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In this book, Nye returns to the business of critically appraising America's role in the present and future. While many contemporary 'realist' scholars view China as America's most likely competitor, or envisage a Russia-China-India coalition, Nye feels that the real challenges to America's power come in the form of the very things that have made the last ten years so prosperous: the information revolution and globalization. In Nye's view, while these phenomena at first helped to increase America's 'soft power' (its ability to influence the world through cultural, political, and other non-military means), they will soon threaten to dilute it. As technology spreads the Internet will become less US-centric, transnational corporations and non-governmental actors will gain power, and 'multiple modernities' will mean that 'being number 1 ain't gonna be what it used to be'. Nye includes chapters on American power, the information revolution, globalization, American culture and politics, and 'defining the national interest', along the way considering what the lessons of history have to tell us about what we should do with out unprecedented power - while we still have it. This book will include a sharp analysis of the terrorist attacks on the US in 2000, and will argue that the US cannot fight terrorism by itself.

One of the most widely used projective test is Rorschach Inblot Test. Apart from the psychoanalytic interpretation and interpretation of the test based on psychometric scoring there are also interpretations based on different theoretical background. One of these is the interpretation of the Rorschach test from an existential perspective. There are examples of Rorschach Inkblot Test which has interpretation on existential perspective especially with cancer patient. While existential concerns may be experienced in people who are at risk of death due to an illness, interpreting the Rorschach test from an existential perspective provides useful information to examine the mental state of individuals towards this disease. Therefore, this research is about a Rorschach Inkblot Test report from an existential perspective which applied to the young adult who was diagnosed with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection (HIV).

Evlilik ilişkisi olumlu ve yaşamı zenginleştiren bir faktör olarak kabul edilmektedir. Bununla birlikte, bireylerin yaşamlarını etkileyen ciddi stres faktörlerinin de kaynağı olabilen evlilik yaşantısı içinde anlaşmazlıklar ve çatışmalar görülebilmektedir. Mevcut problemleri etkili yollarla çözebilmek, aile içindeki fonksiyonların işlevsel şekilde devamlılığını sağlamaktadır. Evlilik sorunlarını çözümlemeye yönelik geliştirilen bilişsel davranışçı terapilerde genel olarak, eşlerin gerçekçi olmayan beklentilerinin değiştirilmesi, hatalı bilişlerin düzenlenmesi ve etkileşimi geliştirmek amacıyla problem çözme, iletişim kurma becerileri gibi doğrudan beceriye dayalı yöntemler kullanılarak olumsuz davranışların değiştirilmesi amaçlanmaktadır. Genellikle eşlerin duyguları, davranışları ve bilişleri üzerinde durulan bilişsel davranışçı evlilik terapilerinde, olumsuz davranışsal etkileşimleri azaltmak, eşlerin karşılıklı duygusal desteğini artırmak öncelikli amaçlar arasında yer almaktadır. Son yıllarda bilişsel davranışçı evlilik terapilerinin çok çeşitli bireysel, psikolojik ve tıbbi sorunları ele alacak şekilde uyarlandığı görülmektedir. Evlilik çatışması ve bireysel psikopatolojiler temelinde uygulanan bilişsel davranışçı evlilik terapisi çalışmalarının, umut verici şekilde hem ilişki uyumu açısından hem de eşlerin sahip olduğu psikopatolojinin belirtilerinin iyileşmesi açısından etkili olduğu dikkat çekici bir sonuç olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Marital relationship is considered as a positive and life-enriching factor. Nevertheless, there exist disagreements and conflicts in marriage, which could also be serious stressors that affect the lives of the individuals. Effective solutions for prevailing problems ensure the functional continuity of the family. Cognitive-behavioral therapies developed to resolve marital problems were commonly intended to modify the unrealistic expectations, problematic cognitions and behaviors of the spouses and to improve their interaction, using direct skill-based methods such as problem-solving and communication skills. Certain objectives of cognitive-behavioral marital therapy, which focus on the feelings, behaviors, and cognitions of spouses, include decreasing problematic behavioral interactions and increasing mutual emotional support between the spouses. In recent years, cognitive-behavioral marital therapy was adapted to address a wide range of individual, psychological, and medical problems. Cognitive-behavioral marital therapy studies based on marital conflict and individual psychopathologies are expected to be effective both for relationship compliance and for the improvement of psychopathological symptoms of the spouses.

A book that promotes the thesis that basic forms of mentality—intentionally directed cognition and perceptual experience—are best understood as embodied yet contentless. Most of what humans do and experience is best understood in terms of dynamically unfolding interactions with the environment. Many philosophers and cognitive scientists now acknowledge the critical importance of situated, environment-involving embodied engagements as a means of understanding basic minds—including basic forms of human mentality. Yet many of these same theorists hold fast to the view that basic minds are necessarily or essentially contentful—that they represent conditions the world might be in. In this book, Daniel Hutto and Erik Myin promote the cause of a radically enactive, embodied approach to cognition that holds that some kinds of minds—basic minds—are neither best explained by processes involving the manipulation of contents nor inherently contentful. Hutto and Myin oppose the widely endorsed thesis that cognition always and everywhere involves content. They defend the counter-thesis that there can be intentionality and phenomenal experience without content, and demonstrate the advantages of their approach for thinking about scaffolded minds and consciousness.

