scholarly journals Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 245-251
Author(s):  
Natasha Distiller
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Cultural Formations

AbstractThe work of this book has been to engage with notions of human being that are mainstream in Western modernity. These common sense ideas have been forged and disseminated in the psy disciplines. I have sought to offer an alternative way of thinking about self and other that might alter how and why we think about our psychotherapeutic work. In the first chapter, I argued that the psy disciplines benefit when they learn from the humanities. In the final chapter, I outlined existing psychotherapy practices that already apply an understanding that human being is complicitous, even if those are not the terms they use. In between, I offered illustrations to bring into focus how systems of power evolve from specific historical events and from material practices, and then reinforce or underwrite these practices (see Kendi, 2016 for the example of racism in America as an illustration of how material practices can cause cultural formations as much as the other way around).

scholarly journals KUPU-KUPU DI ATAS BUNGA – ANGIN MENARI MELALUI PADANG: MENYIMAK FILSAFAT SENI MARTIN HEIDEGGER

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-82
Author(s):  
Yasintus T. Runesi
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Small Dimension ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Art And Politics ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
The One ◽  
A Site

In his path of thinking, particularly from the 1930s onwards, Martin Heidegger firmly believed that Sein reveals itself, when human being, whom he termed as Dasein, awakened from his blindness of common sense and struggle for grasps his own authenticity. In this paper I examine Heidegger’s destruction of the work of art as a site of strife between art and politics in his text, Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes. Heidegger’s position is complex: on the one hand, he acknowledges that Sein is a phenomenon beyond our horizon of understanding, Sein is all about not something particular; on the other hand, he insists that Sein’s presence through art inscribed in a certain particular identity, especially German volks. In response, I argue that the identification of Sein with a particular identity such as German volks, offers the truth that the politics itself is forged and instituted in and as work of art. Some conclusions will be drawn concerning the importance of the small dimension of Heidegger’s thought on art in contemporary politics.

scholarly journals Three Mothers, Three Daughters

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-115
Author(s):  
Nancy L. Stockdale
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Difficult Problem ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Context ◽  
Green Line ◽  
Life Narratives ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Occupied Territories

In Three Mothers; Three Daughters: Palestinian Women's Stories, RafiqaOthman and Michael Gorkin present six remarkable life narratives fromPalestinian women living in the Occupied Territories and Israel. By selectingthree mother/daughter pairs from very different social and political circumstances,they represent, in dramatic microcosm, many elements of thetwentieth-century Palestinian experience. Moreover, these stories have astunning universal appeal, transcending their specific national context byrevealing complicated issues of gender and generational relations familiarthroughout the world. In this way, Gorkin and Othman have crafted an oralhistory that is both specific to - and transcendent of - Palestine.From the outset of their collaboration, Gorkin and Othman wrestledwith their complex personal positions and relationship, and used their prefaceand epilogue to frame their study in these terms. Gorkin is an AmericanJew living in Israel; Othman is a Palestinian Muslim from Abu Ghosh, theonly Arab village on the Israeli side of the Green Line in the Jerusalem areato survive the 1948-49 war. Their collaboration was not only controversialbecause one is a Jew and the other an Arab, but also because being anunmarried woman, Othman confronted the issue of 'ayb (shame) fallingupon her family if society misjudged her association with her male collalrorator. Moreover, several of the project's six informants would not speakwith Gorkin because he is a man.Thus, Othman juggled a difficult problem that often faces scholars conductinganthropological research within their societies: a complicated statusas both an insider and an outsider. It is to her credit that she deals directlywith this issue. Othman points out her position as a confidante at times, anddoes not hesitate to draw on a common sense of "sisterhood" to relate towomen's struggles. However, as an Arab living inside Israel, her ability tounderstand the experiences of Palestinians living under the occupation is difficultand painful. She reminds the reader that Palestinian experiences are asdiverse as any others, and that at times she is as much a political outsider asGorkin.The three mother/daughter pairs come from a relatively small territorialradius. However, the historical events and the borders emerging from ...

scholarly journals Childishness, Primitivism and the Primitive as Child in the Anti-Imperialist Works of Robert Louis Stevenson

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Thomas Bogle Petterson
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islanders ◽  
The Other ◽  
Robert Louis Stevenson ◽  
Rudyard Kipling ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Adult World

