scholarly journals ASCENSÃO E DECADÊNCIA DA EPISTEMOLOGIA DIVINA

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (123) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Evaldo Sampaio
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Death Of God ◽  
Contemporary Debate ◽  
Epistemological Issue ◽  
Do So ◽  
Conceptual Resources

Trata-se de examinar a parábola da Morte de Deus enquanto uma crítica do conhecimento. Seguindo-se sua formulação na filosofia de Friedrich Nietzsche, pretende-se identificar a constituição do que se designa por epistemologia divina, sua ascensão e agora declarado declínio. Para tanto, caracteriza-se a singularidade do tipo de abordagem que Nietzsche concede à questão e se discute sua probidade. Entende-se que tal investigação pode fornecer recursos conceituais para debates contemporâneos nos quais, como se sugere, ocultam-se estruturas morais e cognitivas que reforçam aquilo que se propõem a abandonar.Abstract: The article examines the parable of the Death of God as an epistemological issue. In order to achieve this purpose, the work tries to identify in Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy the constitution of what could be called divine epistemology, its rise and current decline. To do so, the singularity of Nietzsche’s approach to the issue is characterized and its consistence discussed. It is understood that such investigation can supply conceptual resources for a contemporary debate in which, as suggested, cognitive and moral structures are hidden that reinforce what is to be abandoned.

The Universe Is on Our Side

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Ledewitz
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Process Philosophy ◽  
Bernard Lonergan ◽  
Death Of God ◽  
Martin Luther King ◽  
The Universe

There has been a breakdown in American public life that no election can fix. Americans cannot even converse about politics. All the usual explanations for our condition have failed to make things better. Bruce Ledewitz shows that America is living with the consequences of the Death of God, which Friedrich Nietzsche knew would be momentous and irreversible. God was this culture’s story of the meaning of our lives. Even atheists had substitutes for God, like inevitable progress. Now we have no story and do not even think about the nature of reality. That is why we are angry and despairing. America’s future requires that we begin a new story by each of us asking a question posed by theologian Bernard Lonergan: Is the universe on our side? When we commit to live honestly and fully by our answer to that question, even if our immediate answer is no, America will begin to heal. Beyond that, pondering the question of the universe will allow us to see that there is more to the universe than blind forces and dead matter. Guided by the naturalism of Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy, and the historical faith of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we can learn to trust that the universe bends toward justice and our welfare. That conclusion will complete our healing and restore faith in American public life. We can live without God, but not without thinking about holiness in the universe.

scholarly journals In the Margins of One Health: Interspecies Solidarity, Care, and Inequality

2022 ◽  
pp. 52-70
Author(s):  
Laura Murray
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
One Health ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Not Given ◽  
The West ◽  
Contemporary Debate ◽  
Political Failure ◽  
Do So

This article is an attempt to frontally pose a question queer theory gravitates around, yet never effectively spells out: what is a togetherness of those who have nothing in common but their desire to undo group ties? First, I consider the take-up of Lacan’s ethical experiment in Seminar VII, the Ethics of Psychoanalysis by queer theorists. I contend that queer theory has not given Lacan’s interpretation of Antigone its full import, which demands its placement in the philosophical tradition of the West brought to its highest fruition in Kant. I further contend, however, that to do so does not quite offer a solution to the queer problem, for, as contemporary debate on the political import of Antigone shows, the purity of her desire does not immediately translate into a sustainable politics. Lacan himself was faced with the problem of translating his ethics into a politics after his "excommunication" from the psychoanalytic establishment, and came to falter before it. Nevertheless, Lacan’s efforts allow us to pose the undoubtedly queer question of how to group together those whose only attribute is to undo group ties. Responding to the unanswerable demands of a theory and a practice that allows us to answer that question, I propose the figure of the smoker’s communism, as elaborated upon by Mladen Dolar, as a preliminary queer suggestion as to how we might go about mitigating the gap between Lacan’s ethical brilliance and his admitted political failure..

Policy gaps to persist on regional migration in Horn

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Seasonal Migration ◽  
Regional Economies ◽  
Horn Of Africa ◽  
Regional Migration ◽  
Contemporary Debate ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Developmental Progress ◽  
Developed World ◽  
Do So

Subject Population movement trends in the Horn of Africa. Significance The Horn of Africa has for decades been affected by high levels of population displacement caused by conflict, poverty and repressive governments. However, the current focus on those attempting informal passage to Europe, of whom Eritreans are the second-largest number after Syrians, overlooks that more than 50% of regional people that migrate do so within the Horn itself. The contemporary debate also overlooks the fact that mobility in the Horn has long been central to regional economies. Impacts With the continent's focus on mega infrastructure projects, including dams, the number of IDPs can be expected to increase. However, where these projects threaten agro-pastoralist livelihoods, long-term forms of seasonal migration could decrease. Skilled migrants will remain the main source of emigration to developed-world destinations, hurting developmental progress.

scholarly journals The Epistemological Question of the Applicability of Mathematics

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Cantù
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
Real Numbers ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Contemporary Debate ◽  
Indispensability Arguments ◽  
Applicability Of Mathematics ◽  
Historical Investigation ◽  
Epistemological Issue ◽  
Definition Of

