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Perhaps the most widely accepted definition of consciousness is the one that it has an intentional directedness: it is a consciousness of something, an objective consciousness (Brentano, Husserl). Husserl speaks of the existence of such contents of consciousness, which are objectless, unintentional. Mystical experience is a concept which includes idiosyncratic experiences of union with a deity or a principle, a union with a variety of unique traits. In this article, an attempt is made to define mystical experience as an experience which consists of unintentional content of consciousness. In this way, mystical experience can be demystified and revealed as an ordinary state of consciousness, a consciousness inherent only to man. The positives of the experience are not negated but rather from the theoretical perspective of the discipline of neurotheology mystical experience is defined as an ordinary human state, even in the face of the difficulties of its definition and description.
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The article considers the deposit policy. The use of banks of price and non-price methods of attraction of free money resources. Proposes to introduce a tool - «deposit with interest payment in advance» and the direction of reducing the risk of early termination of the deposit agreement.
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The increase of demands towards employees caused by the fast development of technology, globalization processes, development of economy based on knowledge and, at the same time, functioning of employees in the conditions of job security absence, contributed to such phenomena such as workaholism or professional burn-out. These phenomena contribute to a dysfunction of balance between working and private life, which can be seen in the context of neglecting private life in favour of work. They lead to health loss, domestic conflicts and lack of life satisfaction. Moreover, in order to devote themselves to work, some people postpone the decision of setting up and expanding their families.
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The results of the survey point to a high level of agreement among youth aged between 15 and 25 years of age, high school and college students, employed and unemployed youth, men and women in the cities of Pec, Pristina, Prizren in Kosovo, and Bor, Kikinda, and Nis in Serbia, on whether the question of mutual cooperation is burdened by prejudice and events from the past, and that the possibility and the quality of cooperation is influenced by the attitudes the receive in their primary social groups such as families and peers, and also by the attitudes they receive through education and media. At the same time, the possibilities to influence the social and political change aren’t big, and the youth have no desire to take the concrete civic or political initiatives.A certain perspective in cooperation the youth see in the European constellation and the good quality education. However, youth on both sides are not open to more intensive mutual meetings – the majority would not either host peers from the other communities gladly, nor they would respond to their invitation of hosting. They are not interested in cultural values of one another, but they do think respect of human rights should be guaranteed and they are ready for toleration of differences.The necessity of youth cooperation is important for overcoming the problems that citizens of Kosovo and Serbia are facing when it comes to exercising numerous rights, which from the perspective of individual freedoms collide with the concept of state reasons and "higher" interests. The regional stability depends on overcoming the issues that governments in Serbia and Kosovo have concerning Kosovo’s status, and also from setting a network of individual and group relations among the citizens. Youth should be the carriers of social and cultural changes. In the stated attitudes there is no direct objection to such processes, but fear of changes is clearly expressed because indirectly it can be concluded that there is no mutual "collective" trust, that the prejudice are strong, and that the existing educational, cultural and media systems are supporting them. Having determined a high level of mutual non-acceptance of youth and their approximately same attitudes on the impossibility to influence the decision making more strongly in their family, social, and political communities, but also their personal ambivalence toward civic and political activism, let us try to, solely based on their statements, decide on the basis of designing the programs necessary for overcoming the present state.One of the main initiators of the social change are the content citizens, which means a personal and social economic stability, acquiring human and civil rights, efficient protection by the courts, receiving good services from the public service, responsible civic society – a rule of law and a state of law. Much of the above listed in the region, and especially in the territories, in which the survey was conducted, is missing. To effectively and efficiently influence the stream of social and political flows toward the mentioned goals, young people should acquire a certain vertical social mobility and to influence the changes based on the positions they acquire in it. The key question is based on which values should their social and professional mobility be influenced.
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The topic of this empirical study is focused on applying usage of heuristic methods in the process of retail shops placement as a starting point of putting into effect targeted communication of retail shops with a customer in their radius of action. Subsequently, maximisation of communication strategy’s effect is based on appropriate communication with the target market within a limited are a determined by buying stream, which affects the target customers and influences their shopping decisions and the volume of realised purchases in the given retail shop. The study is based on two mutually interconnected levels of related knowledge. On the first level, it deals with an analysis of relationships between selected macroeconomic indicators in the Slovak Republic and points out their direct influence on development of retail takings as a basic economic premise of retail shop functioning. On the second level the authors focus on the specific application of heuristic methodsin the field of optimisation of retail shops placement in the context of maximisation of their radius of action and target group service, in which an ideal precondition for targeted and efficient communication with a customer occurs. The aim of the contribution is to point out, using practical application of heuristic methods ADD and DROP, the optimisation possibilities of retail shops placement with special emphasis on delimitation of direct communication space. The aim of application of the above-mentioned methods is to practically use the outcomes of the realised research and obtained statistical data.
