Cosmovisión Cosmovisión o "visión del mundo" o en la forma original alemana Weltanschauung (AFI: [vɛlt.ʔan ʃaʊ.ʊŋ]); es una imagen o figura general de la existencia, realidad o "mundo" que una persona, sociedad o cultura se forman en una época determinada; y suele estar compuesta por determinadas percepciones, conceptuaciones y valoraciones sobre dicho entorno. A partir de las cosmovisiones, los agentes cognitivos (sean esas personas o sociedades) interpretan su propia naturaleza y la de todo lo existente, y definen las nociones comunes que aplican a los diversos campos de la vida, desde la política, la economía o la ciencia hasta la religión, la moral o la filosofía. Definición[editar] Una cosmovisión es el conjunto de opiniones y creencias que conforman la imagen o concepto general del mundo que tiene una persona, época o cultura, a partir de la cual la interpreta su propia naturaleza y la de todo lo existente. Principales tipos de Weltanschauungen según Wilhelm Dilthey[editar] Véase también[editar]
Weltanschauung, Vision du monde Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Weltanschauung [vɛlt.ʔanˌʃaʊ.ʊŋ] est un terme allemand désignant la conception du monde de chacun selon sa sensibilité particulière. Il associe Welt ('monde') et Anschauung ('vision, opinion, représentation'). La Weltanschauung est au départ une vision du monde d'un point de vue métaphysique, notamment dans l'Allemagne romantique ou moderne. Il s'agit initialement d'une conception du monde datant du Moyen Âge: — Robertson Davies Le monde des merveilles [réf. nécessaire] Hors du champ de la philosophie, la notion de Weltanschauung est aujourd'hui souvent rendue par le terme moderne de paradigme, dont elle constitue l'un des sens. Modernité du concept de Weltanschauung[modifier | modifier le code] Citations[modifier | modifier le code] Carl Gustav Jung évoque la notion de Conception du monde dans ses écrits : « Toute conscience supérieure appelle une Weltanschauung (une conception du monde). « 5. Notes et références[modifier | modifier le code]
English Is an Overwhelmingly Positive Language - Hans Villarica University of Vermont mathematicians analyze billions of words in literature, music, and even Twitter, and find that happiness is a constant. PROBLEM: Last month, University of Vermont researchers led by mathematician Peter Dodds proclaimed that average global happiness had been dropping for the past two years after studying billions of tweets worldwide. METHODOLOGY: To verify their findings and check if English is inherently positive or negative, the scientists analyzed billions of words from Twitter, a half-century of music lyrics, 20 years of The New York Times, and millions of books going back to 1520. After finding the 10,222 most frequently used English words from these four sources, they asked a group of volunteers to rate the emotional temperature of these words. A positive word like "laughter" was given an 8.5 score, for instance, while a negative word like "terrorist" was given a 1.3 rating. CONCLUSION: English is strongly biased toward being positive.
Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming It’s important for people to tell you what side they are on and why, and whether they might be biased. A declaration of members’ interests, of a sort. So, I am going to be talking to you about reading. I’m going to tell you that libraries are important. And I am biased, obviously and enormously: I’m an author, often an author of fiction. So I’m biased as a writer. And I’m here giving this talk tonight, under the auspices of the Reading Agency: a charity whose mission is to give everyone an equal chance in life by helping people become confident and enthusiastic readers. And it’s that change, and that act of reading that I’m here to talk about tonight. I was once in New York, and I listened to a talk about the building of private prisons – a huge growth industry in America. It’s not one to one: you can’t say that a literate society has no criminality. And I think some of those correlations, the simplest, come from something very simple. Fiction has two uses. It’s tosh.
