scholarly journals BENTO XVI E O ILUMINISMO

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (124) ◽  
pp. 279
Author(s):  
Juvenal Savian Filho
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Academic Teaching ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Argumentative Strategy ◽  
Do So

Trata-se, neste artigo, de investigar a análise filosófica do Iluminismo feita por Bento XVI. Para tanto, tomar-se-ão como base textos redigidos não apenas em seu pontificado, mas também no período de seu magistério anterior. Põe-se em destaque a estratégia argumentativa do pontífice ao criticar a pretensa autolimitação da razão imposta por ela mesma em algumas formas hegemônicas do pensamento contemporâneo. A partir daí, extraem-se conclusões em duas frentes: as interpelações que a tradição cristã pode fazer à herança iluminista e, na contrapartida, as interpelações que a herança iluminista também pode fazer aos continuadores do anúncio cristão.Abstract: This paper aims to investigate Benedict XVI’s philosophical analysis of the Enlightenment. To do so, some texts written during his pontificate and previous academic teaching will serve as a basis. The emphasis is laid on the argumentative strategy employed by the pope to criticize the self-imposed limitation of reason observed in hegemonic forms of contemporary thought. A two-fold conclusion can be drawn from there: what interpellations can the Christian tradition make to the enlightenment heritage and, inversely, what interpellations can the enlightenment heritage make to the followers of the Christian faith.

Doubts about Doubt: Honest to God Forty Years On

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-195
Author(s):  
N. T. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Real Problem ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Church Life ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Alternative Proposal ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTHonest to God, published in 1963, was one of the most public religious bestsellers of the twentieth century. Because it was written by an Anglican bishop it was especially controversial. Yet there are questions that remain and this article highlights seven such questions which draw attention to weaknesses in the book. An alternative proposal is offered here. Robinson had his finger on a real problem in postwar British church life and, in a measure, theology. I believe the problem was mostly or largely caused not by the New Testament and historic Christianity itself, but by the way in which the post-Enlightenment world had assimilated and re-expressed the Christian faith. What Robinson referred to when speaking of supraor supernaturalism belonged within an essentially Deist or Epicurean framework, and he was struggling with the unwelcome consequences of people being unable to relate to their absentee landlord, and simultaneously puzzling over the fact that some people did not find this a problem. The huge popularity of his book shows that he struck a chord with a great many people. The tragedy of Honest to God, as I perceive it, is that Robinson did not see that what he was rejecting was a form of supernaturalism pressed upon Christianity by the Enlightenment; that he did not therefore go looking for help in finding other ways of holding together what the classic Christian tradition has claimed about God.

Saving the Self: Between the Enlightenment and the Deluge

2000 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 657-660
Author(s):  
Mary Gergen
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Enlightenment

Maximus

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Byers
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Action ◽  
American Art ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Self ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
The One

This concluding chapter charts the continuing significance of the early postwar moment in Olson’s later work, particularly The Maximus Poems. The philosophical and political concerns of the American avant-garde between 1946 and 1951 play out across The Maximus Poems just as they inform later American art practices. The search of the early postwar American independent left for a source of political action rooted in the embodied individual is seen, on the one hand, to have been personified in the figure of Maximus. At the same time, Maximus’s radical ‘practice of the self’ charts a sophisticated alternative to the Enlightenment humanist subject widely critiqued in the United States in the immediate postwar period.

scholarly journals Reconciling Practical Knowledge with Self-Deception

Mind ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 128 (512) ◽  
pp. 1205-1225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Marcus
Keyword(s):  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Intentional Action ◽  
The Self ◽  
Correct Description ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Do So

Abstract Is it impossible for a person to do something intentionally without knowing that she is doing it? The phenomenon of self-deceived agency might seem to show otherwise. Here the agent is not (at least in a straightforward sense) lying, yet disavows a correct description of her intentional action. This disavowal might seem expressive of ignorance. However, I show that the self-deceived agent does know what she's doing. I argue that we should understand the factors that explain self-deception as masking rather than negating the practical knowledge characteristic of intentional action. This masking takes roughly the following form: when we are deceiving ourselves about what we are intentionally doing, we don't think about our action because it's painful to do so.

scholarly journals Is Hume Attempting to Introduce a New, Pragmatic Conception of a Contradiction in his Treatise?

