Ancient Roots of Contemporary Cosmopolitanism

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Tatiana Shestova
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Social Basis ◽  
Philosophical Doctrine

Abstract Analyzing ancient cosmopolitanism we can identify the various groups of interests behind contemporary globalization models. There are three directions in contemporary cosmopolitanism: egalitarian, libertarian, and mondialistic. Each of them is associated with a certain ancient school – the Cynics, Cyrenaics, Stoics. Each of these three lines has a definite social basis both in Antiquity and in the Age of Globalization. Cosmopolitanism is considered as a universal in time and space philosophical doctrine and ideological principia. Looking at cosmopolitanism through global-historical perspective, we can see its unchanged, permanent essence, which does not depend on concrete conditions. This article looks at ancient cosmopolitanism as a folded (latent) programme of globalization. Using the global-historical approach and the method of historical analogues the author reveals social and philosophical roots of contemporary cosmopolitanism in Antiquity. Some parallels between Hellenistic ethics and Confucian cosmopolitanism are drawn. The directions of ancient cosmopolitanism are compared to those of present.

scholarly journals Allan Boesak, Black Theology and Apartheid: A theological-historical approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Fortein
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
South African ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Black Theology ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
South African Context ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
African Context ◽  
American Black

In this article I will give specific attention to the reciprocal relationship between Black Theology and Allan Boesak based on his lived experience of apartheid from a theological-historical perspective. It is my presupposition that Boesak’s experience of apartheid made him prone to the influence of Black Theology and that he in turn adapted American Black Theology so that it could be made applicable to the South African context. Black Theology unlocked an entire new theological paradigm for Boesak which enabled him to speak prophetically to the challenges and injustices that occurred under apartheid in South Africa. Attention will be given to the emergence of Black Theology in South Africa, how Boesak was challenged by it and how Black Theology, through Boesak, impacted the theological landscape.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Nurfadzilah Yahaya
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Legal Pluralism ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Legal Regimes ◽  
The Indian Ocean

This introductory chapter flips the more common historical perspective that European imperialism led to new patterns of legal pluralism across empires that spawned possibilities for interpolity contact and trade, acting as catalysts for the emergence of global legal regimes. It demonstrates how British and Dutch territorial jurisdictions expressed very specific relationships between territory, authority, and forms of law, and it simultaneously puts into stark relief the preponderance of diasporic Arab merchants generating their own jurisdictions across the Indian Ocean in tandem with those of the European colonist. Not only were these Arabs attuned to legal pluralism being the operative condition of law, they were also acutely aware of jurisdictional ordering and the concentration of power across time and space. The chapter proposes a spatial repositioning of the Indian Ocean from the perspective of Southeast Asia outward toward Hadramawt, a region located in present-day Yemen from which most Arabs in Southeast Asia originated. Ultimately, it presents the result of the legislation after members of the Hadhrami diaspora attempted to bring their own regulation with them, inscribing territorial lines across the Indian Ocean through law.

The Dutch Experience Experienced from Britain

1994 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Hodder
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Research Tradition ◽  
Interesting Paper ◽  
Dutch Experience ◽  
Specific Sequences

From Slofstra's interesting paper it would seem that, in its main essentials, Dutch archaeology has the characteristics of most European archaeological traditions. In particular, it is wedded to an historical perspective, in which attention is paid to specific sequences and contexts. This commitment to history is evident from the Cultural-Historical Research Tradition earlier this century, it is seen in the lukewarm reaction to the generalising claims of processual archaeology, and it resurfaces in the new historical-anthropological perspective. As Slofstra argues, this last move towards a theoretically informed historical approach is a logical evolution within the Dutch tradition even if, as I will suggest below, it is also part of wider trends.

scholarly journals Early Traces of Materiality and Relevance Principles in Luca Pacioli’s Tractatus XI

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Christian Rainero ◽  
Giuseppe Modarelli ◽  
Alessandro Migliavacca ◽  
Riccardo Coda
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Standard Setting ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Luca Pacioli ◽  
Setting Process ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Information Acceptance

This paper aims to investigate the materiality and relevance principles, as observed from a historical perspective, specifically as shown in the Tractatus XI of Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalità, printed in Venezia in AD 1494 by Franciscan friar Luca Pacioli, a real cornerstone for bookkeeping literature. Materiality and relevance principles are today fundamental to manage information and are discriminating for information acceptance. This research questions about how these principles are present in the Pacioli’ treatise. Seven fragments from the Tractatus, within which traces of relevance and materiality can be found, are extracted and analyzed under the IASB theoretical framework and their historical background. This paper contributes to the literature by investigating the principles through a historical approach, that is selected to explore the topic and to argue about the possible causes for which it is possible to find early traces of relevance and materiality in Pacioli's work. Moreover, this research is a contribution to keep the debate open on the need for the participation of the academic world and practitioner, in the standard-setting process, that is currently lacking.

scholarly journals The Synthesis of the Arts: from romanticism to postmodernism

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3B) ◽  
pp. 145-157
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Lisunova ◽  
Inna Prokopchuk ◽  
Tetiana Tanko ◽  
Nataliia Tararak ◽  
Oleksandr Tararak
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Semiotic Systems ◽  
Opening Up

The article devoted to the genesis of the synthesis of the arts. The main research method is the cultural-historical approach, which allows considering this phenomenon in a historical perspective. Four stages were identified in the development of the arts: the primary syncretism of arts in primitive cultures; the separation of certain types of art and their acquisition of independence; the synthesis of the arts; the postmodern synesthesia of arts. The main ways of interaction of arts are determined: dominance, fusion, inclusion and juxtaposition. The authors of the article concluded that globalization, the development of technology, new types of communication contribute to the further complication and transformation of the synthesis of the arts, and such concepts close to it as “pluralism”, “interaction of arts”, “synesthesia” and “intermediality”. Broad prospects are opening up for the study of intermediality and multimedia as new heterogeneous semiotic systems.

