scholarly journals ENLIGHTENED TRADITIONALISM: RATIONAL ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR OF THE SPIRITUAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL CURRENT OF THOUGHT

2021 ◽  
pp. 1115-1130
Author(s):  
В.В. БЛИНОВ
Keyword(s):  
Rational Arguments

В политике часто встречается применение слишком емких, широко трактуемых понятий, к таковым можно отнести «традиционализм». В предметном разговоре использовать его проблематично, поскольку приверженцы разных традиций наполняют этот термин своим смыслом и ожидания оппонента могут быть не оправданы. Одной из задач науки является создание своеобразной картотеки, где каждая научная мысль и мнение учитывается, и между ними выстраивается взаимосвязь. В статье автором дается собственное определение понятия «традиционализм», что не исключает его схожесть с иными воззрениями. Традиционализм рассмотрен через историю европейской политической мысли с позиции идеологии. Изложенные в статье мысли частично совпадают с идеями разных политических течений: коммунистов, националистов, социалистов, консерваторов, религиозных организаций. Рассматривая просвещенный традиционализм, автором приведены рациональные аргументы в пользу духовно-философского течения мысли.

Deepened Monotheism. Philosophical Reasoning on the Trinity in Western Early Medieval and Classic Arabic Theology

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-264
Author(s):  
Katrin König
Keyword(s):  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
Latin West ◽  
Syrian Orthodox ◽  
Anselm Of Canterbury ◽  
Theological Discourse ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Rational Arguments

SummaryChristian theologians can explain the Trinitarian faith today in dialogue with Islamic thinkers as “deepened monotheism”. Therefore it is important to widen the systematic-theological discourse in an ecumenical and transcultural perspective and to retrieve resources from Western and non-Western traditions of Trinitarian thought (I).In this paper I will first work out historically that the Trinitarian creed of Nicea and Constantinople was originally an ecumenical but non-Western creed (II). Afterwards, I investigate the philosophical-theological reflection on the Trinity by Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109) in the context of early interreligious encounters in the Latin West. Based on biblical, augustinian and Greek sources, he developed an approach to understand the mystery of the Trinity by rational arguments as “deepened monotheism” (III). Then I will proceed to explore the philosophical-theological dialogues on the Trinity from the Arabic philosopher and Syrian-orthodox theologian Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī (893–974). Much earlier he developed rational arguments for the Triunity of God with reference to Aristotle. Thereby he answers to anti-trinitarian arguments from Islamic thinkers like al-Kindī and al-Warrāq. He intends that the Trinitarian faith of Christian minorities can thereby be understood and tolerated by Islamic thinkers as rationally founded “deepened monotheism” (IV).In the end I will evaluate what these classics from the Western and non-western traditions of Trinitarian thought contribute to explicate the doctrine of the Trinity today in a pluralistic religious context as “deepened monotheism” (V).

Strategic Sequences in Police Interviews and the Importance of Order and Cultural Fit

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (9) ◽  
pp. 934-954 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karlijn Beune ◽  
Ellen Giebels ◽  
Wendi L. Adair ◽  
Bob M. Fennis ◽  
Karen I. Van Der Zee
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Active Listening ◽  
Nonsignificant Trend ◽  
Cultural Fit ◽  
Police Interviews ◽  
Listening Behavior ◽  
Relational Behavior ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Reversed Order ◽  
Rational Arguments

This study introduces the concept of strategic sequences to police interviews and concentrates on the impact of active listening behavior and rational arguments. To test the authors’ central assumption that the effectiveness of strategic sequences is dependent on cultural fit (i.e., the match with the cultural background of suspects), young people participated in virtual police interviews. Study 1 demonstrated that contrast sequences accentuating rational rather than relational behavior were found to be effective in eliciting information and admissions from suspects originating from cultures that tend to use more direct and content-oriented communication (i.e., low-context cultures), whereas for suspects from cultures that use more indirect and context-oriented communication (i.e., high-context cultures) a nonsignificant trend in reversed order was found. Study 2 added the investigation of the joint impact of active listening and rational arguments. In line with predictions, the results showed that an active listening—rational arguments sequence is most effective when active listening behavior precedes— rather than follows—rational arguments.

scholarly journals Values of the Legendre chi and Hurwitz zeta functions at rational arguments

1999 ◽  
Vol 68 (228) ◽  
pp. 1623-1631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Djurdje Cvijović ◽  
Jacek Klinowski
Keyword(s):  
Zeta Functions ◽  
Rational Arguments

