scholarly journals The law, the common and the human condition in Hannah Arendt’s thought

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Odilio Alves Aguiar
Keyword(s):  
Human Condition ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Human Condition

Epic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Living Culture ◽  
Master Plots ◽  
The Common ◽  
Globally Distributed ◽  
The Human Condition

An enumeration of generic qualities will define epic less helpfully than will an assessment of its behaviors. Among major literary kinds, epic offers the most long-standing and globally distributed evidence of the human habit of thinking by means of narrative. What it cherishes is the common good; what it ponders are the behaviors and values that forward or threaten collective welfare. What it reckons are the stakes of heroic risk that any living culture must hazard in order to prosper, by negotiating core identities with margins and adjusting settled customs to emergent opportunities; and it roots all these in the transmission of a tale that commands perennial attention on their account. Such dialectics underlie epic’s favorite narrative templates, the master plots of strife, quest, and foundation; and they find expression in such conventions as the in medias res opening and suspended closure; the epic invocation, ancestral underworld, superhuman machinery, and encyclopedic simile; the genre’s formal gravitation towards verse artifice and the lexical and syntactic mingling of old with new language. The genre steadfastly highlights the human condition and prospect, defining these along a scale of higher and lower being, along a timeline correlating history with prophecy, and along cultural coordinates where the familiar and the exotic take each other’s measure.

scholarly journals The Negligence Standard: Political Not Metaphysical

2019 ◽  
pp. 196-225
Author(s):  
John Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Human Condition ◽  
Rational Nature ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Human Condition

This chapter considers the question of why the law might sometimes assign strict responsibilities and sometimes negligence-limited responsibilities. It argues that the explanation is political, not metaphysical. They relate to the desirability or appeal or merit or attractiveness of the arrangements whereby some people have responsibility for some things, and others have responsibility for others. They point to the fairness, the efficiency, or more generally the reasonableness, of responsibilities being carved up in that way, or in some other way. They do not relate to the tragedy of the human condition or the impossibility of our escape from our rational nature. They do not belong to the metaphysics of basic responsibility. They belong instead to the politics of assignable responsibility.

Subject to the Law of Reason while Belonging to the World of Sense: the Inevitable Randomness of Human Experience in The Brothers Karamazov and ‘The Garden of Forking Paths'

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 209-223
Author(s):  
Ruth Karin Lévai
Keyword(s):  
Categorical Imperative ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Brothers Karamazov ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
The Law ◽  
Brothers Karamazov ◽  
The Human Condition

Taking as its starting point the tension between the human condition as subject to the law of reason while belonging to the world of sense in establishing the categorical imperative as described by Kant, this article explores how belonging to the world of sense may be equated with randomness and the temporal as the presupposition for morality in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Borges's ‘The Garden of Forking Paths'. The article also discusses the two authors' views of time and eternity as expressed in their nonfiction.

scholarly journals Gente alta é parente do tuiuiú, baixa é da anta: alteridades antropomórficas

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Werneck Regina
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Common ◽  
Body Shapes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Human Condition

RESUMOSão partilhadas reflexões acerca de uma pesquisa sobre quais as qualidades são destacadas pelas pessoas panará quando se reconhece o estatuto de sujeito dos humanos e não humanos. A partir de narrativas da origem da mulher e das práticas sociais a elas conectadas, é explicitado que a condição de humanidade é incompleta para abarcar a identificação de uma subjetividade. O que é associado à animalidade parece ser incluído na configuração de pessoa, incidindo nas formas corporais humana e animal do mesmo sujeito ou de pessoas que dele descenderam. Tornar inteligível a afirmativa de que gente alta descende de jaburu e baixa de anta entremeia o texto, contornando um antromorfismo heterogêneo e sugerindo que o comum entre humano e não humano inclui aspectos físicos, afetivos e performáticos. A relação entre alimento, divisão e multiplicação com o corpo é enfática e problematizada, paralelamente. Palavras-chave: Panará. Jê. Corpo. Humano. Não Humano. ABSTRACT Reflections are shared about a research on what qualities are highlighted by people Panará when it recognizes the status of subject of human and non human. From narratives of women's origin and social practices connected to them, it is explained that the human condition is incomplete to include the identification of a subjectivity. What is associated with animality seems to be included in one configuration, focusing the human body shapes and animals of the same subject or who it descended. Make intelligible the assertion that high people descended from jaburu and low tapir intersperses text, bypassing a heterogeneous anthropomorphism and suggesting that the common between human and non human includes physical, emotional and performative. The relationship between food, divide and multiply in the body is emphatic and problematized in parallel. Keywords: Panará. Gê. Body. Human. Not human.

