Philosophie in ihrer (und gegen ihre) Zeit

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Martin Saar
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

Abstract It is not evident in what sense philosophy relates to its own time and present. From the history of philosophical thought, several models have been suggested, ranging from a strong reliance on tradition to the wholesale rejection of the present and demand for a ‘philosophy of the future,’ from the suspicion that philosophy is nothing but one ideology among others to the demand that philosophy should engage in the struggles and conflicts of its time in order to prepare for a better future. The essay presents an assessment and problematization of these approaches and argues for a point of view that starts from philosophy’s precarious, ambivalent and contingent relation to its time and contemporaneity. Neither wholly independent of nor entirely subjected to its own time, philosophy can inhabit a shifting position from which critique and resistance are possible even if not ultimately guaranteed.

scholarly journals José Vasconcelos: mito iberoamericanista o filosofía estética iberoamericana

2013 ◽  
pp. 37-54
Author(s):  
Roberto Luquín Guerra
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Jose Vasconcelos ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Thought ◽  
Cultural Message

Apart from his political and educational work, and from his controversial autobiography, José Vasconcelos is known for his Ibero-Americanist thought. The Cosmic Race, Indology and Bolivarism and Monroeism gather all the ideas that are attributed to his theoretical point of view. His philosophy is what we know less of and what is most criticized. Nonetheless, is there a connection between his philosophical thought and his Ibero-Americanist ideas? Abelardo Villegas says that Vasconcelos’s philosophy is the product of a racial and cultural message. Therefore, according to Villegas, his philosophy is subordinated to his Ibero-Americanist ideas. Patrick Romanell, on the other hand, states that the Ibero-Americanist ideas make up the popular and illusory side and, hence, must be separated from the philosophical thought. The aim of this paper is to elucidate this problem. In order to clarify it, we will follow Villegas viewpoint to the bitter end. His reasoning invites us to look closely at the history of Ibero-American thought as well as at Vasconcelos’s first works. Precisely by analyzing these two aspects and the point where they meet, we might be able to find an answer.

scholarly journals The Coronavirus Pandemic - a Systemic overview

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Diani
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Systemic Thinking ◽  
Global Response ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Human Wellbeing ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

The Coronavirus pandemic is a major challenge to human wellbeing; it directly affects health, and indirectly involves the economic, politic and social spheres. This, in turn, is going to have major systemic, worldwide health, social and environmental consequences. In this paper, I will briefly sum up the history of the pandemic, the worldwide diffusion, the major different political reactions, as well as health and political countermeasures, and the economic consequences / evaluations for the future. The aim of this paper is to show and address all the different spheres involved and their relationships. Emphasis will be placed on the paradoxical presence of a large amount of data and the big uncertainty for the future. The outcomes will be briefly analyzed on a healthcare, political and socio-economical level. The point of view is systemic with human beings, institutions and the environment seen as a whole. Systemic thinking allows interdisciplinary research to be decisive in understanding the worldwide reaction to the pandemic. The global response to this crisis is of historical significance, and therefore potentially decisive for the multi-layered future of the world.

scholarly journals Przyszłość nauk humanistycznych w perspektywie metafilozoficznej

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cyprian Gawlik Cyprian Gawlik
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Context ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Knowledge Development ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Potential Remedy

The purpose of this paper is to ponder upon the future of the humanities from a metaphilosophical perspective inspired by G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophy of the history of philosophy. The need for this reflection follows from the crisis that the humanities are facing today due to global changes in higher education, caused by the domination of the capitalist economy and the dramatic development of technology. The author assumes that the essence of the humanities is determined by the formation of self-understanding (Bildung) and proposes to consider this issue from a broader historical point of view and apart from the institutional context of human sciences, namely in the light of the history of philosophy, understood according to the Hegelian approach as the development of selfknowledge. The paper extensively discusses Hegel’s philosophy of the history of philosophy, as well as subsequent metaphilosophical positions inspired by Hegel’s thought (especially that of August Cieszkowski and Martin Heidegger). As a result, the question about the future of the humanities is transformed into a postulate of reflection on the primacy of technoscientific thinking in the modern world. In line with the Hegelian view of knowledge development – attributing autoperformative function to self-cognition – this kind of reflection is a potential remedy for the crisis currently diagnosed in the humanities.