Au fait, c'est quoi, "l'effet Matilda"? 2% de noms de rue attribués à des femmes célèbres (nous en parlions dans notre revue de web pas plus tard qu’hier), à peine plus de 3% de personnages historiques féminins parmi ceux cités dans les manuels scolaires (ainsi que le révélait il y a quelques semaines une étude du Centre Hubertine Auclert), seulement 2 femmes au Panthéon français (dont l’une y repose en tant qu’épouse)… Mais pourquoi les femmes sont-elles si rares au contingent de ceux dont on reconnait l’apport essentiel aux progrès de l’humanité? Prisme sexiste (éventuellement inconscient) chez qui décide de rendre hommage ou pas à une personnalité en lui donnant un nom de rue ou en lui accordant un paragraphe dans un ouvrage de référence? Résultat de l’insuffisant accès des femmes à l’éducation jusqu’à des temps récents? Ces hypothèses s’explorent, mais pour cerner plus précisément la question, il faut aussi penser les conditions d’accès à la postérité des figures majeures de toute époque…. “Matthieu et l’ange”, Guido Reni
What's Wrong With Our Culture Thought-provoking 5 minutes on the state of the world from the late, great Alan Watts, a man far ahead of his time. Created by The Omega Point Project. “Your world is an illusion. From the day you were born, you have been conditioned. Your schools taught you to be quiet, neutral and numb. You worked hard for the future with your reward always just around the next corner or just up the next step. You accepted it as natural for one to be wealthy whilst another is poor, or the absurd notion that we must pay back the debt of our own existence. We need to move beyond revolution and into the next stage of human evolution. We will take no power back as we shall empower ourselves and we shall say: We are the humans. - Anonymous Related Posts
5 Insane Ways Words Can Control Your Mind On some level we already know that language shapes the way we think. We're automatically more afraid to fight a guy named Jack Savage than somebody named Peewee Nipplepuss, even if we've never seen either of them before. It's totally illogical, but you probably run into an example of that every day, and don't notice it. While we tend to think words are just sounds we make to express ideas, science is finding that language is more like a fun house mirror, warping what we see in mind-blowing ways. For instance ... Speaking English Makes Us More Likely to Blame People Let's say your roommate Steve is jumping on your bed. How will you answer? Keep in mind, Steve pulls this shit all the time. The answer largely depends on what language you speak. Stanford scientists did experiments on this, by having speakers of various languages watch videos featuring, in various situations, people breaking eggs or popping balloons, sometimes on purpose, sometimes on accident. Will nothing stop his madness?
Not for Profit: Six Questions for Martha Nussbaum Is America making a mistake by orienting its education system towards national economic gain? In her new book, Not for Profit, University of Chicago philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes the case that the humanities are central to the education of citizens of a democratic state. I put six questions to Nussbaum about her book. 1. In India, advocates of Hindutva argue for education that extols the virtue of Hindu religion and ethnicity. In America, forces of the religious right—who now constitute a majority on the Texas school book commission—want history books that portray America as a Christian nation and offer a friendlier view of the Confederacy. I want to separate two different aspects of the Hindutva scheme of education (now fortunately in eclipse in India). In Texas we clearly are dealing with bad facts. As for pedagogy in Texas, I just hope that whatever is in those books, the teachers will teach students to think for themselves, and show them how to analyze historical evidence. 2.
Orwell et la " common decency " - Le libéralisme et la morale commune par Jean-Claude Michéa « On ignore trop souvent que c’était qu’il [Orwell] avait mené sa lutte antitotalitaire, et que le socialisme, pour lui, n’était pas une idée abstraite, mais une cause qui mobilisait tout son être, et pour laquelle il avait d’ailleurs combattu et manqué se faire tuer durant la guerre d’Espagne. » Simon Leys, , 1984 [ 1 ]. « Si Orwell plaidait pour qu’on accorde la priorité au politique, » Bernard Crick, . « L’opinion courante est de croire qu’Orwell était finalement un pur et simple anticommuniste. « Comme l’écrit Jean-Claude Michéa dans son excellent essai [ 3 ], « ». » Philippe Sollers, Dans notre dossier , nous avons longuement présenté les essais du philosophe Jean-Claude Michéa. L’actualité récente — la crise financière et économique — oblige à repenser le libéralisme, cette forme du capitalisme. Si cette perspective a un sens il est bon de revenir sur ce que Jean-Claude Michéa, à la suite de George Orwell, appelle « la morale commune » ou la « ». 4ème de couverture - Bien sûr.
Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer Gregory Currie, a professor of philosophy at the University of Nottingham, recently argued in the New York Times that we ought not to claim that literature improves us as people, because there is no “compelling evidence that suggests that people are morally or socially better for reading Tolstoy” or other great books. Actually, there is such evidence. Raymond Mar, a psychologist at York University in Canada, and Keith Oatley, a professor emeritus of cognitive psychology at the University of Toronto, reported in studies published in 2006 and 2009 that individuals who often read fiction appear to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and view the world from their perspective. This link persisted even after the researchers factored in the possibility that more empathetic individuals might choose to read more novels. (MORE: Oprah as Harvard’s Commencement Speaker Is an Endorsement of Phony Science) None of this is likely to happen when we’re scrolling through TMZ.