In Augustine and the Functions of Concupiscence, Timo Nisula offers a comprehensive analysis of Augustine's developing views of sinful desire. The book demonstrates how and why concupiscence became ...such a pregnant concept in Augustine's theology and philosophy.
The Magnetohydrodynamics equations (MHD) provide a macroscopic description of a plasma and it provides a relevant description many physical phenomena. However, MHD is deficient in many respect and ...some of these deficiencies are accounted for by extending Ohm’s law with the momentum equations being usually unchanged. But, this approach does not give conservation of the energy for some cases. In this paper, we take a model proposed by Lüst who appears to be the first to correct the generalized Ohm’s law to guarantee conservation of the energy. We first show the existence of unique solutions and establish a blow-up criterion to the Lüst model with initial data in H3. We then prove that this solution is defined globally-in-time and decays algebraically when the initial data is sufficiently small.
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This study is aimed at investigating the concept of lust emotion and its management strategies in Saadi's Bustan. The data collection method is the descriptive-analytical method, and the analyzed ...sample is Saadi's Bustan. The results suggest that the humans control himself and try to bypass his animal aspect. His recommendations regarding the control of physical and sexual passions include: eating less and leaving self-indulgence, contentment and leaving greed, remembering death and seizing life, having shame before the Lord of the universe, struggling with carnality, putting the reason and wisdom as ruling powers, not being disappointed of returning to the right way and doing repentance, and the direct and explicit way of forbearance and marriage and choosing the right and pious partner to control sexual lust. The result: Saadi has known the human dignity values restricted to the humanistic encounters that arose from the human spirit. From his perspective, the adornment of the human body and appearance is not the criterion of humanity, and if human life is based on eating, sleeping, anger, and lust, so there is no difference between humans and animals. He knows the severe adherence to mundane world as the seduction of self and downgrade to animal levels believes that the suppression of this fulsome self helps the human beings to achieve the true human position and the nearness of the soul to God.
The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth
in late imperial China, was the deity's diabolical character.
Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon but rather
as an ...embodiment of greed and lust, a maleficent demon who preyed
on the weak and vulnerable. In The Sinister Way, Richard
von Glahn examines the emergence and evolution of the Wutong cult
within the larger framework of the historical development of
Chinese popular or vernacular religion-as opposed to institutional
religions such as Buddhism or Daoism. Von Glahn's study, spanning
three millennia, gives due recognition to the morally ambivalent
and demonic aspects of divine power within the common Chinese
religious culture. Surveying Chinese religion from 1000 BCE to the
beginning of the twentieth century, The Sinister Way views
the Wutong cult as by no means an aberration. In Von Glahn's work
we see how, from earliest times, the Chinese imagined an enchanted
world populated by fiendish fairies and goblins, ancient stones and
trees that spring suddenly to life, ghosts of the unshriven dead,
and the blood-eating spirits of the mountains and forests. From
earliest times, too, we find in Chinese religious culture an
abiding tension between two fundamental orientations: on one hand,
belief in the power of sacrifice and exorcism to win blessings and
avert calamity through direct appeal to a multitude of gods; on the
other, faith in an all-encompassing moral equilibrium inhering in
the cosmos.
From Confederation to the partial abolition of the death penalty a century later, defendants convicted of sexually motivated killings and sexually violent homicides in Canada were more likely than ...any other condemned criminals to be executed for their crimes. Despite the emergence of psychiatric expertise in criminal trials, moral disgust and anger proved more potent in courtrooms, the public mind, and the hearts of the bureaucrats and politicians responsible for determining the outcome of capital cases.
Wherever death has been set as the ultimate criminal penalty, the poor, minority groups, and stigmatized peoples have been more likely to be accused, convicted, and executed. Although the vast majority of convicted sex killers were white, Canada’s racist notions of the Indian mind meant that Indigenous defendants faced the presumption of guilt. Black defendants were also subjected to discriminatory treatment, including near lynchings. In debates about capital punishment, abolitionists expressed concern that prejudices and poverty created the prospect of wrongful convictions.
Unique in the ways it reveals the emotional drivers of capital punishment in delivering inequitable outcomes, The Death Penalty and Sex Murder in Canadian History provides a thorough overview of sex murder and the death penalty in Canada. It serves as an essential history and a richly documented cautionary tale for the present.
This study investigates the role of criminal dismemberment in sexual homicide crime-commission process. Specifically, this research aims to empirically determine whether criminal dismemberment is a ...rational behavior aimed at avoiding detection or an expression of sexual deviance. The sample used in this study comes from the Sexual Homicide International Database (SHIelD). Bivariate and multivariate analyses are performed to examine the differences between the crime commission process of sexual murderers who dismembered their victims (n = 77) and those who did not (n = 585). Findings indicate that criminal dismemberment occurred more often as part of a sexual deviance. Specifically, this behavior is strongly associated with the intention to kill the victim, necrophilia, mutilation of genitals, and commission of extreme acts committed on/with victims' bodies. Moreover, findings showed that these offenders are more likely to follow an organized modus operandi. Theoretical and practical implications in terms of criminal investigations are discussed.
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La sillería de la catedral de Toledo fue tallada a finales del siglo XV por un maestro del norte de Europa conocido como Rodrigo Alemán por un posible origen de Renania. Existía en estos momentos un ...rico comercio entre Flandes y los reinos de la península ibérica, que propició la llegada de numerosos artistas extranjeros al rico y emergente reino de Castilla. La sillería del coro de Toledo es especialmente conocida por los relieves que narran la reciente conquista de Granada; sin embargo, nuestro estudio se centrará en dilucidar el significado hermético oculto en los relieves complementarios de la marginalia tallada por el maestro Rodrigo Alemán en esta misma obra. En concreto, analizaremos las misericordias que incorporan conocidas imágenes de los Bestiarios medievales y la cultura popular con la intención de advertir al clero de los peligros de la tentación carnal. Si bien es cierto que Rodrigo Alemán fue un maestro extranjero, las imágenes que talló en el coro de la catedral toledana gozaban de una consolidada trayectoria en el arte medieval europeo, luego podemos asumir que el clero fue en gran parte consciente de su significado moral. El presente trabajo estudiará esta iconografía marginal como una guía visual contra el pecado de la lujuria con el fin de garantizar la salvación eterna a sus potenciales espectadores.
Since the nineteenth century, it is a fact recognized by all that the woman suckling snakes in Romanesque sculpture is a representation of lust. However, several elements would tend to strongly put ...in perspective this affirmation. The few texts encountered on this motive come as much from the register of sexuality as that of motherhood. A serial study of the iconographic type also relativizes the sexual nature of this woman with snakes, who is not always naked, who almost never sex attacked. Conversely, an investigation of the representations of Lust as a capital sin throughout the Middle Ages shows that it is rather depicted as a woman looking in a mirror than by a woman suckling snakes. In these conditions, it would be less the generic representation of lust, than a category of women particularly stigmatized by the Romanesque patrons.
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