scholarly journals Suffering in the perspective of God’s governance, eschatology and God’s council

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham Van de Beek
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Model ◽  
The Other ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Understanding ◽  
Temporal Model

From the beginning of Christian theology, theologians have struggled with the question of how suffering in the world is related to God’s providence. A classic response to this question is that, ultimately, God’s governance is beyond human understanding. More recently an eschatological solution has been preferred: God is involved in a historical process and he will finally overcome evil. This article argued that both responses have their own problems. In the first God is a hidden mystery, and in the latter either the outcome of history is uncertain or God is waiting unnecessarily long. On the other hand, both provide consolation to human beings in times of suffering. Which one of the two answers is more helpful, depends on culture and context. Therefore, they are both acceptable responses to the question. At a deeper level, one can argue that both refer to eternity − one in a spatial model (above) and the other in a temporal model (hereafter). Both space and time are metaphors in this context. That is also the case when we speak of ‘before’ with regard to God’s eternal council. Ultimately, from a perspective of eternity, God’s council, God’s governance and God’s final judgment coincide. In Christian theology these concepts can only be understood in the paradigm of God’s revelation in Christ, who is the expression of the mystery of creation − as is especially indicated in the letters to the Ephesians and Colossians. Vanaf het begin van het Christendom hebben theologen geworsteld met de vraag hoe het lijden in de wereld zich verhoudt tot Gods voorzienigheid. Een klassiek antwoord daarop is dat ten laatste Gods bestuur het menselijk begrip te boven gaat. Tegenwoordig wordt eerder de voorkeur gegeven aan een eschatologische oplossing: God is betrokken in een proces door de geschiedenis waarin Hij uiteindelijk het kwaad zal overwinnen. De auteur betoogt dat beide benaderingen hun eigen problemen hebben. In het eerste geval is God een onkenbaar mysterie en in het tweede geval is de afloop onzeker of wacht God onnodig lang met zijn overwinning. Aan de andere kant bieden beide antwoorden mensen troost in lijdenssituaties. Welke van de twee antwoorden het beste is, hangt af van cultuur en context. Daarom zijn beide aanvaardbaar als antwoord op het probleem van Gods voorzienigheid. Op een dieper niveau kan men betogen dat beide verwijzen naar de eeuwigheid, het eerste antwoord in een ruimtelijk model (‘te boven’) en het tweede in een tijdsmodel (‘hierna’). Zowel ruimte als tijd zijn hier metaforisch gebruikt. Dat is ook het geval als we spreken over ‘vóór’ met betrekking tot Gods eeuwige raad. Uiteindelijk zijn, vanuit het perspectief van de eeuwigheid, Gods raad, Gods beleid en Gods laatste oordeel identiek. In de christelijke theologie kunnen deze concepten alleen worden verstaan in het paradigma van Gods openbaring in Christus, die de expressie van het geheimenis van de schepping is, zoals met name de brieven aan de Efeziërs en aan de Kolossenzen aangeven.

scholarly journals Two Conceptions of Second Nature

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georg W. Bertram
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Open Future ◽  
Second Nature ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Cognitive Activities ◽  
The Open Future ◽  
The One ◽  
First Nature

AbstractThe concept of second nature promises to provide an explanation of how nature and reason can be reconciled. But the concept is laden with ambiguity. On the one hand, second nature is understood as that which binds together all cognitive activities. On the other hand, second nature is conceived of as a kind of nature that can be changed by cognitive activities. The paper tries to investigate this ambiguity by distinguishing a Kantian conception of second nature from a Hegelian conception. It argues that the idea of a transformation from a being of first nature into a being of second nature that stands at the heart of the Kantian conception is mistaken. The Hegelian conception demonstrates that the transformation in question takes place within second nature itself. Thus, the Hegelian conception allows us to understand the way in which second nature is not structurally isomorphic with first nature: It is a process of ongoing selftransformation that is not primarily determined by how the world is, but rather by commitments out of which human beings are bound to the open future.

