional political identity and self‐determination, allowing Gibraltarians to declare Britishness on their own terms.SMASHED TABERNACLEThe celebrated modernist architectural ruin, St Peter's, Cardross in Scotland, was built as a seminary for priests in the mid‐1960s, a time of optimism for the minority Catholic population. It was completed just as the Second Vatican Council changed the regime of preparation for the priesthood, in place since the Counter‐Reformation. The building's simple, yet radically modern design reflected the architects' interpretation of the older rule of St Benedict.The chiefly Irish working‐class Catholic population underwent profound changes throughout the following decades, becoming more secular and seeking integration into mainstream, predominantly Scottish society. The heavy industries that characterized central Scotland experienced a decline, and a pernicious drug culture haunted working‐class communities.Meanwhile, the building's dereliction mirrored the decline of the faith and optimism of the Scottish Catholic community. Its uncompromising modernity was its downfall. It did not work, leaked throughout and was impossible to live and work in. Its staff was riven with factions, could not afford its upkeep and could not demolish it because of a preservation order. The Catholic Church priesthood was also on the threshold of a sexual predation crisis. Scholarship indicates that this culture had its roots in the seminary as an institution.Dominic Martin, seeking to understand the phenomenon of ‘emptiness’, reflects on the emblematic trajectory of this remarkable building and the mythopoetic insight it provides into the absent future of the Scottish Catholic experience. His analysis draws upon the classic anthropological theory of ritual and recent political and philosophical writing. He concludes by chronicling the unexpected transfer of political allegiance by Catholic Central Scotland to the ascendant Scottish National Party, previously seen as nativist and anti‐Catholic.

Fear and liberation from fear in the writings of Tomislav Ivančić

Much like philosophy and psychology, theology also deals with the phenomenon of fear, each field of study defining it in their own way. What they all share is the understanding of fear as a deeply human phenomenon, affecting man in his entirety and diminishing his abilities. This study aims to present a theological approach to understanding fear, including elements of a therapy that promises man’s liberation from fear. Tomislav Ivančić classifies fear as a spiritual illness affecting both man’s body and soul. This realm of the spirit is healed by a transcendental power rather than by man, and it is precisely this what makes his hagiotherapy special. The therapy seeks to heal both the source and the cause of fear and to equip man for a new life, a life in trust that Ivančić sets against a life in fear. The presented theological method is underpinned by theoretical tenets and emerges from practice. The authors point out its potential contributions in today’s age of increased care for personal health. The study, which is the first of its kind to have been done in relation to this topic, used the hermeneutical approach of interpreting texts within their given context.

Pious publicity, moral ambivalence and the making of religious authority in the Tablighi Jamaat in Pakistan

ABSTRACT Pakistani Tablighis, practitioners of the transnational Islamic piety movement, the Tablighi Jamaat, believe that Muslims have abandoned ‘religion’ (din) for ‘the world’ (dunya) and this has thrust the world into a state of moral chaos (fitna). The only way to draw Muslims to Islamic practice, they say, is through their own distinct, ritualized form of face-to-face preaching (dawat), which is the sacred means for spreading Islamic virtue because it is modelled on Prophetic example. In this article, I argue that dawat represents what Birgit Meyer has called a ‘sensational form’, an authorized set of practices and techniques for mediating a relationship to transcendental power and creating divine presence. But dawat is structured by an internal tension. On the one hand, dawat requires performing the Prophetic model in order to create a ‘direct’ relationship to God, but, on the other, creating a ‘connection’ between Muslims depends on incorporating new genres and mediums drawn from popular culture and mass media that stretch the boundaries of religion. This moral ambivalence, however, does not just lead to moral failure but instead is addressed through an emphasis on pious companionship (sohbat) and through submission to the authority of pious others. Moral ambivalence, therefore, becomes the generative ground for religious authority. The production and reproduction of religious authority in turn serves as the basis for incorporating novel forms of mediation in order to address diverse and changing social, political and economic contexts while retaining the aura of religious continuity.

