Ismailis: A Pluralist Search for Universal Truth

2021 ◽  
pp. 103-122
Author(s):  
Karim H. Karim
Keyword(s):  
Universal Truth

Coetzee’s Quest for Reality

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Crary
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Discourse ◽  
The Real ◽  
Philosophical Investigations ◽  
Literature And Philosophy ◽  
Universal Truth

In this chapter, Alice Crary argues that a truly ‘realist’ work of literature might be one that, instead of conforming to familiar genre-specifications, attempts by other means to expose readers to the real—that is, to how things really are. Crary highlights Coetzee’s efforts to elicit what she calls ‘transformative thought’: a process that involves both delineating the progress of individual characters in their quests for reality, and, in formal terms, inviting readers to, for instance, imaginatively participate in such quests. With regard to The Childhood of Jesus, she highlights resonances between these features of Coetzee’s writing and Wittgenstein’s procedures in the Philosophical Investigations. In doing so, Crary brings out a respect in which literature and philosophy are complementary discourses: literature can deal in the sort of objective or universal truth that is philosophy’s touchstone, and philosophical discourse can have an essentially literary dimension.

Of Two Minds About Minding Language in Culture

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Silverstein
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Indian Languages ◽  
Universal Truth

Analyzing Franz Boas's critically new insights under the lens of philology, this chapter redefines Boasian linguistics as a globalizing mode of mutual enlightenment through the exchange of grammatical concepts between selves across borders of sound and sense—a process he calls “comparative calibrationism,” the asymptotic pursuit of the always-inaccessible yet ever-closer universal truth. It focuses on the Handbook of American Indian Languages, where Boas dismantled every plank in the language-focused platform on which inferences of evolutionary primitivism stand. Boas also went after the very applicability to American languages of the comparative method of historical linguistics, from which inferences of so-called linguistic families descended from single proto-languages emerged in the nineteenth century.

scholarly journals PERGUMULAN KEBERAGAMAAN DI DUNIA BARAT

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-278
Author(s):  
M Baharudin
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Western World ◽  
Common Life ◽  
Universal Truth ◽  
Practical Life ◽  
Discussion Note

Abstract: This paper aims to find the answer to a fundamental question: what is religion? How is the phenomenon of religionin the western world? And how religious the Western world in this contemporary Era? In the discussion note several things, among others: 1). Religionisa systemof beliefs and practicesof life according to these beliefs. Religionis the rules on how to live a physically and mentally. Religionisa reference of life in its various aspects, including aspects of common life or social life. 2). In medieval times, religionis seenas having an absolute and universal truth concretely been visualizedin the Western world. 3). In the post modernera of modernity and religion is criticize dan dindistortion, the era of religion merely a matter of discussion and separated with practical life, religionis also considered to hinder the progression of man. Abstrak: Tulisan ini bertujuan menemukan jawaban mendasar atas pertanyaan: apa itu agama? Bagaimana fenomena agama di dunia Barat? Dan bagaimana keberagamaan dunia Barat pada Era kontemporel ini? Dalam pembahasan diketahui beberapa hal antara lain: 1). Agama ialah sistem kepercayaan dan praktek hidup yang sesuai dengan kepercayaan tersebut. Agama ialah peraturan tentang cara hidup lahir batin. Agama adalah acuan hidup berbagai aspeknya, termasuk aspek kehidupan bersama atau kehidupan sosial. 2). Pada abad pertengahan, agama dipandang sebagai yang memiliki kebenaran mutlak dan universal yang secara kongkrit pernah divisualisasikan di dunia Barat. 3). Pada era modernitas dan post¬modern agama dikritik dan di distorsi, pada zaman tersebut agama sekedar menjadi bahan diskusi dan dipisahkan dengan kehidupan praktis, agama juga dianggap menghalangi progresivitas manusia. Keywords: Pergumulan, Keberagamaan, Dunia Barat

scholarly journals PERANAN SOSIALISASI NILAI KEBERSAMAAN DALAM UPAYA MENANGGULANGI KONFLIK BERAGAMA DALAM KEHIDUPAN BERMASYARAKAT DI KOTA PALANGKA RAYA

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Desi Erawati
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Work Program ◽  
Universal Truth ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
Value Model ◽  
The City

AbstractForum Kerukunan Antar Umat Beragama (FKUB) is a mediating institution on interfaith harmony, especially in the city of Palangkaraya. The question is how the value model of socialization of the value of togetherness conducted by FKUB Palangka Raya city so that it can bridge the life of tolerance between religious communities in the city of Palangka Raya. The methodology of this study is to use a research and development approach with a modified analysis of Miles and Huberman. The results of this study indicate that the working pattern of FKUB Palangka Raya works in accordance with the planned work program, proved to be able to handle several cases related to the establishment of houses of worship and its scope, prioritize the objectivity to produce mutually agreed decisions based on consensus reached agreement. The development of socialization of the value of togetherness is derived from several values such as the value of ideology (universal truth), religious values, cultural values. By way of coaching, intensive direction, then this togetherness attitude can be well established, especially supported by the value of local wisdom is the philosophy of "Huma Betang"

