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The Organic Paradigm

Author : Shawn Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781520173245
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book The Organic Paradigm written by Shawn Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-18 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our increasingly urbanized world, genuine awareness of nature is becoming rare. Yet virtually everyone feels an inner urge to connect with the natural world, a pull toward something many would call a spiritual experience. What does this mean? Why are we so captivated with something from which we choose to isolate ourselves? And how does nature inform our innermost selves?Instead of casting nature merely as an aesthetic pleasure, it is time for a renewal of the ancient understanding of nature as something revelatory and transcendent. This book is about how nature, and organic life in particular, is more spiritually important than we have commonly realized in the last century. By entering into the mystery of nature, we come to see that the nature of life is the nature of things, and that the different manifestations of life we see around us each have lessons to teach us. These patterns serve as paradigms through which we may understand what is real, and they can speak to us personally, in the language of creation. Fundamentally, this "organic paradigm" is a manifestation of the Divine. Before any religion, there was life, created in such a way as to express spiritual realities. These realities could be said to be the logic of God, or in ancient terms, the Logos. This logic, the rather surprising order we find in the universe, becomes fully manifest and personal in the form of Jesus. Especially through the lens of Christ, we can see that all creation points to radiant love, not competition, as the ultimate reality. The organic paradigm sheds renewed light on the meaning, fullness, and immediacy of God in our lives, and offers great hope that we all may participate in the divine resonance. Like members of a band, we are called to develop and live out our own particular form of love as we perform in the great symphony of creation.

Organic Computing — A Paradigm Shift for Complex Systems

Author : Christian Müller-Schloer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3034801300
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)

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Book Synopsis Organic Computing — A Paradigm Shift for Complex Systems by : Christian Müller-Schloer

Download or read book Organic Computing — A Paradigm Shift for Complex Systems written by Christian Müller-Schloer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organic Computing has emerged as a challenging vision for future information processing systems. Its basis is the insight that we will increasingly be surrounded by and depend on large collections of autonomous systems, which are equipped with sensors and actuators, aware of their environment, communicating freely, and organising themselves in order to perform actions and services required by the users. These networks of intelligent systems surrounding us open fascinating ap-plication areas and at the same time bear the problem of their controllability. Hence, we have to construct such systems as robust, safe, flexible, and trustworthy as possible. In particular, a strong orientation towards human needs as opposed to a pure implementation of the tech-nologically possible seems absolutely central. The technical systems, which can achieve these goals will have to exhibit life-like or "organic" properties. "Organic Computing Systems" adapt dynamically to their current environmental conditions. In order to cope with unexpected or undesired events they are self-organising, self-configuring, self-optimising, self-healing, self-protecting, self-explaining, and context-aware, while offering complementary interfaces for higher-level directives with respect to the desired behaviour. First steps towards adaptive and self-organising computer systems are being undertaken. Adaptivity, reconfigurability, emergence of new properties, and self-organisation are hot top-ics in a variety of research groups worldwide. This book summarises the results of a 6-year priority research program (SPP) of the German Research Foundation (DFG) addressing these fundamental challenges in the design of Organic Computing systems. It presents and discusses the theoretical foundations of Organic Computing, basic methods and tools, learning techniques used in this context, architectural patterns and many applications. The final outlook shows that in the mean-time Organic Computing ideas have spawned a variety of promising new projects.

The Atrocity Paradigm

Author : Claudia Card
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199881790
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Atrocity Paradigm written by Claudia Card and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-12 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What distinguishes evils from ordinary wrongs? Is hatred a necessarily evil? Are some evils unforgivable? Are there evils we should tolerate? What can make evils hard to recognize? Are evils inevitable? How can we best respond to and live with evils? Claudia Card offers a secular theory of evil that responds to these questions and more. Evils, according to her theory, have two fundamental components. One component is reasonably foreseeable intolerable harm -- harm that makes a life indecent and impossible or that makes a death indecent. The other component is culpable wrongdoing. Atrocities, such as genocides, slavery, war rape, torture, and severe child abuse, are Cards paradigms because in them these key elements are writ large. Atrocities deserve more attention than secular philosophers have so far paid them. They are distinguished from ordinary wrongs not by the psychological states of evildoers but by the seriousness of the harm that is done. Evildoers need not be sadistic:they may simply be negligent or unscrupulous in pursuing their goals. Cards theory represents a compromise between classic utilitarian and stoic alternatives (including Kants theory of radical evil). Utilitarians tend to reduce evils to their harms; Stoics tend to reduce evils to the wickedness of perpetrators: Card accepts neither reduction. She also responds to Nietzsches challenges about the worth of the concept of evil, and she uses her theory to argue that evils are more important than merely unjust inequalities. She applies the theory in explorations of war rape and violence against intimates. She also takes up what Primo Levi called the gray zone, where victims become complicit in perpetrating on others evils that threaten to engulf themselves. While most past accounts of evil have focused on perpetrators, Card begins instead from the position of the victims, but then considers more generally how to respond to -- and live with -- evils, as victims, as perpetrators, and as those who have become both.

