Wittgensteinian Christianity

2019 ◽  
pp. 93-102
Author(s):  
Leslie Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Way Of Life ◽  
Form Of Life

The work of D. Z. Phillips, and the book by Gerald Moore examined in this chapter, emphasize that the language and beliefs of Christianity have their sense only in the context of a Christian form of life. Moore often sounds very relativist, but in the end he claims that the Christian way of life involves deeper insight.

The Politics of Emotion: Liberalism and Cognitivism

2006 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 231-244
Author(s):  
Susan James
Keyword(s):  
Way Of Life ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
State Of Affairs

Liberal political theorists commend a comparatively orderly form of life. It is one in which individuals and groups who care about different things, and live in different ways, nevertheless share an overriding commitment to liberty and toleration, together with an ability to resolve conflicts and disagreements in ways that do not violate these values. Both citizens and states are taken to be capable of negotiating points of contention without resorting to forms of coercion such as abuse, blackmail, brainwashing, intimidation, torture or other types of violence. In explaining what makes such a state of affairs possible, such theorists have tended to present the citizens of liberal polities as more or less rational individuals who are aware of the advantages of a pluralist, yet co-operative way of life, and understand what it takes to maintain them. Liberalism works best, they have suggested, when, and because, individuals understand its benefits, and therefore act broadly in accordance with the norms it prescribes.

Wittgenstein’s Remarks Concerning the Accessibility of Foreign Cultures

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jozef Bremer
Keyword(s):  
Language Game ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Family Resemblance ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Intrinsic Feature

AbstractWittgenstein (1889-1951) was highly disapproving of scholars whom he thought unable to properly acknowledge diversity amongst cultures or take due note of the enormous differences separating them from tribes living in radically heterogeneous cultural environments. The best known and paradigmatic example of his attitude to such differences is to be found in his Remarks on Frazer’s ‘Golden Bough’, where he wrote: “[…] how impossible for him [Frazer, J.B.] to understand a different way of life from the English one of his time”. But to cut a long story short, whether Wittgenstein saw this “impossibility” as an intrinsic feature of the task or not is by no means unambiguously clear. To resolve this question, I shall take as my point of departure the socio-anthropological writings of B. Malinowski (1884-1942), who spent several years amongst one of the Pacific island tribes - the Trobriands. In his “field studies”, Malinowski focused on the tribe’s “form of life”: i.e. on their belief in ritual and magic, and on how their customs interlinked with kinship and with their economy. Taking into account Malinowski’s own pragmatic conception of language and his notion of the divergent character of scientific and magical forms of belief, I then outline Wittgenstein’s notions of “language game”, “family resemblance” and “form of life”. The usage of these concepts will show in what sense Wittgenstein would have recognized the similarities within and between different cultures and human societies - but, equally, just how far we can understand a human way of life deeply different from our own.

scholarly journals Implementation of Returning Farmers Database Set Using Characteristics Information And Local Environment Information

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 680-686
Author(s):  
Sun-Ae Park Et.al
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Personal Characteristic ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Agricultural Management ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Related Information ◽  
The City

In recent years, returning farms are attracting attention as a new way of life from urbanites who are about to retire. Returning farming means that the population living in the city leaves the city and continues a new form of life in rural areas. In other words, the fever of returning farming and returning villages is increasing, and the present is called the era of returning farming. As interest in returning farms increases, it is essential to provide accurate information for a successful return to farming life. Therefore, in this paper, a set of returned farmers database was constructed to provide information related to returning farmers with improved reliability and accuracy. To this end, personal characteristic information of returnees and local environmental information were linked. In addition, a set of databases for returning farmers was constructed using population movement statistics and agricultural management database. In this paper, data necessary for service development were selected and collected. In addition, a total of three types of service scenarios were created according to the type of use of returnees, and information on customized policy projects for returnees were constructed. Finally, an exploratory analysis of the collected data was conducted. In other words, refinement work was carried out to build the utilized database set, and the database set was constructed according to the purpose of use. As a result, the agricultural support information and the agricultural management body database were used based on the basic characteristic information of the returnees to provide selective customized information and establish a database set to improve reliability. Through this, it is possible to provide a customized service for anyone interested in returning to farming to easily access the farming information database set and obtain related information.

