Abstract We analyze the dynamic interaction between technological improvements and the influence that these innovations have on the financial sector, which is an essential area in the digital age. The research investigates the increasing confluence of digital technology and financial operations from the perspective of methodology, with a particular emphasis on the larger socio-economic consequences of this evolution. The most significant aspects, including sociological, legal, and technical effects, are investigated in great detail in order to provide a comprehensive perspective on the current transitions. A comprehensive review of recent technological advancements and the ways in which these advancements have resonated through financial operations and strategies is the main topic of this article. Additionally, the article looks into the more fundamental financial implications of these technical advancements, going beyond the surface-level changes that have occurred. The results highlight the complicated connections that exist between the progression of technology and the financial sector, emphasizing how digitalization impacts financial procedures. The study offers a significant contribution by offering a clear and comprehensive view of the innovative implications that technology has had in the financial sector. The discussion on digital transformation is enriched as a result of this, and it sheds light on the significant impact that digital transformation has had not just on the financial sector but also on the larger economic structure.
{"title":"Digital Transformation and the Financial Sector: a Comprehensive Perspective","authors":"Ioana-Luciana Grozea, Dumitru Troancă","doi":"10.2478/saec-2023-0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/saec-2023-0018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We analyze the dynamic interaction between technological improvements and the influence that these innovations have on the financial sector, which is an essential area in the digital age. The research investigates the increasing confluence of digital technology and financial operations from the perspective of methodology, with a particular emphasis on the larger socio-economic consequences of this evolution. The most significant aspects, including sociological, legal, and technical effects, are investigated in great detail in order to provide a comprehensive perspective on the current transitions. A comprehensive review of recent technological advancements and the ways in which these advancements have resonated through financial operations and strategies is the main topic of this article. Additionally, the article looks into the more fundamental financial implications of these technical advancements, going beyond the surface-level changes that have occurred. The results highlight the complicated connections that exist between the progression of technology and the financial sector, emphasizing how digitalization impacts financial procedures. The study offers a significant contribution by offering a clear and comprehensive view of the innovative implications that technology has had in the financial sector. The discussion on digital transformation is enriched as a result of this, and it sheds light on the significant impact that digital transformation has had not just on the financial sector but also on the larger economic structure.","PeriodicalId":42120,"journal":{"name":"SAECULUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139024461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Wassily Kandinsky’s art leads us towards a mathematical interpretation. He has developed theories on geometry, colors, music, and the way they can be combined. We propose in this article to investigate carefully three issues raised by Kandinsky’s art: (i) whether forms of complex numbers are hidden in a non-object form behind the geometric figures; (ii) whether we can talk about topology and the organization of space in paintings according to it and, (iii) whether all this combined gives us a new existential dimension of the universe reflected by Kandinsky on his painted canvas. We examine these keys of interpretation as an avenue to new research.
{"title":"Architectural and Phenomenological Aspects in the Painting by Wassily Kandinsky: from a Topology-Geometry Dimension up to the Musical-Existential Dimension","authors":"Maria-Roxana Bischin","doi":"10.2478/saec-2023-0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/saec-2023-0021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Wassily Kandinsky’s art leads us towards a mathematical interpretation. He has developed theories on geometry, colors, music, and the way they can be combined. We propose in this article to investigate carefully three issues raised by Kandinsky’s art: (i) whether forms of complex numbers are hidden in a non-object form behind the geometric figures; (ii) whether we can talk about topology and the organization of space in paintings according to it and, (iii) whether all this combined gives us a new existential dimension of the universe reflected by Kandinsky on his painted canvas. We examine these keys of interpretation as an avenue to new research.","PeriodicalId":42120,"journal":{"name":"SAECULUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139017782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract On an intentional level, reading advertising images is a guided reading. The potential buyer is guided towards an already constituted meaning that needs to be decoded. Over time, advertising has evolved from referential advertising, which presents the advantages of purchasing a product or service, to allegorical advertising, which uses subversive techniques, appealing to a series of elaborate social codes or archetypal invariants, with an effect on the buyer‘s subconscious. Today, the connotative value of the advertising image becomes even more important than the denotative one. Its original purpose is hijacked by the complexity of the phenomenon, because advertising does not just sell products, but images of the world, with a pronounced self-referential character.
