scholarly journals Practical Reason

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-148
Author(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Andrey Breus
Keyword(s):  
Practical Reason ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
Analytical Theory ◽  
Practical Philosophy ◽  
Theory Of Action ◽  
Kantian Ethics ◽  
Interpretative Sociology

Paul Ricœur’s essay “Practical Reason” was initially published in 1979, and later became part of the book Du texte à l’action: essais d’herméneutique II (1986), marking Ricœur’s transition from the general problems of the justification of hermeneutics as a legitimate philosophical discipline to the problems of practical philosophy in a broad sense. Relying on the analytical theory of action, the interpretative sociology of M. Weber, and the Hegelian critique of Kantian ethics, Ricœur seeks to restore the Aristotelian concept of phronesis or “practical wisdom” in the context of modern philosophizing. This turns out to be unexpectedly relevant where neither Kant’s deontology nor the Hegelian Sittlichkeit can adequately express the entirety of human practical experience in a world where ideology and alienation have become inevitable components of social life.

scholarly journals Aristotle and Ricœur on Practical Reason

Humanitas ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 151-167
Author(s):  
Gonçalo Marcelo
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Practical Reason ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Practical Philosophy ◽  
Worth Living ◽  
Nichomachean Ethics ◽  
Life Worth Living

This paper analyzes the Aristotelian notion of phronesis, such as it appears in Book VI of the Nichomachean Ethics, detailing what sort of model to grasp practical reason it entails: a practical wisdom. Setting it against the backdrop of a reflection on the prevalent uses and meanings of reason today, and the consequence these views have for a depiction of selfhood and human action, the paper shows how, amid the contemporary revival of Aristotelian practical philosophy, Paul Ricœur updates this phronetic model in Oneself as Another. The paper discusses the implications of such a thick account of selfhood and human action, such as it being a potential key to overcome some difficulties caused by Kantian moral philosophy, while it also calls, with and beyond Ricœur, for a refinement of the phronetic model by taking into account not only its thick intersubjective grounding but also the limits to rationality and the need to take the plurality of life forms that can count as being examples of a ‘life worth living’ (a good life).

Spirit in the Phenomenology of Spirit

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Alznauer
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Practical Reason ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Phenomenology Of Spirit ◽  
History Of ◽  
European Civilization

Chapter 6 shows how and why Hegel’s general project in Phenomenology leads him to develop the kind of social theory we find in Spirit. The author argues that Spirit provides an intrinsically normative history of modernity: one that can simultaneously explain and justify the quintessentially modern commitment to freedom. This account focuses on two key philosophic claims Hegel makes: first, that guidance by practical reason is only possible if one belongs to a certain kind of social life, one characteristic of free nations; and, second, that the history of European civilization can be reconstructed as the progressive resolution of the necessary internal contradictions that afflict free nations.

Contribution of the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and its Advisory Committee to the Effective Participation Rights of National Minorities

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 527-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
Personal View ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
High Commissioner

This article presents a personal view on the contribution of the Framework Convention to the effective participation of persons belonging to national minorities. It demonstrates the participatory rights of national minorities that have been safeguarded drawing on the practical experience of monitoring the Framework Convention between 1999 and 2007 and the recent Commentary on Article 15 of the Framework Convention. It covers participation in economic and social life, in public affairs, in the implementation and monitoring of the Framework Convention itself, participation in inter governmental organisations and within minority communities themselves. The article explores some of the outstanding participatory issues and identifies possible remedies. The conclusions emphasise the past synergies and possible future cooperation between the Advisory Committee and the High Commissioner on National Minorities on this issue.

Die Institutionalisierung des Nichtinstitutionellen

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruben Hartwig
Keyword(s):  
Practical Reason ◽  
Argumentation Theory ◽  
Practical Philosophy ◽  
Legal Philosophy ◽  
Legal Argumentation

The volume examines the relation between law, reason, and discourse in Robert Alexy’s legal philosophy. The examination follows Alexy’s own description of his greater project. In his “Theorie der juristischen Argumentation” [Theory of Legal Argumentation] of 1978, Alexy speaks of the Kantian idea of designing a “Code of Practical Reason”. Today, Alexy is prepared to rest his entire case on the idea of an “Institutionalization of Reason”. The work undertakes the reconstruction of the concept of practical reason underlying this idea. To this end, it examines both the roots that go back to Kant’s practical philosophy, as well as the system represented by Alexys’s legal philosophy, which has grown over a period of more than 40 years. At its center is the thesis of the necessity of a realization of reason through rational practical discourse in law – in short, Alexy’s attempt to institutionalize the non-institutional.