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In today’s markets, companies have greatly shifted their focus towards customers as the entities creating the demand for companies’ products and sources of the revenues. The consumers shape and influence the current market trends with their desires and preferences; this requires reassessing and reshaping the offers and communications from companies. Most successful offer adjustments are built on relevant research and formed by consumer insights, often based on patterns of content consumption. The main aim of this article is to identify digital video marketing trends by combining two essential pillars: the data management possibilities related to the digital environment and the evolution of media consumption habits of consumers. The authors examine secondary data which is precisely selected, collected and shaped according to the research design requirements from available Consumer Barometer Research provided and processed by Google. Identification of the six most significant digital video trends to shape digital marketing in the following years can be considered the core of the authors’ research. The results are centred on innovation progress and consumers’ consumption habits and aim to outline possible approaches to digital video production and delivery to target groups for several future years.
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Ever since it was first aired in September 1999 in the Netherlands, the Big Brother television show became the world’s most famous and most widely-held reality show franchise with up to 400 broadcast seasons in more than 70 countries. Since strong competition emerged in the mean time in the form of many other reality shows, owners of the Big Brother franchise are constantly trying to ‘refresh’ the concept in various ways to maintain its popularity and ratings. Thus, several production companies and commercial televisions from the former Yugoslavia region, all of them license owners authorised to produce the show, decided to organise an international or, more accurately, regional Big Brother show from September to December 2015. The producers gathered a total of 19 contestants from five countries with similar spoken languages – Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia – almost half of whom were somewhat bizarre members of socially sensitive, so-called marginal groups of citizens (a homeless person, a prostitute, a transgender person, a Roma family and others), which caused strong and divisive public reactions in the mentioned countries. The authors conducted an analysis of the content of the show broadcast over a period of one month in order to find out whether and to what extent these members of marginal societal groups were used to promote and increase viewer ratings of the show. At the same time, they followed the viewer ratings and, to a lesser extent, the public opinion on the show in Croatia. In the theoretical part, briefly, terms such as “marginal groups of citizens”, “celebrity culture”, “spectacularization of society and media” and “reality show” and the concept of television and its convergence with new, digital media formats have been elaborated. The objectives of the research were to determine whether the show’s license owners succeeded in their somewhat controversial approach to halt the trend of decreasing viewer ratings, and whether the concept of Big Brother and reality shows in general have been somewhat ‘worn out’, at least in South East Europe.
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The text focuses on a role which recognition, justice and democracy play in the era of global disputes and massmedia distortions. It deals with problems of misrecognition, injustice and democratic deficit mainly from European and Latin American perspectives, particularly from the points of view of Central Europe and Brazil. It points out the issues of social and political justice, extraterritorial recognition, participation in economic and political democracy, especially concerning international and transnational legal frameworks.
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The poem entitled Vorbind pietrei / Talking to a stone turns into an original lyrical version mirroring Norman Manea's spiritual - scriptural - biographic quest, in fact a text talking about life and death, about human condition and the power of writing to transgress time. Contextually related to the funeral stone with which the outcast lyrically and metaphorically talks - actually to eternal pain - the book (the Holy one and those following It) esthetically redefines death and human degradation beyond any limits - acting as an exorcist mechanism at the same time.
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La stylistique linguistique est un domaine complexe qui rejoint beaucoup de disciplines dans un réseau discursif très intéressant. La sémantique, la lexicologie, la syntaxe, la morphologie, la psycholinguistique, toutes les sciences se plient sur l’identité littéraire et les idiosyncrasies stylistiques de chaque écrivain. Cette démarche se propose d’identifier et analyser les représentations linguistiques qui caractérisent le style du discours féminin dans To the Lighthouse par Virginia Woolf.
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Eugène Ionesco est l’auteur d’une écriture authentique, qui occupe une place importante dans l’histoire de la littérature roumaine, parce qu’elle peint des personnages liés à leur époque, mais qui, en fait, sont l’expression d’une humanité insufissante, limitée. C’est pourquoi on peut affirmer qu’une oeuvre littéraire de certe valeur esthétique se situe au carrefour du temps et de l’éternité.
