Re-Thinking Evaluation in the Era of Neuroscience

2020 ◽  
pp. 301-318
Author(s):  
Adriana V. Braescu
Keyword(s):  
Life Form ◽  
Good Sense ◽  
Skilled Worker ◽  
Form Of Life

The main goal of any form of life is survival, by any means. All the processes happening in any life form obey this only rule of survival. Humans are the most sophisticated – not necessarily in the good sense of the word – in making this survival as complicated as possible. Authors developed intricate systems of evaluation, quotients – of intelligence, of emotion, of consciousness, etc. – and tried to fix in little boxes, like a skilled worker that deals with any machinery – each component of life, without even understanding what life is. It is a time when evaluation has to be reconsidered - in the context of a failed world.

Nature of dignity and human dignity

Human Affairs ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasil Gluchman
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Life Form ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
The Right

AbstractThis paper argues that the concept of dignity should be understood as a concept that we use to describe an aggregate of values and qualities of a person or thing that deserves esteem and respect. The primary value that creates the right to have dignity is life. The degree of dignity a life form has depends on its place in the evolutionary scale. Human beings are the highest form of life so they possess the highest degree of dignity.

scholarly journals The Pragmatic Connotation of Wittgenstein's Assertion "Language Game is a Form of Life"

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peilan Peng
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Life Form ◽  
Language Game ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Forms Of Life

This paper introduces the concept of "language game", and on the basis of this background, illustrates the two important concepts of the later philosophy Wittgenstein: "language game" and "life form", and emphatically discusses the "language game" and "life form" of the dialectical relations. The paper also reveals the pragmatic connotation of the assertion "language is a kind of life form", which is mainly reflected in the following three aspects: language use is unique to human social practice; the context of linguistic games is life; the rules of the language game are rooted in the forms of life.

scholarly journals Fighting for What Matters: Care, Supporting People and Preserving a Form of Life in Baton Twirling Clubs

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-490
Author(s):  
Dominique Malatesta ◽  
Christophe Jaccoud
Keyword(s):  
Life Form ◽  
Young Girls ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
What Matters

Abstract In this article, we look at twirling baton clubs characterized by a specific sociality which is part of a life form. This was threatened by the demands of sportivisation from the sport institution. The protests expressed by the clubs show the attachment to a logic of care with the aim of protecting the vulnerabilities and the singular identities of the athletes who are mostly young girls.

McDowell, John Henry (1942–)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas H. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Life Form ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Theory Of Meaning ◽  
The University

McDowell taught philosophy at Oxford from 1967 to 1986, where he established himself as a key figure in analytic philosophy, mounting forceful arguments in favour of a realist stance in the theory of meaning, philosophy of mind and metaethics, and challenging a variety of noncognitivist and antirealist positions that had become orthodox in those fields. In 1986 he took up a position at the University of Pittsburgh, where he has worked since. In his most highly acclaimed work, Mind and World (1994), McDowell sought to diagnose a transcendental anxiety, characteristic of modern philosophy, in which it seems mysterious that thought is answerable to reality at all. McDowell’s proposed cure for the anxiety turned on embracing the idea that there is no gap between reality and the reach of thought, no contact with reality that does not bring conceptual capacities into play, capacities that are acquired not by magic but naturally through education into a form of life. Much of McDowell’s work since Mind and World has been aimed at clarifying and refining the idea that conceptual capacities permeate the human life form. Increasingly, he has turned to Sellars, Kant and Hegel for guidance in pursuing that task.

scholarly journals Natural goodness and the political form of human life

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 565-592
Author(s):  
Jan Müller
Keyword(s):  
Explicit Form ◽  
Life Form ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Form ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Natural Goodness ◽  
Human Practices ◽  
Political Form

Ethical Naturalism attempts to explain the objective normativity effective in human practices by reference to the relation between a living individual and the life-form it exhibits. This explanation falls short in the case of human beings (1) - not merely because of their essential rationality, but because the idea of normativity implicit in practice is dependent on the form of normativity?s being made explicit (2). I argue that this explicit form of normativity?s force and claim - the law in general - implies a tension between an explicit norm?s claim to absoluteness and the particularity of the situational case it is applied to. This tension may seem to produce an inherent violence corrupting the very idea of objective normativity inherent in the human form of life (3); in fact, it shows that the human form of life is essentially political. That the human form of life is essentially political does not contradict the idea of objective normativity - provided that this objectivity is not derived from a conception of ?natural goodness?, but rather from the actuality of human practice and its principle, justice (4).