Delusions of Virtue: Kant on Self-Conceit

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Moran
Keyword(s):  
Practical Reason ◽  
Practical Philosophy

AbstractLittle extended attention has been given to Kant’s notion of self-conceit (Eigendünkel), though it appears throughout his theoretical and practical philosophy. Authors who discuss self-conceit often describe it as a kind of imperiousness or arrogance in which the conceited agent seeks to impose selfish principles upon others, or sees others as worthless. I argue that these features of self-conceit are symptoms of a deeper and more thoroughgoing failure. Self-conceit is best described as the tendency to insist upon one’s own theoretical or practical conclusions at any cost, while still wanting to appear – to oneself or to others – as though one is abiding by the constraints of theoretical or practical reason. Self-conceit is thus less centrally the tendency to impose one’s will or inclinations upon others, and more centrally the tendency to reconstruct evidence and rationalize so that one may be convinced of one’s own virtue. While the conceited agent may ultimately impose her judgement upon others, she does so in order to preserve her delusion of virtue.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Forms of Work as for Overcoming Deadaptation Manifestations of the Future Educators in Higher Educational Establishment

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 311-314
Author(s):  
Larisa Zdanevych
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Great Responsibility ◽  
Educational Establishment ◽  
The Future ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
Academic Group ◽  
Pedagogical Science

The author reveals theoretical approaches to the problem, interprets the views of otherresearchers. The problem of higher educational establishment deadaptation is cleared up in thearticle, interpretation of the phenomenon of teenagers’ deadaptation in different spheres ofpsychological-pedagogical science is given. At the modern stage deadaptation is understood as atotality of features and manifestations, which affirm inconsistency of a person’s interaction with hisor her environment. And as deadaptation ruins the results, which were achieved in the process ofadaptation, it is necessary in the first place to found out the essence of this phenomenon. Literatureanalysis and practical experience of work in the pedagogical university allow us to determine somecharacteristics of social status of a student of the first years of study. The analysis of different formsof pedagogical work as foe the overcoming of deadaptation manifestations of the future educatorsin higher educational establishment is done. The author analyses the questionering conducted atthe faculty of pre-school education, which allows to affirm that at the beginning of study studentsovercome educational difficulties and aren’t very thoughtful as for the perspectives of their futureprofessional activity. In this period great responsibility is on the academic group supervisors. Toprevent the manifestations of deadaptation the supervisors should should create psychologicalcomfort in the group for the students – desirable for students state, affirming harmony in the inner,psychological and social life. To avoid the manifestations of deadaptation of the students-freshmenand in order to accelerate their adaptation, we have created the program for special course for theteachers and supervisors of academic groups

scholarly journals Philosophical roots of Quaternary Prevention

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (35) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Daniel Widmer
Keyword(s):  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Interprofessional Collaboration ◽  
Theory Of Action ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Family Doctors ◽  
Constructivist View ◽  
The Family ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Based Medicine ◽  
Quaternary Prevention

This article explores two philosophical dimensions of quaternary prevention since it represents the family doctors’ response to overmedicalization. The first dimension refers to the theory of knowledge and the second to the theory of action. Despite their interconnectedness, they are addressed separately. Firstly, in the theories of knowledge (Epistemology) we argue that the positivism of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM), so useful to select good practices, should be balanced against critical vision of the use of EBM coupled with a constructivist view through the narrative-based medicine. Secondly, in the theory of action (Ethics) we argue that the non-maleficence principle (primum non nocere) needs to be balanced by the beneficence principle. The latter is the primary medical obligation and doctors should cultivate this practical wisdom. Finally, some aspects of P4’s future challenges are discussed such as health inequalities, interprofessional collaboration, responsibility, managerialism, and the integrative medicine, where a philosophical position should be considered.

scholarly journals Educating scientific worldview in the young people at the public libraries

2019 ◽  
pp. 52-59
Author(s):  
I. A. Pavlichenko
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
The Public ◽  
Engineering Sciences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scientific Worldview

Education of the scientific worldview within the context of national and international regulatory documents is discussed. Based on the study of theoretical concepts and practical experience, the author argues that public libraries contribute to educating and developing scientific worldview in the young people. The need for organizational instruments to build science literacy essential due to conceptual, political, economical, educational transformations in the social life, is substantiated. The author suggests to introduce modern formats, e. g. lectures, master classes, visual presentations, conferences and workshops in technics, the natural and engineering sciences. The libraries, museums, academic and educational institutions have to partner to excite young population's interest toward scientific knowledge to make them taking informed decision when choosing a profession.

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