Advice giving covers a wide range of social engagements between friends,authorities to subordinates,professionals of many kinds and especially therapists.Therapists generally come from fields such as psychology and ps...Advice giving covers a wide range of social engagements between friends,authorities to subordinates,professionals of many kinds and especially therapists.Therapists generally come from fields such as psychology and psychiatry wherein many focus on research sciences and others focus on use of therapeutics to somehow make people better in some way.For the latter group,coming to grips with what counts as better is problematic since it is not always clear even to the advisee what he or she would count as better.To the more scientifically-minded the notion of better is often eschewed as nothing more than distracting baggage when it comes to truly understanding human-nature.This paper shows first that understanding human nature is likely a chimera.It will never fully come within the grasp of the human sciences any more than the fist can grab itself.Still,scientific approaches are invaluable in the quest for tying action and goals together.However,while the sciences may eliminate the need for reference to some faux qualia,the phenomenology of human experience cannot be ignored altogether.As a result,advisory planning must navigate between the tough-minded and soft-minded while avoiding contradiction.展开更多
In the earliest Abrahamic scriptures,the writers made clear that God did not want to divulge a personal name he could be called.Despite all the differences among the Abrahamic traditions,one critical point all agree o...In the earliest Abrahamic scriptures,the writers made clear that God did not want to divulge a personal name he could be called.Despite all the differences among the Abrahamic traditions,one critical point all agree on is the decision that God’s creatures may refer to him and pray to him but not to speak to the God who declares“I am that I am”.It turns out that in the 20th century a Hassidic rebbe figured why that prohibition may be so critical to all cultural traditions of the Abrahamic collection of faiths.In addition,philosophy of language supports the rebbe’s reasoning as does an analogical argument about knowledge inaccessible to simultaneous objectifying.All this sums to the grounds for building a platform for international cooperation with religious understanding as more worthy and less risky than the scheming and greed surrounding economic competition.展开更多
文摘Advice giving covers a wide range of social engagements between friends,authorities to subordinates,professionals of many kinds and especially therapists.Therapists generally come from fields such as psychology and psychiatry wherein many focus on research sciences and others focus on use of therapeutics to somehow make people better in some way.For the latter group,coming to grips with what counts as better is problematic since it is not always clear even to the advisee what he or she would count as better.To the more scientifically-minded the notion of better is often eschewed as nothing more than distracting baggage when it comes to truly understanding human-nature.This paper shows first that understanding human nature is likely a chimera.It will never fully come within the grasp of the human sciences any more than the fist can grab itself.Still,scientific approaches are invaluable in the quest for tying action and goals together.However,while the sciences may eliminate the need for reference to some faux qualia,the phenomenology of human experience cannot be ignored altogether.As a result,advisory planning must navigate between the tough-minded and soft-minded while avoiding contradiction.
文摘In the earliest Abrahamic scriptures,the writers made clear that God did not want to divulge a personal name he could be called.Despite all the differences among the Abrahamic traditions,one critical point all agree on is the decision that God’s creatures may refer to him and pray to him but not to speak to the God who declares“I am that I am”.It turns out that in the 20th century a Hassidic rebbe figured why that prohibition may be so critical to all cultural traditions of the Abrahamic collection of faiths.In addition,philosophy of language supports the rebbe’s reasoning as does an analogical argument about knowledge inaccessible to simultaneous objectifying.All this sums to the grounds for building a platform for international cooperation with religious understanding as more worthy and less risky than the scheming and greed surrounding economic competition.