Organic Systems Framework

Author : Barry Oshry
Publisher : Triarchy Press
ISBN 13 : 1911193627
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Organic Systems Framework written by Barry Oshry and published by Triarchy Press. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Paradigm for Understanding and Intervening in Organizational Life

A Paradigm of Care

Author : Robert Stake
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1648023401
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book A Paradigm of Care written by Robert Stake and published by IAP. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remember the pots hammered by spoons from high Manhattan windows, and parades of cars and pick-up trucks holding dear the medical professionals responding to covid-19. This book is part of that chorus, that march, to express appreciation for the giving of care. And beyond doctors and nurses, bless their hearts, to mothers caring for their babies, for captains for their teams, for the soon-to-be widowers for their wives and teachers for their students, but also for the ranchers for their cattle and the contemplative world for our environment. This is a book to think more closely of the support for care, individual as it so often will be, to be woven more closely together in a paradigm of care. Care is always prominent. Care for others, of the family, care for those of the tribe, care for animals and homes and gardens and properties, self-care. And the purse. Even without teaching, compensation, or legislation, care survives, but even with these helpings, it falls short of the need. We live in a crisis of care. Thinking explicitly and beyond health care. There is no mechanism of state and conscience that delivers care to all the venues of need, and seldom in the amounts needed. The reservoirs of care are far from empty, but at a mark that needs topping up. There is need for care advocacy, a care ethic, a paradigm. This book is about that paradigm. A care paradigm may bring comfort and recovery more fully to the people and organic creations of the world. The paradigm hears the moan of indifference. It draws upon the eyes of the heart. The paradigm is about how we see the need for care. The care paradigm, the grand beholding, is manifest in how we provide for others, how we nurture them, give succor, how we are disposed, and are not, to sacrifice to relieve their hurt. It is not only caring for those visibly needing care, unable to care for themselves, but caring for all. It is having a disposition that the hurts, large and small, that all of us carry, arouse concern and appreciation from and for each individual, the community and the world.

The Organic-hierarchical Paradigm and Politics in the Philippines

Author : Remigio E. Agpalo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Organic-hierarchical Paradigm and Politics in the Philippines written by Remigio E. Agpalo and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Paradigm Found

Author : Anne Firth Murray
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1577317556
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Paradigm Found written by Anne Firth Murray and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2011-12-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Practical Framework for Positive Social Change In 1987, Anne Firth Murray had the idea that funding should go to grassroots women's organizations around the globe and that the recipients themselves should decide how to use that money. From that idea, The Global Fund for Women was born. The organization became a major force for good in the world, embodying a new paradigm of philanthropy. In these pages, Murray shares her wisdom, offering guidelines that demonstrate how anyone can turn a clear vision of a better world into reality.

The Organic Society

Author : Carlos Sosa Araque
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781506519739
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book The Organic Society written by Carlos Sosa Araque and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern society is determined by a rational economic system, based on the individualistic behavior of man, which determines and models social institutions where the elements associated to equality and solidarity are not properly incorporated into the economic systems. We deem it necessary to explore other dimensions of human reality other than rationality in order to accomplish our true purpose: the implementation of a type of organization where collaboration, solidarity, and caring for others shape organizational and social systems. To this end, we must start by reviewing which factors affect human behavior so that a harmonious human social system may be created. Humans cannot be represented only as rational beings in order to deal properly with motivational factors in organizational and social systems. Factors other than reason should be included in the sources of motivation of people, like heart, consciousness, and intuition. A different type of organization should be based on a different paradigm in order to replace modern organizations. The search for this new paradigm may be provided by natural systems. A different organizational model can be created based on the organic paradigm in order to build an alternative organizational structure. The term organic will denote an organizational net structure, which can be modeled as an organic system with properties specific to organic beings, such as adaptation, integration, collaboration, equilibrium, and flexibility. The organic structure is a powerful tool for modeling social, organizational, and natural structures. The organic organization should be based on a higher principle: the law of love. Man should be able to dream and work for the establishment of more harmonious organizational and social systems, by the adoption of this powerful metaphor, to create fairer, more cooperative, and more harmonious social and organizational realities. This may lead to the establishment of the organic society by means of incorporating the organic paradigm into social and organizational institutions. The law of love and the creation of the organic society show what can be done at both organizational and social levels to design a social order where the separateness can be finally overcome. The organic paradigm is a powerful tool to stimulate man's integration to both society and nature, potentially more powerful than the existing individualistic and rational paradigms.

