‘Geloven en weten’ in Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie

2021 ◽  
Vol 113 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-220
Author(s):  
Guido Vanheeswijck
Keyword(s):  
Concise Overview ◽  
Secular Society ◽  
Specific Theme ◽  
Conceptual Translation ◽  
Contemporary Climate

Abstract ‘Faith and knowledge’ in Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie. On the Role of Philosophy in Post-Secular Society This article focuses on three aspects that might clarify the quintessence of Habermas’ position regarding the relation between faith and knowledge in his book, Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie. First, a concise overview is given of the role of this specific theme in Habermas’ oeuvre as a whole (from his earliest to his later writings), that may help to illuminate why his so-called shift with regard to the relation between faith and knowledge is in need of modification. Subsequently, the question is raised as to the possible role philosophy may still play for Habermas in the contemporary climate of so-called post-secular thought. Finally, some critical remarks are formulated concerning his genealogical reconstruction, in particular his treatment of respectively the axial period, the double face of nominalism and the specific status of a philosophical, conceptual translation of religious contents.

Towards a post-secular political order?

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariano Barbato ◽  
Friedrich Kratochwil
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Political Order ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Clash Of Civilizations ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
Secular Society ◽  
Role Of Religion

The ‘return of religion’ as a social phenomenon has aroused at least three different debates, with the first being the ‘clash of civilizations’, the second criticizing ‘modernity’, and the third focusing on the public/private distinction. This article uses Habermas’ idea of a post-secular society as a prism through which we examine the return of religion and impact on secularization. In doing so, we attempt to understand the new role of religion as a challenger of the liberal projects following the decline of communism. Against this background, section four focuses on Habermas’s central arguments in his proposal for a post-secular society. We claim that theproblematiquein Habermas’s analysis must be placed within the wider framework of an emerging global public sphere. In this context we examine the problem of religion’s place in political process and the two readings of Habermas as suggested by Simone Chambers.

God and Our Public Life: A Scriptural Wisdom

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-81
Author(s):  
David Ford
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Secular Society ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Scriptural Reasoning ◽  
Exemplary Practice

AbstractThis article recognises both the need for wisdom for the flourishing of public life and the value of the contribution that Christian wisdom, founded on Scripture, has to offer. However, this article also notes that the contemporary world is a complexly religious and secular environment, and hence if Christian wisdom is to realise its potential, there is a need for the creation and nurture of attitudes, groups and institutions within which fruitful dialogue between faiths and ideologies in public life can occur. The article observes that Britain currently has a particular opportunity to work towards this kind of wisdom-embracing religious and secular society, and the practice of scriptural reasoning is explored as an exemplary practice that promotes the kind of inter-faith collegiality, collaboration and friendships that enhance public life. Finally, the article offers some brief reflections on Job and the role of wisdom in an authentic and biblical Christian faith.

Augustine on Grace and Worship in Virtue Formation

2021 ◽  
pp. 105-122
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. Herdt
Keyword(s):  
Primary Site ◽  
Secular Society

Augustine’s attention to the role of liturgical practices in the formation of the virtues offers a subtle account of the pedagogy or training of desire. Augustine illuminates the mystery at the heart of habituation: that we cannot simply decide to desire or decide to love, even as our character is most fundamentally defined by what we love. Yet in recovering Augustine’s thought for contemporary reflection on the virtues, we must appropriate Augustine’s critique of pagan spectacle and pagan virtue with caution, recognizing how Augustine’s own insights into the inscrutability of grace undermine any monolithic construction of the secular as Other, even Augustine’s own construction of splendid pagan vice. Affirming the liturgy as the primary site for the formation of Christian virtue sustains, rather than restricts, Christian participation in the process of articulating and acting for the sake of common goods in a pluralist secular society.

scholarly journals Documentation at the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb

2019 ◽  
pp. 71-86
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Vlatković
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Management Activity ◽  
Concise Overview ◽  
The People ◽  
Over Time

The paper provides a concise overview of documentation management activity per- formed at the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb during the period ranging from 1919 to this day. It strives to highlight the importance, as well as the changes and the expan- sion of the role of documentation management in museums over time. The continuity of documentation management at the Ethnographic Museum has been pointed out over the first 100 years of its activity and the work of the people who have played a crucial role in the formation and the documentation management at the Museum has been concisely presented. The conclusion presents the current challenges and efforts to harmonise the documentation management tradition with the changes in laws, technological development and international standards

Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) and Early Christianity

1994 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. H. C. Frend
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Secular Society ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
The Church