Universal truth tables and normal forms

1998 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.B. Turksen ◽  
A. Kandel ◽  
Yan-Qing Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Normal Forms ◽  
Universal Truth ◽  
Truth Tables

Postmodernism in Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Tesar ◽  
Andrew Gibbons ◽  
Sonja Arndt ◽  
Nina Hood
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Philosophy Of Education ◽  
Ethical Responsibility ◽  
Education Philosophy ◽  
Universal Truth ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Philosophical Project ◽  
Multiple Discourses

The period of postmodernism refers to a diverse set of ideas, practices, and disciplines that came to prominence in the later 20th century. It is the overarching philosophical project that responds to and critiques the principles of modernity and challenges the established ways of thinking. It opposes the ideas that it is possible to rationalize life through narrow, singular disciplinary thinking or through the establishment of a universal truth and grand narratives that strive for the value-neutral homogeneity that defined Enlightenment thinking. Postmodernism questions ontological, epistemological, and ethical conventions, and it opens up possibilities for multiple discourses and accepting marginalized and minority thoughts and practices. Openness to diversity is a key outcome of the multiplicities arising in postmodernity across a range of fields, including, among others, art, education, philosophy, architecture, and economics. Through its rejection of the totalizing effects of metanarratives and their intentions to achieve universal truths, goals, outcomes, and sameness, the postmodern condition opens an ethical responsibility toward otherness, to allow for diversity, and thus to elevate those who have been subjugated or marginalized in modernity. Postmodernism has been playing a significant role in what sometimes is termed the equity approach in education. While postmodernism may be eventually overtaken by other “posts”—post-qualitative, post-truth, post-digital—it still remains an important part of philosophy of education scholarship and broader understandings and conceptualizations of education.

The Presence of the Sophist in Our Time

2019 ◽  
pp. 23-38
Author(s):  
Barbara Cassin
Keyword(s):  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Universal Truth ◽  
Alter Ego ◽  
The Way

Cassin distinguishes between the way Freud read the Greeks, reinterpreting their great myths in allegorical fashion, and Lacan’s more nuanced attention to the philosophical arguments, notably of the Sophists and Presocratics, and their understanding of language, speech, or logos. As Lacan says, “The psychoanalyst is a sign of the presence of the sophist in our time, but with a different status,” and Jacques the Sophistbecomes an extended commentary on this sentence.Sophistry is often presented as philosophy’s negative alter ego, its bad other, yet the two are shown to be inextricably bound together. Cassin uses the term “logology,”coined by Novalis, to connect the shared approach of both Lacan and the Sophists to language, which becomes uncoupled from universal truth as an Aristotelian frame of reference.

The Dress of Democracy: One Size Does Not Fit All

2020 ◽  
pp. 49-90
Author(s):  
Herman Wasserman
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Government Control ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Global North ◽  
The Media ◽  
Universal Truth ◽  
The Many ◽  
Normative Models ◽  
Increased Pressure

This chapter considers the link between media and democracy, which is often assumed to be a self-evident and universal truth. The chapter argues that the mismatch between normative models derived from the Global North and the lived realities in African societies is evident in many cases where media have failed to keep governments to account, where the media served sectional interests, and where media ethical norms imported from elsewhere did not adequately speak to African lived experiences. The chapter also notes the many cases of democratic regression in African societies, where the resurgence of authoritarian tendencies has increased pressure on media freedom and consequently on the ability of media to contribute to democratic debate and the deepening of democratic culture. The chapter uses Zimbabwe as an illustration of such repressive government control over the news media that has given rise to alternative forms of media.

Structuralism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lundell ◽  
Vincent P. Pecora
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Widespread Application ◽  
Language Functions ◽  
Structural Linguistics ◽  
Universal Truth ◽  
Intellectual Movement ◽  
The Way

Structuralism, generally described, is a twentieth-century intellectual movement associated with linguistic studies in Europe, despite its vast applicability and many adherents. An initial aim of structural linguistics was to investigate – in greater detail than previously – the way language functions as a network of signification. Structuralism’s goal also typically derives from the question of whether universal truth can be revealed in this network in ways that define the constitution of thought. Structuralism focused on the whole of language, the ‘structure’ of the totality, over its individual parts or their historical development. The principles of Structuralism and its later transformations found widespread application outside of linguistics, particularly in anthropology, sociology, literary studies, semiotics, film, musicology, psychology, and philosophy.

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