Gandhi's Concept of Truth and the Advaita Tradition

1986 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glyn Richards
Keyword(s):  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Concept Of Truth

It is difficult to understand Gandhi's philosophy without some kind of idea of what he means by Truth. When I put the question of what he meant by Truth to some of his followers in India the replies I received showed quite clearly that his concept of Truth was linked to the concepts of dharma and rta. What this would seem to point to is that his understanding of Truth is something that is acquired within his own form of life and that his experiments with Truth are ultimately determined by his understanding of the Hindu religious tradition. This is not to say that insights from other religious traditions did not influence his apprehension of Truth: his acknowledgement of those influences is sufficient in itself to substantiate that claim. But it is clear that it would not be possible to understand his concept of Truth without some understanding of the tradition in which he was nurtured and which determined his way of life.

The Politics of Emotion: Liberalism and Cognitivism

2006 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 231-244
Author(s):  
Susan James
Keyword(s):  
Way Of Life ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
State Of Affairs

Liberal political theorists commend a comparatively orderly form of life. It is one in which individuals and groups who care about different things, and live in different ways, nevertheless share an overriding commitment to liberty and toleration, together with an ability to resolve conflicts and disagreements in ways that do not violate these values. Both citizens and states are taken to be capable of negotiating points of contention without resorting to forms of coercion such as abuse, blackmail, brainwashing, intimidation, torture or other types of violence. In explaining what makes such a state of affairs possible, such theorists have tended to present the citizens of liberal polities as more or less rational individuals who are aware of the advantages of a pluralist, yet co-operative way of life, and understand what it takes to maintain them. Liberalism works best, they have suggested, when, and because, individuals understand its benefits, and therefore act broadly in accordance with the norms it prescribes.

scholarly journals Tierfährten aus dem Pleistozän von Holstein: Ein Beitrag zur Ichnologie der Bändertone

1964 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-53
Author(s):  
Hans Murawski
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Water Content ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
The Other ◽  
Extreme Conditions ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Insect Larvae ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Chemical Conditions ◽  
Physical And Chemical

Abstract. The tracks shown in this paper are found in varved clavs of Pleistocene age at Malkwitz near Malente/Holstein (N-Germany) (fig. 1-4). They appear only in summer-layers of these varved clays. The tracks of fig. 1 (1-4), (8), (9) will be made by animals (e. g. insects or larvae), but those of fig. 1 (5-7) are probablv produced inorganically (twigs etc.. driven through shallow water). In comparison with these marks fig. 5 shows tracks, which are described by other authors from different places in Central-Europe. It is verv difficult to find the organisme responsible for these marks, because nobody has found anv fossil hitherto, which could have made the marks when it lived in these little perlglaclal lakes. On the other hand these lakes are situated in a climatic zone giving an environment with extreme conditions. It is possible that the originators of these tracks have not lived permanently in the lakes. This would be a form of life such as that of insect larvae. The form and construction of these marks is dependent on the animal, its anatomy, its way of life etc., but also on the region in which it lives. The grade of compaction, the water content of the sediment and other physical and chemical conditions are also very important.

scholarly journals A Christian Habitus

Lumen et Vita ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-55
Author(s):  
Austin C. Kopack
Keyword(s):  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Practices ◽  
Social Account ◽  
Theological Language ◽  
Affective Pedagogy ◽  
The Relationship

What is the relationship between preaching and living the Gospel? It is within the daily habits of those attempting to live out the Gospel together that preaching becomes intelligible and applicable. Sound preaching alone will fail to produce a transformed people whose lives reflect the teachings of scripture. This paper brings together the linguistic philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and the theological anthropology of James K. A. Smith in order to develop an affective pedagogy that takes seriously the socially dependent nature of human persons. The social account of language proposed in the later Wittgenstein suggests that the meaning of concepts arises amongst pre-linguistic, embodied, communal practices. Theological language cannot be detached from its concrete expressions in the world because its meaning is dependent upon a communal form of life in which those concepts make sense. James K. A. Smith builds upon this pragmatist tradition to present a theory of doctrine and preaching grounded in liturgical practices that does justice to human physicality and characterizes all human practices, religious or otherwise, as structures of habitual formation with particular teloi. The Gospel, then, is not just a truth we learn to believe but a way of life that we come to embody contra competing “cultural liturgies.”