Thus Gibbon opened the thirty-seventh chapter of the History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, a lengthy chapter devoted to the twin topics of ‘the institution of monastic life’ and ‘the conversion of the northern barbarians’. The connection between the history of the Roman Empire and the Christian Church was indeed indissoluble. The Church was destined to follow the pattern of the empire by gradually degenerating as it grew in strength from original purity in the life of Christ and the Apostles to become a corrupt and baleful influence on the fortunes of secular society. Looking back over twenty years of research and writing (1767–87) he wrote near the beginning of his final chapter, ‘In the preceding volumes of this History, I have described the triumph of barbarism and religion and I can only resume in a few words, their real or imaginary connection with the ruin of ancient Rome.’ He goes on to list ‘potent and forcible causes of destruction’ by barbarians and Christians respectively. As he finally laid down his pen on 27 June 1787 at Lausanne, he concluded with a sentence whose strict accuracy has sometimes been doubted: ‘It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised twenty years of my life, and which, however inadequate to my wishes, I finally deliver to the curiosity and candour of the public.’ The date of this decision was 15 October 1764. Here we survey briefly the role of ‘religion’, i.e. Christianity in the ruin of the Roman Empire.

The First Decade of Namibian Law

1999 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-291
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Present State ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Concise Overview

AbstractThe article provides a concise overview of Namibian legal developments since the country became independent in 1990. It presents the constitutional framework of Namibian law, the principle of continued application of pre-independence rules, the history and future of the Roman-Dutch law inherited from South Africa, the role of customary law, and the present state of legal education and the legal profession in the country.

scholarly journals Przekład literatury konceptualnej Studium przypadku lokalizacji Paint the Rock Shiva Kotechy jako Namaluj Popka

1970 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Marecki ◽  
Aleksandra Małecka
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Original Experiment ◽  
Critical Potential ◽  
Translation Strategy ◽  
Conceptual Translation ◽  
Conceptual Writing

Translation of Conceptual Literature. A Case Study of the Localization of Paint the Rock by Shiv Kotecha into the Polish Namaluj PopkaThe article presents case study of a creative practice-based project in which the experimental conceptual book Paint the Rock by Shiv Kotecha was translated into Polish using a conceptual translation strategy. The original is an unconventional “coloring book” that invites the reader to paint American male celebrities from memory. The Polish translation, Namaluj Popka by Aleksandra Małecka and Piotr Marecki, remakes the original experiment, replacing these global household names with figures from the Polish local popular imaginary in a ludic localization. The authors describe the context of the original literary work, the translation process, the new context for reception in Poland, with a special focus on the role of the translator as the ambassador of new trends in literature and the creative and critical potential of conceptual writing and translation strategies.KEY WORDS: ambient literature, experimental literature, conceptual translation, experimental translation, conceptual literature

“Aleksei Alekseichi” of Bunin’s short stories: integration elements of an unassembled cycle

2021 ◽  
pp. 144-157
Author(s):  
Ya. V. Bazhenova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Proper Name ◽  
Specific Theme ◽  
The One ◽  
Unique Ability ◽  
Experimental Attitude

The paper analyzes I. A. Bunin’s short story “Alexey Alekseich,” which is the central element of the unassembled cycle with a hero named Alexey Alekseevich. The cycle also includes short stories “The Archival File” and “Inscriptions.” A reconstruction of the writer’s strategy of composing the cycle expressed in Bunin’s metaposition towards literature as an aesthetic activity is carried out. Bunin actualizes the expressiveness of the authors’ proper noun (patronymic name) to hold a dialogue with his predecessors and intensify a debate with contemporaries in the literary field. On the one hand, in “Alexey Alekseich,” Bunin diminishes the role of a literary word in culture by parodying authoritative pretexts and polemics with them (L. N. Tolstoy). In this way, the writer invokes the specific theme of modernists – experimental attitude to the literary sign (Potekhin’s character). In addition, he introduces motifs of tomfoolery and oratorical behavior (with allusions to M. Gorky). On the other hand, comparing the different editions of “Alexey Alekseich” and its linkage with other two texts of the unassembled cycle shows that Bunin rehabilitates an artistic word and literary activity by applying onomatopoetic and narrative devices in the poetics of his short story. In this aspect, the role of the literary sign in culture is justified by its unique ability to confront death and oblivion. Thus, Bunin’s short story “Alexey Alekseich” reveals extensive use of the meaningforming possibilities of the proper name.

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