Looking for Happiness in a Fallen World

2022 ◽  
pp. 94-118
Author(s):  
Kathleen French
Keyword(s):  
Fallen World

scholarly journals Nikolai Berdyaev’s Dialectics of Freedom: In Search for Spiritual Freedom

Open Theology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 299-308
Author(s):  
Raul-Ovidiu Bodea
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Existential Philosophy ◽  
Spiritual Freedom ◽  
Theology And Philosophy ◽  
Fallen World

Abstract In Berdyaev’s notion of freedom the borders between theology and philosophy seem to fall down. The same existential concern for spiritual freedom is at the heart of both theology and philosophy. From the point of view of existential philosophy as Berdyaev understands it, only a theologically informed account of freedom, could do justice to the concept of freedom. But a freedom determined by God is not what Berdyaev had in mind as representing authentic freedom. It was necessary for him to reinterpret Jakob Boehme’s concept of Ungrund to arrive at a notion of uncreated freedom that both God and man share. But the articulation of this freedom, and an account of it within our fallen world could only be done as a philosophical pursuit. To arrive at the authentic understanding of spiritual freedom, that is theologically informed, Berdyaev believes that a philosophical rejection of erroneous views of freedom should take place. The articulation of the notion of freedom that does justice to the complexity of the existential situation of both God and man is not for Berdyaev a purpose in itself. The purpose is the arrival at a non-objectified knowledge of freedom that would inform a theologically committed existential attitude.

Love and Sexuality in the Fallen World of Ma Jian

2019 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-35
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Fifer
Keyword(s):  
Fallen World

Trapped in a Fallen World

2022 ◽  
pp. 147-162
Author(s):  
Kathleen French
Keyword(s):  
Fallen World

Policing in a Changing Constitutional Order. By Neil Walker. [London: Sweet & Maxwell. 2000. xxiii, 297 (Bibliography) 25 and (Index) 24 pp. Paperback. £34.95 net. ISBN 0–421–63370–0.]

2002 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 715-738
Author(s):  
Christopher Forsyth
Keyword(s):  
Police Culture ◽  
Occupational Culture ◽  
Constitutional Order ◽  
False Proposition ◽  
Primary Determinant ◽  
Fallen World

This book rests on what may well seem to most lawyers to be a self-evident truth: that “[a]ll policing systems are profoundly influenced by the constitutional order in which they are situated” (p. 1). But the author states that for many, particularly sociologists, this would be a debatable or false proposition. These would consider either that “occupational culture [was] the primary determinant of police behaviour” or would at any rate stress the discrepancy between the “legal ideal and profane reality” (p. 1, footnote 1). These latter propositions appear to be as self-evident as the first one: we live in a fallen world and so there will always be a gap between “legal ideal and profane reality” and who can doubt that police culture influences police behaviour.

Amplifications of Subjectivity: Aleksandr Zel’dovich’s The Target (2010)

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vlad Strukov
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Subject Formation ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Self Recognition ◽  
Key Points ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Fallen World

In the final chapter, I am concerned with the confirmation of the subject as a transcendent category in the moment of self-recognition whereby the finite identity is rejected in favour of the infinite Self. Zel’dovich’s The Target employs the sublime as a drama of subject-formation—both as a story of emergence and obliteration—whereby the limits of the self are conceived as a movement away from the self into the topography of solitary subjectivity confronted with open-ended being. The subject becomes an excess of discourse itself, that is, it centres on self-preservation which ensures infinity in stasis. The subject enters the divine state of amnesia after cataclysmic disruptions: the subject is no longer a tyrannous architect of the fallen world but a pre-eminent observer of the unfolding universe. I am particularly interested in the cinematic materiality of the sublime and the immateriality of subjectivity existing outside the temporal framework of history. I centre on issues of scale and amplification as matters of cultural vibration in a post-apocalyptic world. I conclude by demonstrating how Zel’dovich’s The Target with focuses on transient spaces and the epiphany of the universal monad. Thus, this chapter summates the key points presented in the book.

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