scholarly journals Heidegger and Scripture: The Calling of Thinking in Our Abandonment

Open Theology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Costello
Keyword(s):  
Human Existence ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Situation ◽  
Essential Insight ◽  
Divine Sign

AbstractThis paper seeks to perform an interdisciplinary reading of some scriptural passages in light of Heidegger‘s phenomenology generally and his discussion of thinking in particular. The paper treats one passage from Isaiah and two from the Gospels of Luke and John that highlight the human situation of signification (or meaning) and abandonment (or alienation). Using Heidegger‘s description of experience, which roots the logic and unfolding of meaning as expressing the structure of human existence, the paper proposes that the movement toward the divine that each of the scriptural passages embodies (albeit each in its own unique situation) moves us toward an essential insight--namely that the human being exists as a divine sign of care. As such a sign, humans exist not just as the reception of the calling but also as the very calling of thinking itself.

scholarly journals Pytanie o sens życia

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-133
Author(s):  
Karol Bujnowski
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Worth Living ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

Nowadays more often people are asking about the meaning of life. It is a fundamental question that every human being faces. Man is asking whether life is worth living, what to do to make our life meaningful?A human being, among many needs, has the need for discovering the sense of life, the need comes from the very core of human existence as placed in time and connected with the phenomenon of passing away. Discovering the sense of life leads to the experience of happiness, joy, and to inner life lived much more to the full. Showing the meaning of life and helping to find that meaning are very important functions of religion. Due to it, a man is able to live one’s life, ambitions, goals, joyful moments as well as his or her suffering in the light of deeper understanding. Religion is the one that can often bring the richest and deepest answers to the question of the two meanings: the meaning of life and the world.

scholarly journals What is the Meaning of Immanuel Kant’s Notion of the Human Being as the Ultimate End of Nature?

Problemos ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 19-30
Author(s):  
Danutė Bacevičiūtė
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Vulnerability ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Lisbon Earthquake ◽  
Ecological Problems ◽  
Natural Element ◽  
Ethical Vision ◽  
Insight Into

The article explores Kant’s notion of the human being as the ultimate end of nature, presenting an ethical interpretation of this notion. The author of this article believes that the analysis of Kant’s assumptions will allow a deeper understanding of our own hermeneutical situation, in which ecological problems force us to rethink our relationship with nature and the meaning of human existence. Analyzing Kant’s early texts on Lisbon earthquake and his reflection on the sublime in the Critique of Judgement, the author asks how the experience of an uncontrolled natural element complements Kant’s ethical vision of nature’s teleology. Emphasizing the importance of insight into human vulnerability for the implementation of moral purpose in nature, the article outlines guidelines for interpretation that allow the relevance of Kant’s position in the context of contemporary environmental ethics.

Conclusion

Words Fail ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colby Dickinson
Keyword(s):  
Focal Point ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Spiritual Dimension ◽  
The One

The conclusion is an alternate, and somewhat more original, account of the book’s aims—more “readable” in many ways and synthetic in its incorporation of others’ valuable insights. There would be no conclusion such as the one presented here without the “hard work” of the first three chapters. Its focal point is accordingly to be found in the development of a “material spirituality” lodged within the potentiality of the human being—something that is never severed from the possibility of encounter with an O/other, even if such an encounter continuously fails to be recorded in words—examined here through the concrete dynamics found in the practices of writing and publishing. Though the conclusion could certainly “stand alone” from the rest of the work, it achieves its “fuller” sense in light of what came before it, and, in this sense, points beyond the merely theoretical and toward that creative and spiritual dimension of human existence we have been pining for all along, which pushes the boundaries of both philosophy and theology more than just a little bit, and which may only be graspable through the failures of our representations.

A closer look into alterity: eccentricity

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Stanghellini
Keyword(s):  
Human Existence ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Subjectivity

This chapter argues that at the heart of alterity lies a double paradox. First, alterity speaks of eccentricity, of the non-coincidence of the Self with itself. Most of the philosophical anthropologies of the last hundred years emphasize that the phenomenon of eccentricity is indigenous to human existence, and characterize Man as an eccentric being. Fundamental to the understanding of human subjectivity is clarifying the ways self-awareness is structured as an experience inextricably entangled with an experience of a basic otherness. To be a human being is to be in juxtaposition with, and sometimes to feel in opposition to, a set of given involuntary dispositions in front of which we need to voluntarily take a position.

Pedagogika wobec problematyczności bytu ludzkiego. O konfliktach w życiu człowieka

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (2 (252)) ◽  
pp. 70-85
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Rumianowska
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Existential Philosophy ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The World ◽  
Complex Mechanisms

The purpose of the article is to outline the problem of widely understood conflicts in human life from the perspective of existential philosophy. Without questioning the importance of psychological research on complex mechanisms underlying conflicts, the author points to the issue of the problematic nature of human existence, the category of freedom, the problem of the authenticity of being and the sense of meaning. In the second part of the paper, the essence of educational process in the context of experiencing difficulties and conflicting situations by human beings has been introduced. The necessity of taking into account the problem of being oneself and constituting a human being in relation to himself, the world and others has been presented.

Hitler the Anti-Nihilist? Statehood, Leadership, and Political Space in Heidegger’s Seminar of 1933-34

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-243
Author(s):  
Richard Polt
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Qualitative Difference ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Political Space ◽  
Human Finitude

This essay considers Heidegger’s 1933–34 seminar ‘On the Essence and Concept of Nature, History, and State’ as an attempt to develop an anti-nihilist political philosophy based on human finitude and qualitative difference. I examine Heidegger’s views on the relation between people and state, the role of a leader, and the nature of political space. Heidegger distinguishes human existence from the natural world and argues that a people can attain its full, distinctively human Being only through its state, which is to be ruled absolutely by the soaring will of a born leader. He also offers an account of political space that distinguishes between the local homeland and the ‘interaction’ that connects it to a broader territory. I relate these ideas to some other texts by Heidegger and sketch an Arendtian critique of them.