Receptivity and Creativity in Hermeneutics

2016 ◽  
pp. 225-239
Author(s):  
Chung-ying Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Moral Agents ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Understanding ◽  
Positive Projection ◽  
The One ◽  
Coming To Know

There are two aspects of the hermeneutic: the receptive and the creative. The receptive of the hermeneutic consists in coming to know and acknowledge what has happened, observing what there is as historically effected, foretelling what will happen as a matter of projection of future possibilities, and disclosing / discovering transcendental conditions, fore-structures or horizons of human understanding and interpretation; the creative of the hermeneutic, on the other hand, consists in realizing and demonstrating human sensibilities and human capabilities and needs, conceptualizing what is factual and real based on human cognitive and volitional faculties and experiences, developing values and pursuing regulative ideals of actions, and searching for best possible ways or methods to reach for individual and communal end-goals which will enhance human beings as autonomous entities and moral agents in the world. The receptive is represented by the phenomenological approach to Being and reality whereas the creative is conveyed by an ontology of reflection of human being for self-definition and self-cultivation of human faculties. This amounts to bringing out an existing distinction between ming (what is imparted) and li (the presupposed ground) on the one hand and xing ( human potentiality for being in oneself) and xin (human understanding and interpretation toward action) on the other in the tradition of Confucian metaphysics.Next, I shall focus on Heidegger and Gadamer as taking ontological receptivity (as a matter of fore-structures of Being or Language of human understanding) as the source of meaning of existence and meaningfulness of texts. Th ere are of course creative elements to be identifi ed with forming investigative projects of the Dasein for disclosing truth of the Being, but the main tone is to realize the Being or Language as base structures of our hermeneutic consciousness or hermeneutic space of understanding. Because of spacelimitation, however, I shall leave to another occasion the discussion of the creative formation and positive projection of a transformative cosmological philosophy in the Yijing tradition as represented in my onto-hermeneutics which takes experiences of ≫comprehensive observation≪ (guan) and ≫feeling- refl ection≪ (gan) as two avenues toward human understanding and hermeneutic enterprise of interpretation.

Païdeia et Sport

1998 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Leo-Paul Bordeleau
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

Can sport claim to be an educative means, and what becomes of Greek paideia in the world of sport? The author intends to answer these questions through the use of a semantic and historical clarification of the notions of sport and education. Indeed, on the one hand, sport appears like a social practice not much propitious to education; on the other hand, modern education seems to have deviated from the Greek paideia’s trajectory. Therefore, to take into account this deviation and, by doing so, to make precise the idea of education, and then demonstrate that sport carries all characteristics of modern rationality which has produced it, will allow the author to conclude that sport could be considered one of the preferential means of human beings’ formation. Nevertheless its educative function more likely belongs to the nature of "poïèsis" than to the nature of "praxis."

scholarly journals The Anthropocene as a regime of visibility: the posthumanist paradox between domination and liberation

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Dal Gobbo ◽  
Emanuele Leonardi
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Historical Contingency ◽  
Neoliberal Governmentality ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

The discourse of the ‘Anthropocene’ has quickly become pervasive, cross-cutting different fields of knowledge. However, it is also a deeply contested category. In the critical light shed by political ecology, we reflect on the conceptual blindspots that mark its narrative, identifying it as a symptom of a broader impasse of the neoliberal governmentality of nature and of the ecological crisis today. On the one hand, the Anthropocene narrative proposes a post-humanist vision, which potentially de-centres anthropocentrism. On the other hand, this same vision becomes an alibi for ever deeper and less reflective interventions of human beings on the biosphere, in particular through technoscientific developments. This paradox responds to a specific need for capitalist valorization of ‘Nature’ and, at the same time, does not seem capable to elaborate solutions to the ecological crisis as a whole. However, if the Anthropocene becomes visible only in the present historical contingency and due to specific kinds of knowledge, we suggest that reflecting on epistemological issues is key to the search for more ecological ways of situating in the world. Which forms of knowledge allow us to understand the emancipatory potential of post-humanism within the Anthropocene while avoiding new predatory effects on the biosphere?

