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Achievement seems to be a first-class value in our world today. With the ongoing global debate on what constitutes identity, can we include achievement as one of the constituents? In the Igbo/African identity, the achievement instinct is basically innate. The ethics of this phenomenon needs an evaluation, aimed at improving the status quo. What is the plight of the Igbo/African "achieving" in the face of modern capitalistic tendencies? What has become of the many other values in her identity, which has been her pride as a race? How is her religiosity (which is inseparable from daily living) affected by "modernity" and its new trends of the achievement ethos? These are some of the issues that are addressed in this book with the conviction that theology, achievement and identity are continuity.
This volume presents the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Socratic Dialogue held in Loccum, Germany, in 2000, convened by the Philosophical-Political Academy (PPA, Germany), the Society of Socratic Facilitators (GSP, Germany), the Society for the Furtherance of Critical Philosophy (SFCP, UK) and the Dutch Network of Socratic Facilitators. The proceedings focus on what Socratic Dialogue can contribute to ethical questions in different social fields. They range from philosophising with children to management consultancy and refer to projects and experiences with Socratic Dialogue in different countries demonstrating how to conduct ethical discourse on a global level.
Questions relating to types of philosophical trends within African philosophy can be very decisive for any idea of African philosophy. In this strikingly novel approach to African Philosophy, the author explores a complementary philosophical trend that goes back to those he calls anonymous traditional African philosophers. Based on their thoughts, he articulates a distinctive variant of the principles, method and imperative of complementarity (Ibu anyi danda) around which he builds his system. He anchors his reflection on such ambient concepts as the joy of being (jide k' iji), fragmentation, wholeness, and future reference.
The global population is expected to rise to 9.8 billion by the year 2050 - with everyone ultimately striving for prosperity. New methods must therefore be found to achieve more efficient production. Research to date shows that the biological inventory that has evolved: its products, processes, principles and tools, can spur modern technology. The development of technological innovations based on biological concepts, with the goal of particularly innovative and sustainable value creation, today is collectively known as "biological transformation". It results in highly functional products with striking properties that can be both manufactured and utilized in a resource-saving way. In terms of taking responsibility of the good of all people, biological transformation is therefore a path that applied research will have to take. The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft has recognized the developmental technology potential of biological transformation and sees it as its task not only to drive the relevant research forward, but also to promote public awareness of the topic.
Im Fokus der Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes steht der Aspekt der Bewegung hinsichtlich seiner immanenten Potenziale einer Reflexion des Körpers. Diskutiert werden hierfür über die Grenzen verschiedener sportwissenschaftlicher Disziplinen hinaus Entwürfe, die Körper und Bewegung als kulturanthropologische Kategorien verstehen und in dieser Deutung auf ähnliche theoretische Linien verweisen. Wesentlich dabei ist, ob diese Ideen bezüglich ihrer Anwendbarkeit zur Bestimmung der wirklichkeitskonstituierenden Bedeutung von Körper und Bewegung sinnvoll befragt oder möglicherweise auch neu gedeutet werden können.
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Ce volume se consacre tout particulièrement à une série de romancières dela génération nées dans les années 1760 et 1770, dont certaines, longtemps oubliées, se retrouvent aujourd’hui au centre de l’intérêt de la recherche. Selon le système d’une écriture du mouvement, on peut distinguer plusieurs types de déplacements, d’échanges, de transports intérieurs. Si les déplacements prennent, pour certaines, la forme de trajets diplomatiques et de voyages à vocation touristique, ils sont pour beaucoup des voyages contraints, provoqués par les violences de l’Histoire qu’il faut fuir en terre d’exil. L’expérience traumatisante de l’émigration et du déracinement qu’elle implique travaille en profondeur les romans du tournant du siècle. Le mouvement dans un deuxième sens nous conduit à mettre au jour l’intense et diverse circulation des idées et des œuvres à travers l’Europe du début du XIXe siècle.