Are We Mad? Intensity and the Problems of Modern Philosophy

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-215
Author(s):  
Jeffrey A. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Sense Perception ◽  
The Relationship

In this essay Deleuze's concept of intensity is placed into the context of the problem of accounting for the relationship between sense perception and our conceptual categories. By developing the manner in which Kant responds to Hume's critique of metaphysics, this essay shows how Deleuze develops a Humean line of thought whereby the heterogeneous as heterogeneous is embraced rather than, as is done in Kant, being largely held in relationship to an already prior unity.

Plato’s Use of Shadow-painting as a Metaphor for Deceptive Speech

2018 ◽  
pp. 265-272
Author(s):  
Zacharoula Petraki
Keyword(s):  
Sense Perception ◽  
Philosophical Issue ◽  
Philosophical Investigations ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Contrary to the traditional viewpoint which interpreted Plato’s stance towards poetry as derogatory, more recently scholars have rightly argued that Plato’s treatment of painting is too complicated to be dismissed as negative only. Painting is for Plato a well-adapted analogy which allows him to discuss highly intricate philosophical issues, as, for example, the relationship of the forms with our earthly realm of sense-perception. It also provides him with useful vocabulary to conduct his philosophical investigations. In this paper, I focus on Plato’s employment of one particular pictorial technique, that of shadow-painting (skiagraphia). I argue that this innovative 5th century technique served Plato as a metaphor for discussing the intricate philosophical issue of opposition and antithesis (ta enantia). In specific terms, Plato associates the technique of skiagraphia with the poets, sophists and the unsophisticated non-philosophical majority.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Evaluation Methods for Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoichiro Yoshida ◽  
Atsushi Satoh ◽  
Teppei Yamada ◽  
Naoya Aisu ◽  
Taisuke Matsuoka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Colorectal Cancer ◽  
Peripheral Neuropathy ◽  
Visual Analogue Scale ◽  
Adverse Events ◽  
Analogue Scale ◽  
Evaluation Methods ◽  
Sense Perception ◽  
Analytical Instrument ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Monofilament Test

AbstractNumbness and pain are currently evaluated using subjective methods such as the visual analogue scale (VAS). PainVision (PV) is an analytical instrument that was designed to quantitatively assess sense perception and nociception in patients. Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is one of the most important adverse events that renders prolonged chemotherapy difficult. To assess the features of CIPN, we aimed to compare PV methods with existing methods. A total of 73 patients received oxaliplatin for metastatic colorectal cancer. Registered patients included 37 men and 36 women in the range of 37 to 89 years (median 70). CIPN was evaluated a total of 483 times (median per patient six times). Our study examined the correlation between evaluation methods of CIPN using VAS and PV, respectively. The average VAS (hand), VAS (foot) and PV scores of CIPN were 18.4 (range: 0–100), 23.8 (range: 0–100), and 24.7 (range: 0–496), respectively. VAS (hand), VAS (foot), and FACT/GOG-NTX (NTX2, NTX4 and NTX8) were significantly correlated with PV. PV showed no correlation with a Disk-Criminator or the monofilament test used as a quantitative evaluation. The evaluation of CIPN is complex, and further improvement is required for evaluation with PV.

scholarly journals ABAYSTUDIES- SPIRITUAL TREASURE OF KAZAKH CIVILIZATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-312
Author(s):  
Т. Tebegenov ◽  
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G. Esirkepova ◽  
М. Aitimov ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Religious Educators ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This article reveals in a new way the relationship of Abay's worldview with modern philosophy, pedagogy, psychology, cultural studies, sociology, political science; from a scientific and theoretical point of view, the harmony of the poet’s works with the works of religious educators of Islam is substantiated. Along with this, the article explores the image of the prototype in new literary works about Abai, the objectivity of the description of Kazakh life in them. Abaeology is a comprehensive branch of the study of the spiritual culture of the Kazakh people, so modern Abaeology is one of the relevant topics. A set of new studies is needed to study the classical literary heritage of Abay and its traditions from the point of view of the psychology of art. The article touches on the problems of the popularity of Abay's works among the foreign Kazakh diaspora, developing a program, the scientific and methodological foundations of studying Abay's work in their schools. New directions of research in this area and contemporary topical problems of Abaystudies are determined.

Making Sense

2020 ◽  
pp. 841-858
Author(s):  
Andrew Bowie
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Philosophy Of Music ◽  
Verbal Language ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
The Relationship

The existing forms of “philosophy of music” may not always be adequate to the task of making sense of music. Music is usually regarded in such philosophy as an object like any other that is to be explained by analysing the concepts we use to talk about it. The philosophical sense which is generated by music may not be reducible to concepts, because it is only manifest in active participation in music. This essay outlines often neglected developments in modern philosophy, in which the expressive dimensions of language are given full weight, rather than the essence of language being regarded as residing in its representational aspect. Focusing on the expressive dimensions of language opens up ways of thinking about the relationship between music and verbal language that can have major consequences for how we think about philosophy.

