Being Unfolded: Edith Stein on the Meaning of Being

What is the meaning of being? More concretely, “What do human beings and quarks, ideal geometrical shapes and possible worlds, ‘sickness’ and ‘health’, the number three and gravity all have in common that allows us to say that each of them is?” (xvii). In Being Unfolded, Thomas Gricoski attempts to get to the bottom of this perennially valid question by exploring the question of the meaning of being in one of Edith Stein’s later philosophical works, the phenomenological and Scholastic study, Finite and Eternal Being: An Attempt to Ascend to the Meaning of Being [Endliches und ewiges Sein: Versuch eines Aufstiegs zum Sinn des Seins]. Gricoski takes Stein’s proposition of the idea of “unfolding,” more precisely, the “unfolding of meaning,” as that which unites the various senses of being and provides an interpretive key to its meaning across all modes of being—all actual, essential, and mental modes of being detailed by Stein

Review: European Sources of Human Dignity: A Commented Anthology Mette Lebech. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019. pp. 345. On the Problem of Human Dignity: A Hermeneutical and Phenomenological Investigation Mette Lebech.

A coordinating feature of much contemporary discourse—philosophical and theological, social and cultural, political and legal—is the idea of human dignity. The sense of its necessity as an idea grounding and organizing thought, feeling, and action about the human being is shared across different and often otherwise contrary worldviews. But to what does the expression “human dignity” refer? What is human dignity? And why is it important? Anyone who has looked at the problem with anything more than a cursory glance knows that these are not easy questions, and Mette Lebech sets herself the task of attaining an answer in two complementary volumes, through a hermeneutical and phenomenological investigation in On the Problem of Human Dignity, coupled with a later published commented anthology of key texts of the Western tradition in European Sources of Human Dignity. The significance of the investigation together with anthology of sources lies in the fact that, according to Lebech, “the affirmation of human dignity occupies so central a place in human experience that its denial would render the latter unrecognizable” (Lebech, 2009: 20)

Membrane Omega-3 Fatty Acid Deficiency as a Preventable Risk Factor for Comorbid Coronary Heart Disease in Major Depressive Disorder

Major depression disorder (MDD) significantly increases the risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) which is a leading cause of mortality in patients with MDD. Moreover, depression is frequently observed in a subset of patients following acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and increases risk for mortality. Here evidence implicating omega-3 (n-3) fatty acid deficiency in the pathoaetiology of CHD and MDD is reviewed, and the hypothesis that n-3 fatty acid deficiency is a preventable risk factor for CHD comorbidity in MDD patients is evaluated. This hypothesis is supported by cross-national and cross-sectional epidemiological surveys finding an inverse correlation between n-3 fatty acid status and prevalence rates of both CHD and MDD, prospective studies finding that lower dietary or membrane EPA+DHA levels increase risk for both MDD and CHD, case-control studies finding that the n-3 fatty acid status of MDD patients places them at high risk for emergent CHD morbidity and mortality, meta-analyses of controlled n-3 fatty acid intervention studies finding significant advantage over placebo for reducing depression symptom severity in MDD patients, and for secondary prevention of cardiac events in CHD patients, findings that n-3 fatty acid status is inversely correlated with other documented CHD risk factors, and patients diagnosed with MDD after ACS exhibit significantly lower n-3 fatty acid status compared with nondepressed ACS patients. This body of evidence provides strong support for future studies to evaluate the effects of increasing dietary n-3 fatty acid status on CHD comorbidity and mortality in MDD patients

Relief and Family Welfare Problems of the Broken-Home Child in South Dakota

In 1938, the Rural Sociology Department of South Dakota State College, together with the South Dakota Works Progress Administration and the South Dakota State Department of Social Security, undertook a survey to determine the extent and cost of child dependency in South Dakota. Schedules were filled in each county of the State under the supervision of W.F. Kumlien, Professor of Rural Sociology, South Dakota State College; Dr. J.P. Johansen, now of North Dakota State College; and Robert L. McNamara. Filling and editing of the schedules, and tabulation has been carried on by the Department of Rural Sociology with employees paid by WPA. From these schedules the subject of broken homes and the assignment of dependent children to the various causes of loss of support has been investigated from the schedules by the writer. This thesis is designed to present the picture of broken home situations in South Dakota as a problem of relief and of social rehabilitation. The purpose is to discover the causes of broken home situations affecting children in relied agencies, to explore the possibilities of remedial care, both to end dependence on relief and to protect the children, and to weigh the probable effects if the various alternative programs for the care of dependent children

Illness in the farm population of two homogeneous areas of Missouri : its relation to social and economic factors and its susceptibility to small-sample study

Digitized 2007 AES.Includes bibliographical references