scholarly journals Ciência, misticismo e educação: uma análise russelliana da pretensa neutralidade da matemática frente à religião

Horizontes ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Júlio César Augusto Do Valle
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Bertrand Russell ◽  
Human History ◽  
Religious Intolerance ◽  
Traditional Mathematics ◽  
Eminent Mathematician

ResumoO propósito deste artigo consiste na elucidação dos elementos da obra de Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), eminente matemático e filósofo, que tornem possíveis os debates acerca da pretensa neutralidade da matemática diante dos misticismos que sempre estiveram presentes na história da humanidade, mas que, devido aos equívocos que impregnaram sua perspectiva, consideramos, muitas vezes, genericamente obscurantistas e perniciosos. Para isto, tornou-se necessário evidenciar as abordagens à ciência, aos misticismos e à educação na obra russelliana. Pretende-se, portanto, destacando a possibilidade de compreender a matemática como credo, demonstrar que posturas decorrem da tradicional educação matemática que podem favorecer posturas de intolerância religiosa e sugerir, também com Russell, a introdução de uma postura de enfrentamento.Palavras-chave: Matemática; Bertrand Russell; Misticismo; FilosofiaScience, mysticism and education: a russellian analysis of the supposed neutrality of mathematics towards religionAbstractThe purpose of this article is to elucidate the elements of the work of Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), eminent mathematician and philosopher, which make possible the debates about the alleged neutrality of mathematics towards the mysticism that has always been present in human history, but due to misconceptions that pervade their perspective, we consider often generically obscurantist and pernicious. For this, it was necessary to highlight the approaches to science to mysticism and education in Russell's work. It is intended, therefore, highlighting the possibility of understanding mathematics as creed, show that attitudes stem from traditional mathematics education that can foster religious intolerance poses and suggest, also with Russell, the introduction of a confronting posture.Keywords: Mathematics; Bertrand Russell; Mysticism; Philosophy

scholarly journals VIOLÊNCIA DIALÓGICA: O ENTRELAÇAMENTO DO EMOCIONAL COM A LINGUAGEM

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 207
Author(s):  
Elizabeth De Lima Venâncio
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Human History ◽  
Religious Intolerance ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

Este artigo tem por objeto central verificar no processo de comunicação os elementos presentes nas interações dialógicas realizadas pelos usuários de internet, que produziram sentidos quanto à prática social da intolerância religiosa. Consideramos o exercício do discurso de ódio, como um perigo para a convivência social do cidadão, bem como a necessidade levantada por Theodor Adorno de que precisamos revelar os mecanismos que permitiram ao longo da história humana a pratica social da intolerância. Trata-se de uma pesquisa bibliográfica, qualitativa, com leitura crítica e análise de conteúdo. Ao final, ponderamos ser possível tratar aspectos comunicacionais por referência a gradientes emocionais. Tal percepção somente surgiu após análise dos dados, momento em que se pensou o porquê da existência de variações emocionais gradativas nas interações dialógicas que produziram sentidos na relação que se criou entre as pessoas comunicantes. DIALOGICAL VIOLENCE: THE EMOTIONAL TRAINING WITH THE LANGUAGE The article objective of this research is to verify in the communication process the elements present in the dialogical interactions carried out by Internet users, which produced meanings regarding the social practice of religious intolerance. We consider the exercise of hate speech as a danger to citizen social coexistence, as well as the need raised by Theodor Adorno that we need to reveal the mechanisms that allowed the social practice of intolerance throughout human history. It is a bibliographical research, qualitative, with critical reading and content analysis. In the end, we consider it possible to treat communicational aspects by reference to emotional gradients. Such perception only arose after analysis of the data, at which point the reason for the existence of gradual emotional variations in the dialogical interactions that produced meanings in the relationship that was created among the communicating people.