Introduction

2007 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Lasker
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
The Face ◽  
Historical Relationship ◽  
New Religion ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
Rational Arguments

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the historical relationship between Judaism and Christianity, which had not been peaceful. Through the ages, Christian thinkers had made Judaism the object of attack, hoping to convince Jews to abandon their ancestral faith. From the earliest days of the new religion, when Christianity was just emerging from Judaism, Christians sought to demonstrate to Jews that Jesus was the expected messiah and that the doctrines he taught were true. Many Jews did not remain passive in the face of the Christian challenge to their religion. Talmudic and midrashic literature offers evidence that Jews were aware of the story of Jesus as related in the Gospels and basic Christian doctrines, against which they argued. In a later period, Jewish thinkers in Muslim countries polemicized against Christianity. This book therefore studies the Jewish philosophical polemic against Christianity in the Middle Ages. In combating the doctrines of Christianity, Jewish polemicists employed a variety of types of argumentation to strengthen their own beliefs. These arguments may be divided into three distinct categories: exegetical arguments, historical arguments, and rational arguments.

Kant on the Frontier

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Bennington
Keyword(s):  
Fractal Structure ◽  
The Political ◽  
Perpetual Peace ◽  
Essential Resource ◽  
Rational Arguments

Frontier: the border between two countries; the limits of civilization; the bounds of established knowledge; a new field of activity. At a time when all frontiers (borders, boundaries, margins, limits) are being—often violently—challenged, erased or reinforced, it might be a matter of urgency to take up and rethink the very concept of frontier itself. But is there even such a concept, to be found or constructed? That is what this book begins to cast into doubt, on the basis of a reading of Kant, for whom the frontier turns out to be both the very element of his thought and the permanent frustration of his conceptuality. Following what Kant himself would call this “guiding thread,” first in the “political” writings and then in the still little-read “Critique of teleological judgment,” I try to bring out a complex, abyssal, fractal structure, which always leaves a residue of nature—violence—in every frontier (including conceptual frontiers), and which complicates Kant’s most explicit, most rational arguments (which always tend towards cosmopolitanism and so-called perpetual peace) by adding to them an element of reticence or interruption. As it turns out that there can be perpetual peace only in death, we must interrupt the teleological movement that always might take us there, we must maintain some frontiers (and therefore a certain violence) in the very place where everything led us to believe that we should hope for their pacific disappearance, if only in the infinite perspective of the Idea of Reason. Neither critique of Kant nor return to Kant, this book also proposes a new reflection on philosophical reading, for which thinking the frontier is both an essential resource and the recurrent, fruitful, interruption.

On the design and function of rational arguments

2011 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-86
Author(s):  
John E. Opfer ◽  
Vladimir Sloutsky
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Resources ◽  
And Function ◽  
Rational Arguments

AbstractIt is unclear how an argumentative environment would select for better reasoning given three general findings. First, argument rationality typically fails to persuade poor reasoners. Second, reasoned argumentation competes with more persuasive and less rational arguments for limited cognitive resources. Third, those poor at reasoning fail to distinguish between valid and invalid arguments. Reasoning, therefore, is poorly designed for argument.

Sources of Origen's Doctrine of Freedom

1966 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Darrell Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Rational Argument ◽  
Christian Philosophy ◽  
Programmatic Statement ◽  
Articles Of Faith ◽  
Do So ◽  
Rational Arguments

In Contra Celsum Origen briefly states his approach to constructing a theological system. He says, “… anyone who constructs a Christian philosophy will need to argue the truth of his doctrines with proofs of all kinds, taken both from the divine scriptures and from rational arguments (logois akolouthias). ” Origen here specifies a twofold basis for theology—Scripture and rational argument. He often speaks explicitly of these two in his system. For example, in De principiis II.v.3 he says that he has refuted the heretics by arguments drawn from the authority of Scriptures (ex auctoritate … scripturarum) but it will not be unfitting if he discusses the matter from the standpoint of rational argument (ex ratione … consequentiae=akolouthia). And again at the end of the preface of De principiis, this programmatic statement occurs: Anyone desiring to construct a system out of the articles of faith just listed will do so “… with the aid of such illustrations and declarations as he shall find in the holy scriptures and of such conclusions as he shall ascertain to follow logically from them when rightly understood.”

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