The Correlation among Religion and Work in the Philosophy of German Idealism

The philosophy that built by German Idealism is obtained and never neglected religion, this is not about the religious dogmas or the fantasy and legendary nature of religion, but it is about the spirit and the crux of religion. Nevertheless, there is always struggled to deprive it from fantasies and rebuilt by philosophical ideas. These ideal philosophers are asserted to reconstruct the stories and imaginary schemes of religion into philosophical and rational thinking. There is a change in the result of this process which is religion is retreated and the metaphysics is slightly appeared. In other word, this change is directed from revelation to metaphysical views.
 In the light of this, the German Idealism is taking two different ways toward religion: the negative direction; which is involved to the critical studies of the basis and construction of religion, and the positive direction; this direction is returned to religion, but this return is happened after reconstruct religion by the critical and rational process. The relation between religion and ethics is one of the subjects that represent this division toward religion. For instance, if we read Kant, Fichte and Schelling, regardless some details and differences between them, and regardless the stages of developing their philosophies, in the general, their philosophy not tried too much to approve the existence of God in the rational way, and they asserted that it is impossible to approve God’s existence in the rational way. That is why in the basic moral is independent and ties to ration not religion.
 The ethical values are absolute, they legitimate themselves by themselves, and they are not legitimated by the transcendental power out of them. The bad is bad, and the good is good, that is why morality became the first foundation for religion, and the true religion is the one is compatible with rational morality. Even, morality is not complete by itself, because it needs motivations and goals, these motivations and goals are not existing inside the morality itself, just God can provide these motivations and goals to make morality complete. God can make human be a moral creature, in return, God reaches human to the endless happiness. To gain this endless happiness which is not available in this life, it requires soul immortality. Form this point, the God and soul immortality which is not approved by ration, the morality make them a logical and obligation necessity.

Limits of empathy: The dementia tōjisha movement in Japan.

How can we imagine someone's experience of illness-even extreme cases, like, for example, psychosis-to the extent that we begin to empathize as if the experience were nearly our own? Based on 5 years of archival research and anthropological fieldwork, I investigate how different forms of understanding and empathy have emerged through the work of people living with dementia (dementia tōjishas), some of who have advocated for the cause in Japan. I show how those with dementia used to be regarded as incommensurable beings, who were sometimes romanticized as having a transcendental power, and how those who care for them have changed their perspectives as they began to see dementia tōjisha as possible versions of their future selves. I also describe the rise of the tōjisha movement and the ways in which it has raised questions about the limits of empathy and instead asserted rights as a basis of understanding. In doing so, dementia tōjisha may be questioning the very foundation of Japanese society, highly invested as it is in the virtue of empathy for maintaining social relations.

Boosting Resilience through Spiritual Well-being: COVID-19 Example

Spiritual well-being is the affirmation of one’s life in a relation to external world, one’s ownself and a transcendental power like God. It reflects positive feelings, attitudes, and perceptions leading to a sense of identity, wholeness, peace, harmony, and purpose in life. In this study, it is predicted that individuals with high spiritual well-being will be more spiritually resistant during the COVID-19 pandemic, which is one of the most noteworthy periods when people need to be psychologically strong and resilient. In this study, resilience has been defined as the individual endurance against difficulties and the ability to bounce back and even get better. Hence we hypothesized that spiritual well-being of individuals will be effective on their resilience. We conducted our study in Turkey among adults older than 20 years old. We obtained 384 usable data and we analysed our date by using SPSS 20.0 program. Results confirmed the assumption of this study, regarding spiritual well-being/ resilience relationship.

A novel RK4-Hopfield Neural Network for Power Flow Analysis of power system

This paper presents a novel Runge–Kutta (RK4) based modified hopfield neural network (MHNN) for solving a set of non-linear transcendental power flow equations of power system. The proffered method is a Lyapunov based energy function approach to minimize real and reactive power mismatches of the system. A set of non-linear differential equations derived from energy function, describing the dynamical behavior of HNN is framed for solving Power Flow equations. These dynamic equations of the network are solved by RK4 method to deduce the unknown variables of the system. The feasibility of proposed method is tested on 5-bus, IEEE 14-bus, 39-bus and 57-bus test system. The analytical equation describing the behavior of MHNN is coded in MATLAB software. The results obtained reveal that the suggested method gives accurate solution and reduces the computational complexity than conventional Newton Raphson (NR) method. The sensitivity analysis is also tested for change in R/X ratio of the system, initial conditions and loading of the system. The proposed method is robust for above specified changes and involves less computational effort. To prove the applicability and consistency of projected method, IEEE 118-bus system has been tested. The power flow solutions found through proffered method are compared with solutions obtained from numerical approaches in order to validate the proposed approach. Moreover, the stability of the system is studied in Lyapunov sense of notion which assures converged solution of proposed method.

