Realism, relativism and pluralism

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 413-422
Author(s):  
Paolo Costa
Keyword(s):  
Blind Spot ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Community ◽  
The Core ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Life

In broad terms, realism, relativism and pluralism can be regarded as the theoretical articulations of the following insights. Realism embodies the sense that what is at stake in our beliefs is something serious, i.e. that there is a fact of the matter, independent from our desire, which is going to decide whether what we believe in is true or not. Relativism, on the other hand, incorporates the realization that our cognitive take on the world is always perspectival, that there is no way to overcome the blind spot which enables the knower to have a world in view at all. Pluralism, finally, draws on the intuition that every human being and every human community cannot fully understand, let alone save themselves, without the help of others’ sense-making efforts. Against the background of Charles Taylor’s philosophy, the core of truth of the above insights will be discussed and arranged to develop an active view of toleration that not only urges us to put up with others, but encourages us to rely on the benefit of coming to terms with different outlooks and ways of life.

scholarly journals The Semiotics of Humiliation

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 623-631
Author(s):  
Andi Rachmawati Syarif ◽  
Nursidah Nursidah
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Core ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Best Argument

Being almost inseparable from human being, ‘Humiliation’ and ‘dignity’ must be considered as much more universal substance. Its counterpart must be regarded as having the same level of universality. However, is the fact that the form of both ‘dignity’ and ‘humiliation’ differ so much around the world, that the two terms probably represent the best argument for that there are big differences between cultures and nations.  Since the experience of humiliation does not necessary result in an immediate feeling of being humiliated. Thus one of the core challenges is to find the solution of how ‘humiliation’ on the one hand represents something universal and on the other hand is the best argument for non-universality in the world. In this sense, the essay seems to be much easier to say something about the cause for humiliation instead of its effect on the victim.  Yet, this essay attempts to point out how these terms might be understood in attempt at making them meaningful in itself and fruitful for empirical investigation.

scholarly journals Humorism and Characterization in Topan’s Mfalme Juha

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 62-78
Author(s):  
Emiliano Minerba
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Core ◽  
Critical History ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Core Feature ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Inner Contradictions

This paper discusses the character of King Juha, the protagonist of the comedy Mfalme Juha by Farouk Topan, using an approach that considers the humoristic dimension of this character. The definition of humorism employed here is that given by Pirandello: the result of an aesthetic process in which the comic effect deriving from an object of laughter is tempered and contrasted by a “sentiment of the contrary” that observes and builds empathy with the inner contradictions of the object itself. After a short outline of Mfalme Juha’s critical history which shows that the humoristic dimension of King Juha has never been considered in critiques, this paper focuses on an analysis of this character, in which the core feature of egocentricity is identified. Juha’s egocentricity and its humoristic nature are analysed in the character’s relationship with his subjects as their king and in his idea of art and culture; in both cases it is shown that what is important is not the wickedness or egoism of Juha, but his lack of comprehension of the world. Juha is incapable of understanding his environment and other people, since he can not doubt his own superiority: this puts him in several comic situations, but on the other hand makes him a victim of his smart subjects, so that he arouses a feeling of sympathy in which Pirandello’s sentiment of the contrary can be traced.

A meta-analysis of the core essence of psychopathological entities: an historical exercise in phenomenological psychiatry

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guilherme Messas ◽  
Melissa Garcia Tamelini ◽  
John Cutting
Keyword(s):  
Meta Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Normal Human ◽  
Phenomenological Psychiatry

Two fundamentally different approaches among phenomenological psychopathologists can be discerned. One is what we call fixed essentialism, where the pathognomonic element of, say, schizophrenia is conceived of as a single, enduring and intrinsically morbid way of grasping all entities in the world, including self and body. The other, which we call dialectical essentialism, accounts for the same manifestations of, say, schizophrenia, but through a process which is not life-enduring, and, most critically vis-à-vis the former formulation, is not in itself a single morbid defect: a morbid pattern of world, self and body is achieved by an imbalance between two or more otherwise healthy constituents of the ‘normal’ human being, whose imbalance and attempts to resolve this – the dialectic – induce the ‘morbidity’.