<p>My thesis examines the connection between childishness and primitivism in four key works by Robert Louis Stevenson: Kidnapped, "The Beach of Falesa", The Ebb-Tide and A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa. In particular, I discuss Stevenson's depiction of "primitive" peoples - the Scottish Highlanders of Kidnapped and the Pacific Islanders in the other works - as childish or childlike. While this is a trope that was typically used to justify imperial domination by "adult" Europeans (by writers such as H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, for instance), for Stevenson the case is somewhat different because of the extent to which he valorises childishness. The "Introduction" places Stevenson's anti-imperialist deployment of the primitive-as-child trope in the context of romanticism and primitivism more generally, trends which idealised children and primitives in response to the degrading forces of industrial capitalist development in Europe. The first chapter shows how Stevenson's idealised notion of childish Highlanders in Kidnapped is used to valorise them at the expense of the sedentary and conformist "adult" world of the Lowlands. In the second chapter, I show how Stevenson similarly valorises the childish native characters in "The Beach of Falesa" and The Ebb-Tide, while at the same time he dismantles the notion that European colonisers of the Pacific possess any "adult" authority whatsoever by depicting the latter as being in the grip of infantile delusions. In these late fictional works, the idealised childishness of the natives, characterised by growth and vitality, is contrasted with European infantilism, which signifies the cultural regression and insularity that Stevenson saw as closely connected with imperial activity. My final chapter shows how these two opposed notions of childishness-as-growth and childishness-as-decay/insularity inform Stevenson's non-fiction anti-imperialist work, A Footnote to History. My thesis aims to show that Stevenson was not so constrained by imperialist cliches and rhetoric as some critics have argued; rather, I suggest that his sympathy for the victims of colonisation allowed him to dramatically undermine this rhetoric.</p>

scholarly journals Introduction: The Personal Is Still Political

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-41
Author(s):  
Natasha Distiller
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
History Of Psychology ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Psychology ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
History Of

AbstractThis chapter lays out the argument for a psychological humanities, as well as the theoretical framework for ideas developed in the rest of the book. It explains the concept of complicity, which is the term developed in the book to argue against binary thinking as a way of understanding human being and human psychology. The history of psychology as a discipline is outlined, in order to connect it to processes of Western modernity. The chapter defines binary thinking, the notion of self and other, and outlines the relationships between the different branches of psychology.

scholarly journals Childishness, Primitivism and the Primitive as Child in the Anti-Imperialist Works of Robert Louis Stevenson

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Thomas Bogle Petterson
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islanders ◽  
The Other ◽  
Robert Louis Stevenson ◽  
Rudyard Kipling ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Adult World

<p>My thesis examines the connection between childishness and primitivism in four key works by Robert Louis Stevenson: Kidnapped, "The Beach of Falesa", The Ebb-Tide and A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa. In particular, I discuss Stevenson's depiction of "primitive" peoples - the Scottish Highlanders of Kidnapped and the Pacific Islanders in the other works - as childish or childlike. While this is a trope that was typically used to justify imperial domination by "adult" Europeans (by writers such as H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, for instance), for Stevenson the case is somewhat different because of the extent to which he valorises childishness. The "Introduction" places Stevenson's anti-imperialist deployment of the primitive-as-child trope in the context of romanticism and primitivism more generally, trends which idealised children and primitives in response to the degrading forces of industrial capitalist development in Europe. The first chapter shows how Stevenson's idealised notion of childish Highlanders in Kidnapped is used to valorise them at the expense of the sedentary and conformist "adult" world of the Lowlands. In the second chapter, I show how Stevenson similarly valorises the childish native characters in "The Beach of Falesa" and The Ebb-Tide, while at the same time he dismantles the notion that European colonisers of the Pacific possess any "adult" authority whatsoever by depicting the latter as being in the grip of infantile delusions. In these late fictional works, the idealised childishness of the natives, characterised by growth and vitality, is contrasted with European infantilism, which signifies the cultural regression and insularity that Stevenson saw as closely connected with imperial activity. My final chapter shows how these two opposed notions of childishness-as-growth and childishness-as-decay/insularity inform Stevenson's non-fiction anti-imperialist work, A Footnote to History. My thesis aims to show that Stevenson was not so constrained by imperialist cliches and rhetoric as some critics have argued; rather, I suggest that his sympathy for the victims of colonisation allowed him to dramatically undermine this rhetoric.</p>

scholarly journals Del debate del humanismo a las Humanidades: Reflexiones sobre lo humano / On Debate from Humanisme to Humanities: Reflections on the human

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Urabayen
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Classical Image

ABSTRACTThis paper deals with the debate about the Humanism started by Sartre and followed by the answer of Heidegger. After a breaking-off with the classical image of the human being, those authors pointed to a new way of thinking about a human being not seen as a subject. After this discussion, we analyze the humanism of Levinas, who tries to see the human being as a hostage of the other. In the last section, we explain that this debate has create the need of analyzing the human being from a multidisciplinary point of view and that is one of the facts that is in the origin of a new degree: Humanities.RESUMENEste artículo aborda el debate sobre el humanismo iniciado por Sartre y seguido por la respuesta de Heidegger. Después de una ruptura con la imagen clásica del ser humano, dichos autores marcaron una nueva forma de pensar acerca del ser humano, que ya no era visto como un sujeto. Después de esta discusión, se analiza el humanismo de Levinas, que trata de ver al ser humano como un rehén del otro. En la última sección, se explica que este debate ha creado la necesidad de analizar al ser humano desde un punto de vista multidisciplinar y que ese es uno de los hechos que se encuentra en el origen de un nuevo grado: Humanidades.

