Dlaczego inteligent nie chce być homo politicus? Melancholia jako kategoria interpretująca prozę rozrachunków inteligenckich (1946-1948)

Homo Politicus meets Homo Ludens: Public participation in serious life science games.

Public participation in science and gamification of science are two strong contemporary trends, especially in the area of emerging techno-sciences. Involvement of the public in research-related activities is an integral part of public engagement with science and technologies, which can be successfully achieved through a participatory game design. Focusing on the participatory dimension of educa...

Homo Economicus and Homo Politicus: interpretation and aggregation of environmental values

In addition to his role as a consumer pursuing his own interests, an individual may also regard himself as an ethical observer or citizen, judging matters from society’s point of view. However, an individual’s personal preferences do not necessarily coincide with his social preferences. This paper presents a formal model in which individuals are assumed to have two distinct preference orderings...

The Septennium (1939—1946). Report of the Department of Research, University of Travancore, Trivandrum. 1948

Melancholia

IVt melancholia is a disease unique in the fact that every human heing wh0 }las reached that stage of his existence which can called the battle of life can enter into and appreciate to a ?reater or less degree the subjective sensations of the sufferer 0rn this complaint, by reason of having, however temporarily, Passed through periods of mental depression himself. Lucky lrideed is the man who c...

Resurrecting melancholia.

OBJECTIVE To define melancholia as a distinct mood disorder, identified by unremitting depressed mood, vegetative dysfunction, and psychomotor disturbances, verifiable by neuroendocrine tests, and treatable by electroconvulsive therapy and tricyclic antidepressants. METHOD A review of the literature of two centuries finds descriptions of severe mood disorders, either depression or mania or ci...