Actualizations

Actualizations
Author: James M. Martin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1977
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

Creative Actualization

Creative Actualization
Author: Hugh P. McDonald
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2011
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9042032545

Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- CREATIVE ACTUALIZATION -- MODES OF VALUE -- MORAL JUSTIFICATION -- CREATIVE ACTUALIZATION AND THE WORLD -- CRITICAL EVALUATION OF METAPHYSICAL VALUE THEORIES -- CRITICAL EVALUATION OF SUBJECTIVE VALUE THEORIES -- CRITICAL EVALUATION OF RELATIONAL VALUE THEORIES -- VALUE HIERARCHIES AND VALUE AUTONOMY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- INDEX -- VIBS.

Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs

Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs
Author: John Ankerberg
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages: 692
Release: 1996
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781565071605

This comprehensive, indexed volume includes short, one-page listings of pertinent facts about a particular movement, its founder, how it claims to work, scientific evaluations done, and its potential dangers. Some topics covered are angels, visualization, shamanism, hypnosis, new age medicine and martial arts.

Vision and Actualization in Academia

Vision and Actualization in Academia
Author: Peter A. Freeman
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2024-01-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3031439309

Although difficult, change in academic structures is necessary today, especially in fast-changing fields today such as biology, computing, management, the social sciences, and others. This includes changes within existing organizations as well as creation of new structures and reorganizations or eliminations of older ones. This narrative attempts first to document the historical rise of an organization, Georgia Tech’s College of Computing, that has touched and successfully changed the lives of thousands of people. Second, it aims to identify and explicate some of what has led to this widely acknowledged success. The book provides a chronological narrative that highlights major changes taken under each successive leader. These changes have built on one another, knowingly or otherwise, to create a growing organization that rivals in size and prominence longer established parts of the university. The case study, while of an academic organization focused on computing, provides general lessons applicable almost anywhere. Topics and features: Discusses the nature and uses of visions, both general and specific Shows how visions can be used to drive specific actions and resource allocations Illustrates the choice and use of enduring organizational principles Outlines a simple strategic-planning method and its application Indicates results of this overall approach This book will be of interest to anyone interested in organizational change, especially in academia, and to those interested in Georgia Tech. It will also appeal to policymakers in education, government, and industry; as well as anyone interested in the historical growth of the computing milieu broadly. Peter A. Freeman was Founding Dean and Professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech from 1990 to 2002. Today he is an Emeritus Dean and Professor.

Actualization

Actualization
Author: Henning Andersen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2001-11-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027284407

This collection of papers consolidates the observation that linguistic change typically is actualized step by step: any structural innovation being introduced, accepted, and generalized, over time, in one grammatical environment after another, in a progression that can be understood by reference to the markedness values and the ranking of the conditioning features. The Introduction to the volume and a chapter by Henning Andersen clarify the theoretical bases for this observation, which is exemplified and discussed in separate chapters by Kristin Bakken, Alexander Bergs and Dieter Stein, Vit Bubenik, Ulrich Busse, Marianne Mithun, Lene Schøsler, and John Charles Smith in the light of data from the histories of Norwegian, English, Hindi, Northern Iroquoian, and Romance. A final chapter by Michael Shapiro adds a philosophical perspective. The papers were first presented in a workshop on “Actualization Patterns in Linguistic Change” at the XIV International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, B.C. in 1999.

The Nature and Purpose of Reality

The Nature and Purpose of Reality
Author: Gary O Nickolaus
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2020-10-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1664133291

This book attempts to interpret the nature of reality as it is concurrently described by quantum physics, but its concern is that which cannot be described with physics or mathematics, it is about the first fraction of a second after the big bang when all physics and mathematics breaks down, a big bang that was not a onetime occurrence but is rather an ongoing activity, it is about the Planck length and Planck time where no measurements can be taken, no observations can be made and deductive reasoning and subconscious awareness is our only means of understanding. It is about the dual nature of reality described in Quantum Physics and interpreted by Theology. It attempts to define how the finite and infinite combine to complete the purpose of the Absolute Reality of the Singularity. It attempts to describe the nature of reality as a mosaic in which all the concepts fit together to form an Absolute Reality that has meaning and that has purpose, where God is not an abstract principle or a separate being but is rather an integral part of the nature of Physics which is the nature of God. It attempts to explain the concepts that have been demonstrated by scientific experimentation in a way to match these observations with that which we have previously assigned to theology and God. All incorporated as the nature of existence and as such integral parts of Quantum Physics and Theology. Physics is the study of the nature of our spacetime; however, Quantum Physics describes limits beyond which our science and math have no meaning. The physics of spacetime is related to the physics of the finite. While our physics can only describe with certainty the nature of spacetime extrapolations can be made as to the nature of the quantum wave as it exists in the infinite Singularity. God cannot be separated from the physics for He is the Physics. He is the nature and purpose of reality. The dual nature of the universe demonstrated in quantum physics describes spacetime as a projection of the quantum probability wave. With the actualization of the probability wave into spacetime all that we know is created. How is this spacetime created? How does the creation of spacetime form the attributes of this universe? These are the questions Quantum Physic attempts to answer, but more importantly; what is the purpose of spacetime? and what is the function of conscious beings within that purpose? That question has been regulated to philosophy and theology, but the answers are demonstrated in physics.

