Towards an Integral Study of Religiosity Rooted in Mircea Eliade's New Humanism

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-125
Author(s):  
Alina Preda
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Social Education ◽  
New Humanism ◽  
Hermeneutic Philosophy ◽  
Educational Paradigm

"Towards an Integral Study of Religiosity Rooted in Mircea Eliade's New Humanism. The present article advocates for the development and the implementation of a philosophy of religiosity informed by Mircea Eliade’s new humanism, Eugeniu Sperantia’s axiotropism, D. D. Roşca’s outlook on human existence and Aurel Codoban’s hermeneutic philosophy of religions. If such an integral study of religiosity were to be accommodated by a new educational paradigm, the resulting humanist pro-social education would protect society from underlying drivers of polarisation such as religious dogmatism and fundamentalism. Keywords: religion, religiosity, Eliade’s new humanism, the philosophy of religions, attitudinal values, the human ideal "

Reading Identity, Reading Essence: A Strategic Essentialist Approach to Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 91-101
Author(s):  
Saleha Ilhaam
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Strategic Essentialism ◽  
Reading Identity ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Self

The term strategic essentialism, coined by Spivak, is generally understood as “a political strategy whereby differences (within Group) are temporarily downplayed, and unity assumed for the sake of achieving political goals.” On the other hand, essentialism focuses that everything in this world has an intrinsic and immutable essence of its own. The adaption of a particular “nature” of one group of people by way of sexism, culturalization, and ethnification is strongly linked to the idea of essentialism. Mulk Raj Anand’s Bakha is dictated as an outcast by the institutionalized hierarchy of caste practice. He is essentialized as an untouchable by attributing to him the characteristic of dirt and filth. However, unlike other untouchables, Bakha can apprehend the difference between the cultured and uncultured, dirt and cleanliness. Via an analysis of Anand’s “Untouchable,” the present article aims to bring to the forefront the horrid destruction of the individual self that stems from misrepresentations of personality. Through strategic essentialism, it unravels Bakha’s contrasting nature as opposed to his pariah class, defied by his remarkable inner character and etiquette. The term condemns the essentialist categories of human existence. It has been applied to decontextualize and deconstruct the inaccurately essentialized identity of Bakha, which has made him a part of the group he does not actually belong to.

Erkenntnis und Liebe. Zur Nähe und Ferne zwischen Heinrich Barths und Søren Kierkegaards Verständnis von Gemeinschaft

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 291-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Berres
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Fundamental Form ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Will

AbstractAppearances to the contrary notwithstanding, the present article belongs neither in the category of source-work studies nor in that of history of reception; for it aims, in a purely systematical fashion, to outline and at the same time facilitate and prepare for a dialogue between Karl Barth’s lesser-known brother, philosopher Heinrich Barth (1890 – 1965), and Kierkegaard: in particular, between their—as it turns out, strikingly similar or at least complementary—views on human existence as co-existence or as a fundamental form of (being in) community. Accordingly, the article does not rest content with, much less restrict itself to a mere comparison and/or paraphrase of the respective views. It much rather seeks to explore critically the key claims: (a) human existence is essentially co-existence or being in community; (b) co-existence is basically dialogical, hence language-dependent; (c) dialogues must be performed in order possibly to be successful; (d) their actual success is a matter of contingency and thus cannot be guaranteed by a mere fiat of the will.

scholarly journals Digital environment as effective pedagogical tool of socialization in the context of modern education

2021 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 12087
Author(s):  
Olga Gorbatkova ◽  
Olga Kochergina ◽  
Olga Kiryushina
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Social Education ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Pedagogical Tool ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Usa ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Educational Paradigm ◽  
Methodological Aspects

Today, the modern educational paradigm is based on the organization of new forms of social education and training with new digital technologies introduction. In the article, the author sproceed from the main conceptual provisions of domestic and foreign the ories, which allow us as serting that the pedagogically justified use of the digital environment, aimed at solving the problems of social education, can contribute to the adaptation of students to life in the modern in formation society. The purpose of the study is to identify the problems and perspectives of the students’positive socialization formation under the conditions of modern education based on the theoretic alanalys is of domestic and English-speaking (the USA and Canada) scientific works that reflect the content of the digital technologies implementation. This article at tempts to: reveal the essence of the digital environment concept as a pedagogical tool for students’ positive socialization, where the digital environment represents an element of the information and educational environment, with in which socialization is revealed, where the cybers pacesocial process espotential comprehension is carried out; determine the social and educational effects, the main conceptual provisions of the digital environment use as the pedagogical tool for the students’ positives ocialization; based on the analysis, expand knowledge in the context of the theoretical and methodological aspects for domestic sciencein view of the research of scientific works in modern English-speaking countries (the USA, Canada).

scholarly journals Fictional Characters Outside Fiction: “Being” as a Fictional Character in Heidegger’s Being and Time