Yu-Rock in the 1980s: Between Urban and Rural

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 815-832 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Pogačar
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Modes Of Representation

Trivial though they may seem, popular culture and mass media actually present an important part of our quotidian and play significant roles in defining dimensions of our environments—past and present, internal as well as external. Mediatized images of bygone times and faraway places invade and transfix the physical geographies of the living environment; invade and transfix, extremely subtly, symbolic geographies of every single human being. Despite the fictitious nature and perceived triviality of cinema, literature and music, they feature as modes of representation and communication for a wide array of topics and issues that present an important part of human existence. Therefore, archaeology of popular culture might be a useful complement to other past-reconstructing practices.

scholarly journals Flamenco Dance as a Means of Expressing Emotions and Developing Emotional Intelligence

ICONI ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 38-45
Author(s):  
Anastasia L. Kucherenko ◽  
◽  
Nina A. Konopleva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Artistic Creativity ◽  
Emotional Tension ◽  
Wilhelm Reich ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Motivating Factor ◽  
Number Of Authors

The article examines the fl amenco dance as a means of expression of the dancer’s emotions and development of emotional intellect. It has been noted that up to the present time in scholarship there has not been any unifi ed approach towards the essence of the concept of “emotion” and the characterization of emotional intellect. The authors of the article note that emotions demonstrate the experience of various types of situations by the subject, evaluation of their meaning, as well as transformations and regulations of behavior in consideration of the achieved evaluation. The article substantiates the meaning of human existence in the context of the affective-emotional nature of individuals and people’s belonging to the category of emotional-social beings. It is shown that emotions serve not only as an organizing and motivating factor of behavior, but also as a factor of personalized development and relationship with the surrounding world. Analysis is made of the views on emotions of a number of authors, including Wilhelm Reich, who presumed that chronic tension in the human being’s organism negatively affects his energetic fi eld, at the basis of which lie strong emotions, not allowing him to experience these emotions and distorting the expression of feelings. The human being can free himself of such energy blocks only after having fully experienced these emotions. In its turn, the experience of these emotions and, consequently, their discharge may be carried out by means of art and artistic creativity. Hereinafter the fl amenco dance is examined as a means not only of remittal of the dancer’s and the audience’s psycho-emotional tension, but also the development of emotional intellect.

scholarly journals ISLAM DAN KONSERVASI SUMBER DAYA ALAM

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Eko Budi Minarno
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Past ◽  
Conservation Of Natural Resources ◽  
The Creation

<p class="Bodytext5">Among the various crises, worrying enough is the start of the scarcity of some Natural Resources (SDA), especially from unrecoverable groups such as petroleum, metals and minerals. And by often ignoring the needs of other living beings as well as the needs of future generations. If then comes a crisis with respect to this SDA, which is affected negatively human finally. SDA is needed by humans in the past, present and future. The threat to the existence and sustainability of natural resources is just the same as the threat to human existence and survival. The conservation of natural resources, which is essentially the management of natural resources, is an absolute must and is the main responsibility of human being as the Caliph of this earth. There are three main tasks for human beings related to the conservation of natural resources including al Intifa '(nurture and utilize), al I'tibar (think, be grateful, explore the secrets of nature), and al Islah (preserve and deliberate sustainability for the benefit of people, and the creation of harmony of life nature of Allah's creation.</p><p> </p><p>Di antara berbagai krisis, yang cukup mengkhawatirkan adalah mulai terjadinya kelangkaan beberapa Sumber Daya Alam (SDA) terutama dari kelompok yang tidak terpulihkan seperti minyak bumi, logam, dan min­eral. Dan dengan sering mengabaikan kebutuhan makhluk hidup yang lain maupun kebutuhan generasi yang akan datang. Kalau kemudian muncul krisis sehubungan dengan SDA ini, yang terkena darnpak negatif akhirnya manusia juga. SDA sangat dibutuhkan oleh manusia dimasa lalu, sekarang dan yang akan datang. Ancaman terhadap keberadaan dan kelangsungan SDA sama saja artinya dengan ancaman terhadap keberadaan dan kelangsungan hidup manusia. Konservasi SDA yang berintikan pengelolaan SDA, adalah suatu hal yang mutlak harus dilaksanakan dan menjadi tanggung jawab utama manusia sebagai khalifah di bumi ini. Ada tiga tugas utama bagi manusia berkaitan dengan koservasi SDA meliputi al Intifa’ (memelihara dan mendayagunakan), al I’tibar (memikirkan, mensyukuri, menggali rahasia alam), dan al Islah (memelihara dan sengaja kelestarian untuk kemslahatan umat, serta terciptanya harmoni kehidupan alam ciptaan Allah SWT.</p><p> </p>

scholarly journals Jesus: Sy belewing en verwerking van sy emosies

1998 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-77
Author(s):  
D. A. Pauw
Keyword(s):  
Role Model ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Human Being

Jesus: How He experiences emotions and deals with them Emotions are experienced by every human being. Decisions and actions are inevitably influenced by these emotions. Despite possible perceptions about Jesus, He became a human amongst fellow men, experiencing and dealing with emotions in an exemplary way. These emotions, as depicted by Matthew are dealt with. His dismay, despondency and intense frustration; his anger which is repeatedly and sharply vented, as well as his love and compassion which are displayed by his words, and healings. In dealing with his intensely experienced emotions Jesus not only demonstrates that these emotions are inevitably part of human existence, but becomes the time role model for the believer regarding his handling of emotions.

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