scholarly journals MAQASHID AL-SYARIAH SEBAGAI KONSEP DASAR DALAM TEORI PEMBENTUKAN HUKUM ISLAM DI INDONESIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 269
Author(s):  
Alvan Fathony
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Reasoning ◽  
Legal Decisions ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Divine Law

The majority of fuqoha 'has defined fiqh as a result of understanding, tashawwur and critical reasoning (al-idrak) of a mujtahid. But on the other hand, fiqh as a result of ijtihad teryata is often described as divine law (sharia). As Ijma '(consensus), there are many differences in defining it, but until now there are still many fuqoha' who regard ijma 'as qath'i propositions which are level with texts and are sariari-made propositions' and even claim that those who oppose ijma 'including infidels. Humans often traditionalize actions that are considered good and are their daily needs, so that Islam also still recognizes and contributes to maintaining the tradition (‘Urf) into a method of observation, not only maintaining it but because it pays more attention to the benefit of the people. Because Islam comes in the context of regulating the social order that is oriented towards achieving benefit and avoiding loss (madlarat), moreover the texts of the Shari'a itself do not provide a detailed solution to the diversity of problems of each community. Traditionally the implications of Urf are very limited to only space and time, while legal decisions continue to apply even in different situations and conditions. So the view of jurisprudence towards the world (jurist's worldview) is intended as the development of the Urf concept in order to achieve the universality of maqashid al-sharia.

scholarly journals TANTANGAN DAKWAH DALAM MEDIA TEKNOLOGI KOMUNIKASI DI ERA GLOBALISASI

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Rais Ribha Rifqi Hakim
Keyword(s):  
Information Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
National Network ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Behavior

<pre><em>The development of information technology has kemjauan very rapidly. The advancement has led mankind easier to relate to one another. Various information and events happening parts of the world with rapidly can be known by human beings on other continents. The era of globalization characterized by the rapid advancement of communication technology is also called information age. The world community, including Muslims today can enjoy television programs with a variety of impressions. The television broadcasts emanating not only from a national network, but also can follow the international network thanks to the satellite which is connected with the parabola in people's homes. Communication on one side convey information to others for ideas or ideas to others either use or not use the media while the media on the other hand want to change the mindset and behavior of the people. </em><em>Same with da'wah, Communication is the process of conveying information to others about ideas or ideas to other people both using the media and not using media while on the other hand they want to change people's mindsets and behavior. The function of da'wah and communication are also the same, namely to change someone with a specific purpose. The purpose of da'wah is to convey information and seek information to mad'u so that the material to be conveyed can be understood so that communication can be achieved. The da'i to mad’u's da'wah process is expected to have a psychological influence in improving Islamic teachings. However, the challenge of preaching in the information era has become more complex. With this required expertise in conveying his da'wah for the success of da'wah, including various treatments that are more profound and efficient.</em><em></em></pre><p> </p><p align="center">****</p><em>Perkembangan teknologi informasi mengalami kemajuan sangat pesat. Kemajuan tersebut telah mengantarkan umat manusia semakin mudah untuk berhubungan satu dengan lainnya. Berbagai infomasi dan peristiwa yang terjadi dibelahan dunia dengan secara cepat dapat diketahui oleh manusia pada benua yang lain. Era globalisasi yang ditandai oleh semakin majunya teknologi komunikasi juga disebut dengan era informasi. Masyarakat dunia termasuk umat Islam dewasa ini dapat menikmati acara televisi dengan berbagai tayangan. Siaran televisi tersebut bukan hanya terpancar dari jaringan yang bersifat nasional, tetapi juga dapat mengikuti jaringan internasional berkat adanya satelit yang dihubungkan dengan adanya parabola di rumah-rumah penduduk. Sama dengan dakwah, Komunikasi adalah proses menyampaikan informasi kepada orang lain terhadap gagasan atau ide kepada orang lain baik menggunakan media maupun tidak menggunakan media sedangkan disisi lain ingin mengubah pola pikir dan tingkah laku masyarakat. Fungsi dakwah dan komunikasi juga sama, yaitu untuk merubah seseorang dengan tujuan tertentu. Tujuan dakwah adalah untuk menyampaikan informasi dan mencari informasi kepada mad’u agar materi yang ingin disampaikan dapat dimengerti sehingga komunikasi yang dilaksanakan dapat tercapai. Proses dakwah yang dilakukan oleh da’i kepada mad’u diharapkan mempunyai pengaruh psikologis dalam meningkatkan ajaran Islam. Namun, tantangan berdakwah di era informasi menjadi lebih komplek. Dengan ini dibutuhkan kepiawaian da’i dalam menyampaikan dakwahnya demi keberhasilan dakwah, termasuk berbagai perlakuan yang lebih mendalam dan berdayaguna.</em>