scholarly journals The evolution of the assessment of smenovekhovtsevs in domestic scientific literature and publicism

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
I. A. Petukhov
Keyword(s):  
Limited Range ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Russian Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Scientific Discussion ◽  
Political Criticism ◽  
Political Views ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Ideas

Introduction. In this article issues, are considered, that are connected with the change of smenovekhovtsy in scientific and political publications of Russian authors in the historical retrospective. The article snows that the initial assessments were greatly defendant on the political environment at the beginning of the XX century when of the articles criticism the entire intellectual class but this tendency gradually evolved in to a more detailed and conscious analysis of the smenovekhovtsy ideas through the lens of the Russian post-revolutionary thought.Materials and Methods. The material of the research is the publications of various authors devoted to the problems of changeover as a philosophical and political trend. To solve the set tasks, the methods of philosophical analysis, interpretation, comparison, generalization are used.Results. The result of the conducted research is the systematization of the history of consideration of the phenomenon of changeover from political criticism to understanding the originality of the originality of the thought of the creators of this movement, including the personality characteristics of N.V. Ustryalov, a description and assessment of his political, scientific, managerial and other activities directly related to the process of the origin and development of the project of change. In general, it can be stated that the philosophical studies of the works and biography of N.V. Ustryalova are devoted to a limited range of topics: an assessment of his activities as a political figure of the white movement, an analysis of his ties with the Bolsheviks, a study of the reasons that served as the basis for the formation of the idea of national bolshevism and a conceptual comparison of this trend with Smenovekhovtsy. Currently, this thematic circle has expanded due to the study of the philosophical and political views of N.V. Ustryalov from the point of view of the influence of Smenovekhovtsy on other trends of Russian social thought in emigration, the originality and patriotism of his works.Discussion and Conclusion. Within the framework of this article, a scientific discussion of well-known experts on the history of changeover is presented and makes it possible to characterize the main ideas of the representatives of this trend. One of the most important issues discussed in the works devoted to the changeover and directly by N.V. Ustryalov, is the question of the originality of smenovekhovtsy as a political and philosophical direction of Russian thought. An important role in the study of N.V. Ustryalov plays the fact of the influence of his ideas on other currents of emigration, Soviet and philosophical thought, understanding of the origins and foundations that served to create smenovekhovtsy and National Bolshevism. Therefore, it can be argued that a deep meaningful analysis of domestic ideas is needed, a study of the history of interpenetration and the influence of the teachings of the smenovekhovtsy on post-revolutionary socio-political and philosophical thought, both inRussia and abroad.Thus, the author was able to form a full-fledged political and philosophical analysis of journalism devoted to the changeover and demonstrate the importance of the ideas of its creators in the history of Russian philosophy.

What Was It Like to Be a Cow?

2014 ◽  
pp. 257-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Fudge
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Animal Welfare Science ◽  
History Of ◽  
Animal Agency

This chapter outlines where the history of animals is now, and suggests where it and the historiographical issues raised by the inclusion of animals in a study of the past might go in the future. The chapter traces shifts in the idea that animals recorded in textual documentation are always and only human representations, looks at the potential for animals to be historical agents and at the questions of animal agency and the possibility of recovering an animal’s point of view in historical work using the findings of animal welfare science. It also engages with the nature of the documents available to historians of animals, and uses some contemporary theoretical work—particularly that of Vinciane Despret—to think about new ways of engaging with the intraspecific and interspecific encounters of animals and humans in history.