Tracing Paul's Train of Thought in Romans 6–8

2003 ◽  
Vol 100 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles H. Talbert
Keyword(s):  
Human Condition ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
The Law ◽  
Train Of Thought ◽  
Roman Rhetoric ◽  
The Human Condition

Romans 5:12–8:39 goes over again the same basic train of thought covered earlier in 1:18–5:11. In both 1:18–5:11 and 5:12–8:39 the argument moves from the human condition to the divine remedy to the role of the law to ultimate salvation. This form of reasoning, repetition with variation, has roots in ancient Greco-Roman rhetoric.

Obligations and Outcomes in the Law of Torts

2019 ◽  
pp. 133-172
Author(s):  
John Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Special Problem ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Philosophical Study ◽  
The Law ◽  
Categorical Reasons ◽  
The Human Condition

This chapter argues that reasons to succeed are indeed intelligible apart from the law—i.e. morally intelligible in the relevant sense—and that reasons to try are not morally intelligible, in the relevant sense, without them. From here it is but a relatively short step to conclude that at least the first half of this conjunction still holds true when the reasons in question are obligatory. There is no special problem with mandatory categorical reasons to succeed. But instead of making that short step here, it is left in the hands of others, including those who remain attached to Kant’s curious argument, to try and block it. That is the best way to honour the spirit of Honoré’s ground-breaking contrarian contribution to the philosophical study of the law of torts, and indeed the philosophical study of the human condition.

scholarly journals The Amazon Rainforest of Pre-Modern Literature: Ethics, Values, and Ideals from the Past for Our Future. With a Focus on Aristotle and Heinrich Kaufringer

Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen
Keyword(s):  
Human Condition ◽  
Amazon Rainforest ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
Stem Fields ◽  
The Past ◽  
Future Needs ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Human Condition

The tensions between the STEM fields and the Humanities are artificial and might be the result of nothing but political and financial competition. In essence, all scholars explore their topics in a critical fashion, relying on the principles of verification and falsification. Most important proves to be the notion of the laboratory, the storehouse of experiences, ideas, imagination, experiments. For that reason, here the metaphor of the Amazon rainforest is used to illustrate where the common denominators for scientists and scholars rest. Without that vast field of experiences from the past the future cannot be built. The focus here is based on the human condition and its reliance on ethical ideals as already developed by Aristotle. In fact, neither science nor humanities-based research are possible without ethics. Moreover, as illustrated by the case of one of the stories by Heinrich Kaufringer (ca. 1400), human conditions have always been precarious, contingent, puzzling, and fragile, especially if ethics do not inform the individual’s actions. Pre-modern literature is here identified as an ‘Amazon rainforest’ that only waits to be explored for future needs.

Absent Felicity

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-58
Author(s):  
Andrew Sanders
Keyword(s):  
American Revolution ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Pursuit Of Happiness ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
The Common ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Human Condition

‘Happiness’, as we now commonly understand the term, is not something we should expect to meet in Shakespeare’s work. When he employs alternative words – such as ‘felicity, ‘merry’ or ‘blessed’ – he rarely seeks to convey what latter-day readers might assume to be the concept of ‘happiness’ that we accept as an agreeable state of mind. Shakespeare’s ‘happy’ seems to apply to circumstances rather than to a state of mind. His characters often appear to be luckier in their happiness rather than actual achievers of happiness. The idea that the ‘pursuit of happiness’ is an essential part of the definition of the human condition (as in the founding documents of the American Revolution) may well owe far more to John Milton’s use of the words ‘happy’ and ‘happiness’ and the common acceptance of ‘happiness’ as a socially and politically desirable condition.

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