Redeeming God, Redeeming Redemption

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 168-175
Author(s):  
Paul Franks
Keyword(s):  
Regulative Ideal

Abstract On the Rosenzweigian view that I advocate here, redemption is neither a humanly attainable ideal, nor a regulative ideal, nor a solely critical ideal. Redemption is rather a human actualization whose full realization depends on God. In the course of explicating this claim I explore the rabbinic and kabbalistic background to Rosenzweig’s position.

Individuality and Beyond

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedetta Zavatta
Keyword(s):  
Moral Autonomy ◽  
First Line ◽  
Philosophical Interpretation ◽  
Individual Personality ◽  
The World ◽  
Regulative Ideal ◽  
Personal Library ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

Based on an analysis of the marginal markings and annotations Nietzsche made to the works of Emerson in his personal library, the book offers a philosophical interpretation of the impact on Nietzsche’s thought of his reading of these works, a reading that began when he was a schoolboy and extended to the final years of his conscious life. The many ideas and sources of inspiration that Nietzsche drew from Emerson can be organized in terms of two main lines of thought. The first line leads in the direction of the development of the individual personality, that is, the achievement of critical thinking, moral autonomy, and original self-expression. The second line of thought is the overcoming of individuality: that is to say, the need to transcend one’s own individual—and thus by definition limited—view of the world by continually confronting and engaging with visions different from one’s own and by putting into question and debating one’s own values and certainties. The image of the strong personality that Nietzsche forms thanks to his reading of Emerson ultimately takes on the appearance of a nomadic subject who is continually passing out of themselves—that is to say, abandoning their own positions and convictions—so as to undergo a constant process of evolution. In other words, the formation of the individual personality takes on the form of a regulative ideal: a goal that can never be said to have been definitively and once and for all attained.

scholarly journals Intersectionality as a Regulative Ideal

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (20201214) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Gasdaglis ◽  
Alex Madva
Keyword(s):  
Regulative Ideal

Humility’s Destiny

2018 ◽  
pp. 95-116
Author(s):  
Kent Dunnington
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Essential Aspect ◽  
Christian View ◽  
Regulative Ideal

If Christian humility sets as a regulative ideal complete unconcern for one’s own distinctive importance, the challenge is to say why anyone would consider Christian humility a disposition of human flourishing. The experience of one’s distinctive importance is often felt to be an important, if not essential, aspect of the good life. This chapter shows how Christian humility requires for its intelligibility a different account of what an excellent self is like, and a different account of what human flourishing is like. The Christian themes of crucifixion, Trinity, and beatitude are shown seriously to revise customary assumptions about human selfhood and human flourishing. The chapter shows how a distinctively Christian eschatology and anthropology grounds a distinctively Christian view of humility.

Sleeping Beauty

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Faisal Devji
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Sleeping Beauty ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Empirical Reality ◽  
Potential Victim ◽  
Regulative Ideal ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Do So

No longer a regulative ideal, humanity has emerged as an empirical reality with our ability to count, measure and alter its global body. But while it is real, humanity possesses no political agency, and has thus been conceptualized since the Cold War in negative ways, as the actual or potential victim of atomic, pandemic or environmental extermination. In the same period, the Muslim ummah, newly conceptualized as an empirical and global community, has also come to be understood primarily as a body of victims. New forms of militancy are geared towards waking this community to its potential for agency, but can only do so outside states and institutions and by the fragmentation of ideology and action into networks of sacrifice that abandon the language of humanism for humanity as an inhuman or impersonal ideal.

