scholarly journals Hegel and the Spiritual Evolution of Absolute Subject

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-111
Author(s):  
Ivo Minkov

The article interprets the methodological potential of Hegel’s speculative dialectics as a possible course of spiritual evolution of the Absolute subject. The intention is towards the method, first through the very construction of the “idea of freedom” from the point of view of Logic; second, through the constitutive function of freedom and the transition of the subjective spirit into the objective spirit; third, through the unfolding of mediation in the realms of the objective spirit. This essentially substantial methodologization dissolves the theoretical space of the idea of the mediating function of freedom as an ontological principle of ethical life. In line with the paradigm of such a course, the text considers a project of speculative ethics, a project within the framework of which the methodological and ontological sublation of spiritual evolution takes place.

Author(s):  
Krystyna Szczepanowska-Kozłowska

AbstractOne form of industrial property right infringement is stocking for the purpose of offering or marketing. This form of infringement appears both in EU legal acts on trademarks or designs, as well as in national regulations, including those concerning patents. What is specific to stocking when compared to other activities comprising the stipulated exclusivity of the holder of industrial property rights is the fact that the literal meaning of “stocking” does not explain whether the infringing party or the warehouse keeper is the entity that places the goods in storage. The structure of industrial property rights as absolute rights would theoretically permit the view that the law is violated by both the entity that accepts the goods for storage and the entity that places such goods in storage. To determine if there is an infringement, it must be established what the goods being stocked are further intended for. It is not without significance that the finding of an infringement of industrial property rights does not depend on fault or awareness. From the point of view of the industrial property law regime, it is difficult to find arguments against this understanding of infringement by stocking. Since the offeror of goods infringing industrial property rights may be held liable even if the goods have not yet been manufactured, it is conceivable that the entity accepting such goods for stocking is also liable. This interpretation of the concept of stocking would certainly correspond to the absolute nature of liability for infringement.In a recent judgment the CJEU confirmed that the warehouse keeper who, on behalf of a third party, stores goods which infringe trademark rights only creates the technical conditions for trademark use by this third party provided that the warehouse keeper is not aware of that infringement. The CJEU also confirmed that only the person who decides about the purpose of storing the goods can be treated as an infringer. However, the CJEU did not respond to the question regarding whether the warehouse keeper could be treated as an infringer if it pursues the aims of storing the goods at the request of the entity that put the goods into storage.


1994 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Van Rooy

Regarding the issue whether Allah is God, much difference of opinion exists among Reformed theologians. J.H. Bavinck, John Calvin and Z. Ursinus would probably say no in answer to the question as to whether Allah is God. whereas others, like Albert Kruyt and most specialists on Islam would say yes. These differences may be explained as emanating from different approaches. The subjective-personal point of view would not recognize in Allah the God of the Bible. Gods of different faiths reflecting a distorted image of God should, however, only in a very relative and limited way he called false gods. The exegetical point of view should take cognisance of Taul’s statements about the God of Judaism in Romans 10:2 and his own experience according to 2 Timothy 1:3. These Pauline statements make it clear that the God of Judaism cannot historically and objectively be called an idol. Knowledge of Allah of Islam, however, is historically dependent on Judaism and Christianity, and is therefore an extension of the knowledge Jews and Christians have of God. From a New Testament perspective Judaism and Islam cannot be called true religions, but neither can the God they worship be called an idol in the absolute sense of the word.


2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 729-743 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Habermas

Abstract Ever since Hegel made poignant the difference between morality and ethical life (“Sittlichkeit”), philosophical discourse in the traditions that developed subsequently, up to and including the Frankfurt school, has oscillated between those poles. This paper starts out with a short exposition of autonomy as one of the few large-scale innovations in the history of philosophy and then proceeds to discuss Hegel’s concept of “Sittlichkeit” and the objections to be raised against it from a Kantian point of view. Political theory, however, has to move beyond pure normativism and consider actual social relations of power, as Marx disclosed. Mapping out this winding trajectory from Kant to Marx provides some perspective that may be illuminating for challenging present-day issues.


2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Schmidt
Keyword(s):  

In his celebrated "Letter on Humanism," Heidegger spoke of the need for an "original ethics" which did not submit itself to the ideal of something like a "subject" or the "human," two notions that he suggested were no longer serviceable for the task of thinking the problems of ethical life. The purpose of this article is to look at how Gadamer's hermeneutics might offer an avenue for developing this original ethics. To this end, Gadamer's discussion of language, in particular the relation of language and freedom, serves as the guideline for unpacking this claim.