Le langage dans la Logique transcendantale de 1812

Les cours sur la Logique transcendantale sont l'un des lieux de la production fichteenne dans lequel le philosophe de Rammenau reflechit sur le langage et en particulier sur la capacite performative de la parole. A travers la deconstruction du discours de la logique commune, deja durement frappee dans les lecons de Zurich de 1794, articulee en trois moments principaux (identifies comme processus ironique, inventio et ruse du langage), la Doctrine de la Science revele le lien entre le mot, le concept et l'intuition intellectuelle et exprime le besoin de subsumer le premier au concept correctement compris, de sorte qu'il puisse reveler la presence d'une pensee synthetique, dont le mot lui-meme est l'image.

Does faith matter? Exploring the emerging value and tensions ascribed to faith identity in South African faith-based organisations

Faith-based Organisations (FBOs) have been at the forefront of a growing interest of the intersection between religion and development. Their value has been recognised as both pragmatic (such as reaching the poorest at the grassroots level and encouraging civil society and advocacy) and, perhaps more contentiously, also ‘spiritual’ in nature because of advantages arising from faith itself (such as hope, meaning, purpose and transcendental power). For many FBOs, religion is far more than an ‘essential component of identity … it is a source of well-being’. In this manner, FBOs challenge the modernist assumptions of traditional development theory, which view the spiritual and physical domains as separate. In fact, for some FBOs, ‘spiritual faith provides the fuel for action’. This paper reports on an aspect of the empirical findings of a South African study and explores both the way in which Christian FBOs understand their Christian identity and the way in which they articulate this through their use of scripture as a motivating or an envisioning tool.

Manevi Sağlık ve Hayata Yönelim Ölçeğinin Türk Kültürüne Uyarlanması

Manevi Sağlık ve Hayata Yönelim Ölçeğinin Türk Kültürüne Uyarlanması

A Note on Transcendental Power Series Mapping the Set of Rational Numbers into Itself

Abstract In this note, we prove that there is no transcendental entire function f(z) ∈ ℚ[[z]] such that f(ℚ) ⊆ ℚ and den f(p/q) = F(q), for all sufficiently large q, where F(z) ∈ ℤ[z].

Making all people full members of the society: new direction of lifelong learning policy and practices in Japan

Nowadays in Japan, people’s social existence may become less well defined as changes are brought about by social shifting. Japan is simply shifting from a society model based on an industrial society to another model, so-called a consumer society. In terms of social structure, this means shifting from the idea of society and economy assuming the presence of a government to a new one based on resident’s own much smaller community, which freely changes its way of connecting, and thereby creates, cycles, and redefines new values perpetually and forever. What these residents are looking for now as they explore how they can weave this new way of configuring society is a way to develop a system that realizes the transition of learning from the government to the community based on lifelong learning activities, and how to go beyond. This lifelong learning is not the same system that has been implemented by the policies of transcendental power. It is one generated by those living in communities who work with their neighbors to actively implement and create the new society.

Rhizome (Re)imagined

As an a/r/tographer, I take up the invitation to contemplate and complicate alternative notions of space and time (Irwin & Springgay, 2008, p. xx). In my poem Rhizome in the Sky, I (re)imagine and (re)conceptualize Deleuze and Guattari’s (1997) metaphor of the rhizome with its interconnected complexity, multiplicity and in-between spaces that “desires, moves and produces” (p. 15). I then take these underground roots that deepen down in the dark earth and I place it in the sky, where I extend these lines of flight into points of light, the branches reaching out heavenward on an endless journey of perpetual becomings. I methodologically affirm, “any elongated form reaches out toward the height, [reaches] toward light” (Bachelard, 1988, p. 259). In the symbolic potency of the poetic image through the lens of spiritual revealing, is where its transcendental power cannot be reduced to the horizontal (Laude, 2004).