The sovereignty of revelation: On Paul Ricœur’s hermeneutics of revelation

2021 ◽  
pp. 000842982110448
Author(s):  
Balázs M Mezei
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Human Understanding ◽  
The One ◽  
Central Term

In this article I overview Paul Ricœur’s understanding of divine revelation on the basis of some of his relevant writings. I argue that Ricœur’s hermeneutics of revelation has two aspects: on the one hand Ricœur’s explains the complex ways of acquiring and interpreting divine revelation especially with respect to the Bible; on the other hand, he acknowledges that revelation, originating in God’s freedom, is immediately given. In Ricœur’s view, the understanding of this immediacy is tainted by the presence of evil in human understanding which hinders the realization of revelation itself. As a critique of this standpoint I argue that the immediate givenness of revelation is logically and phenomenologically presupposed in our interpretations. Any hermeneutics of revelation entails a phenomenology of revelation. This phenomenology contains both the self-founding of human beings and, at the same time, the recognition of the absoluteness of the divine. Husserl’s phenomenology offers a way to the understanding of the immediacy of revelation through his central term of Eigenheitlichkeit. Ricœur understands this term not as genuine reality but rather as appartenance, ‘belonging to’, and reshapes its meaning in line with a hermeneutical naturalism. This explains his difficulty to conceive properly the sovereignty of revelation and the importance of phenomenology in the understanding of its immediate character.

scholarly journals Integrasi Syariah dengan Tasawuf

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asep Usman Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Human Value ◽  
The World

Abstract: Shariah Integration in Sufism. Islam is a religion that integrates Islamic principles and morals (sufism) on a basis of creed. For the prophet Rasulullah, this integration was reflected in his attitude which consistently obeyed the shariah in personal and social life (worship and mu‘âmalah). But on the other hand, he was a man who spent most nights with his head bowed, and shedding tears yearning for God. His heart is always connected with God. However, his loging for God gave birth to kindess to others forever with universal human value. The integration of both kindness and values can be apart, but it will continue to be championed by the Islamic scholars to draw closer together and re join in symphony. The Sunnah asserted only by intergrating both of them, joy of the world and the hereafter will materialise because they meet the needs of individual, social, and spiritual of human beings in an integrated manner.Keywords: âqîdah, shariah, fiqh, jurists, ihsân, sufism, the integrationAbstrak: Integrasi Syariah dengan Tasawuf. Islam  adalah agama yang memadukan syariah dan akhlak (tasawuf) di atas landasan akidah. Pada diri Rasulullah Saw. integrasi tersebut tercermin pada sikap beliau yang konsisten mematuhi syariah dalam kehidupan pribadi dan sosial (ibadah dan muamalah).  Sementara pada sisi lain, beliau adalah seorang yang melewati sebagian malamnya dengan rukuk dan sujud, serta tetes air mata kerinduan kepada Allah. Hati beliau senantiasa terpaut dengan Allah. Namun, kerinduan beliau kepada Allah melahirkan kebaikan kepada sesama tanpa mengenal musim dengan cita rasa kemanusiaan universal. Integrasi keduanya bisa merenggang, namun akan terus diperjuangkan oleh ulama hingga mendekat dan menyatu kembali secara simponi. Sunah Nabi menegaskan, hanya dengan memadukan keduanya, kebaikan dunia dan akhirat akan terwujud, karena keduanya memenuhi kebutuhan individu, sosial, dan spiritual manusia secara terpadu.Kata Kunci: akidah, syariah, fikih, fukaha, ihsân, tasawuf, integrasiDOI: 10.15408/ajis.v12i1.987

