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Western civilisation is generally presented as a journey from the world of many gods, to the world of one god, to the world of no god, i.e. from myth, to religion to science. This, we are told, is progress, the march of civilisation towards equality, hence Universal Human Rights, one that the rest of the world from Africa through India to China is ...
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This commentary on Lapoujade (Human Arenas, 1, 1–9, 2018) elaborates the author’s ideas from a new angle. It reviews the “liquid” and “gaseous” society at the level of capital and technology and also tries to analyze the origin of the problems of modern society from a philosophic perspective: abstract individuals caused by the subjectification of s...
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This article is a comment on Maria Lapoujade paper “Life Imaginaries in Gaseous Societies.” Maria Lapoujade argues that due to the increase of pace of human, social life since modernity humanity finds itself in a deeply morally degraded and culturally diseased state. Thus, Lapoujade calls for efforts which need to be undertaken from all possible ar...
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This paper examines the influence of cultures on international educational exchange from the context of students from Hochschule Dusseldorf University of Applied Sciences (HSD) in Germany and University for Development Studies (UDS) in Ghana using a qualitative approach of the social construction paradigm. The study highlights differences in concep...
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The article claims that psychological problems cannot be defined by universally meaningful psychological or philosophical scientific terminology, which leads one to consider the actual reality of psychological problems from the universal epistemological viewpoint of ordinary people. In other words, can we as laypeople or professionals reasonably cl...
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In this essay, I address the notion of “talking about oneself” as a linguistic performance of an individual whose object is their beliefs, thoughts, and desires. From here, I consider that our understanding of our own psychological states (such as believing or desiring) is fallible, incomplete, and not illuminating and, strictly speaking, does not ...
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In this article, we investigate the notion of abduction, as it relates to and can be applied in scientific research. We investigate abduction through philosophy of science and the purpose is to survey some of the way abduction can be used in scientific research to the same extent as in- and deduction can be used. First, we perform a walkthrough of ...
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The conversation begins with a reflection on the 1968 student rebellion in Copenhagen University, and its implications for Psychology in Denmark and internationally. Against this historical background, Jens Mammen’s own theoretical works and his approach to teaching are discussed. Also included, are reflections on scientific progress, the current a...
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After the first year of its existence, Human Arenas is celebrating quite impressive results obtained during 2018. The core of the journal’s editorial policy is the innovative concept of “cultivation rate,” which is challenging a too rigid and short-sighted academic publishing system. Human Arenas editorial policy is oriented towards the other as an...
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Today, human beings are living like machines. They are having many sources in the society to get stress. Due to this, their mental and physical health are affected. Our Indian ancients followed more traditions in their daily life activities to maintain their physical and mental health. These kinds of traditions are closely related with the principl...
