scholarly journals Politics, Experience, and the Languages of Holiness

Numen ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 138-164
Author(s):  
Gavin Flood
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Legal Discourse ◽  
Metaphysical Realism ◽  
Philosophical Discussion ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Hermeneutical Phenomenology

Abstract During the last half century, the category of holiness fell into disrepair although there are recent signs of its revitalization with the Pope’s apostolic exhortation on holiness, Gaudete et Exultate and attention being paid to the category in political philosophy (the work of Agamben and Esposito) and sociology (the work of Hans Joas). In this context, this article argues for the philosophical justification of linking holiness with prepredicative experience as it shows itself through hermeneutical phenomenology, grounded in bio-sociology, but which cannot be isolated from the particular languages of its articulation. Holiness comes into view through the languages of holiness, which in the broadest sense, include human act, and comportment toward world. This involves a discussion about holiness itself being located either in prepolitical experience or being inseparable from political and legal discourse. Of relevance here is also a philosophical discussion of holiness in relation to metaphysical realism.

After Utopia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith N. Shklar
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
Downward Trend ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
New Generation

After Utopia was the author's first book, a harbinger of her renowned career in political philosophy. Throughout the many changes in political thought during the last half century, this important work has withstood the test of time. The book explores the decline of political philosophy, from Enlightenment optimism to modern cultural despair, and offers a critical, creative analysis of this downward trend. It looks at Romantic and Christian social thought, and shows that while the present political fatalism may be unavoidable, the prophets of despair have failed to explain the world they so dislike, leaving the possibility of a new and vigorous political philosophy. With a foreword examining the book's continued relevance, this current edition introduces a remarkable synthesis of ideas to a new generation of readers.

Images

Philosophy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kulvicki
Keyword(s):  
Broad Class ◽  
Formal Languages ◽  
Scientific Representation ◽  
Philosophical Discussion ◽  
General Sense ◽  
Natural Languages ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Radar Images

Natural languages, numerals, formal languages, maps, diagrams, graphs, and pictures are all representations. Traditionally, philosophical discussion has divided these representations into two groups: imagistic and linguistic. Just as there are many natural and formal languages that fit on the linguistic side of this divide, there are many kinds of images. In what follows, then, “image” is meant to refer to the broad class of nonlinguistic representations that all seem to have much in common. There might be representations that are neither imagistic nor linguistic, and many representations are hybrids that partake of more than one kind. Focusing on images is not the same thing as focusing on pictures. (See the separate Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy entry on “Depiction.”) Pictures are images, but so are maps, graphs, radar images, and the like. So an account of pictures can be consistent with many accounts of images, just as an account of images can be consistent with more than one theory of pictures. There are very few accounts of images in this general sense, so the following does not include a section devoted to that topic. Instead, this entry traces the evolving interest in images and looks at the most prominent topics that have occupied philosophers over the last half century or so. One topic not covered here is the use of images in science. For that topic, see the separate Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy entry on “Scientific Representation.”

Dignitarian medical ethics

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Barclay
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Patient Experience ◽  
Patient Experiences ◽  
The Other ◽  
Philosophical Discussion ◽  
Good Argument ◽  
Equal Status ◽  
Healthcare Settings

Philosophers and bioethicists are typically sceptical about invocations of dignity in ethical debates. Many believe that dignity is essentially devoid of meaning: either a mere rhetorical gesture used in the absence of good argument or a faddish term for existing values like autonomy and respect. On the other hand, the patient experience of dignity is a substantial area of research in healthcare fields like nursing and palliative care. In this paper, it is argued that philosophers have much to learn from the concrete patient experiences described in healthcare literature. Dignity is conferred on people when they are treated as having equal status, something the sick and frail are often denied in healthcare settings. The importance of equal status as a unique value has been forcefully argued and widely recognised in political philosophy in the last 15 years. This paper brings medical ethics up to date with philosophical discussion about the value of equal status by developing an equal status conception of dignity.

What hath biopolitics wrought?

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Somit
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Exact Date ◽  
The 1960S

Although there may be some disagreement about the exact date, I think it safe to say that the biopolitics movement was launched in the 1960s. Now, a half century later, it may be appropriate to pose the rather obvious, if somewhat delicate, question: What has biopolitics contributed to political science? Here, I will try to persuade you that a biopolitical approach may have yielded answers to a couple of the most debated issues in political philosophy—one, the granddady of them all, is “What is the nature of political man?” The other, much more recent, but steadily increasing in importance, is “Why are democracies so rare and so fragile?”