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The author of the article reveals the possibilities of psycholinguistics in the identification and interpretation of languages and texts of Alien Civilizations. The author combines modern interdisciplinary research in psycholinguistics with the theory “Evolving Matter” proposed by Oleg Bazaluk and concludes that the identification of languages and texts of Alien Civilizations, as well as the communication of terrestrial civilization with Extraterrestrial Intelligence, is in principle possible. To that end, it is necessary to achieve the required level of the modeling of neurophilosophy and to include these achievements of modern psycholinguistics studies: а) language acquisition; b) language comprehension; c) language production; d) second language acquisition. On the one hand, the possibilities of neurophilosophy to accumulate and model advanced neuroscience research; on the other hand, highly specialized psycholinguistic studies in language evolution are able to provide the communication of terrestrial civilization with Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
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Various countries and states have established telephone counselling lines for people with pathological or problem gambling. Data from such services may contribute to describing systematically the nature of gambling problems in a particular area. To date, however, few data have been published on such a telephone counselling line in a low or middle income country. Method: Data on calls to the telephone counselling line of the National Responsible Gambling Foundation of South Africa were captured over a 6-month period. Such data include socio-demographic variables, the primary reason for calling, the source of the referral, preferred method of gambling, impairment as a consequence of gambling, and history of treatment for psychiatric disorders, comorbid alcohol abuse and illicit drug use. Results: Calls were received from a broad range of people; the mean age of callers was 37 years, the majority were male (62%) and many were married (45%). Primary reasons for calling included the feeling of being unable to stop gambling without the help of a professional (41%), financial concerns (32%), legal problems (13%), pressure from family (10%), and suicidal thoughts (2%). The majority of callers contacted the counselling line after having heard about it by word of mouth (70%). The most common forms of gambling were slot machines (51%) and casino games (21%). Fourteen percent of callers reported having received help for other psychiatric disorders, 11% reported alcohol use disorders and 6% illicit drug use. Conclusion: These data from South Africa are consistent with prior research indicating that pathological and problem gambling are seen in a range of socio-demographic groups, and that such behaviour is associated with significant morbidity and comorbidity. More work is needed locally to inform younger gamblers, gamblers using the informal gambling sector, and unemployed gamblers of the existing telephone counselling lines.
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The purpose of this document is to explore an effect of debate used in university education process on development of critical thinking. This study used a quasi-experimental research and involved two classes of students grouped into experimental group and control group. A tailored version of standardized critical thinking test inspired by Watson Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal, a test of controversy and a self-evaluation were used as research instruments. Even thought, that our results showed that a use of debate has no effect on development of critical thinking level and critical thinking drill has no effect on level of estimate in self-evaluation, there are some implications for educators, psychologists, methodologists and philosophers.
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Applying the theory of reflexive-discursive systems, culture-play systems, social psychology etc., the author has tried to show that it is not so simple to get rid of one’s own cultural centrism and climb to a higher level of reflexive-discursive position. Yet, it is absolutely necessary, if one wants to understand one’s own and a different culture adequately. The author proves that modern anthropology and culturology must drop the Eurocentrist approach and master a new multifold methodology. It is necessary to understand that the so-called Utilitarian Discourse is not the only correct and the only possible way to reflect and express reality, and that it is not the only means building the universe. The paper contains a number of examples from Chinese and Jewish cultures proving significance of the anthropological approach based on the so-called «reflexive-discursive climbing».The author also analyses a connection between almost synchronous cultures: painted pottery Cucuteni-Tripolye culture, on the one hand, and the Chinese Neolithic cultures Yangshao and Majiayao, on the other hand. He shows their typological and ideological proximity and studies their spatial and temporal interaction through the Eurasian forest-steppe area and the so called Gansu corridor. He considers connections of the fundamental Snake-Dragon myth in Western and Chinese cultural traditions, suggesting a hypothesis of western influence.
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Based on an ethnographic field research conducted in the domestic and public spheres of the province of Punjab (Pakistan), this paper discusses real images (the family photos) embedded in their narrative context. It contributes towards understanding the role play by photographs both in domestic and public spheres by focusing on their function and the effect they have on the everyday lives of people and it also explores the changing dynamics of this role in a micro-social process. My contention is that displaying photographs at home or in the workplace and looking at them brings not only emotional satisfaction and nostalgia but it also functions to help one to overcome the sorrow of the passing of time entails. Our research suggests that photographs are bond up with the private lives of people and serve as a form of “home entertainment”.
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In this article we will try to demonstrate, on the one hand, the richness of the vocabulary with respect to the formulas created on the basis of a colour name and, on the other hand, to analyse the extent to which the word maintains its original significance if it becomes part of such formulas when used to characterize a person or an object.Thus, the research questions we want to answer in this article are the following: we want to know if colour terms and phrases formed using these colour terms are used to characterize people or objects and if there is a difference according to the semantic-syntactic features such as [+human] and [-human] in the meaning of terms that express colour.
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The paper, which also serves as an introduction to the book, examines the historically developed opposition of love, freedom, and the family. The authors argue that though the industrial society triggered the emergence of the nuclear family, at the same time it separated the ideals of the era – i.e. freedom and equality – from it. As these ideals gradually emerged in the family, however, they also spread to love relationships through self-realization and the heightened expectations towards love. One of the main reasons for the change was individualization. Values connected to one’s carrier became internalized, which, in turn, created tension between the differing demands of the labor market and relationships. This resulted in the opposition of family and freedom. Although individualization existed in previous eras too, it has never ever had such a widespread impact.
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