The Postulated Author: Critical Monism as a Regulative Ideal

1981 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Nehamas
Keyword(s):  
Regulative Ideal

scholarly journals Emancipatory politics at its limits? An introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 136843102110481
Author(s):  
Ingolfur Blühdorn ◽  
Felix Butzlaff ◽  
Margaret Haderer
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Planetary Boundaries ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Emancipatory Politics ◽  
Regulative Ideal ◽  
Key Terms

Emancipatory politics and the very idea of emancipation have come under pressure. Feminist and post-colonial critiques, the appropriation of emancipatory ideals by right-wing populists and the crises triggered by the transgression of planetary boundaries all expose emancipatory paradoxes and raise questions about the further suitability of emancipation as a regulative ideal guiding any socio-ecological transformation of contemporary consumer societies. With this article, which introduces a Special Issue entitled The Dialectic of Emancipation - Transgressing Boundaries and Boundaries of Transgression, we are working toward a research agenda that acknowledges the current impasse of emancipatory politics and explores its ambivalences and further potentials. Following an outline of the emancipatory paradox and a review of how emancipatory movements have continuously contested – and redrawn – restrictive boundaries, we scan sedimented understandings of the two key terms, emancipation and dialectic, feeding into the concept that we are suggesting as an analytical lens for investigating the current impasse and future prospects of emancipatory politics: the dialectic of emancipation. We preview how the contributors to this Special Issue make use of these terms as they are engaging with this research agenda and conclude by reflecting on the dangers and pitfalls associated with the concept dialectic of emancipation.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. E. Gover
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
John Cage ◽  
Special Relationship ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Regulative Ideal ◽  
Donald Judd ◽  
Rhetorical Function

The challenges to artistic authority by contemporary art practice have certainly enlarged our sense of what kinds of things count as artworks, and by extension they have altered our sense of who artists are and what they do. However, while the landscape of art has changed, these ideal or rhetorical challenges to the modernist ideology of artistic authority have not in fact penetrated our most deeply held cultural beliefs and practices surrounding the artist’s special relationship to his or her work. The concept of the artist serves as a regulative ideal, and the gestures by the avant-garde to demystify or destroy this ideal serve a largely rhetorical function. This chapter discusses three examples: Donald Judd, John Cage, and Wim Delvoye.

The Logic of the “As If” and the (Non)existence of God

Words Fail ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colby Dickinson
Keyword(s):  
Wallace Stevens ◽  
Paul Celan ◽  
Adrienne Rich ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Ethical Imperative ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
Regulative Principle ◽  
Regulative Ideal ◽  
Mystical Traditions ◽  
As If

The first chapter explores Jacques Derrida’s rich reworking of the Kantian regulative principle of the as if in order to point toward certain potential movements of the as such in the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Adrienne Rich, and Paul Celan, as well as the various mystical traditions which Derrida himself took up on occasion. By taking this precise path and yet staying open to Derrida’s critique of any possible presentation as such beyond the as if, this chapter shows how Derrida’s work ultimately also points toward an encounter with the O/other as such, beyond the as if, though within language, very much within its failures—which is, in the end, the only real way to fully respect the encounter at all. In such fashion, an ethical imperative appears within the event of encounter, one that does not seek to reduce the singularity of the O/other’s presence before us to a regulative ideal as if to go beyond what has been (re)presented to us, but rather that which embraces what cannot be represented, bringing philosophy, politics, and religion to the threshold of a mystical-ethical imperative that we must take very seriously.

Narrative Threads

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy L. Rosenblum
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Moral Imagination ◽  
Think Aloud ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Regulative Ideal ◽  
Good Neighbor

This chapter introduces accounts of good neighbor and the democracy of everyday life in American literature. Settler, immigrant, and suburban portrayals demonstrate the centrality of this regulative ideal in people's moral imagination and in Americans' self-representation. Good neighbor as a facet of moral identity and as a collective American self-representation are rich composites created from an unprecedented and ever-increasing wealth of fiction, poetry, and memoir. The significance of these narratives is that they make particular places and moments in time vivid; they endow the subject with dimension. Like “thick” cultural ethnography, these narratives document what, in this place, anyone would do. Neighbors in literature as in life are driven to think about the ethics of their situation, but in fiction they think aloud.

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