Levels of Organic Life and the Human

Author : Helmuth Plessner
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 082328400X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Levels of Organic Life and the Human written by Helmuth Plessner and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The groundbreaking classic of twentieth-century German philosophy now available in English—with an introduction by J.M. Bernstein. Helmuth Plessner’s Levels of Organic Life and the Human, draws on phenomenological, biological, and social scientific sources to offer a systematic account of nature, life, and human existence. The book considers non-living nature, plants, non-human animals, and human beings a sequence of increasingly complex modes of boundary dynamics—simply put, interactions between a thing’s insides and the surrounding world. Living things are classed and analyzed by their “positionality,” or orientation to and within an environment. According to Plessner’s radical view, the human form of life is excentric—that is, the relation between body and environment is something to which humans themselves are positioned and can take a position. This “excentric positionality” enables human beings to take a stand outside the boundaries of their own body, a possibility with significant implications for knowledge, culture, religion, and technology. A powerful and sophisticated account of embodiment, the Levels shows, with reference both to science and to philosophy, how life can be seen on its own terms to establish its own boundaries, and how, from the standpoint of life, the human establishes itself in relation to the nonhuman. As such, the book is not merely a historical monument but a source for invigorating a range of vital current conversations around the animal, posthumanism, the material turn, and the biology and sociology of cognition.

Crossroads

Author : Robert J. A. Doornenbal
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9059726235
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Crossroads written by Robert J. A. Doornenbal and published by Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theory of Organic Beings

Author : Jędrzej Śniadecki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786094206177
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Theory of Organic Beings written by Jędrzej Śniadecki and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Understanding Leadership

Author : Gayle C Avery
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761942894
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Leadership written by Gayle C Avery and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004-02-18 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Part One of this title, Gayle Avery integrates a fragmented field into four broad paradigms or forms of leadership, helping to simplify and clarify the ill-defined field of leadership. Part Two provides 10 case studies from leading organizations across Europe, Australia and the USA.

Organic Manifesto

Author : Maria Rodale
Publisher : Rodale Books
ISBN 13 : 1609611365
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Organic Manifesto written by Maria Rodale and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale's Organic Manifesto irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment. She traces the genesis of chemical farming and the rise of the immense companies that profit from it, bringing to light the government's role in allowing such practices to flourish. She further explains that modern organic farming would not only help reverse climate change by reducing harmful carbon emissions and soil depletion, but would also improve the quality of the food we eat, reduce diseases from asthma to cancer, and ensure a better quality of life in farming communities nationwide. For every parent wondering how best to safeguard the health and safety of her children; for every environmentalist in search of a solution to the worsening crisis that afflicts our land, air, and waters; for every shopper who questions whether it is worth it to pay more for organic, Maria Rodale offers straightforward answers and a single, definitive course of action: We must demand organic now.

Hegel

Author : Frederick Beiser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134383916
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Hegel written by Frederick Beiser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-24 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hegel (1770-1831) is one of the major philosophers of the nineteenth century. Many of the major philosophical movements of the twentieth century - from existentialism to analytic philosophy - grew out of reactions against Hegel. He is also one of the hardest philosophers to understand and his complex ideas, though rewarding, are often misunderstood. In this magisterial and lucid introduction, Frederick Beiser covers every major aspect of Hegel's thought. He places Hegel in the historical context of nineteenth-century Germany whilst clarifying the deep insights and originality of Hegel's philosophy. A masterpiece of clarity and scholarship, Hegel is both the ideal starting point for those coming to Hegel for the first time and essential reading for any student or scholar of nineteenth century philosophy. Additional features: glossary chapter summaries chronology annotated further reading.

Biodiversity Based Organic Farming

Author : Vandana Shiva
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Biodiversity Based Organic Farming written by Vandana Shiva and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Contingency Theory of Organizations

Author : Lex Donaldson
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761915744
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book The Contingency Theory of Organizations written by Lex Donaldson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001-02-20 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the theories, evidence and methodological issues of contingency theory - one of the major theoretical lenses used to view organizations.

The Social Metabolism

Author : Manuel González de Molina
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319063588
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Social Metabolism written by Manuel González de Molina and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over this last decade, the concept of Social Metabolism has gained prestige as a theoretical instrument for the required analysis, to such an extent that there are now dozens of researchers, hundreds of articles and several books that have adopted and use this concept. However, there is a great deal of variety in terms of definitions and interpretations, as well as different methodologies around this concept, which prevents the consolidation of a unified field of new knowledge. The fundamental aim of the book is to conduct a review of the past and present usage of the concept of social metabolism, its origins and history, as well as the main currents or schools that exist around this concept. At the same time, the reviews and discussions included are used by the authors as starting points to draw conclusions and propose a theory of socio-ecological transformations. The theoretical and methodological innovations of this book include a distinction of two types of metabolic processes: tangible and intangible; the analysis of the social metabolism at different scales (in space and time) and a theory of socio-ecological change overcoming the merely “systemic” or “cybernetic” nature of conventional approaches, giving special protagonism to collective action.