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies ◽  
Abdel-Fattah M. Adel
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Being And Time ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Fictional Character ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Personality Models

Can non-fiction present fictional characters? This is the main question of this paper. In reading Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time (1927), the readers construct a figure in their mind of a persona about whom all the philosophical reflections are discussed. Heidegger presents Dasein as a ‘particular being’ that characterizes all the features of human existence. Heidegger did not want to define and explain ‘being’, but he aimed at presenting a ‘sense of being’ in the form of characterizing the philosophical reflections he was presenting. After discussing how it can be claimed that Dasein can be considered a ‘fictional character’ in the absence of a ‘plot,’ the present article explains the main aspects through which a ‘fictional character’ is constructed, or figured out, in readers’ mind. It tries, also, to show how and why Heidegger resorts to this technique of fictional characterization in this highly influential philosophical book. The article specifies four main personality models, that help construct Dasein as a ‘fictional character’ in the reader’s mind. These personality models are: being-in-world, being-in-time, living-by-activity, and living-to-an-end. By ascribing such personality models to Dasein, Heidegger managed to present in his work a character that can be easily remembered all the time Being and Time is mentioned.

scholarly journals Osoba i bioetyka: jaka koncepcja człowieka i życia ludzkiego w bioetyce?

2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-241
Author(s):  
Edmund Kowalski
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
Direct Reading ◽  
New Humanism ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Concrete Part ◽  
Critical Literature

The present article proposes an approach to bioethical reflection in terms of reading and interpretation of personalist philosophy. Therefore particular attention is given to the theoretical perspectives and practical indications that are relative to human life, the human body, and the person understood as a process in the ever-open task of achievement and development: therefore, from an ethical perspective. Through a direct reading of the texts of G. Marcel and E. Mounier, as well as the critical literature relevant to them, the author has posed the question of indicating the perspectives and dynamics which are a concrete part of the project of the French personalists in the elaboration and construction of a new humanism through the process of personalization of the human being and his/her world (cultural ethics).

scholarly journals Hermenêutica existencial e pesquisa em psicologia clínica: caminhos possíveis

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 251
Author(s):  
Danielle Leite ◽  
Carmem Lúcia Brito Tavares Barreto
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Philosophical Hermeneutics

Resumo: O presente artigo apresenta uma possibilidade compreensiva para discutir os resultados de pesquisa em Psicologia Clínica. Ao reconhecer a existência humana enquanto radicalmente singular, aproxima-se da Hermenêutica Existencial de Heidegger e de Gadamer, atentando-se para ressonâncias desse pensamento para a prática e a pesquisa em Psicologia. Nessa direção, subdivide-se em dois momentos: apresentação de pressupostos hermenêuticos existenciais e a descrição do caminho revelado em um trabalho de tese. Por fim, pode-se afirmar que uma pesquisa “orientada” por tais pressupostos não possui um caminho previamente determinado por premissas teorético-explicativos. Assim como, toda compreensão, que dela possa se mostrar, constitui-se apenas numa possibilidade compreensiva, ou seja, num âmbito de visão pelo qual um fenômeno pode ser visto/compreendido.Palavras-chave: Pesquisa qualitativa; Hermenêutica filosófica; Psicologia. Hermeneutics existential and research in clinical psychology: possible pathwaysAbstract: The present article exposes a comprehensive possibility to discuss the results of research in Clinical Psychology. When recognizing human existence as radically singular, it approaches the Existential Hermeneutics of Heidegger and Gadamer, focusing on resonances of this thought for practice and research in Psychology. In this direction, it is subdivided in two moments: presentation of hermeneutic existential presuppositions and the description of the path revealed in a thesis. Ultimately, it can be said that a research "oriented" by such presuppositions does not have a method previously determined by theoretical-explanatory premises. Just as all comprehension, which can be shown, is only a comprehensible possibility, that is, a horizon by which the phenomenon can be seen / understood.Keywords: Qualitative research; Philosophical hermeneutics; Psychology. 

scholarly journals Hav, hage, teater og temperatur i Cora Sandels Alberte-bøker

Nordlit ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Morten Bartnæs
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Thermal Imagery ◽  
Central Function ◽  
Narrative Technique ◽  
Integral Element ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Human Condition

Current readings of Cora Sandel’s Alberta-trilogy (1926-1939) frequently tend to reuse the novels’ imagery in their own descriptive and interpretive statements – instead of treating this characteristic of the novels with the same degree of attention as, e.g., the trilogy’s psychological and political aspects, or its narrative technique. The present article attempts to draw attention to the trilogy’s imagery as a both autonomous and integral element in Cora Sandel’s novelistic art. Three metaphorical ways of thought which show their presence throughout the trilogy, are singled out: In the novels, the persons (and thus, implicitly or explicitly, the human condition) are frequently pictured as being situated on the high sea, in a garden or in a theatre. In the Alberta-trilogy, these time-honoured metaphors are the object of a refined practice of re-contextualization. In my attempt to trace this process, I draw special attention to the relationship between these metaphorical fields and the trilogy’s pervasive use of thermal imagery. In each case, I attempt to show that the thermal descriptions that are associated with the metaphorical views of human existence as a boat trip, a garden sojourn or a theatre performance have a central function in Cora Sandel’s use of these images.

