The most elegant and complex matter ever identified in our universe may well be the human brain, with its evolved ability to process and interpret not only our physical situation, but our existential one. For all humans ask: What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? And all humans conjecture: Surely there is something more. Although in the context of Big History we can identify elements of religion practiced as far in the past as by the stromatolites, and as recently as by our fellow primates, only humans possess the consciousness to seek definitive answers to those existential questions concerning our God or gods. In an increasingly globalized and secularized culture, is there a future for religion? Is there a place for any deity, for religion? Yes. Dramatically imagined, lovingly inclusive of all, with a shedding of institutional dogma and doctrine, cosmic religion can be found in each of us; the personal path to God or our gods lies in our evolved brains and mysterious minds. Correspondence | Lacy Loar-Gruenler, lal629@g.harvard.edu Citation | Loar-Gruenler, L. (201) Religion in Big History: A Neurobiological and Psychological Theory. Journal of Big History, III(2); 155 172. DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.22339/jbh.v3i2.3290
{"title":"Religion in Big History: A Neurobiological and Psychological Theory","authors":"Lacy Loar-Gruenler","doi":"10.22339/JBH.V3I2.3290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22339/JBH.V3I2.3290","url":null,"abstract":"The most elegant and complex matter ever identified in our universe may well be the human brain, with its evolved ability to process and interpret not only our physical situation, but our existential one. For all humans ask: What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? And all humans conjecture: Surely there is something more. Although in the context of Big History we can identify elements of religion practiced as far in the past as by the stromatolites, and as recently as by our fellow primates, only humans possess the consciousness to seek definitive answers to those existential questions concerning our God or gods. In an increasingly globalized and secularized culture, is there a future for religion? Is there a place for any deity, for religion? Yes. Dramatically imagined, lovingly inclusive of all, with a shedding of institutional dogma and doctrine, cosmic religion can be found in each of us; the personal path to God or our gods lies in our evolved brains and mysterious minds. Correspondence | Lacy Loar-Gruenler, lal629@g.harvard.edu Citation | Loar-Gruenler, L. (201) Religion in Big History: A Neurobiological and Psychological Theory. Journal of Big History, III(2); 155 172. DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.22339/jbh.v3i2.3290","PeriodicalId":326067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Big History","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122255631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crater, Catastrophe, Contingency: An Improbable Journey and the Human Situation: A Review of Books by Walter Alvarez","authors":"B. Wood","doi":"10.22339/JBH.V3I2.3260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22339/JBH.V3I2.3260","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Big History","volume":"2008 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125618495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The main objective of this paper is to describe two eco-pedagogical experiences developed with the Environmental Education Program of Educator, using Big History as theoretical framework. A transdisciplinary methodology is used to integrate scientific knowledge with ancestral wisdom, in order to combine an ecology of epistemes. Hence, the study reflects about the intercultural, plurinational, and multiethnic nature of the Ecuadorian citizenship to understand the environmental practices of those ancient worldviews. As result, the article reflects about the theory, practice, and public policies of the Environmental Education Program ‘Tierra de Todos’ developed by the Ministry of Education in Ecuador. In harmony with the Ecuadorian’s Constitution of 2008, that recognized the Rights of Nature, this program has been implemented in all the Ecuadorian Educational System to raise environmental awareness and to restore the ecosystems. This juridical framework is based in the Good Living, a philosophical and political worldview of kiwicha indigenous peoples of Andean Region, where human beings are interconnected with our planet Earth and the whole cosmos. As the main conclusion, the Environmental Education Program seeks to bio-literate citizens to face the complex civilizing challenges of the Anthropocene, by teaching how to feel-think-act in harmony with the co-evolutionary processes of nature. Correspondence | Javier Collado Ruano, javiercolladoruano@gmail.com Citation | Collado Ruano, J. (2019) Big History in the Ecuadorian Educational System: Theory, Practice, and Public Policies of Environmental Education . Journal of Big History, III(2); 83 100. DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.22339/jbh.v3i2.3250 I
本文的主要目的是描述两种生态教学经验发展与环境教育计划的教育家，以大历史为理论框架。一个跨学科的方法论被用来整合科学知识与祖先的智慧，以结合生态的知识。因此，该研究反映了厄瓜多尔公民的跨文化、多民族和多民族性质，以了解这些古老世界观的环境实践。因此，这篇文章反映了厄瓜多尔教育部制定的环境教育计划Tierra de Todos的理论、实践和公共政策。为了与承认自然权利的厄瓜多尔2008年宪法保持一致，该计划已在厄瓜多尔所有教育系统中实施，以提高环境意识并恢复生态系统。这一法律框架以“美好生活”为基础，这是安第斯地区基维查土著人民的一种哲学和政治世界观，在那里，人类与我们的地球和整个宇宙相互联系。作为主要结论，环境教育计划旨在通过教授如何与自然共同进化过程和谐相处，让具有生物素养的公民面对人类世复杂的文明挑战。(2019)厄瓜多尔教育体系中的大历史:环境教育的理论、实践与公共政策。大历史学报，3 (2);83年100年。DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.22339/jbh.v3i2.3250 1