{"title":"Reading advertising images - a complex semiotic process1","authors":"Anda Ionaş","doi":"10.2478/saec-2023-0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/saec-2023-0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract On an intentional level, reading advertising images is a guided reading. The potential buyer is guided towards an already constituted meaning that needs to be decoded. Over time, advertising has evolved from referential advertising, which presents the advantages of purchasing a product or service, to allegorical advertising, which uses subversive techniques, appealing to a series of elaborate social codes or archetypal invariants, with an effect on the buyer‘s subconscious. Today, the connotative value of the advertising image becomes even more important than the denotative one. Its original purpose is hijacked by the complexity of the phenomenon, because advertising does not just sell products, but images of the world, with a pronounced self-referential character.","PeriodicalId":42120,"journal":{"name":"SAECULUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139018356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monica Boulis, Jacob Lang, D. Stamatopoulou, G. Cupchik
Abstract Coptic Orthodox iconography is a living tradition from a community that is underrepresented in the psychology of religion. It offers a prism for empirical investigation of religious aesthetic experiences and psychosocial factors that colour this class of experiences. This article reports a mixed-methods study focusing on attachment and imagination in experiences with Coptic icons. We qualitatively explored the significance of iconography within the community, with expert interviews revealing a dual function of the icon in public and private prayer lives. Home interviews with a subsample of Copts presenting secure attachment tendencies (n = 15) explored personal relationships to icons. These revealed themes related to physical space, narrative identity, and communication to the Divine. A cross-sectional survey (N = 88) was treated with principal components analyses, a correlation matrix, and two-way ANOVA. Participants endorsing secure attachments tended towards more intensity and security in relation to their religion and icons. In contrast, insecurely attached participants had less knowledge of icons and presented with expressive imagination, or a sensitivity to metaphor and fantasy. Developed in consultation with religious community members, this study presents new insights on attachment, imagination, religiosity, and cultural belonging.
{"title":"Attachment and Imagination in Coptic Christians` Religious and Aesthetic Experiences","authors":"Monica Boulis, Jacob Lang, D. Stamatopoulou, G. Cupchik","doi":"10.2478/saec-2023-0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/saec-2023-0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Coptic Orthodox iconography is a living tradition from a community that is underrepresented in the psychology of religion. It offers a prism for empirical investigation of religious aesthetic experiences and psychosocial factors that colour this class of experiences. This article reports a mixed-methods study focusing on attachment and imagination in experiences with Coptic icons. We qualitatively explored the significance of iconography within the community, with expert interviews revealing a dual function of the icon in public and private prayer lives. Home interviews with a subsample of Copts presenting secure attachment tendencies (n = 15) explored personal relationships to icons. These revealed themes related to physical space, narrative identity, and communication to the Divine. A cross-sectional survey (N = 88) was treated with principal components analyses, a correlation matrix, and two-way ANOVA. Participants endorsing secure attachments tended towards more intensity and security in relation to their religion and icons. In contrast, insecurely attached participants had less knowledge of icons and presented with expressive imagination, or a sensitivity to metaphor and fantasy. Developed in consultation with religious community members, this study presents new insights on attachment, imagination, religiosity, and cultural belonging.","PeriodicalId":42120,"journal":{"name":"SAECULUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139019614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The following article analyzes the process of filmmaking through the framework of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Apollonian-Dionysian dichotomy. Specifically, it centers on cinema as an example of the interplay of both Apollonian and Dionysian impulses. The first half of the article provides a definition of Nietzsche’s dichotomy and two descriptions of Apollonian-Dionysian unities as cultural tendencies and artistic elements. The second half of the article examines how key aspects of the movie production process embody either Apollonian or Dionysian elements. Additionally, a case study of the film Pan’s Labyrinth is employed to exemplify these concepts in a movie experience.