The Reality of Love: An Affirmative Vision of Christianity Based on Kierkegaard’s Interpretation of the Maxim: Love is the Fulfilling of the Law

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-203
Author(s):  
Andrzej Słowikowski
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Fundamental Relation ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Negative Element ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
God's Love ◽  
Religious Writings ◽  
The Law

AbstractBased on Kierkegaard’s interpretation of the maxim Love is the fulfillment of the law the present article seeks to show how consistent use of Kierkegaard’s terminology can aid in discovering the affirmative vision of Christianity implicitly contained in the philosopher’s religious writings. The starting point is in this case the Christian, spiritual account of love as established by God in every human being which fully manifests itself in the love for one’s neighbor. Only such a love is able to fulfill the law, that is, to make the temporal, human life entirely comprehensible and full of meaning. In order to approach this thesis properly, a differentiation between the possibility of love (law, nature) and the reality of love (love, eternity) is introduced. In effect, it is shown how the concepts of law and love, related to each other dialectically, are able to explain the fundamental relation of the temporal to the eternal in human existence. The pattern as to how this relation of love to the law should be played out is Jesus Christ, as one who, by his love for God, fulfilled the law of God’s love for man. In this act, he created for every human being the possibility of reconciliation with God and established Christianity as a positive religion, one in which there is actually no negative element in existence.

Reading, Writing, and Translation in Gadamer’s Hermeneutic Philosophy

2018 ◽  
pp. 15-45
Author(s):  
Brian O’Keeffe
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Western Philosophy ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Hermeneutic Philosophy

Gadamer’s hermeneutic philosophy has become increasingly important to scholars working in the field of translation studies, and in that regard, one of the key texts is his “Lesen ist wie Übersetzen”. In the present article, I offer a close commentary of that essay, but I also suggest that it is better understood if read alongside two other essays, namely “Stimme und Sprache” and “Hören-Sehen-Lesen”. What emerges, when these three essays are put into dialogue (and into dialogue with his major work Wahrheit und Methode), are the lineaments of an interpretive philosophy that centres upon reading, writing, and translation. Yet these activities are also placed under the aegis of hearing. In analysing why it is necessary to hear words, we find ourselves contending with some of the central, and indeed long-standing questions of Western philosophy, and it is ultimately against that background, I argue, that “Lesen ist wie Übersetzen”, “Stimme und Sprache”, and “Hören-Sehen- Lesen” gain their truest significance.

scholarly journals Η επανασύνδεση με ένα αγαπημένο πρόσωπο που έχει αποβιώσει, μέσω της εικονικής πραγματικότητας. Απόψεις και προβληματισμοί ενώπιον πρωτοφανούς προκλήσεως

Bioethica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Niki Nikolaou (Νίκη Νικολάου)
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Virtual Reality Environment ◽  
Special Equipment ◽  
Operational System ◽  
The Family ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Scientific Fields

A team of documentary producers and computer programmers, while they were in a laboratory creating a virtual reality environment, could never have imagined how much impact their project would have not only to the family involved but also to a large percentage of humanity and other scientific fields. In particular, they created a virtual park and a virtual girl, who in real life had died, and, through the special equipment, they placed the living mother in this environment. The mother ‘‘met’’ her daughter, ‘‘touched’’ her, ‘‘talked’’ to her, they celebrated her daughter’s birthday together’’ and, at the end, they ‘‘said goodbye’’ to each other.This endeavor was the result of a combination of techniques and elements of various sciences. Of course it is admirable, but at the same time it raises doubts, intense concerns and many questions such as: ‘‘What are the limits of the technological applications?’’; ‘‘What aspects and at what extent of the human existence can they involved?’’; ‘‘How is the human existence affected?”; Can an application play with human emotions and, specifically, with the pain and misery of a human, in this case of a mother mourning her child?’’ The issue is difficult and even more difficult the moral and bioethical dilemmas that arise.All the above-mentioned will be presented and studied in this present article. In particular, initially reference will be made to the definition of virtual reality, to the means which lead to the achievement of a completely operational system, as well as to the areas of application of its systems. Therefore, the way of creation and the context of the documentary will be presented, to be followed by a very short reference to the thoughts that the mother of the girl had expressed. Afterwards various opinions will be presented, questions and dilemmas arising by the documentary will be mentioned and commented and alongside some questions will be asked for reflection. The conclusions will complete this present article.

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