The question of the applicability of mathematics is an epistemological issue that was explicitly raised by Kant, and which has played different roles in the works of neo-Kantian philosophers, before becoming an essential issue in early analytic philosophy. This paper will first distinguish three main issues that are related to the application of mathematics: (1) indispensability arguments that are aimed at justifying mathematics itself; (2) philosophical justifications of the successful application of mathematics to scientific theories; and (3) discussions on the application of real numbers to the measurement of physical magnitudes. A refinement of this tripartition is suggested and supported by a historical investigation of the differences between Kant’s position on the problem, several neo-Kantian perspectives (Helmholtz and Cassirer in particular, but also Otto Hölder), early analytic philosophy (Frege), and late 19th century mathematicians (Grassmann, Dedekind, Hankel, and Bettazzi). Finally, the debate on the cogency of an application constraint in the definition of real numbers is discussed in relation to a contemporary debate in neo-logicism (Hale, Wright and some criticism by Batitksy), in order to suggest a comparison not only with Frege’s original positions, but also with the ideas of several neo-Kantian scholars, including Hölder, Cassirer, and Helmholtz.

scholarly journals Kristendommens aktualitet som viljen til sandhed

2011 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-151
Author(s):  
Mads Peter Karlsen
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Gospel Of John ◽  
Death Of God ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Critique Of Ideology

This article discusses the question of the influence and potential of Christianity in contemporary secularized culture. I take as my starting point the twofold thesis that ‘God is dead’ and ‘Christianity survived the death of God’. In section 1 and 2 I demonstrate how Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault have elaborated this thesis in a somewhat similar manner by criticising the ideological workings of what in the words of Nietzsche could be called the Christian ‘will to truth’. In section 3 I argue that Slavoj Žižek’s recent engagement with theology allow for another reading of the Christian truth-seeking, which in contrast brings out a potential for a critique of ideology. The difference between these two readings can be summarized as two interpretations of the famous words in The Gospel of John, “you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” Thus, Christianity does not only entail the suppressive danger of an obligation to tell the truth about oneself at any prize, it also offers the liberating prospective in being true to the manifestation of the death of God on the cross.

scholarly journals A Naturalistic Perspective on Knowledge How: Grasping Truths in a Practical Way

Philosophies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathrine V. Felix ◽  
Andreas Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Knowing How ◽  
Propositional Truth ◽  
Epistemological Issue ◽  
Do So

For quite some time, cognitive science has offered philosophy an opportunity to address central problems with an arsenal of relevant theories and empirical data. However, even among those naturalistically inclined, it has been hard to find a universally accepted way to do so. In this article, we offer a case study of how cognitive-science input can elucidate an epistemological issue that has caused extensive debate. We explore Jason Stanley’s idea of the practical grasp of a propositional truth and present naturalistic arguments against his reductive approach to knowledge. We argue that a plausible interpretation of cognitive-science input concerning knowledge—even if one accepts that knowledge how is partly propositional—must involve an element of knowing how to act correctly upon the proposition; and this element of knowing how to act correctly cannot itself be propositional.

Hegel's Complete Views on Crime and Punishment

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 525-544
Author(s):  
ANDREW KOMASINSKI
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Ethical Life ◽  
Contemporary Debate ◽  
Dialectical Structure ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
Philosophy Of Right ◽  
Do So

AbstractIn this article, I argue that Hegel's complete and mature view of crime and punishment is more robust than many interpretations of theUnrechtpassage in the ‘Abstract Right’ section of Hegel'sElements of the Philosophy of Rightsuggest. First, I explain the value of revisiting the interpretation of Hegel as a simple retributionist in the contemporary debate. Then, I look at Hegel's treatment of crime and punishment in the section on abstract right to show the role of punishment in Hegel's account. Next, I argue that this needs to be situated in Hegel's broader social philosophy and that we can accomplish this by looking at how theUnrechtpassage fits in theElements of the Philosophy of Right’s dialectical structure. I do so by building on the sections on civil society and state in the part ofElements of the Philosophy of Rightdealing with ethical life(Sittlichkeit), which include considerations of prevention and rehabilitation. I contend that this analysis reveals an account of punishment as more complicated than simple retribution.

scholarly journals “Wie Hast Du’s Mit der Religion?” Religionstheorie Und -Kritik Nach Stirner

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (41) ◽  
pp. 143-164
Author(s):  
Frank Hansel ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
The Other ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Death Of God ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Max Stirner ◽  
The Veil ◽  
The One

Well before Friedrich Nietzsche had Max Stirner with great Gestus shouted (spelled) out the death of God and pulled away the veil of the realm of spirits. Religion critique after Stirner, which follows a clarified Enlightenment, can thereafter for all intents and purposes be only of two sorts: On the one hand, to explain how mankind (has) created its’ Religion and its’ Gods: Gunnar Heinsohn settles this. And on the other hand to point out: Which functional equivalents are themselves found as (religious) beliefs of humankind - freely adapted from Feuerbach: The truth of Religion is the need for it. The free self after Stirner, that knows rationally of the non-existence of God, chooses for itself its’ own respective God, or, it being strong enough, can leave it also as is.

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