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 315
Author(s):  
Alan Kenneth Schwerin
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Philosophy ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
The Self ◽  
Bundle Theory ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Critical Exploration

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2016v20n3p315Hume’s Treatise, with its celebrated bundle theory of the self, is a significant contribution to the embryonic Newtonian experimental philosophy of the enlightenment. But the theory is inadequate as it stands, as the appendix to the Treatise makes clear. For this account of the self, apparently, rests on contradictory principles — propositions, fortunately, that can be reconciled, according to Hume. My paper is a critical exploration of Hume’s argument for this intriguing suggestion.

scholarly journals We Believe: Group Belief and the Liturgical use of Creeds

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Cockayne
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Joint Commitment ◽  
Corporate Worship ◽  
Group Belief ◽  
The Church

The recitation of creeds in corporate worship is widespread in the Christian tradition. Intuitively, the use of creeds captures the belief not only of the individuals reciting it, but of the Church as a whole. This paper seeks to provide a philosophical analysis of the meaning of the words, ‘We believe…’, in the context of the liturgical recitation of the Creed. Drawing from recent work in group ontology, I explore three recent accounts of group belief (summative accounts, joint commitment accounts, and functionalist accounts) and consider the potential of applying these to the group belief contained in the Creed.

Revelation and The Political

2021 ◽  
pp. 551-567
Author(s):  
Matthew John Paul Tan
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Modus Operandi ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Third ◽  
Heaven And Earth ◽  
Mode A ◽  
Do So

This chapter will explore the varieties of political thought informed by divine revelation as understood in the Christian tradition. It will do so with reference to the metaphysical assumptions of what happens when transcendence meets history, and accordingly divide the inquiry into three archetypes. The first are the monists, for whom transcendence collapses into the temporal. The second are the dialecticians, for whom the uncrossable distinction between heaven and earth results in a struggle between the two. The third are the participationists, for whom the transcendent and the historical can harmoniously cohere through a ‘mediating third’ plane. For each mode, a brief sketch will be given of the writings of exemplary thinkers, and of the promises and pitfalls. In highlighting this variety, the aim of charting this map is to nuance the discussion currently taking place concerning the motivations and modus operandi of religiously informed political actors.

Historical Roots of Existentialism

2020 ◽  
pp. 56-71
Author(s):  
Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
Keyword(s):  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Human Freedom ◽  
The Self ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Context Features ◽  
Freedom And Responsibility

This chapter shows the inheritance by existentialism of ideas from the philosophical tradition. Socrates serves for Kierkegaard and Marcel as a model for the authentic practice of philosophy and for initiating interior reflection of the self. Sartre, Beauvoir, and Camus debated Stoicism’s understanding of freedom from external circumstances. Husserl and Heidegger interpreted Augustine’s conception of time, while Heidegger along with Beauvoir adapted, in a secular context, features of his conception of religious conversion. Augustine, Shakespeare, and Montaigne explored inner reflection and the nature of the self which came to be critically echoed in existentialist conceptions. The Enlightenment generated a philosophy of human freedom, defending the rational autonomy of the individual. Critical engagement of these ideas is shown to have shaped existentialist conceptions of authenticity, subjectivity, inwardness, freedom, and responsibility.

On What Matters/Not

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-24
Author(s):  
Eva Feder Kittay
Keyword(s):  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
The Self ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Relational Model ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Adequate Care ◽  
What Matters

Intertwining philosophical analysis with personal narrative on parenting a cognitively disabled child, this chapter provides an argument about the moral value of disabled individuals. Through an intimate case study of the author’s daughter Sesha, it argues that the flourishing of disabled persons should be assessed on the basis of those individuals’ own capacities and joys. It challenges the traditional philosophical emphasis on rationality as the defining faculty of human personhood, and indicates how concepts of justice, humanity, and dignity must be refashioned in light of what disability reveals about dependency, autonomy, and the desire for normalcy. Contra views that posit intrinsic rational capacities as central to personhood, this chapter defends a relational model of the self. From this it argues that cognitively disabled individuals require adequate care and resources to realize their capacities, which demands that communities recognize such individuals as worthy of moral parity.

scholarly journals The Migrant Metaphor Within Radical Italian Thought

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-146
Author(s):  
Ingrid M. Hoofd
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
Acting Out ◽  
New World Order ◽  
The West ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Eu Policies ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Do So

NoBorder activisms and Italian philosophies are highly complicit in the ongoing fortification of the EU and the West, and of the West’s subsequent global hegemonic spread through Eurocentric discourses and technologies. I will show that many radical Italian writings, through a metaphorisation of the ‘migrant’ or ‘refugee’, supplement the alter-globalisation movement in effectively reproducing the Eurocentric fantasy of the Enlightenment subject as the ultimate centre for social change, just as much as those despised EU policies do. I will do so by pointing out that this migrant metaphor functions primarily as a tool to make possible the claim for some sort of hegemonic ‘unification of struggles’ in ‘the new world order’ by these radical Italian thinkers. They will be shown to do so through a doubly romanticising move, leading to both the reproduction of the migrant or refugee as a heroic figure and the acting out of an unfinishable desire for communal self-identification with the migrant, through claims that s/he embodies the transcendental fantasy of the total subsumption of boundaries.

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