The Nonexistence of Christian Political Philosophy

Worldview ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 26-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
James V. Schall
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
University System ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Justin Martyr ◽  
Constitutional System ◽  
Past Half

Those who lived by reason are Christians, even though they have been considered atheists: such as, among the Greeks, Socrates....—Justin Martyr, The First Apology, ca. AD. 150We live in a curious time. We are agreed that our educational and university system has been increasingly dominated for the past half century by a pseudoscientific philosophy that doubted on principle the validity of moral values. Our constitutional system is implemented through courts managed largely by a legal profession educated in such an amoral environment that any explicit value or religious criterion is practically precluded from being taught as true.

What hath biopolitics wrought?

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (01) ◽  
pp. 95-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Somit
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Exact Date ◽  
The 1960S

Although there may be some disagreement about the exact date, I think it safe to say that the biopolitics movement was launched in the 1960s. Now, a half century later, it may be appropriate to pose the rather obvious, if somewhat delicate, question: What has biopolitics contributed to political science? Here, I will try to persuade you that a biopolitical approach may have yielded answers to a couple of the most debated issues in political philosophy—one, the granddady of them all, is “What is the nature of political man?” The other, much more recent, but steadily increasing in importance, is “Why are democracies so rare and so fragile?”

scholarly journals Law and Lawyers vs “Political Turn” and the “Return of Political Philosophy”

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Iwona Barwicka-Tylek
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Legal Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
Neutral Term ◽  
Political Turn ◽  
The Ideal

<p>The title of the article refers to P. Manent’s essay, describing “the return of political philosophy”. Using the distinction between science and art, suggested by thinkers such as J.S. Mill, an analysis was made of the possible responses of legal theory to the so-called “political turn” in social sciences and humanities. Attempts were made to show that transplanting such terms as “politics”, “the political”, “polity” (in the text they function under more theoretically neutral term: “politicalness”) into the field of legal discourse leads to the rejection of the so far dominant (referring to the ideal of Ch. Montesquieu) image of the activity of lawyers as “artisans” practicing the art of law and to replacing it with the image of a lawyer-artists or lawyer-scientist.</p>

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Shelly Kagan
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Animal Ethics ◽  
Moral Obligations ◽  
Philosophical Discussion ◽  
Moral Philosopher ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Complete Neglect ◽  
Rare Occasion

One of the most striking developments in moral philosophy over the last half century has been the remarkable explosion in the discussion of animal ethics, that part of moral philosophy that deals with our moral obligations toward (nonhuman) animals. It would of course be an exaggeration, but only a mild one, to say that fifty years ago philosophical discussion of the treatment of animals was virtually nonexistent. The topic suffered from something close to complete neglect. On the rare occasion when a moral philosopher had something to say about animals, it was largely a matter of admitting—albeit only in passing—that it was wrong to be cruel to them, that the gratuitous infliction of pain was morally problematic. And then, for the most part, the matter was typically left at that....

scholarly journals Thom Brooks and the ‘Systematic’ Reading of Hegel

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (02) ◽  
pp. 16-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen Wood
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Logical System ◽  
Philosophical Discussion ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
Philosophical System ◽  
True Structure

Hegel was a systematic philosopher, who grounded his system on a speculative logic. But his greatest philosophical contributions lie in his reflections on human culture: ethics, social and political philosophy, aesthetics, religion and the philosophy of history. This fact poses a problem for anyone who accepts it and then attempts to provide a philosophical discussion of Hegel's thought with the aim of making it available to a later age.There can be no doubt that any authentic treatment of Hegel's social and political philosophy must take account of Hegel's explicit intention to ground it in his logical system of thought-determinations. But if we simply take that intention at face value, we make our appropriation of Hegel hostage to his philosophical system and speculative logic, which now are at best outdated and, though they may themselves contain some insights of lasting philosophical value, are not of nearly as much philosophical interest as Hegel's thoughts about human culture, society and history. A Hegel whose ethical, social, historical and cultural insights could be appropriated only by those who accept his speculative logical system would be a Hegel few would ever read or learn from.The other horn of the same dilemma is that those interpreters who are honest enough that they don't accept uncritically Hegel's own account of the structure of his philosophical accomplishments will inevitably be charged with doing violence to Hegel's thought, ignoring its true structure and unity. To quote a passage from Fred Beiser, which Thom Brooks uses to pillory all such Hegel scholarship: ‘We make Hegel alive and relevant, a useful contributor to our concerns; but that is only because we put our own views into his mouth.

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