But Is It Science? The Philosophical Question in the Creation/Evolution Controversy. Edited by Michael Ruse. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1988. 406 pp. $23.95

1989 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 557-559
Author(s):  
E. Davis
2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (142) ◽  
pp. 345
Author(s):  
José Maurício Carvalho

Resumo: Esse artigo examina como Jaspers aborda a totalidade da História e a importância desta questão. Esclarece que tentativas de estabelecer tal unidade pelos fatos empíricos estão fadadas ao fracasso, porque a totalidade somente pode ser buscada como realidade espiritual, ou criação do homem. Assim con­siderada, tal totalidade é resultado da comunicação entre os seres humanos. Isso significa que como jornada humana no tempo, a História não se completa nunca, pois está em processo. Por consequente, indicar-lhe uma meta ou assinalar-lhe uma unidade perfeita significaria o fim da História. Com efeito, todas as repre­sentações da unidade são ideias e se engana quem quiser olhá-las como mais do que isso. Assim é, porque o Uno transcende a origem e a meta da História, caracterizando o problema como questão filosófica fundamental, que envolve a noção de realidade.Abstract: This article examines how Jaspers addresses the whole of history and the importance of the issue. It clarifies that attempts to establish such a unity by empirical facts are doomed to failure, because wholeness can only be sought as spiritual reality, or the creation of man. Thus considered, wholeness is the result of the communication between human beings. It means that, as a human journey in time, history is never completed, since it is in process. Therefore, indicating a goal or a perfect unity would mean the end of History. Indeed, all the representations of unity are ideas and should not be considered otherwise. This is so because the One transcends the origin and goal of History, characte­rizing the problem as a fundamental philosophical question that involves the notion of reality.


2007 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 486-490
Author(s):  
Michael G. Loudin ◽  
Nicanor Austriaco
Keyword(s):  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Munro

“I didn’t even know that was a question I could ask.” That remark from a student in an introductory philosophy course points to the primary body of knowledge philosophy produces: a detailed record of what we do not know. When we come to view a philosophical question as well-formed and worthwhile, it is a way of providing as specific a description as we can of something we do not know. The creation or discovery of such questions is like noting a landmark in a territory we’re exploring. When we identify reasonable, if conflicting, answers to this question, we are noting routes to and away from that landmark. And since proposed answers to philosophical questions often contain implied answers to other philosophical questions, those routes connect different landmarks. The result is a kind of map: a map of the unknown. Yet when it comes to the unknown, and all the more so to its cartography, might it not make sense to take our orientation from Borges: What’s in question here, with respect to philosophical questions, is an incipient, unlocalizable threshold—a terrain neither subjective, nor entirely objective, one neither of representation, nor finally of simple immediacy—there where the map perceptibly fails to diverge from the territory. Amid Inclemencies of weather and fringed, as per Borges, with ruin and singular figures—with Animals and Beggars—what’s enclosed is an attempt to chart the contours of this curious immanence.


2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefen Beeler-Duden ◽  
Meltem Yucel ◽  
Amrisha Vaish

Abstract Tomasello offers a compelling account of the emergence of humans’ sense of obligation. We suggest that more needs to be said about the role of affect in the creation of obligations. We also argue that positive emotions such as gratitude evolved to encourage individuals to fulfill cooperative obligations without the negative quality that Tomasello proposes is inherent in obligations.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document