The Scepticism of Book 1, Part 4

2020 ◽  
pp. 96-116
Author(s):  
Hsueh M. Qu
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Treatise Of Human Nature ◽  
Human Understanding ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the secondary literature on the relationship between Hume’s treatments of scepticism in the Treatise of Human Nature and the Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, and briefly outlines the position that while Hume’s starting and finishing epistemological positions are similar between the two, his justifications for reaching such a finishing point differs considerably between the two. It then proceeds to offer a brief overview of THN 1.4.1 (Of Scepticism with Regard to Reason), THN 1.4.2 (Of Scepticism with Regard to the Senses), THN 1.4.3 (Of the Antient Philosophy), and THN 1.4.4 (Of the Modern Philosophy), which are relevant to Hume’s considered treatment of scepticism in THN 1.4.7 (Conclusion of this book).

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Tim Stuart-Buttle
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
David Hume ◽  
John Locke ◽  
Moral Theology ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Historical Relationship ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter introduces the key themes and questions to be explored in the work. In particular, it discusses the tendency of much recent scholarship on early-modern philosophy to emphasize the importance of two late Hellenistic philosophical traditions: the Stoic and the Epicurean. It indicates that three important British writers—John Locke, Conyers Middleton, and David Hume—deliberately and explicitly aligned their approaches with Cicero, as the representative of an alternative philosophical tradition: academic scepticism. This, they argued, offered the conceptual resources more satisfactorily to address a question that contemporaries recognized to be particularly pressing: the relationship between moral theology and moral philosophy. It further yielded highly distinctive narratives of the historical relationship between classical moral philosophy and the Christian moral theology which had appropriated and displaced it. These narratives were in turn challenged by Shaftesbury and Mandeville, who placed themselves (respectively) within the Stoic and Epicurean traditions.

In the End, Love

2021 ◽  
pp. 178-213
Author(s):  
George Pattison
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Intercessory Prayer ◽  
Modern View ◽  
Modern Thought ◽  
The Relationship

Christian faith in love characteristically believes that love is not conquered by death. Yet modern philosophy (e.g. Heidegger) proposes death as a limit to human existence. Noting the proximity of love and death in human experience, the chapter explores how the idea of an afterlife has been replaced by that of an eternal now in modern thought, as in Hegel and Schleiermacher, but also in modern atheism. The challenge of developing an authentically modern view is sharpened by a discussion of the relationship between death and love in Heidegger. This leads back to further reflection on human solidarity, with reference to the doctrine of the community of saints and intercessory prayer. Under the conditions of historical existence this remains a messianic possibility that can best be spoken of in the mode of the poetic, bringing about hope in a return to ontological rootedness.

‘The only sure sign …’: Thought and Language in Descartes

1997 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 29-50
Author(s):  
John Cottingham
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

Some people like to think that the modern discipline of philosophy has little if anything to learn from the history of the subject, but in reality the philosophical inquiries of each generation always take shape against the background of an implicit dialogue with the actual or imagined ideas of past thinkers. Many of our current debates on the relationship between thought and language bear the imprint of what the ‘father of modern philosophy’ said, or is supposed to have said.

2. The origins of French philosophy

2020 ◽  
pp. 5-22
Author(s):  
Stephen Gaukroger ◽  
Knox Peden
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Scientific Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Sun ◽  
French Philosophy ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
Central Scientific

What do Montaigne’s Essays have in common with modern philosophy? ‘The origins of French philosophy’ explains different approaches to relativism, humanism, and scepticism in the writings of Montaigne and Descartes, and lesser-known philosophers Gassendi and Malebranche. As a cleric, Gassendi shaped his conclusions around Christian doctrine. When Descartes was unable to argue a central scientific theory because of the Church—that the Earth revolves around the Sun—he became preoccupied by the possibility of absolute, indisputable knowledge. Thus, ontology in French philosophy was replaced with epistemology—the study of knowledge. How did early modern philosophers explain the relationship between God, the mind, and the body?

scholarly journals Philosophy, revelation and politics: The recovery of medieval Islamic political philosophy

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-55
Author(s):  
Funda Günsoy
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Leo Strauss ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Radical Enlightenment ◽  
The Right ◽  
Right Order ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ancient Political Philosophy

In contemporary philosophical thought, Leo Strauss is associated with the rediscovery of ancient political philosophy against modern political philosophy. The rediscovery of ancient political philosophy is the rediscovery of classical rationalism or “moderate Enlightenment” against modern rationalism or “radical Enlightenment” and can be understood as recapturing the “the question of man’s right life” and “the question of the right order of society”. This article would like to show that it was his study of medieval Islamic and Jewish texts that enabled Strauss to rediscover the classical rationalism. Also, in this article we would like to argue that although the opposition between Athens and Jerusalem, Reason and Revelation embodies two irreconcilable alternatives or a way of life in his thought, this opposition should be only examined with references to claims about radical rationalism of modern philosophy. In this case, we would like to argue that there can be seen a commonality between these “opponents”, i.e., Athens and Jerusalem, Reason and Revelation in terms of both their attitudes towards morality and their approaches to the relationship between philosophy and society.

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