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Big History traces the Cosmologic arc from the Singularity/Big Bang to the present. Similarly, evolutionary biology, as “all of biology”, represents the arc of life from its origins. There is mechanistic consilience between Quantum Mechanics, The First Principles of PhYsiology and evolutionary biology that is perpetually centered on the unicellular level. The phenotypic adaptations in reaction to geophysical and geochemical changes that culminate in culture are forged at the level of the recapitulating unicellular zygote. This perspective offers a synthesis for the animate and inanimate alike as Big History. The cell as the mechanistic basis for both evolution and Big History offers a novel synthesis for Humanism and Science. Correspondence | John S. Torday, jtorday@ucla.edu Citation | Torday, J. S. (2019) Evolution, the ‘Mechanism’ of Big HistoryThe Grande Synthesis. Journal of Big History, III(2); pp. 17 24. DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.22339/jbh.v3i2.3220
大历史追溯了从奇点/大爆炸到现在的宇宙弧。同样，进化生物学，作为“所有生物学”，代表了生命从起源开始的弧线。在量子力学、生理学第一原理和进化生物学之间存在着机制上的一致性，这种一致性永远以单细胞水平为中心。对地球物理和地球化学变化的反应的表型适应在培养中达到高潮，在重述单细胞受精卵的水平上形成。这种观点为有生命和无生命的事物提供了一种综合，就像《大历史》一样。细胞作为进化和大历史的机制基础，为人文主义和科学提供了一种新的综合。通信| John S. Torday, jtorday@ucla.edu引文| Torday, J. S.(2019)进化，大历史的“机制”。大历史学报，3 (2);第17页。DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.22339/jbh.v3i2.3220
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This monograph addresses the vital impact of ancient Greek thought on Colonial American cosmography, through an analysis of the ways Colonial Americans interpreted and applied Greek ideas. The conflict between the Ptolemaic tradition and the heliocentric model of Copernicus provides a focal point for this study. To highlight this cosmographic reformation, I examine the influence of Greek democratic culture, in particular the tolerance of open discussion, as well as attitudes of scientific objectivity, mathematical reasoning and religious openness. In turn, this cultural inheritance inspired and enabled leading Colonial American cosmographers associated with Harvard and Puritanism to view scientific truth as God’s truth. Thus, religiosity and the understanding of God’s created universe in Colonial America embraced an ongoing journey of discovery shaped by scientific inquiry and an openness to changing received wisdom concerning the cosmos. Correspondence | Ben Baumann, BRBAUMANN@csbsju.edu Citation | Baumann, Ben. (2019) The Origins of the Ptolemaic Tradition and its Adoption and Replacement in Colonial America. Journal of Big History, III(2); 121 153. DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.22339/jbh.v3i2.3280
这本专著通过分析殖民地美国人解释和应用希腊思想的方式，阐述了古希腊思想对殖民地美国宇宙学的重要影响。托勒密传统与哥白尼日心说模型之间的冲突为本研究提供了一个焦点。为了强调这种宇宙观的改革，我考察了希腊民主文化的影响，特别是对公开讨论的宽容，以及对科学客观性、数学推理和宗教开放性的态度。反过来，这种文化遗产启发并使与哈佛大学和清教主义有关的美国殖民地宇宙学家将科学真理视为上帝的真理。因此，在殖民时期的美国，宗教信仰和对上帝创造的宇宙的理解，在科学探究和对改变关于宇宙的公认智慧的开放的影响下，拥抱了一段持续的发现之旅。通信| Ben Baumann, BRBAUMANN@csbsju.edu引文| Baumann, Ben。(2019)托勒密传统的起源及其在殖民地美国的采用和替代。大历史学报，3 (2);121年153年。DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.22339/jbh.v3i2.3280
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{"title":"Reading Alberto Caeiro’s Poems with Anthropocene Eyes","authors":"Tatiana de Freitas Massuno","doi":"10.22339/JBH.V3I2.3240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22339/JBH.V3I2.3240","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Big History","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129518834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
English is the first language of 330 to 360 million people but three times this number speak it as a second language. With an estimated 1.5 billion speakers, it is the most widely spoken language on the planet, though not universal; many regions are bereft of English speakers. A language with few contemporary speakers but widespread use is Latinus Scientificus (Scientific Latin)—a modernized version of the classical Latin of Caesar, Cicero, Horace, Livy, Ovid, and Virgil two thousand years ago. Kept alive by the Roman Church, Latin evolved into the Romance languages (French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish) and influenced virtually every other European language, including several stages of influence on English. Meanwhile classical Latin continued as the language of learning at the hands of theologians, humanists, and philosophers until the eighteenth century. Then, at the hands of Carl Linnaeus, Latin terminology was systematically developed for botanical description, then adapted for zoology, chemistry, anthropology, and medicine. While spoken and written Latin is now confined to the inner circle of the Roman Church and its official documents, scientific Latin has become the universal language of precise scientific taxonomy and description. The Latinization of personal names and places within scientific Latin reveals it as a still developing language. The influence of Latin as the language of learning and science has led to a more general influence in literature and general culture.
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{"title":"Erupções do Kilauea e o arquipélago havaiano","authors":"Barry Wood","doi":"10.22339/JBH.V3I1.3115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22339/JBH.V3I1.3115","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Big History","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131644931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Evolução de Construtos Sociais","authors":"Anthony Nairn, D. Barreiros","doi":"10.22339/JBH.V3I1.3145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22339/JBH.V3I1.3145","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Big History","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125513235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Ghoonghat to De Beauvoir","authors":"Isha Mathur","doi":"10.22339/jbh.v3i1.3180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22339/jbh.v3i1.3180","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Big History","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125876461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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