The Event

The Event
Author: Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon
Publisher: Temple Lodge Publishing
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2018-04-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 191223016X

‘Could it not be that a tremendously important Event is taking place in the world, taking place right now, of which our own contemporaries have no presentiment? This is indeed so. A highly important Event is taking place that is perceptible, however, only to spiritual vision.’ – Rudolf Steiner, 25 January, 1910 What if matter is not solid, fixed and dead, but a living and creative Event? Could the concrete ‘stuff’ of our existence be in the process of development and becoming? Rudolf Steiner predicted that the new Christ Event would penetrate and transform all earthly and cosmic matter, life, consciousness and evolution. Through this Event, we have the opportunity to participate in the vortex of creative life. No longer detached, external spectators, we become co-creators in the drama of evolution and in the transformation of human consciousness. In this original and challenging work, Dr Ben-Aharon describes how this momentous Event is expressed in the fields of science, history, philosophy and art, and relates some of the fresh and creative concepts that have been discovered and applied in the disciplines of physics, biology, genetics and artificial intelligence. The Event, he concludes, leads us to face the central and world-historical question of our time: Are we as a human race going to use the new creative forces that are available to us positively, or will we allow this potential for good to change into its – destructive – opposite? The choice is ours.

The Foundations of Evolutionary Institutional Economics

The Foundations of Evolutionary Institutional Economics
Author: Manuel Scholz-Wackerle
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2013-08-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136008640

Generic institutionalism offers a new perspective on institutional economic change within an evolutionary framework. The institutional landscape shapes the social fabric and economic organization in manifold ways. The book elaborates on the ubiquity of such institutional forms with regards to their emergence, durability and exit in social agency-structure relations. Thereby institutions are considered as social learning environments changing the knowledge base of the economy along generic rule-sets in non-nomological ways from within. Specific attention is given to a theoretical structuring of the topic in ontology, heuristics and methodology. Part I introduces a generic naturalistic ontology by comparing prevalent ontological claims in evolutionary economics and preparing them for a broader pluralist and interdisciplinary discourse. Part II reconsiders these ontological claims and confronts it with prevalent heuristics, conceptualizations and projections of institutional change. In this respect the book revisits the institutional economic thought of Thorstein Veblen, Friedrich August von Hayek, Joseph Alois Schumpeter and Pierre Bourdieu. A synthesis is suggested in an application of the generic rule-based approach. Part III discusses the implementation of rule-based bottom-up models of institutional change and provides a basic prototype agent-based computational simulation. The evolution of power relations plays an important role in the programming of real-life communication networks. This notion characterizes the discussed policy realms (Part IV) of ecological and financial sustainability as tremendously complex areas of institutional change in political economy, leading to the concluding topic of democracy in practice. The novelty of this approach is given by its modular theoretical structure. It turns out that institutional change is carried substantially by affective social orders in contrast to rational orders as communicated in orthodox economic realms. The characteristics of affective orders are derived theoretically from intersections between ontology and heuristics, where interdependencies between instinct, cognition, rationality, reason, social practice, habit, routine or disposition are essential for the embodiment of knowledge. This kind of research indicates new generic directions to study social learning in particular and institutional evolution in general.

The Philosophical Diseases of Medicine and their Cure

The Philosophical Diseases of Medicine and their Cure
Author: Josef Seifert
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2004-10-29
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781402028700

At all times physicians were bound to pursue not only medical tasks, but to reflect also on the many anthropological and metaphysical aspects of their discipline, such as on the nature of life and death, of health and sickness, and above all on the vital ethical dimensions of their practice. For centuries, almost for two millennia, how ever, those who practiced medicine lived in a relatively clearly defined ethical and implicitly philosophical or religious 'world-order' within which they could safely turn to medical practice, knowing right from wrong, or at least being told what to do and what not to do. Today, however, the situation has radically changed, mainly due to three quite different reasons: First and most obviously, physicians today are faced with a tremendous development of new possibilities and techniques which allow previously unheard of medical interventions (such as cloning, cryo-conservation, ge netic interference, etc. ) which call out for ethical reflection and wise judgment but regarding which there is no legal and medical ethical tradition. Traditional medical education did not prepare physicians for coping with this new brave world of mod em medicine. Secondly, there are the deep philosophical crises and the philosophical diseases of medicine mentioned in the preface that lead to a break-down of firm and formative legal and ethical norms for medical actions.