Understanding of source code in language: Contribution of philosophical hermeneutics to the critical code studies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Bajer
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Source Code ◽  
Linguistic Community ◽  
Philosophical Foundation ◽  
Philosophical Hermeneutics ◽  
Cultural Layer ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Artificial Languages ◽  
Code Studies

Abstract The article discusses the attempt to understand a source code under the conception of philosophical hermeneutics guided by language. Based on a confrontation between H.-G. Gadamer’s and Paul Ricoeur’s philosophy, our main goal would be searching for the essence of the source code in language. Thus, a closer look is taken into cultural symbols, natural language, and artificial languages. Especially, there would be discussed the problem of abstraction, linguistic community, self-forgetfulness, vitality of formal languages, and display of individuality. This is where the cultural layer of the code can be traced, hence we may find our world-view verbal in nature. In line with the Critical Code Studies approach, in this article, the source code is treated as text. Because of its complexity, the issue should be studied within philosophical inquiry and computer science knowledge. Hence, the perspective developed here goes back to origins and provides a philosophical foundation for Critical Code Studies thinking. The article presents academics with a philosophical challenge: how to understand the source code with an adaptation of a philosophy rejecting artificiality. With philosophical reflection, the source code gains additional meaning and experiences increase in being. Understanding happens in language, which realizes as discourse.

scholarly journals Letters and the Topography of Early Christianity

2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith M. Lieu
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
World View ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Letter Writing ◽  
Temporal Distance ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Christian World View ◽  
As If

While embedded in contemporary letter-writing conventions, early Christian letters were also instrumental in the creation of a distinctive Christian world-view. Fundamental to letters of all types, ‘real’ and fictional, is that they respond to, and hence negotiate and seek to overcome, actual and imagined spatial and temporal distance between author and recipient(s). In practice and as cultural symbols, letters, sent and transmitted in new contexts, as well as letter collections, produced in the Christian imagination new trans-locational and cross-temporal dynamics of relationality that can be mapped onto the standard epistolary topoi – ‘absent as if present’, half a conversation, a mirror of the soul.

scholarly journals Instrumentalundervisningens problem – en kritik af fraværet af instrumentalpædagogisk grundlagsforskning

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Øyvind Lyngseth
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Philosophical Hermeneutics ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Constructive Discussion ◽  
Truth And Method ◽  
Epistemological Analysis ◽  
Epistemological Basis ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe article argues that there is a need for a thorough philosophical inquiry into the epistemological basis of instrumental teaching. This kind of inquiry has not previously been undertaken. The way in which practitioners within the instrumental-pedagogical field are often making subjective and individual references to taste (taste-argument) and tradition (tradition-argument) in order to legitimize the self-understanding of the instrumental-pedagogical field, is critiqued.  Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics and his opus magnum, Truth and Method, are primarily informing the hermeneutical and epistemological analysis and critique of the instrumental-pedagogical praxis. The aim of the article is not only to point to the absence of epistemological research, but also to sketch the foundation for a future constructive discussion about the cultivation of critical self-understanding of the instrumental-pedagogical field. 

Joseph Conrad – Interaction of Literature and Music

2014 ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
Mārīte Opincāne
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
World View ◽  
Cultural Layer ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The World ◽  
Theory Research

The aim of the paper is to investigate the role of music in Joseph Conrad’s life and works, as well as study the reflection of the writer’s writings in the works of the 20th and 21st centuries’ world composers. The research has been based on the synthesis of the different methods – biographical, historically- cultural, literary-historical and semiotical. The cultural layer of J. Conrad’s artistic world view is essential also in Latvian literature and culture, and it can be viewed in the context that is topical in modern Latvian literary theory. Research of the Western literary icons is topical at present. Excellent knowledge and comprehension of music influenced the development of J. Conrad as a personality and a writer. And the outstanding literary works of the modernist writer inspired the composers of the 20th and the 21st centuries all over the world to create the famous music compositions.

Tillich and the Perennial Philosophy

1996 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-98
Author(s):  
Owen C. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Biblical Theology ◽  
Philosophical Foundation ◽  
The West ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Perennial Philosophy ◽  
Biblical Religion ◽  
The Ideal

In an earlier essay I proposed the paradoxical theses that the main religio-philosophical alternative in the West to Judaism and Christianity has always been the perennial philosophy in its various forms, and that Christianity (and less so Judaism) has always been an amalgam or synthesis of the ideal types, biblical religion and the perennial philosophy. An example of the former is the concept delineated by the biblical theology movement of the 1940s and 1950s. By the latter I mean the religio-philosophical world view exemplified by Neoplatonism and Vedanta, and by the philosophical foundation of Gnosticism, Rosicrucianism, and Theosophy, and propounded by such authors as René Guénon, Frithjof Schuon, S. H. Nasr, and Huston Smith.