scholarly journals MONTENEGRO IN TRAVELOGUE BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON: A JOURNEY THROUGH YUGOSLAVIA, 1941) REBECCA WEST

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-51
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Rebecca West ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Ethnic Stereotypes ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Gerard Genette

The subject of this paper will be the presentation of Montenegro in the travelogue Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West. This travelogue will be analysed from the literary-historical, literary-theoretical and imagological perspectives. We will deal with the chronotope of Montenegro (Kolashin, Podgorica, Cetinje and Budva) and the national identity of the Montenegrin people from the viewpoint of a travelogue narrator that does not belong to that nation, as well as the creation of trans- national identities. We will also pay attention to the construction of ethnic stereotypes and their (non)duration in time. The paper will also include a comparison of characters and events depicted in the travelogue with historical figures and the events on which they are modelled. “The key assumption of the literary-historical approach to the travelogue discourse is finding its typical places, shaping specific rhetoric of the travelogue based on a few backings from the narratology to the history of mentality.” (Duda 1998, 92) The presentation of Montenegro in the travelogue Black Lamb and Grey Falcon will be based on Duda’s assumptions and Bakhtin’s perception of chronotope as “the essential interconnection of time and space relations” (Bakhtin 1989, 193). We will also take into account the views of Gerard Genette and Mieke Bal.

Die radikale Linke als Massenbewegung. Kommunisten in Harburg-Wilhelmsburg 1918–1933

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-200
Author(s):  
Marcel Bois
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Weimar Republic ◽  
Mass Movement ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Great Strength ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
History Of ◽  
Regional History ◽  
The City

AbstractIn the mid-1990s, Klaus-Michael Mallmann published his study on 'Communists in the Weimar Republic'. His newly established social-historical approach on the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) has since been taken up by other historians. One of them is Christian Gotthardt, who recently published a book with the promising title 'The Radical Left as a Mass Movement'. Here he focuses on the regional history of the KPD in the city of Harburg-Wilhelmsburg. The great strength of his book is the detailed description of the local Communists' day-to-day work. However, when turning his attention to the turning points of KPD history, the problems associated with adopting Mallman's social-historical approach become obvious. For example this leads them both to reject the theory of 'Stalinisation'. The article shows that Gotthardt, as well as Mallmann, had come to questionable conclusions on the development of the KPD of the Weimar Republic by focusing on events outside of their context in time and space.

scholarly journals A Socio-Historical Perspective on Ponzi Schemes and Development in Nigeria: The Role of the Christian Church

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Oluwasegun Peter Aluko ◽  
Ibukun Oluwakemi Olawuni
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
The People ◽  
Ponzi Scheme ◽  
The Impact

This paper is a study on Ponzi schemes, development and the Christian church in Nigeria. It traced the emergence of Ponzi schemes in Nigeria. The paper considered the practices of Mavrodi Mondial Movement (MMM), being one of the strongest Ponzi schemes in Nigeria. It assessed the impact of this Ponzi scheme on development in the country. It also looked into the role played by the Christian Church during the period of the scheme’s existence in the country. The paper, however concluded that, despite the people involved in the scheme being interested in supposedly helping people (including those in the scheme and the less privileged), it is contrary to the ethos of Christianity that touches on labour and its corresponding success. The data collected for the study were analysed using socio-historical approach.

scholarly journals The use of St. Sava in setting ethnoreligious boundaries: Sociological-historical approach

Sociologija ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 314-338
Author(s):  
Nemanja Kostic
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Social Function ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ethnic Boundaries ◽  
Nation And Nationalism

From the sociological-historical perspective, this article deals with questioning the adequacy of frequently appearing nationalistic standpoints about the continuous, centuries-old maintaining of ethnoreligious boundaries, often set by emphasizing important symbols of collective identity, whose social function is reflected in creating everlasting, sturdy and unquestionable differences between nations. This problem has been investigated by studying the symbolism of St. Sava in cases of Serbo-Croatian, Serbo-Bosniac and Serbo-Montenegrin ethnoreligious dichotomization. By applying the combination of ethno-symbolist and interactionist approaches to the phenomena of nation and nationalism, this article compares the premodern and modern historical context of this process in the mentioned cases. As opposed to the aforementioned nationalistic beliefs, the results of the study have shown that St. Sava could have become a prominent symbol of ethnoreligious division only in modern times, precisely by means of nationalistic instrumentalisation. Namely, sociohistorical conditions of the premodern era, where ethnic identity did not have the same role and strength often ascribed to it today, initiated the birth of different attitudes towards this saint by various groups and individuals, at the same time displaying the permeability and the unstable character of ethnic boundaries in the past.

scholarly journals The Bald Ibis From Eagle   Understanding A Historical City From The Traditional Craftmanship Language

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-65
Author(s):  
Aytul Kasapoglu
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Relational Sociology ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Holistic Manner

The name and purpose of this work was inspired by the fact C.Wright Mills (1959) described sociology as an “Intellectual Craftsmanship” . The main aim is to examine traditional craft figurations (Elias, 1939; 2000) in a historical city (Mugla), which I find appropriate to explain with  workshop  metaphor.  Paul Thompson (1978), when he says  to hear the voice of the past,  underlines the importance of the bottom up historical approach,  ordinary people and everyday events in the construction of a more democratic and egalitarian future. In this study, it was paid attention to the changes in both time and space to be treated in a process and holistic manner by rejecting “essentialism ” and  “dualities”. In this study, it has been tried to make appropriate analyses by using the biographical narratives formed by the oral history technique. The originality of this research, based on the theoretical approach of Relational Sociology, is also here.

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