Ancient philosophers attached great importance to the ideals of unity, truth, goodness, and beauty as the path to the greatest good. Beauty expressed through works of art can open the eyes of the ...mind and heart and direct the human spirit to transcendence. The beauty of art awakens inner emotionality, evokes elation in silence, and leads to “coming out of oneself”. The concept of beauty is inextricably linked to Catholic theology and preaching. Beautiful sacred images were a source of theological messages, intercession, and entry into the transcendental world. Medieval Gothic cathedrals had images on the walls as a basic tool of catechesis. Even in today’s teaching of young people, images play a crucial role. The world of symbols enables Christians to connect everyday life experiences with theological messages. The image of the Virgin Mary is the best example of recognizing personal life situations, with the story of a mother who loved her child, accepted the suffering and death of her own son, and together with St. Joseph formed a holy family, which is the image of an imperfect family in which each person recognizes himself. All these aspects of the life of the Virgin Mary could form the basic concepts of the Christian understanding of beauty. In modern thought, the concept of beauty is understood quite narrowly (we are talking about narrowing the meaning of the concept of beauty). In the first part of this paper, we focus on the philosophical concept of beauty with a brief historical overview, then we point out the difference between transcendental beauty and aesthetic beauty. Beauty appeals to the human being and opens the heart to the transcendent, to God, who is the source and fullness of beauty, beauty itself. The originality of the article is in its presentation of the understanding of the Christian concept of beauty through the figure and image of Mary, the Mother of God. The experience of the beauty of Mary and Mary’s life story enables the believer to have a different perspective on the perception of his own life and thereby opens him to the transcendent, to a personal relationship with God, who is eternal Beauty.
A Poet King Rozman, Mateja
Slavonica,
01/2022, Volume:
27, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
The following abridged and adapted newspaper article deals with the Slovenian Romantic poet France Prešeren who was supported by his friend the linguist, historian and literary critic Matija Čop. ...Prešeren proved that Slovenia was a nation because of its literature. According to the theory of the brothers Schlegel a nation exists only if its language can create high-brow poetry.
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Purpose - The presence and use of the informal and formal measures of business ethics implementation may be crucial and should therefore be known to managers owners. Based on the case study research, ...this paper aims to suggest that enterprise awareness of importance of business ethics implementation can be of essential meaning for its long-term existence, success, growth, and development. The purpose of this paper is to discover the presence and use of the informal and formal measures of business ethics implementation and to identify their importance for active measure care by the enterprises.Design methodology approach - In this paper, qualitative research is applied. The research cognitions on informal and formal measures of business ethics implementation are discussed in application of the dialectical systems theory.Findings - The paper finds that on one side the enterprises' key stakeholders (owners and managers) are aware of the importance of their ethical behaviour as well as of impact of their ethical behaviour to the enterprises' behaviour. The research results also show that enterprises' key stake holders are conscious of the impact of enterprises' ethical behaviour to the enterprises' long term existence, growth, and development. On the other hand, the research findings show that such informal awareness is usually not formalized, which can be argued as a reason for enterprises' unethical behaviour.Practical implications - This paper gives us some insights as to the state of informal and formal measures of business ethics implementation in Slovenian enterprises. In a frame of practical implications, a further research should be done to show which formal measures of such ethics implementation should be used to stimulate the enterprises' innovative behaviour in assurance of enterprise effectiveness, efficiency, and social responsibility in order to achieve and maintain enterprise's long term existence, growth, and development.Originality value - The available literature does not provide for a similar research of linkage between the formal and informal measures of business ethics implementation.
Akademik dr. Anton Trstenjak (1906 ̶ 1996) je bil vsestranska osebnost, bil je duhovnik in teolog, filozof, antropolog, psiholog znanstvenik in psiholog praktik, vsaki od dejavnosti pa se je posvečal ...scela in povsem predano. Vrhunski znanstvenik, ki se je izpopolnjeval v Parizu in Milanu, je svojo ljubezen do znanosti in znanstvenega raziskovanja ubesedoval ne le v znanstvenih monografijah ter znanstvenih in strokovnih razpravah, temveč je svoja spoznanja mojstrsko prelival tudi v poljudno knjižno obliko namenjeno vsakemu človeku, še posebej človeku v stiski, ki mu je bil naklonjen z vso ljubeznijo in skrbjo. Bogat in raznolik življenjski opus dr. Trstenjaka je zajetno predstavljen v zbornikih, člankih, razpravah in objavah različnih strokovnjakov, teologov, filozofov, psihologov, antropologov, sociologov in pastoralistov, zato se bomo v pričujočem članku posvetili predvsem obravnavi nekaterih področij njegovega delovanja. Namen oz. cilj članka je predstaviti Trstenjakovo življenjsko pot in osvetliti nekatere do sedaj manj znane vidike te poti ter pokazati na aktualnost njegove antropologije in pomen terapevtsko svetovalnega dela predvsem v času, ko se sodobni človek v stiski srečuje in izbira med različnimi terapevtskimi praksami. V prvem delu razprave bomo orisali njegovo življenjsko pot, da bi mogli bolje doumeti bogastvo njegove ustvarjalne poti. V drugem delu se bomo osredinili na dve področji njegovega ustvarjanja in sicer na njegovo filozofsko in antropološko dejavnost, kot izvirni prispevek pa v tretjem delu predstavimo tezo o psihokibernetiki oz. samodejavnosti kot temeljni potezi njegovega svetovalnega in terapevtskega dela. Pokažemo na dejstvo, da je pri Trstenjakovemu pojmovanju človeka kot dinamične celote v procesu razvoja njegove osebnosti in tudi v procesu zdravljena, osebna angažiranost posameznika ključnega pomena. Ob obravnavanih področjih Trstenjakovega ustvarjalnega dela hočemo pokazati, da je težišče vsega njegovega prizadevanja, tako znanstvenoraziskovalnega, pedagoškega in svetovalnega, usmerjeno k človeku, razumevanju človeka in človekovemu iskanju sreče.
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