scholarly journals Between History and Universality: Understanding Identity in the Public Sphere

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-36
Author(s):  
Nisar Alungal Chungath
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Public ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The One

Identity is not a fixed and frozen prison-house for the self, but a liquid continuum, affected and shaped by the ‘outside’ or the world. The self, which is situated and which undergoes revisions and transformations, keeps identity as a frame within which it makes sense of things. On the one hand, there is a ‘history’ within which an identity is rooted and through which meaning-making is made possible, and on the other hand, every person aspires to be a ‘universal’ and recognition-worthy human being. Both inherent identity and inherent universality of the self should be considered in their interactions in the public sphere, which has been traditionally viewed as a space of discrete individualities. The ontological force of this argument aside, the paper demonstrates that reduction of an identity without crediting its aspiration for universality and consideration of universality without crediting the historical underpinnings of identity are both acts of violation. 

Is God Redeemable?

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-167
Author(s):  
Hans-Christoph Askani
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Mutual Relationship ◽  
Franz Rosenzweig ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

Abstract We might suggest two possible ways of understanding our question: Can God be redeemed? and: Must God be redeemed? In both cases the question sounds blasphemous. But following the movement that Franz Rosenzweig develops in The Star of Redemption, I suggest that the living relation initiated by God, as God created the world and as God revealed himself to the human being, would be an abstract construction if, on the one hand, the human being and the world did not need each other in order to become what they are and what they could be, and if, on the other hand, God was not implicated in this mutual relationship.

scholarly journals The geography of spheres: an introduction and critical assessment of Peter Sloterdijk's concept of spheres

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 273-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huib Ernste
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Spatial Metaphor ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Peter Sloterdijk ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
The One

Abstract. With his three-volume magnum opus on spheres, Peter Sloterdijk introduces a critical philosophical and cultural view of the spatiality of current society. His spatial metaphors serve as an intriguing source for inspiration for geographers. He describes the topological conditions of society by means of three different forms of spherical conditions of life: bubbles, globes, and foams. To understand, assess, and critique our current society we, according to Sloterdijk, need to replace the arrogant and cynical academic view of Plato and his followers with the more serene composure of the kinetic view of Diogenes. In this contribution, on the one hand we shall elaborate the spatial metaphor Sloterdijk uses. On the other hand we want to scrutinise Sloterdijk's ideas by drawing some parallels between his ideas and those of other philosophical anthropological thinkers. Finally, we very briefly want to point to a suitable conceptual framework for empirically investigating the spherology of human being in the world.

scholarly journals The Role of Time in the Theory of Narrative Identity in the Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 483-494
Author(s):  
Michał Kumorek
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Narrative Identity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Core ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
New Models ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

Time has a very important function in considering the identity of a person. It is the factor that brings identity into question. The core of the problem is the question of whether the person is the same as he or she was at another time. The problem of personal identity was one of the most important issues in Paul Ricoeurs philosophy. He considers this problem in the context of time and notes that traditional models of identity as sameness and as selfhood have been entangled in various aporias. He, therefore, proposes two new models of identity that are related in different ways to temporality: character and promise. Character is a model that changes over time through the acquisition or loss of various traits. The promise, on the other hand, is a model that resists the pressure of time attempts to keep a given word. In this way, these two different models create the framework for Ricoeur's concept of narrative identity. In this concept, time enables the development of action in a story. It allows the action to turn around, but it also allows the human being to look at the story of his or her life. Character and promise are models that allow the human being to look at his or her life as a certain temporal entity that is constantly threatened by unforeseen accidents and events but also constantly absorbs them and, through to time, gives the possibility of retrospection leading to synthesis. This synthesis allows us to look at a single life as a whole, belonging to the same person endowed with the character and challenge of keeping a promise.

scholarly journals A survey on internet of things: privacy with security of sensors and wearable network ip/protocols

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.3) ◽  
pp. 200
Author(s):  
Subrata Chowdhury ◽  
Dr P. Mayilvahanan
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Other ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
The Core ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Physical Objects ◽  
Core Issues

