scholarly journals HASSAN HANAFI: NEOMODERNISM AS LIBERATION THEOLOGY

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-98
Author(s):  
D. V. Mukhetdinov
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Basic Assumptions ◽  
Philosophy Professor ◽  
Weak Points ◽  
Philosophical Project

The article is devoted to Hassan Hanafi(born 1935), a Philosophy professor in Cairo University, an Egyptian intellectual and one of the key members of the renovationist movement in Islam. Considering Hanafi’s life serves to trace his formation as a thinker. The main componentsHanafi ’s philosophical project are underlined, as well as its background and main sources. It is demostrated that this project might be categorised as a kind of liberation theology. Especially the emphasis is given to such concept of this Egyptian intellectual as ‘occidentalism’. The author’s critical analysis of occidentalist program goes to show its weak points and the ambiguity of its basic assumptions. In conclusion the author summarises three primary aspects of Hanafi’s theoretic position which characterize its unique place in the context of Islamic neomodernism.

Deciphering Hume

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 202-215
Author(s):  
Evgeniy N. Blinov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Radical Empiricism ◽  
Treatise Of Human Nature ◽  
Gradual Shift ◽  
Human Understanding ◽  
Philosophical Project

The present article analyzes an ambitious attempt to revisit and reevaluate Hume’s metaphysical project in the early 21th century, proposed by Vadim Vasilyev. His claim is to demonstrate that the problems raised by the author of Treatise of Human Nature and Enquiry concerning Human Understanding are far from being completely resolved and could provide us some valuable hints into the problems of contemporary analytical metaphysics. Against a widespread consensus that the evolution in Hume’s had been insignificant, Vasilyev maintains that his philosophical project underwent crucial transformations. He provides evidence of a gradual shift from a radical empiricism to a moderate rationalism by re-examining some classical problems of Hume’s studies and providing a critical analysis of the problems of causality and personal identity. This review provides some arguments for and against Vasilyev’s claims.

scholarly journals Review of: Olga Zhukova, An essay on Russian culture: philosophy of history, literature and art. Moscow: “Soglasie” Publisher house, 2019. 588 pages. Hardcover: ISBN 978-5-907038-50-9, € 17

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexei Alexeevich Kara-Murza
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Study ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
Philosophical Project ◽  
New Research

AbstractThis book review discusses the new research of the Russian philosopher and cultural study scholar Olga A. Zhukova. What is special about the Russian intellectual movement Russian Europeanism? Zhukova reconstructs the ideas of Russian Europeanism, and she evaluates the approaches of Russian thinkers to national cultural history. The author manages to introduce the reader to current discussions about the specifics of the Russian cultural and philosophical “project” and to propose new approaches for the interpretation of the intellectual and literary heritage of Russia. In addition to offering a critical analysis of Zhukova’s volume, the book review presents this thought provoking monograph as a great piece of scholarly work.

Terminal and Instrumental? An Inquiry into Rokeach's Value Survey

1978 ◽  
Vol 42 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1147-1154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Heath ◽  
Daniel S. Fogel
Keyword(s):  
Construct Validity ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Value System ◽  
Basic Assumptions ◽  
A Value

Because Rokeach's theory of values and his Value Survey are so influential on other researchers, critical analysis of the instrument and its basic assumptions are warranted. Two studies were conducted to determine whether empirical rationale exists for the division of value systems into two categories, terminal and instrumental. Drawn from analysis by Rokeach and from two studies, evidence suggests that the two categories lack construct validity. Instead, a value system based on value orientations is suggested.

scholarly journals Beyond Liberal Democracy: Diverse Educational Relations

Paideusis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-91
Author(s):  
Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Classical Liberalism ◽  
Basic Assumptions

This essay offers a critical analysis of Locke's and Rousseau's basic assumptions upon which classical liberalism is built: rationalism, universalism, and individualism. I then describe an alternative starting place for democracy with a transactional view of individuals-in-relation-to-others. I then offer specific educational examples to help me sketch two themes that illustrate problems with classical liberalism and how a transactional democracy-always-in-the-making can help to solve these problems.

scholarly journals Uma análise crítica da aplicação do método Janela do Cliente na avaliação da qualidade do Restaurante Universitário

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. e48
Author(s):  
Angelica Peripolli ◽  
Bruna Gregory Palm ◽  
Caroline Pafiadache da Silva Piekala ◽  
Laís Helen Loose ◽  
Rafael Piaia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Quality Evaluation ◽  
Administrative Staff ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Window Method ◽  
Degree Of Satisfaction ◽  
Weak Points ◽  
The University ◽  
Level Of Importance ◽  
Santa Maria

The Costumer Window method has the main function to measure the level of importance and the degree of satisfaction with the products or services provided by the company, being a tool able to identify the weak points and powers of the company. The purpose of this paper is to present a critical analysis of the application of the method the client window in quality evaluation of University Restaurant, from Federal University of Santa Maria – RS (UFSM). The research involved 1,855 users, including students, teachers and administrative staff. The results showed that in the three units of the University Restaurant, most of the items evaluated is in Quadrant A of the Costumer Window, called "competitive force", ie, most of the items is important to the user and are attended of satisfactorily by restaurants. However, some items are in Quadrant D of the Costumer Window, called "competitive vulnerability", these items are important to the user but they are not being attended adequately. The results of this survey were forwarded to the administration of University Restaurant, which can generate subsides for the formulation of proposals to improvements (changes or adaptations) in the assessed attributes.

scholarly journals Lost in the aftermath

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debbie Lisle ◽  
Heather L Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Core Theme ◽  
Basic Assumptions ◽  
Comprehensive Diagnosis ◽  
Normative Argument ◽  
Greek Island

What happens when violence disappears? What is left in the backwash of crisis? Who attends to the emotional, material and ideational detritus of closing borders? Like many, we are working in the aftermath of the recent and deadly intensification of EU migration. We contest the widespread account that the ‘crisis’ is now over – that policymakers have effectively ‘solved’ the problem of migration by gathering undocumented subjects into infrastructures of containment. We focus instead on the painful traces of EU migration that continue to be produced by global structures of citizen/alien, legal/illegal, friend/enemy. We do not produce a comprehensive diagnosis, normative argument or critical framework. Instead, we rest awhile in the aftermath of the crisis – specifically on the Greek island of Kos – to think about questions of abandonment, erasure and displacement. This is a visual essay representing a conversation between two researchers as they interact with the aftermath of the refugee crisis on Kos. Reflecting on select images from September 2016, we present a dialogue that directly speaks to a core theme each image raises. In doing so, we question some of the basic assumptions about how to do critical analysis on migration, security and borders, and therefore seek to disrupt dominant modes of academic writing as well as the practice of research itself.

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