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ItemThe developing image of the divine : a philosophical reflection on the relationship between 'will' and 'love' from the perspective of F.W.J. Schelling's later philosophyThe most significant call of the human being is for ceaseless effort. Rilke’s1 poetry in the form of poetic language is quite appropriate to support the author’s vital aim in encouraging one’s own self and the fellow human beings for constant unceasing effort. Schelling’s Later Thoughts are influenced by mystics and theosophers such as Meister Eckhart, Jacob Boehme, Franz von Baader and Oetinger. The call of the human being is to make ceaseless effort in developing the image of the Divine in oneself by transcending ‘will’ to ‘love’. According to Schelling, this can only be accomplished in inwardness. Inwardness is the existential dialogue between ‘will’ and ‘reason’ in the atmosphere of love. The criterion of the inner sacred dialogue is love. It is the process of a harmonic integration, and balanceable transformation of the contradictory nature of the heart and the head, the feeling-self and the thinking-self.
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ItemA Panel Data Model on e-Business Development of Nationse-Business development has become a key factor for the sustainable economic growth and development of any nation in this new era of digital revolution. This is a macro level study based on the hypothesis that the e-business development of a nation can be predicted on the basis of four independent estimators, namely, 1) Country Characteristics; 2) Business Sophistication; 3) Technological Readiness; and 4) e-Government Support. A panel data of five years (2012-2016) relating to 132 world countries were collected and analyzed. The objective of the study is to develop a panel data regression model (fixed effect) which could test the theoretical foundation that e-business development of a nation could be predicted by the above four estimators. Suitable measurement indicators are collected from reliable sources like IBRD, IMF, WEF, UNCTAD, UN e-Government Report and the Transparency International for the measurement of the variables in the study. The overall functional relationship of the model is proved statistically significant on obtaining a significant F-value at <1% level and also with a high R-square value. All the coefficients are positive and significant at 1% level and hence it is proved that country characteristics, business sophistication, technological readiness, and e-government support have strong positive association to the e-business development of a nation. The growth of e-business, of course, leads to a raise in investment in Information Communication Technology (ICT) which turned out to a raise in productivity and economic growth of a nation. In conclusion, e-Business development of a nation shall be explained as ‘the formation of a culture of innovation, sophistication, discipline, adaptation, and transformation of businesses and society at large’.
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