The paper gives the introduction of the IoT, which lay forward the capabilties to detect and link with the world wide web with the con-nectivity to connect this with the physical objects into a cognate systems. On the other hand some severe concers as the part of the IoT, are been highlighted over the passage gateways of critical personal informations relevants to device and personalized privacy.This survey will summerize and tries to highlight the core issues related to the security threats,and the privacy interest of the IoT.  

scholarly journals Neoteny - Japanese Cultural and Psychoanthropological Aspects: Otaku Subcultures and Maido Kissa

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mladen Cimesa
Keyword(s):  
Computer Games ◽  
The Other ◽  
Biological Phenomenon ◽  
Fictional Character ◽  
The Core ◽  
World Today ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Japanese Art ◽  
The World ◽  
Art And Culture

This paper deals with psychoanthropological research on the phenomenon of neoteny and its impact on manga and anime culture in Japan and beyond. Neoteny is, to put it simply, a "stretch of youth" and is present today in various forms and throughout the world. Today, Japan has become one of the most neotenized countries in the world. Neoteny itself, as a biological phenomenon, has transposed itself into other frameworks and has gained its place in popular Japanese art and culture, more precisely, it is now the core of a new subculture called Otaku. Otaku is a relatively young subculture in Japan, dating back to the 1980s. One average otaku is characterized by an abnormal attachment to the neotenized characters from the world of anime and manga and computer games, and is more individualistic and asocial. Maid's Café, on the other hand, is a place for Otaku's limbo as they experience the continuing fantasy of a relationship with a fictional character in a meeting with the staff there.

scholarly journals Aproximación hermenéutico-crítica a la fenomenología de la razón en Ideas I

2021 ◽  
pp. 287
Author(s):  
Balbino A. Quesada
Keyword(s):  
Natural Sciences ◽  
The Other ◽  
Real Object ◽  
Pure Reason ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Object Of Knowledge

La fenomenología de la razón escudriña todos los procesos racionales que intervienen en la aprehensión del objeto real y de su constitución, y las consiguientes relaciones noético-noemáticas. Sólo la razón pura colegida, primero como fuerza que depura los procesos de la evidencia y las posiciones del sujeto, y sólo la razón entendida también como proceso que ratifica la verificabilidad del darse el objeto y de todos los demás procesos y relaciones, se revela como la única instancia posible capaz de asegurar la validez del conocimiento y del objeto del conocimiento. Por otro lado, la razón juega un papel decisivo en lo que respecta al sujeto de razón. Ésta es la nota constitutiva y respectiva del ser humano, el poder que lo separa del entramado de facticidades y contingencias de las que se compone la realidad, de suerte que éste no es un factum más entre todas las objetividades, tal como postulan la psicología y las ciencias naturales. El hombre es un ser mundano, está efectivamente en el mundo. Ahora bien, “su ser en” y “su estar en” son modificados por el poder de la razón. Su modo de ser mundano es serlo racionalmente. Únicamente de este modo el Umwelt deviene Lebenswelt.The phenomenology of reason inspects all rational processes involved (which participate) in the apprehension of real object and its constitution, and the respective noetic-noematic relationships. Only the pure reason comprehended, first of all, as a strength which purifies the mentioned processes, the evidence and the subject positions. Secondly the reason, also comprehended as a process which confirms the object verificability which gives itself and the other processes and relationships, appears as the only possible power, which is able to guarantee the validity of the knowledge, and so the object of knowledge. On the other hand, the reason plays a very important role in the subject of the reason. This is the constitutive and respective note of the human being, the power (strength) that separates it from the labyrinth of facts and contingencies which makes up reality, so that this (human being) isn’t a fact among all objectivities, as postulated by psychology and natural sciences. The human being is a worldly being; he is really in the world. Now then, “his being-in” and “his staying-in” are modified by the strength of the reason. His way of being worldly is being rationaly. Only in this way the “Umwelt” becomes “Lebenswelt”.

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