Hermeneutics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Flood
Keyword(s):  
Human Existence ◽  
Critical Hermeneutics ◽  
Philosophical Hermeneutics ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Theological Hermeneutics

Hermeneutics is the act of interpretation that inquires into the ways in which meaning is formed in text and is also more broadly a philosophical inquiry into human existence. Hermeneutics raises questions about the relation of faith to rationality, about the significance of texts, and about the ways in which signs refer to what they signify. Hermeneutics therefore raises questions about meaning and truth that are directly relevant to religions and highly pertinent in contemporary culture. Hermeneutics can be understood to have three main divisions: theological hermeneutics interprets texts held to be sacred by tradition; historical-critical hermeneutics developed in the context of the critical, philological examination of Classical texts and was then applied to Christian scriptures; and philosophical hermeneutics is concerned with the interpretation not only of text but of existence, as we see in the work of Schleiermacher, Gadamer, Ricoeur, and feminist philosophers.

People and challenges of globalization

Servis plus ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 84-88
Author(s):  
Нарине Вигель ◽  
Narine Vigel
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Choice ◽  
World View ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Shopping Behavior ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
Cultural Transformations

The author analyzes the processes of culture globalization, in which standardization and unification con- trary to the traditional identity. The standardization of culture is prevailing; it is the influence of the media and diffusion of new consumption ways. Mass cultures wider introduce a new form of high cultures, that is, technological or scientific ones, which promote harmonization and standardization. The content of the mate- rial culture is more uniform than in the past, many newest practices are in widespread use on large areas. As a result of the globalization the high cultural concentration and mobility increasingly provoke cross-cultural encounters. In the field of intangible components in the current cultural situation, there is cultural clash of traditionalism and globalization, while in the sphere of material components of the culture the contemporary person is becoming more and more follower of the products of globalization. Food culture as a method of studying social and cultural transformations indicates that nowadays there is cultural diffusion and the Islamization of a global culture. Studies of food consumption show that there is a strong link between religion and consumer choice of food. The motivation and behaviour of each person is different because they are based on cultural characteristics, which is most evident in consumer shopping behavior. In modern consumer culture the symbols often appear in the form of logos and trademarks. Often, they choose for logos the modification of the widely known traditional cultural symbols which are based on recognizable cultural meanings and which, at the same time, design modern world-view, creating modern myths based on traditional. The most popular trademark of modernity is the Apple logo or “Bitten apple.” A modern interpretation of this symbol is based on the fact that traditionalism is strong, but the active person is always out of the local area. As a result the person feels lonely due to the weakening of traditional ties and looks for replace lost forms of identity.

scholarly journals The Importance of Mother Tongue to the Cultivation of Values and Personality Development: A Philosophical Aspect

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Naglis Kardelis
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
World View ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Linguistic Community ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Collective Wisdom ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Critical Mind

The author of the article examines the relation between language and values from the perspective of a native speaker who finds in his or her mother tongue a linguistic articulation of those values that are prevalent in the speaker’s community and are shared by all or most of its members.Language is a unique medium where values are presented, examined and constantly re-evaluated by members of a linguistic community. Especially the native speaker’s mother language, much better than any other language learned later in life, reveals its special role in the process of a person’s moral growth and overall personal development. The mother tongue shared by certain linguistic community plays the leading role in forming one’s world view, and this linguistically created world outlook is imbued with specific moral and aesthetic values characteristic of that linguistic community. The mother language not only emerges as a bridge that connects the native speaker to his or her ancestors and the entire cultural legacy created by former generations, but also reveals itself as the most rewarding medium for the expression of the native speaker’s personal experience and personal creative insights.The author of the article is of the opinion that the appreciation of one’s mother tongue and the recognition of its privileged status should not be viewed as leading to linguistic and cultural isolation, but as opening the gate to other languages and linguistic world views. What is even more important is that, in the author’s opinion, the appreciation of one’s mother tongue enhances one’s ability to appreciate the linguistic medium as such and to celebrate language as such, not only one’s mother language. Respect for our mother tongue also enhances our capacity to creatively and respectfully encounter other languages and other linguistically construed world views.Yet it is also argued that we should not view our mother tongue as the only, albeit very authoritative, guide in the sphere of values – our own critical mind and critical reflexion on the nature of values should go hand in hand with the received collective wisdom that we find crystalized in our mother tongue, in language as such, as well as in all forms of traditional culture.

To each a female world view…

1982 ◽  
Vol 27 (12) ◽  
pp. 1004-1004
Author(s):  
Martha T. Shuch Mednick
Keyword(s):  
World View
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