Surreal Analysis: An Analogue of Real Analysis for Surreal Numbers

Surreal numbers, which were discovered as part of analyzing combinatorial games, possess a rich numerical structure of their own and share many arithmetic and algebraic properties with real numbers. In order to develop the theory of surreal numbers beyond simple arithmetic and algebra, mathematicians have initiated the formulation of surreal analysis, the study of surreal functions and calculus operations. In this paper, we extend their work with a rigorous treatment of transcendental functions, limits, derivatives, power series, and integrals. In particular, we propose surreal definitions of three new analytic functions using truncations of Maclaurin series. Using a new representation of surreals, we present formulae for limits of sequences and functions (hence derivatives). Although the class of surreals is not Cauchy complete, we can still characterize the kinds of surreal sequences that do converge, prove the Intermediate Value Theorem, and establish the validity of limit laws for surreals. Finally, we show that some elementary power series and infinite Riemann sums can be evaluated using extrapolation, and we prove the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus for surreals so that surreal functions can be integrated using antidifferentiation. Extending our study to defining other analytic functions, evaluating power series in generality, finding a consistent method of Riemann integration, proving Stokes’ Theorem to further generalize surreal integration, and solving differential equations remains open.

β-expansion and transcendence in [formula omitted

The aim of this paper is to prove that the strings of 0 in the β-expansion of 1 exhibit a lacunarity bounded by a quantity related to the absolute value of the conjugate of β when β is an algebraic power series over the finite field Fq with |β|>1. This result provides, in a natural way, a family of transcendental power series β such that dβ(1) is not q-automatic.

Walt Whitman and Expansionary Idealism

Most literary criticisms of Calamus, often read as Walt Whitman’s most obvious display of homoeroticism, bring readers to a rather shallow conclusion — the restorative, transcendental power of personal, visceral connections that bridge the gaps between human beings dwarfs any inner turmoil resulting from uncertainties of life and pretenses of society. This shoddy analysis runs a delicate acknowledgement of homosexual love though the core vein of Whitman’s work. Brian J. Rizzo, a sophomore in the Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science, argues that these readings are myopic and limit Whitman to the realm of theory, failing to acknowledge the true purpose of his writing. Rizzo continues, maintaing that Whitman dismisses society’s narrow schemas of Americanism and homosexuality, renounces the singularity of these terms, and seeks to transition from American exclusivity to American inclusivity. Embarking on a rhetorical examination and eventual redefinition of the very terms Americanism and homosexuality, Walt Whitman expands America into a society where there are multiple normalities — both of sexuality and of personhood — as modes of human existence.

Determination of the parameters of limit state model for structural materials under asymmetric high-cycle loading

The paper considers a procedure for the determination of the parameters of a limit state model for structural materials using a transcendental power function. The model is used to construct limiting stress amplitude diagrams for asymmetric high-cycle loading. The procedure has been tested by comparing the values of limit state model parameters obtained as a result of the basic experiment in pulsating loading cycle with the values calculated by the method of minimization of the sum-ofsquares functional of deviations of experimental diagrams from calculated ones.

The Revolution of The Transcendence

Contrary to the general and common idea that Islam etymologically means submission, surrendering, servitude or even slavery, this paper tries to prove just the opposite, that Islam is a protest, an opposition and a revolution. The term Aslama, in fact, is ambiguous. It means to surrender to God, not to yield to any other power. It implies a double act : first, a rejection of all non-Transcendental yokes; and second, an acceptance of the Transcendental Power. Islam, by this function, is a double act of negation and affirmation. This double act is expressed in the utterance “I witness that there is no god except the God.”

The African Worship Experience - A Historical Overview

The aim of this paper is to view the subject of Praise/Worship from an African Perspective, and to review the significance of its overall historical impact. It is hoped that through this endeavour, a better understanding shall be created and fostered in the mindset of the reader about the need to embrace the necessary awareness that will create the craving for a fuller exploration of the transcendental power of praise and worship.