The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief analysis of two confusable philosophical positions, Transhumanism and Posthumanism, and compare their approaches in terms of their social and ecological concerns through an examination of Donna Haraway’s “cyborg identity.” Haraway introduces a ground-breaking approach in A Cyborg Manifesto and her later works, which blurs the formerly defined, distinct categories and identities that underlie the oppression of animals, humans, men, women, machines etc. By using postmodernist deconstruction, she wants to challenge Western dualisms and all kinds of oppression it causes. While Transhumanists, who inherit anthropocentrism from Humanism, support technological advancement to enhance the human condition, Posthumanists draw attention to the harms of the anthropocentric approach in terms of social and ecological justice and offer a more comprehensive and compassionate approach to other species inhabiting the planet. Since both Transhumanists and Posthumanists promote enhancement, Transhumanists need Posthumanist insights to really enhance the human condition concerning her environment.

Dear readers, Welcome to the 25th Volume 3rd Issue - Basic Islamic Sciences Special Issue- of Cumhuriyet Theology Journal. We are excited and happy to present you many current researches in this issue. We would like to express that we make all our efforts with a large team to carry the valuable works entrusted to us to the international arena. In our special issue we allocated to articles with the theme of Basic Islamic Sciences, 26 articles have been presented to the attention of our readers.

Welcome to the 25th volume 1st issue of Cumhuriyet Theology Journal. With this issue, we are excited and happy to be 25 years old. Cumhuriyet Theology Journal has gained a rapid momentum with its format and publishing principles, and managed to attract the attention of the world of science. With the Isnad Citation System developed within the Cumhuriyet Theology Journal and the work-shops held in 2018 and 2019, a number of decisions were taken to increase the publication quality of Theology Field Journals and many of them were implemented.

Welcome to the 25th volume 2nd issue of Cumhuriyet Theology Journal. With this issue, we are excited and happy to be 25 years old. Cumhuriyet Theology Journal has gained a rapid momentum with its format and publishing principles, and managed to attract the attention of the world of science. With the Isnad Citation System developed within the Cumhuriyet Theology Journal and the work-shops held in 2018, 2019 and 2020, a number of decisions were taken to increase the pub-lication quality of Theology Field Journals and many of them were implemented.

The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls and Those Who Only Remain in Will and Desire of Love is regarded as one of the most enigmatic and influential manuscripts in the history of medieval Christian mysticism. Its author was not known until the mid-twentieth century. In 1946, Romana Guarnieri identified Marguerite Porete, condemned and burned at the stake for “relapsed heresy” in Paris in 1310, as the author of this book. This paper aims to introduce Marguerite Porete, who is one of the most interesting forgotten women thinkers in the history of ideas. It will present the major sequences of her life, recount the rediscovery of The Mirror of Simple Souls by Guarnieri, and focus on its literary structure and certain philosophical themes it contains or implies. These selected themes are as follows: the subversion of the distinction between the learned and the ignorant, the opposition between Reason and Love, a naturalism beyond ascetism, a call for the constitution of a new subjectivity “beyond good and evil” and a concept of annihilation that denies the existence of free will.

Bu çalışmada Duygusal İşlemleme Ölçeği’ni (DİÖ) Türkçeye uyarlanıp üniversite öğrencilerinden oluşan bir örneklemde psikometrik özelliklerinin incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. DİÖ yaşları 18 ile 33 arasında değişen 484 üniversite öğrencisine uygulanmıştır. Cronbach alfa ve test-tekrar test güvenirlik katsayıları hesaplanmıştır. Faktörleri belirlemek için doğrulayıcı faktör analizi yapılmıştır. Geçerliliğin değerlendirilmesi amacıyla Courtauld Duygusal Kontrol Ölçeği, Toronto Aleksitimi Ölçeği ve Kısa Semptom Envanteri kullanılmıştır. Doğrulayıcı faktör analizi neticesinde ölçeğin 25 maddelik versiyonunun kabul edilebilir uyum gösterdiği saptanmış olup ekstra model testleri ile formun hem orijinal versiyonu uyumlu olarak 5 alt boyut puanlarının hem de toplam puanlarının kullanılabileceği belirlenmiştir. Güvenirlik analizleri ölçeğin toplam puan ve alt boyutlarının kabul edilebilir içsel tutarlık katsayılarına sahip olduğunu göstermiştir. Ayrıca, geçerlik bağlamında, DİÖ ile aleksitimi, duygusal kontrol ve psikolojik belirtiler arasında beklenen şekilde pozitif yönde ilişkiler bulunmuştur. Çalışmanın sonucunda DİÖ Türkçe formunun üniversite öğrencilerinde duygusal işlemlemeyi ölçmede kullanılabilecek geçerli ve güvenilir bir ölçüm aracı olduğu görülmüştür. The aim of this study was to adapt the Emotional Processing Scale (EPS) to Turkish and find out the psychometric properties of the adapted scale in a sampling composed of university students. The EPS was administered to 484 university students whose ages were between 18 and 33. Cronbach’s alpha and test-retest reliability coefficients were calculated. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to determine the factors. To assess and evaluate the validity of the adapted scale, Courtauld Emotional Control Scale, Toronto Alexithymia Scale and Brief Symptom Inventory were used. According to confirmatory factor analysis, the 25-item version of the scale has an acceptable validity and it was determined through additional model tests that both the scores of five sub-dimensions of the scale in line with the original scale and the total score can be used. The reliability analyses indicated that the total score and sub-dimensions of the scale have acceptable internal consistency coefficients. Besides, in terms of validity, positive high correlations were found out between alexithymia, emotional control and psychological symptoms and the EPS as expected. We can conclude that the Turkish version of the EPS is a reliable and valid scale to measure emotional processing in university students.