Conventionalism, Truth, and Cosmological Furniture

1975 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 441-457
Author(s):  
J. O. Wisdom
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Scientific Theories ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

The problem to be discussed here concerns ontology so far as it may not be formed by scientific theory. In brief terms, the problem arises in the following way. On the one hand, the world surely consists of whatever is there, irrespective of whether human beings are around or not, and irrespective especially of whether human beings have constructed any scientific theories depicting the nature of the world; on the other hand, scientific theories are subject to the limitation that we can never verify them or prove them to be true, so that the ontology prescribed by scientific theory is not firmly established but is only what is attributed to the world by a fallible scientific theory at any given time. The problem could also be put in terms of ‘conceptual networks’ or in terms of language-systems.

scholarly journals La visione del creato Allargare lo spazio della ragione

2012 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Kampowski
Keyword(s):  
Final Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Brute Fact ◽  
Pope Benedict Xvi ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Caritas In Veritate ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

Nella sua enciclica Caritas in veritate Papa Benedetto XVI afferma che le domande connesse alla biotica impongono la scelta tra due razionalità: da una parte una razionalità che è aperta alla trascendenza e che si percepisce come risultato della creazione e d’altra parte una ragione chiusa nell’immanenza che non riesce a spiegare la sua origine. Per una razionalità di questo tipo la ragione stessa diventa un fatto inspiegabile e viene in ultima analisi ridotta all’irrazionale in quanto deriva dal caso. Per la bioetica la scelta tra queste due razionalità è di grande significato. Una visione del mondo come risultato del caso, governato dalle leggi meccaniche senza novità, senza significato e senza ragione facilmente conduce ad un’astrazione scientifica, che potrà permettere all’agire biotecnologico dell’uomo di dimenticare il fatto che la vita non è un mero fatto bruto ma esistenza con interesse che prosegue degli scopi. Se trascuriamo la vita come vita, non ci sono più limiti a ciò che potremmo permetterci di fare con un essere vivente, l’uomo incluso. In una visione del mondo come creato, come proveniente dal Logos, dalla ragione divina, invece, si trovano scopi e significati e con ciò anche limiti e criteri per il nostro agire, incluso il nostro agire biotecnologico. ---------- In his encyclical Caritas in veritate, Pope Benedict XVI suggests that it is precisely in bioethics that the problem of a choice between two kinds of rationality emerges in force. There is, on the one hand, a rationality that is open to transcendence and that knows that it is the result of creation; on the other hand, there is a reason that is closed in immanence and that does not succeed in explaining its own origin. For the latter kind of rationality, reason itself becomes a fact that is inexplicable and that in the final analysis is reduced to the irrational inasmuch as it derives from chance. We will argue that what is at stake here for bioethics is this: a vision of the world as the result of chance, governed by mechanical laws without novelty, without meaning and without reason easily leads to scientific abstraction, which can cause us to forget the fact that life is not a simple brute fact, but existence with concern that pursues its goals. If we fail to look at life as life, there will no longer be any limits to what we may permit ourselves to do with living beings, human beings included. In a vision of the world as created, as coming from the Logos, from divine reason, in contrast, there are goals and meanings and with that also limits and criteria for our action, including our biotechnological action.

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