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Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies

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Volume 8, Issue 1/2, 1996
The City in the 21st Century

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the city in the 21st century

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George B. Palermo

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This essay explores the impact of alcohol and drug abuse on the individuars life, family, and community in a secularized society. The upsurge of crime in the city is the consequence of many variables, besides drugs and alcohol: lack of education, training, and jobs, the disintegration of the family, and inadequate administration of justice in the midst of a social climate of relativism. There is a need for the reintegration of the family, particularly the re-inclusion of a responsible father as a role model. In order to restore city life, there is an urgent need for a more active religious involvement at all levels, especially for teaching moral values in homes and schools. A new global evangelization of communities would highlight the importance of Judaeo-Christian values for the formation of character, and personal and community responsibility so necessary for a civil society.
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Michael Siegfried

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Drugs and crime are resounding issues with regard to contemporary cities. As we approach the twenty-first century, their impact on American cities in particular requires attention. The realities of life facing the residents of inner cities today are leading to a future that may resemble in many ways Aldous Huxley's dystopia. Brave New World. Unless a serious national commitment is made to alter present trajectories, the future may well be one in which drugs, crime, and social pathologies, combined with a lack of educational and economic opportunities, relegate many people to the bottom of society, enslaved by soma and casual sexual gratification, eerily reminiscent of Huxley's genetically-engineered society.
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Stephen H. Wirls

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This essay explores the relationship between moral community and the principles and practices of liberal individualism. Insofar as these principles afford the widest latitude to the individual's judgment concerning the government of his life, they have contributed to a decay in the rigor and authority of moral and civic codes. Moreover, they and the way of life they foster seem to militate against any political or social solutions to problems of morality and civility, reflecting a disparity between liberal regime principles and the moral preconditions of a decent society. A moral revival may thus have to be founded on the recognition that healthy liberal democracies require policies and practices in tension with liberal principles.
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Leonidas Donskis

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Lewis Mumford's discursive map, uncovering the trajectories of modem consciousness and Western social philosophy, dates back to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and the great tradition of American Romanticism However, Mumford's discursive map of the idea of the city cannot be reduced to architecture and city planning alone. His world of ideas draws on such thinkers and concepts as Ebenezer Howard's Garden City, Benton MacKaye's Eutopian ideas, Patrick Geddes' regional planning, and Frank Lloyd Wright's organic architecture (Broadacre City), anticipated by Louis Henri Sullivan. Mumford's theoretical constructions also reflect the worldviews of Simmel, Tönnies, Spengler, and Toynbee, as well as other influential social theories of the last two centuries, Mumford was apparently the first among twentieth-century intellectuals to grasp that human creation, interaction, self-fulfillment, and the search for perfectibility all take place in the city.
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Wayne Allen

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Zygmunt Stankiewicz

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Jede Aussage eines Menschen, sei es dutch Wort, Tat oder Werk, hat eine direkte Beziehung zu seiner Umwelt imd im besonderen zur menschlichen Gesellschaft. Der wahre Künstler ist in den meisten Fällen ein mit der Natur eng verbundener Mensch. Aus ihr nimmt er seine Inspiration zur schöpferischen Aussage. Denn, am Anfang war die Idee, die Idee war bei dem Schöpfer, und die Idee war der Schöpfer. Jedoch, wir brauchen eine neue, verantwortungsbewusste Künstlerschaft. Jeder von uns ist dazu auserwählt---schon seiner Berufung wegen---falls er das Geheimnis des Wandelns und der Wiedergutmachung erfahren hat. Eine umfassende Künstlergemeinschaft setzt voraus, dass alle Künstler, in ihr vereint und um Erfahrungen reicher, mit neuen Ideen der Menschheit dienen.
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Bruce W. Speck

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St Augustine's The City of God has deeply influenced the development of Westem political thought. As a seminal thinker, Augustine provides important insights conceming the future of the city. However, Augustine's politics cannot be separated from his theology, particularly his teaching on original sin and predestination. Augustine's understanding of teleology or purpose, especially with respect to ethics, and eschatology---the end or consummation of all things--—form an integrated whole. Hence, to assess Augustine's politics, one must first grasp his theology. Notably, Augustine's theology invests history with meaning and provides a basis for the inevitable pluralism as well as cooperation between the citizens from the two cities living in the same world with diametrically opposed loves.
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Oskar Gruenwald

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This essay considers Medjugorje, a small mountain village in Bosma-Hercegovina, as an icon or a bridge between God and man. The contemporary quest for national roots in the Balkans has led to cultural policies in the Yugoslav successor states which deny all common bonds among the South Slavs, resulting in a Kafkaesque civil war. Drawing on the crisis of liberal democracy and community in the West, the essay explores the prospects for peace in the former Yugoslavia, as reflected in Our Lady of Medjugorje's call for moral and spiritual renewal. It concludes that the quintessential, universal. Christian, and ecumenical Medjugorje message of peace represents a bridge to eternity, just as the historic Old Bridge in Mostar and the Višegrad Bridge over the Drina River are symbolic of a common South Slav history and destiny.

science - religion dialogue

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K. Helmut Reich

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The classification, comparison, and evaluation of science-theology relationships is facilitated by employing a high-level abstraction, such as a logic-based typology. The application of formal symbolic logic, fact-related dialectical logic, and the logic of complementarity yields six logical relationship types. Typologies proposed by leading exponents of science-theology interfaces like Barbour, Bube, Drees, Hefner, Miller, Peacocke, and Russell are examined in terms of logical types. Since both science and theology have a role in individual and societal life, the types "overlap" and "complementarity" look particularly promising: the distinctiveness of each domain is recognized, but also their linkages. An analysis of the New Age worldview highlights its deficiencies and suggests an elaboration of more complex logical types as combinations of basic types.
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David Grandy

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Michael E. Meagher

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Steven Yates

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Rebecca Skaggs

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Dan Anderson

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John P. Blair

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Robert E. VanderVennen

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J. Randall Groves

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Mabel Khawaja

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Brigitte Dehmelt Cooper

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Alexander J. Matejko

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