Self-Consciousness as a Living Kind: On the Fourth Chapter of Hegel's Phenomenology

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Lucian Ionel
Keyword(s):  
Life Form ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Phenomenology Of Spirit ◽  
Unity Of Consciousness ◽  
Social Form ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Living Being

Abstract This paper discusses Hegel's conception of self-consciousness in the fourth chapter of the Phenomenology of Spirit. It argues that Hegel articulates self-consciousness as a living being's capacity to conceive of itself in light of the life-form it instantiates. I start by critically reassessing the prevalent readings of the Self-Consciousness chapter, each of which focuses on one of three constitutive aspects of self-consciousness: sociality, corporeality or practicality. Second, I reconstruct how the opening of the chapter aims to reveal that the initial rift between the sensory and the conceptual capacities of consciousness is resolved by the unity of consciousness as a life-form. Third, I discuss the specification of this life-form as Geist and argue that, by introducing the notion of Geist, Hegel indicates that the generic capacity of the human being to conceive of itself in light of its life-form always particularizes itself in a conception of human life that determines a historic and social form of life. Fourth, I outline how the master-slave dialectic illustrates the interdependency between sensory and conceptual capacities. Hegel's tale undermines the assumption of a self-contained capacity for reason by displaying how conceptual capacities, actualized by a living being, rely from the outset on objective constraints. I conclude by contending that the Self-Consciousness chapter paves the way for the central role that the idea of life plays in the Logic in exemplifying the objectivity of the concept.

Good Sense on Research Ethics

1981 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 351-352
Author(s):  
M. Brewster Smith
Keyword(s):  
Research Ethics ◽  
Good Sense

An Immanent Criticism of Urban Design in Montevideo

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Washington MORALES
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Applied Ethics ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Applied Philosophy ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Philosophical Frameworks

The debate about the so called “excluding design” has been a focus for applied philosophy for several years. The structure of this debate is constituted by deontological and consequentialist’s applied ethics and as well as agonistic democratic approaches. This paper asks for the applicability of these points of view to the particular socio-political reality of Montevideo. Examining this reality closer, I hold that we cannot comprehend the recent aestheticization of the excluding design there through these contemporary philosophical frameworks. As an alternative philosophical procedure, I analyze the aestheticization of excluding design in Montevideo from Rahel Jaeggi’s immanent criticism. I hold that this process of aestheticization implies an ideological regressive “form of life”. And I also argue that the Uruguayan democracy is affected by this ideological regression. Nevertheless, because this aestheticization is not an exclusive Uruguayan phenomenon, this paper intends to open one direction in applied philosophy of urban design.

The Conceptualist Ends of Writing and the End of Conceptualism

CounterText ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-77
Author(s):  
Louis Armand
Keyword(s):  
Dna Sequence ◽  
Life Form ◽  
The Sun

This essay examines the convergence of conceptualist poetics with evolutionary code as a form of ‘becoming alien’. The focus is Christian Bök's The Xenotext project: an attempt at translating a ‘short verse about language and genetics’, using a chemical alphabet, into a DNA sequence implanted into the genome of a polyextremophile bacterium capable of enduring conditions in outerspace. Bök describes the project as, ‘in effect, engineering a life-form so that it becomes not only a durable archive for storing a poem, but also as an operant machine for writing a poem – one that can persist on the planet until the sun itself explodes …’. The concrete, constraint-based character of Bök's project evokes a mode of writing between posthumanist aesthetics and a positivist grammatology by turns deconstructive and itself requiring of deconstruction.

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