Anthropology

2019 ◽  
pp. 195-209
Author(s):  
Rachel Muers
Keyword(s):  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Uniqueness

Bonhoeffer’s theological anthropology begins not with the isolated individual, nor with an understanding of ‘human being’ in general, but with the call of the other that summons the human being into free responsibility. It also begins in the middle of the human story—with created, fallen, and redeemed humanity receiving its identity through the encounter with Christ. In this chapter I connect the anthropological themes of Bonhoeffer’s poetry from prison with his wider theological project. I indicate how Bonhoeffer’s anthropology connects him to key ongoing debates in philosophy and theology, and opens up critical conversations with Bonhoeffer around gender and around human uniqueness.

The Skeptic and The Madman: The Proto‐Pragmatism of Thomas Reid

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Lundestad
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
Charles Sanders Peirce ◽  
The Other ◽  
Thomas Reid ◽  
Other Hand

Even though the philosophy of common sense is not justifi able as such, the assump- tion upon which it rests, namely that there are things which we are not in position to doubt is correct. The reason why Thomas Reid was unable to bring this assumption out in a justifi able manner is that his views, both on knowledge and nature, are to be considered dogmatic. American pragmatists such as Charles Sanders Peirce and John Dewey on the other hand, may be seen as offering us a ‘critical’ and post-Darwinian philosophy of common sense.

The Hierophanic Facets of the Seraphic Hymns

Trictrac ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petru Adrian Danciu
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Recognition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Material World ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The People ◽  
Musical History ◽  
The Face ◽  
The One

Starting from the cry of the seraphim in Isaiahʹ s prophecy, this article aims to follow the rhythm of the sacred harmony, transcending the symbols of the angelic world and of the divine names, to get to the face to face meeting between man and God, just as the seraphim, reflecting their existence, stand face to face. The finality of the sacred harmony is that, during the search for God inside the human being, He reveals Himself, which is the reason for the affirmation of “I Am that I Am.” Through its hypnotic cyclicality, the profane temporality has its own musicality. Its purpose is to incubate the unsuspected potencies of the beings “caught” in the material world. Due to the fact that it belongs to the aeonic time, the divine music will exceed in harmony the mechanical musicality of profane time, dilating and temporarily cancelling it. Isaiah is witness to such revelation offering access to the heavenly concert. He is witness to divine harmonies produced by two divine singers, whose musical history is presented in our article. The seraphim accompanied the chosen people after their exodus from Egypt. The cultic use of the trumpet is related to the characteristics and behaviour of the seraphim. The seraphic music does not belong to the Creator, but its lyrics speak about the presence of the Creator in two realities, a spiritual and a material one. Only the transcendence of the divine names that are sung/cried affirms a unique reality: God. The chant-cry is a divine invocation with a double aim. On the one hand, the angels and the people affirm God’s presence and call His name and, on the other, the Creator affirms His presence through the angels or in man, the one who is His image and His likeness. The divine music does not only create, it is also a means of communion, implementing the relation of man to God and, thus, God’s connection with man. It is a relation in which both filiation and paternity disappear inside the harmony of the mutual recognition produced by music, a reality much older than Adam’s language.

A Liberdade e a Justiça: horizontes para uma racionalidade socioambiental

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Sepúlveda Ferriz
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
The World ◽  
Authentic Development ◽  
Sense Of Justice

Freedom and Justice have always been challenged. Since the most remote times, and in the most varied circumstances of places and people, human beings have tried to clarify and put into practice these two controversial concepts. Freedom and Justice, in effect, are words, but also dreams, desires and practices that, not being imperfect, are less sublime and ambitious. Reflecting on them on the basis of an ethics of development and socioenvironmental sustainability is still a great challenge in our contemporaneity. This book is born from the need that we all have to reflect, understand what our role is in relation to the OTHER, understood as the other as Environment. Doing this from such disparate areas and at the same time as current as Economics, Philosophy and Ecology, is still a great opportunity to discuss complexity, transdisciplinarity and the inclusion of diverse themes, but which all converge in the Human Being and its relationship with the world. Endowing human beings with Freedom and a sense of Justice means RESPONSIBILITY. To be free and to want a better and fairer world is to endow our existence with meaning and meaning. Agency, autonomy, functioning, dignity, rights, are capacities that must be leveraged individually and collectively for authentic development to exist. Development as Freedom is a valid proposal for thinking about a socio-environmental rationality that interferes in the controversial relations between economics, ethics and the environment.

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