Reforms of the German Criminal Code -Stock-taking and Perspectives - also from a Constitutional Point of View

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 421-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Krehl
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
Positive Law ◽  
The Future ◽  
Major Reform ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Challenges

Once a major reform has been concluded, one might easily be tempted to be just glad about what has been achieved and to think that nothing more needs to be done. However, experience in Germany as regards the amendment of criminal law and law of criminal procedure has shown that “after the reform” has, at the same time, always meant “before the reform.” The history of German criminal law is the history of a never-ending reform. The reform has not only consisted in making individual corrections to the existing positive law; time and again, developments in society have posed new challenges to criminal law, which, in the course of time, have resulted in profound changes in its structure. This means that even after a reform has been concluded, there must be willingness to further shape criminal law or, as the case may be, to protect it from changes that might be brought about by new influences. German criminal law, with its more than 130 years of history, and with its almost 180 more or less profound amendments of the law, bears eloquent witness to the profound changes that criminal law can experience, in spite of individual extensive reforms, admittedly in a time of historical upheavals. The present contribution provides an outline of the history of German criminal law through the present time and tries, on the basis of this outline, to develop a forecast of the influence to which criminal law will be exposed in the future.

Synchronization from the point of view of the history of science

1996 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 711-720
Author(s):  
Giampiero Bozzolato
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Future ◽  
Spatial Dimensions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Mode Of Production

Time as defined in the context of individual lives cannot be measured or compared; it therefore needs to be particularized through processes of synchronization and desynchronization. Subjectivity is a notion that supports temporal objectivity only if the mode of production is not based on a concept of exchange but on simple appropriation. Time as identified with the life of the individual remains incommensurable. But the history of growth in the spatial dimensions of trade and the reduction in the amount of time needed to effect commercial exchanges is integral to and consequent on the development of science as a method of forecasting and planning. As trade grows, so does the role of science, to the point where it can be seen as pivotal to a society in which the practice of trade is becoming both universal and frequent. The growth of trade was the cause and the effect of both a need to consolidate and develop an increasingly complex system of forecasting, and the requirement for a science with the capacity to make the future less unpredictable.

scholarly journals THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY AND PHARMACY DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY AND MEDIEVAL GEORGIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (31) ◽  
pp. 784-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ketevan KUPATADZE
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Chemistry Teaching ◽  
History Of Chemistry ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Good Basis ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

This article reviews chemistry and pharmacy development in the early and medieval period of Georgia. We will focus only on key directions. The presented information itself is important in historical point of view; however, we believe, that it plays an equally significant role in the chemistry teaching process as well. Linking different chemical issues to the history of its discovery or development kindles additional interest and disposition in students. Once the mood is created, it never fades away and in the future, a good basis is ensured for comprehensive learning of the topic.

scholarly journals History of Medicine between tradition and modernity

2017 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-245
Author(s):  
Cristian Bârsu
Keyword(s):  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Complex Science ◽  
Young Physicians

History of medicine is an extensive and very complex science. In a simple and classical understanding, it has an informative and associative role. Although it is not easy for students to understand the multiple implications of the history of medicine, its importance becomes more evident during their academic formation. The students must be persuaded particularly about the ethical and cultural values that history of medicine has in their training. Furthermore, history of medicine participates in creating the necessary perspective for shaping the future of medicine in the next decades. This is, perhaps, the most interesting role that the history of medicine should play from the modern point of view of students and young physicians. This paper presents different ways of understanding the roles of the history of medicine regarded from the traditional perspective to the contemporary point of view.

The Future of the Consular Office

1926 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-298
Author(s):  
Pitman B. Potter
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Best Friend ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
The Way

The consulate is an old and a dignified office. Through various vicissitudes the consul has come down to us from the days when, with the dawn of new courage and enterprise, the closing of the Middle Ages saw the revival of international trade and travel in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Hence the future of that office must be of considerable interest from an historical point of view, to say nothing of the interest which all of us who expect to do any foreign traveling ought to feel in the fate of the traveler's best friend. All of this is doubly true in view of the fact that serious changes in the consulate are in point of fact impending, or even taking place before we have had time to notice them.Almost everyone who has even a slight acquaintance with the history of international relations is aware of the way in which the consular office has already lost much of its old standing through the abolition of privileges of extraterritoriality in modern states. Originally, the consul was a judge in many cases between citizens of the state which he represented who were permanently, or even only temporarily, residing abroad. Today in all Western states he has come to exercise judicial powers only with respect to seamen on vessels flying the flag of his appointing state. The result has been a great diminution of his powers and prestige, a change so pronounced and of such long standing that few nowadays appreciate the great dignity and influence of the consular office in its earlier history.

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