The Event Universe

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leemon B. McHenry
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Field ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Physical Theory ◽  
Alfred North Whitehead ◽  
Bertrand Russell ◽  
Theory Of Relativity ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Physics ◽  
Linguistic Methods

What kinds of things are events? Battles, explosions, accidents, crashes, rock concerts would be typical examples of events and these would be reinforced in the way we speak about the world. Events or actions function linguistically as verbs and adverbs. Philosophers following Aristotle have claimed that events are dependent on substances such as physical objects and persons. But with the advances of modern physics, some philosophers and physicists have argued that events are the basic entities of reality and what we perceive as physical bodies are just very long events spread out in space-time. In other words, everything turns out to be events. This view, no doubt, radically revises our ordinary common sense view of reality, but as our event theorists argue common sense is out of touch with advancing science. In The Event Universe: The Revisionary Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead, Leemon McHenry argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a more adequate basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than a traditional substance metaphysics. He investigates the influence of Maxwell's electromagnetic field, Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum mechanics on the development of the ontology of events and compares Whitehead’s theory to his contemporaries, C. D. Broad and Bertrand Russell, as well as another key proponent of this theory, W. V. Quine. In this manner, McHenry defends the naturalized and speculative approach to metaphysics as opposed to analytical and linguistic methods that arose in the 20th century.

Violence in Islamic Thought from the Qur'an to the Mongols

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Human History ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Islamic Thought

The topic of Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Islamic Thought (LIVIT) calls for an interdisciplinary, comparative and historical approach. This has been the underlying methodological assumption within the project which bore this name. Amongst the products of that three-year project is a series of collected studies by established and emerging scholars in the field, examining how Muslim thinkers have conceptualised violence and categorised (morally and legally) acts of violence. In this opening chapter, István Kristó-Nagy first explores how violence in Islamic thought can be set against a wider consideration of violence in human history. It is this comparative perspective which contextualises not only this volume, but also the two subsequent volumes in the LIVIT series. In the second half of this chapter, Robert Gleave explains how this volume is structured, addressing the different approaches used by the contributors, and examines the different ways in which violence can be categorised.

Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James McElvenny
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Vienna Circle ◽  
Bertrand Russell ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Personal Connection ◽  
International Language ◽  
Academic Philosophy ◽  
Significant Figures ◽  
Basic English ◽  
And Linguistics

This book is a historical study of influential currents in the philosophy of language and linguistics of the first half of the twentieth century, explored from the perspective of the English scholar C. K. Ogden (1889–1957). Although no ‘Great Man’ in his own right, Ogden had a personal connection, reflected in his work, to several of the most significant figures of the age. The background to the ideas espoused in Ogden’s book The Meaning of Meaning, co-authored with I.A. Richards (1893–1979), is examined in detail, along with the application of these ideas in his international language project Basic English. A richly interlaced network of connections is revealed between early analytic philosophy, semiotics and linguistics, all inevitably shaped by the contemporary cultural and political environment. In particular, significant interaction is shown between Ogden’s ideas, the varying versions of ‘logical atomism’ of Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) and Ludwig Wittgensten (1889–1951), Victoria Lady Welby’s (1837–1912) ‘significs’, and the philosophy and political activism of Otto Neurath (1882–1945) and Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970) of the Vienna Circle. Amid these interactions emerges a previously little known mutual exchange between the academic philosophy and linguistics of the period and the practically oriented efforts of the international language movement.

Veiled Theory: The Transmutation of Anthropology in T. S. Eliot's Critical Method

Paragraph ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Trexler
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Institutional Framework ◽  
Philosophical Investigation ◽  
Institutional History ◽  
Human History ◽  
Critical Practice ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Historical Moment

While literary criticism is often seen as an unself-reflective forerunner to literary theory, this article argues that T.S. Eliot's theory of critical practice was a philosophically informed methodology of reading designed to create a disciplinary and institutional framework. To reconstruct this theory, it enriches theoretical methodology with intellectual and institutional history. Specifically, the article argues that Eliot's early critical theory depended on the paradigms of anthropology and occultism, developed during his philosophical investigation of anthropology and Leibniz. From this investigation, Eliot created an occult project that used spiritual monads as facts to progress toward the Absolute. The article goes on to argue that Eliot's methodology of reading was shaped by anthropology's and occultism's paradigms of non-academic, non-specialist reading societies that sought a super-historic position in human history through individual progress. The reconstruction of Eliot's intellectual and institutional framework for reading reveals a historical moment with sharp differences and surprising similarities to the present.

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