{"title":"Nietzsche and Cinema: Cinematography as an Expression of Unity between Apollonian and Dionysian Impulses","authors":"Cristian Radu","doi":"10.2478/saec-2023-0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/saec-2023-0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The following article analyzes the process of filmmaking through the framework of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Apollonian-Dionysian dichotomy. Specifically, it centers on cinema as an example of the interplay of both Apollonian and Dionysian impulses. The first half of the article provides a definition of Nietzsche’s dichotomy and two descriptions of Apollonian-Dionysian unities as cultural tendencies and artistic elements. The second half of the article examines how key aspects of the movie production process embody either Apollonian or Dionysian elements. Additionally, a case study of the film Pan’s Labyrinth is employed to exemplify these concepts in a movie experience.","PeriodicalId":42120,"journal":{"name":"SAECULUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139019940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Quite rightly, Polycletus‘ canon proves to be a trailblazer in terms of plastic symmetry. The most important sculptors of classical Greece proportioned the human body so that the anthropometric balance remained centered on the mean and extreme ratio, the discovery of the incommensurability of the number φ by Hippassus of Metapontum being nothing more than a new contradictory feature of polycletic symmetry. To already known dualities such as ideal–real, emotional–rational, curve–straight, rest–motion, commensurable–incommensurable was added to capture the dynamic balance assumed by the canonical symmetry of the ancient Greeks. But the contrapposto of the Doryphorus highlights another aspect of symmetry unnoticed until now: the pelvic golden ratio. Measurements show that the ratio is not a bit random. It is found on the vast majority of male nude statues from the classical period, being preserved with mathematical fidelity in Roman copies. All the works of the great Greek sculptors, original or reproductions, contain, without exception, the pelvic golden ratio, and measurements made on other Greco-Roman statues confirm the research hypothesis unequivocally. However, the measurements are at an early stage, which implies their continuation on more sculptures from the major and minor art of the period. Further research will show the extent to which the hypothesis can lead to an operational scientific concept.
{"title":"Observations Regarding Symmetry On Greco-Roman Statues","authors":"Radu Stănese","doi":"10.2478/saec-2023-0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/saec-2023-0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Quite rightly, Polycletus‘ canon proves to be a trailblazer in terms of plastic symmetry. The most important sculptors of classical Greece proportioned the human body so that the anthropometric balance remained centered on the mean and extreme ratio, the discovery of the incommensurability of the number φ by Hippassus of Metapontum being nothing more than a new contradictory feature of polycletic symmetry. To already known dualities such as ideal–real, emotional–rational, curve–straight, rest–motion, commensurable–incommensurable was added to capture the dynamic balance assumed by the canonical symmetry of the ancient Greeks. But the contrapposto of the Doryphorus highlights another aspect of symmetry unnoticed until now: the pelvic golden ratio. Measurements show that the ratio is not a bit random. It is found on the vast majority of male nude statues from the classical period, being preserved with mathematical fidelity in Roman copies. All the works of the great Greek sculptors, original or reproductions, contain, without exception, the pelvic golden ratio, and measurements made on other Greco-Roman statues confirm the research hypothesis unequivocally. However, the measurements are at an early stage, which implies their continuation on more sculptures from the major and minor art of the period. Further research will show the extent to which the hypothesis can lead to an operational scientific concept.","PeriodicalId":42120,"journal":{"name":"SAECULUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139022146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Among Zeno paradoxes the most known are Dichotomy, Achilles, Arrow, and Stadium. These argumentations state that movement is impossible since it is not thinkable. According to the ascendant form of dichotomy, a mobile cannot touch its destination since it always must to reach the half of the distance. The solutions of Diogenes, Aristotle and mathematical analysis are not satisfactory. Finally, the difference between rest and movement can be only conventionally established.
{"title":"Dichotomy","authors":"I. Narița","doi":"10.2478/saec-2023-0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/saec-2023-0015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Among Zeno paradoxes the most known are Dichotomy, Achilles, Arrow, and Stadium. These argumentations state that movement is impossible since it is not thinkable. According to the ascendant form of dichotomy, a mobile cannot touch its destination since it always must to reach the half of the distance. The solutions of Diogenes, Aristotle and mathematical analysis are not satisfactory. Finally, the difference between rest and movement can be only conventionally established.","PeriodicalId":42120,"journal":{"name":"SAECULUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139026626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The present research proposes to analyze the types of communication in intercultural interaction to achieve the necessary skills within interuniversity projects. By beginning with theoretical representations related to communication, such as definitions and typologies, the purpose is to determine the essential skills in interactions at the academic level, as well as the importance of communication skills (verbal, non-verbal, para-verbal, with their various forms) in the intercultural dialogue and the development of sustainable projects.
