Daniel Lewis explores the importance of humanistic values to modern physicians This journal article is available in Momentum: http://repository.upenn.edu/momentum/vol1/iss2/6

The term 'existentialism* is extremely vague as is the term 'humanism*„ However, existentialism may be generally characterized as a protest against moral or physical deter­ minism in regard to man. And 'humanism', in its most general application may mean any system centered on the concepts of dignity and freedom of man. Thus Jean Paul Sartre makes his existentialism a humanism through the funda...

The proposed humanistic approach mapped the human character and behavior into a device to evade the bondages of implementation and surely succeed as we live. Human societies are the complex and most organized networks, in which many communities having different cultural livelihood. The formation of communities within a society and the way of associations can be mapped to MANET. In this work we ...

Posthumanism entails the idea of transcendence of the human being achieved through technology. The article begins by distinguishing perfection and change (or growth). It also attempts to show the anthropological premises of posthumanism itself and suggests that we can identify two roots: the liberal humanistic subject (autonomous and unrelated that simply realizes herself/himself through her/hi...

Islam has universal teachings, namely human values. Ali Shari'ati is one of the Islamic revolutionary thinkers who paid attention to humanism. According him, humanism a school philosophy that views groups aim achieve perfection in humans. emphasized humans are creatures have various values given by God. Humans most unique nature, because were created God as noblest creatures, their own freedom,...

1. The Search for Interdisciplinarity 1.1. The Scientific and Technological Process 1.2. The Resistance of the Literary Field 1.3. An Intermediate Proposal: Interdisciplinarity 2. The Impact of Technology and Literature’s Interdisciplinarity 2.1. Technology at the Service of Literature 2.2. Digital Literature 2.3. Literary Theory about Literature in Hypertext 2.4. A New Paradigm for a New Human...

Josef Ratzinger has made the problem of solid foundations European humanism one most important in his scientific and pastoral work. Called to Holy See, he chose name Benedict XVI, indicating Saint Abbot Nursia as special patron pontificate. In this study two valuable statements Pope are discussed, showing relationship between Benedictine monasticism. The first is speech XVI during a meeting wit...

The biopsychosocial model is the conceptual status quo of contemporary psychiatry. Although it has played an important role in combatting psychiatric dogmatism, it has devolved into mere eclecticism. Other non-reductionistic approaches to medicine and psychiatry such as William Osler's medical humanism or Karl Jaspers' method-based psychiatry should be reconsidered.