Many experimenters who have used cold phosphorus for the absorption of oxygen from air must have noticed the appearance of flickering clouds of luminosity when the action is nearly complete. These occur in the gas space and obviously represent a delayed action between the slight oxygen residue and the vapour of phosphorus. This action has been discussed by Joubert, who recognised it as due to the propagation of combustion in an explosive mixture. He obtained it in a more striking form by the slow leakage of air into an exhausted vessel containing phosphorus: his conclusion was that below a certain pressure, too small to measure, phosphorus vapour would not combine with oxygen. As the mixture of phosphorus vapour and oxygen became richer in oxygen by the inflow of the latter, the point was reached when combustion became possible and an explosion was propagated. From the point of view of kinetic theory it seemed very strange that phosphorus vapour should behave thus. Joubert’s view of the facts would seem to imply that the reaction of a molecule of phosphorus with oxygen was not dependant solely on the character and energy of molecular collisions, but also on the absolute value of the interval of time between them. These theoretical difficulties, and also the fascination of the experiments themselves, led me to attempt a further investigation.


2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-157
Author(s):  
Pavla Kochová

Abstract The study deals with the category of comparison of Czech adjectives from the semantic point of view; it concentrates especially on the so-called absolute (or elative) usage of comparatives and the absolute usage of superlatives and their lexicographic treatment (or absence of the lexicographic treatment) in Czech monolingual dictionaries. The question is whether their frequency in corpora can prove lexicalization of this usage.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Tantri Refa Indhiarti ◽  
Sri Utami Budi ◽  
Indah Winarni

The  Wedhatama,  a  Javanese  literary  work  by  the  King  Mangkunegara IV  contains  philosophical  teachings  which  are  quite  influential  in  ethical life.  This  paper  aims  at discovering the hidden meaning of the teachings which reveal  an  esoteric  knowledge  of  worshipping  in  terms  of  its  semantic  point  of view.  This  meaning  is  known  through  analytic  and  synthetic  propositions  in Gambuh canto associated with 4 different types of worship. Thus, the qualitative paradigm is used in which the data were obtained through library research. In this  study,  the  synthetic  proposition  shows the  breadth  of  the  poet’s  signifying esoteric intention  that  is about Javanese identity of  prayer. It  is  revealed  that the  four  types  of  worship  –sembah  raga,  cipta,  jiwa,  and  rasa  –are  said  to coincide with what are usually referred to in Muslim Sufism as syariat. Keywords: Gambuh canto, the Wedhatama, Javanese identity of prayer, semantic proposition 


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-32
Author(s):  
Bobby Briando ◽  
Agung Sulistyo Purnomo ◽  
Sri Kuncoro Bawono

This article discusses a research paradigm from several perspectives which is so-called Multiparadigm. Multiparadigm encompasses Positivism; Criticism; Posmodernism; and the Spiritualism. This research is qualitatively descriptive by using explanative method. The result shows that acquiring the whole paradigm will lead to a contemplation that “truth” is not single, on the contrary it is quite diverse. In this sense, the truth in the context of human consciousness is a “realtive”measure. Nevertheless, the “Absolute” truth belongs only to the Source of Knowledge, the Lord of the Universe. A research in which using multiparadigm would widen the horizon in critical thingking. It is expected that point of view will be able to lead us to a revolutionary way of thingking and enhacing intellectual, emotional and spiritual awareness within researchers.  


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Byczyński

The aim of this article is to clarify the meaning of the concept of recognition in Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition. The main object of interest will be the differences between, what Honneth calls the basic form of recognition and recognition which he describes as a relation. Presented considerations will become premises for such an interpretation of theory of recognition, which differentiates at least between two meanings of the term recognition: first, as a subjective attitude, second, as a relation (which is more adequate interpretation). The indicated differences might be important for in-depth analyses of the theory of recognition, especially considering Honneth’s point of view – more formal approach presented in The Struggle for Recognition, to his analyses of democratic ethical life in his latest book Das Recht Der Freicheit.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
A. V. Vorokhobov

Introduction. The relevance of the study of the concept of subjectivity in the work of I.A. Ilyin is connected with the fact that the center of the philosophical reflection of the Russian thinker is anthropological problems of a worldview nature, which is consonant with the developments of both domestic researchers and foreign thinkers in connection with permanent attempts to overcome the current crisis of understanding the human phenomenon in modern humanitarian knowledge.Materials and Methods. The research material is the work of I.A. Ilyin, related to subjectivist themes. The principle of historicism, concreteness, the method of reconstruction, the comparative method and the phenomenological approach are the methodological basis that makes it possible to optimally explicate the developments of I.A. Ilyin in the field of subjectivity.Results. It was established that the problem of subjectivity is a backbone for the philosophical system of I.A. Ilyin. Models of German classical philosophy from the point of view of I.A. Ilyin reveal their inconsistency, while the phenomenological approach requires supplementation from the standpoint of ontological realism. From the point of view of I.A. Ilyin, personality gains its concreteness through connection with the initiating personality of the Absolute.Discussions and Conclusions. The study allowed to carry out an explication, a constitution and an analysis of the concept of human subjectivity in the work of I.A. Ilyin. The originality of the understanding of subjectivity in the personalistic philosophy of I.A. Ilyin is made in the context of the thinker's creative reflection on the views of Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Husserl. I.A. Ilyin believes that a consistent model of the subject can be built only taking into account all anthropological constants, including both the rational and the spiritual components in their orientation towards the absolute Subject.


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