scholarly journals Pangaroh – Ketua Adat: Dinamika Kepemimpinan Lokal Masyarakat Dayak Salako dalam Kajian Budaya

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-213
Author(s):  
Pabali Musa ◽  
Diaz Restu Darmawan ◽  
Rossa Fitriana ◽  
Debora Agustina ◽  
Egi Pratama Rizqi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Community Groups ◽  
West Kalimantan ◽  
Local Leadership ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Village Community ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
Government Leadership

The phenomenon of the development of the local leadership system in the Dayak Salako community in Nyarumkop village, Singkawang, West Kalimantan, cannot be separated from the current era development; of which the existing leadership system in the community requires dynamic aspects to make the traditional leadership system able to adjust its functions and role in the society that continues to develop. This article will analyze and explain how local leadership forms when community groups Dayak Salako still live as a Bantang community until now, which has become a village community that already has its formal and bureaucratic government leadership. Through a qualitative method with an ethnographic approach, key informants from the customary chief and other stakeholders within the community, it turns out that the leadership of the Dayak Salako customary chief has undergone several changes following the form of life of the community. Even though the global modern development impacts the community's way of life, the importance and influence of customary chief are pertinent. Fenomena perkembangan sistem kepemimpinan lokal pada masyarakat Dayak Salako di Desa Nyarumkop, Singkawang, Kalimantan Barat, tidak lepas dari perkembangan zaman saat ini; dimana sistem kepemimpinan yang ada di masyarakat membutuhkan aspek dinamis agar sistem kepemimpinan tradisional mampu menyesuaikan fungsi dan perannya dalam masyarakat yang terus berkembang. Artikel ini akan menganalisis dan menjelaskan bagaimana kepemimpinan lokal terbentuk ketika kelompok masyarakat Dayak Salako masih hidup sebagai masyarakat Bentang sampai sekarang, yang telah menjadi masyarakat desa yang telah memiliki kepemimpinan pemerintahan formal dan birokrasi. Melalui metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan etnografi, informan kunci dari kepala adat dan pemangku kepentingan lainnya dalam masyarakat, ternyata kepemimpinan kepala adat Dayak Salako telah mengalami beberapa kali perubahan mengikuti bentuk kehidupan masyarakat. Meskipun perkembangan modern global berdampak pada cara hidup masyarakat, peran penting dan pengaruh kepala adat tetap relevan.

Neoliberalism and the Future of Democracy

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 627-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Travis Holloway ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
The State ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Constituent Power ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Current State ◽  
Equal Concern

This paper describes neoliberalism and summarizes new works on democracy in Continental philosophy. Unlike laissez-faire or liberal economic theory—a “leave us alone” strategy in which the state does not interfere with private enterprise—neoliberal governments use the resources of the state to assist the market directly and employ the market to direct or oversee the resources of the state. Alongside neoliberal government, and in its wake, is a society in which the guiding axioms for each human being are self-entrepreneurship and competition. Over the last decade, however, a new body of philosophical work has been dissociating democracy from neoliberal government, critiquing a failed system of political representation, and considering to what extent democracy must take place beyond or outside of the current state. Of equal concern to these philosophers is how to take flight from a way of life that is characterized by self-entrepreneurship and competition. For some, the start of a political future beyond neoliberalism hinges upon a recent distinction between constituent and destituent forms of power. Whereas constituent power attempts to reform one’s government through demonstrations in public space, destituent power abandons the project of reforming one’s government momentarily or even completely in order to experience another form of life entirely.

Stepfamilies: Complexity and Confusion as a Way of Life

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (8) ◽  
pp. 802-802
Author(s):  
Jean A. Carter
Keyword(s):  
Way Of Life
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