{"title":"The Importance of Communication Skills in Inter-University Projects","authors":"I. Cretu, Ioana-Tatiana Ciocan","doi":"10.2478/saec-2023-0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/saec-2023-0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The present research proposes to analyze the types of communication in intercultural interaction to achieve the necessary skills within interuniversity projects. By beginning with theoretical representations related to communication, such as definitions and typologies, the purpose is to determine the essential skills in interactions at the academic level, as well as the importance of communication skills (verbal, non-verbal, para-verbal, with their various forms) in the intercultural dialogue and the development of sustainable projects.","PeriodicalId":42120,"journal":{"name":"SAECULUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139013677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This article represents the first section of the second part of the study Gods and Idols. Representations and Symbolizations of the Divinity in the Religions of Ancient Israel. The subjects addressed for analysis are idolatry and iconoclasm in the context of Levantine iconography, seen from the perspective of the biblical authors, a totally tendentious, aggressive and contrary vision, in particular, to the archaeological discoveries. The Hebrew lexical fund of the MT was very rich and, later, almost doubled by the Greek version of the Old Testament text translated into the LXX (Septuagint) translation, regarding the denomination of foreign gods, idols and other representations. However, the “de facto tradition” of the Israelites contained a plastic iconography, idolatry and iconoclasm being phenomena that appeared in the post-exile period and called by scientific research “programmatic tradition”.
{"title":"Gods and Idols. Representations and Symbolizations of the Divinity in the Religions of Ancient Israel (IIa). Idolatry and Iconoclasm","authors":"Lucian Grozea","doi":"10.2478/saec-2023-0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/saec-2023-0026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article represents the first section of the second part of the study Gods and Idols. Representations and Symbolizations of the Divinity in the Religions of Ancient Israel. The subjects addressed for analysis are idolatry and iconoclasm in the context of Levantine iconography, seen from the perspective of the biblical authors, a totally tendentious, aggressive and contrary vision, in particular, to the archaeological discoveries. The Hebrew lexical fund of the MT was very rich and, later, almost doubled by the Greek version of the Old Testament text translated into the LXX (Septuagint) translation, regarding the denomination of foreign gods, idols and other representations. However, the “de facto tradition” of the Israelites contained a plastic iconography, idolatry and iconoclasm being phenomena that appeared in the post-exile period and called by scientific research “programmatic tradition”.","PeriodicalId":42120,"journal":{"name":"SAECULUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139020984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The possibility of philosophy in Islam is not obvious, since the Revelation brought in by the Quran is fully comprehensive, addressing every single issue of the earthly matter according to divine principles. However, the divine willingness to favor someone is completely free, therefore the Supreme decides to lower or heighten whoever He desires to. He apparently did so with Aristotle, giving him the excellency in philosophy. The effort made by Averroes in the famous discourse about the connection between philosophy and religious faith is to legitimate the practice of a discipline which is by no means forbidden, but highly recommended. Philosophy is encouraged and recommended for those who are entrenched in knowledge, and therefore capable of interpreting the most obscure parts of the reveled text, consolidating them as an intellectual elite.
{"title":"Averroes, the Connection between Philosophy and Faith","authors":"D. Dragoman","doi":"10.2478/saec-2023-0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/saec-2023-0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The possibility of philosophy in Islam is not obvious, since the Revelation brought in by the Quran is fully comprehensive, addressing every single issue of the earthly matter according to divine principles. However, the divine willingness to favor someone is completely free, therefore the Supreme decides to lower or heighten whoever He desires to. He apparently did so with Aristotle, giving him the excellency in philosophy. The effort made by Averroes in the famous discourse about the connection between philosophy and religious faith is to legitimate the practice of a discipline which is by no means forbidden, but highly recommended. Philosophy is encouraged and recommended for those who are entrenched in knowledge, and therefore capable of interpreting the most obscure parts of the reveled text, consolidating them as an intellectual elite.","PeriodicalId":42120,"journal":{"name":"SAECULUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139021848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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