scholarly journals Rebranded Philosophy of History

rth | ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-71
Author(s):  
Helio Rebello Cardoso Júnior
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Theory Of History ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

This article focuses on the one of the many outcomes of the so-called rebranded philosophy of history, namely, the continuity-discontinuity issue. Eelco Runia’s, Noël Bonneuil’s and Paul A. Roth’s conceptions of historical time will be analyzed as representative of this subject in the landscape of the theory of history from 2010 on. The authors sampled not only provide the evidence that historical discontinuity remains alive as a theoretical and historiographical challenge, but they also disclose different arrays to think the relationship among past, present, and future, and historical transformation. The concepts of historical time analyzed recall Foucault’s discontinuously-base model of thinking historical time and add to it different varieties of historical discontinuity. Moreover, the continuity-discontinuity issue in the new backdrop involves operation of translating time into space (spatialization of time). As a result, the discontinuously-based model of historical time’s main characteristics will be summarized and its strength as a heuristic tool for further analyses of the concepts of historical time is outlined.

scholarly journals Benjamin’s Profane Uses of Theology: The Invisible Organon

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Francisco Naishtat
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Jorge Luis Borges ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Language Theory ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
Theory Of History ◽  
The One ◽  
Historical Past

Invisible, but suggestive and fruitful; deprived of any reference to doctrine or ultimate assertive foundations, but nevertheless used in Benjamin like written images, crystallized as “images of thought”; as doctrinally mute as it is heuristically audible, Benjamin’s use of theology reminds us of the ironical use that Jorge Luis Borges himself made of theology and metaphysics as part of his own poetic forms. As such, these images of thought are located both in the place of philosophical use and in the one of methodological cunning or Metis, across the various levels of the corpus: a metaphysics of experience, literary criticism, philosophy of language, theory of history and Marxism. Therefore, accepting that criticism (Kritik) is the visible organon and the object of Benjaminian philosophy, is not theology, then, its invisible organon? What seems to be particular to Benjamin, however, is the agonistic but nevertheless heuristic way in which he intends to use theology in order to upset, disarray, and deconstruct the established philosophy, and specially its dominant trends in the field of the theory of history: historicism, positivism, and the evolutionary Hegelian–Marxist philosophy of history. In this article we try to demonstrate how this theological perspective is applied to a Benjaminian grammar of time. We conclude agonistically, confronting the resulting Benjaminian notion of historical past against Heiddeger’s own vision of historical time.

Pleasure As a Subject of Logic. To the Interpretation of Philebus. Part I

2021 ◽  
pp. 144-153
Author(s):  
Dmitry V. Bugai ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Problem ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Logical Status ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The task of the paper is to determine what is the philosophical meaning of Plato’s Philebus. To define the meaning is to show which way of understanding Phile­bus is the most fruitful, most fully grasping and revealing what forms the sub­stantive core of Plato’s text. It’s no secret that the meaning of Philebus is not at all self-evident. From our point of view, the main subject of the dialogue lies not in the plane of ontology, but in ethics, and what is taken for ontological aspects in Philebus is much more related to the logical and methodological conditions for solving the main ethical problem. Therefore, in this article an attempt was made to show that the key themes of Philebus(the problem of the one-many, the relationship of the four kinds of beings, the theory of false pleasures) are inter­nally related. The question of the relationship between the one and the many is raised in connection with the clarification of the question of the logical status of pleasure. Division into four kinds (limit, unlimited, mixture, reason) is the ful­fillment of the methodological requirement for the necessity of division. The ana­lysis of pleasures following this methodological introduction examines pleasure in an entirely new light, in the light of truth/falsity.

scholarly journals Entre filosofía e historia o filosofía de la historia: una ontología del presente

2007 ◽  
pp. 139-151
Author(s):  
José Antonio Mateos Castro
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Xviii Century ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This article intends to establish the relationship between history and philosophy by performing an historical review that starts with the greeks until the appearance of philosophy of history, specifically in Emmanuel Kant. Afterwards, I relate and show the difference between the kantian meditation of the XVIII century and the one Michel Foucault fulfilled two hundred years later. The objective is to rebound the tasks of philosophy of history and the way that the mentioned authors assume a compromise with the present.

scholarly journals HEIDEGERIŠKOJI ΟὐΣίΑ INTERPRETACIJA KAIP ATSAKAS Į BERGSONIŠKĄJĄ KLASIKINIO MĄSTYMO KRITIKĄ

Problemos ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 73-85
Author(s):  
Nerijus Stasiulis
Keyword(s):  
Classical Philosophy ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

Straipsnyje gretinamos heidegeriškoji ir bergsoniškoji esaties, arba laiko, sampratos. Tariama, jog šių giminingų nemechanistinių laiko sampratų skirtybė yra neatsiejama nuo skirtingo materijos ir dvasios bei daugio ir vienio santykio apmąstymo bei sykiu numano skirtingą santykį su graikiškąja esmės sąvoka. Siekiama parodyti, jog iš Heideggerio būties mąstymo perspektyvos bergsoniškoji vitalistinė esaties traktuotė pasirodo kaip būties užmaršties pavidalas. Atskleidžiant Heideggerio ir Bergsono laiko sampratų skirtumus, sudaromos prielaidos eksplikuoti heidegeriškąją Aristotelio οὐσία sampratos interpretaciją, kurią galima suvokti ir kaip atsaką Bergsono klasikinės filosofijos kritikai.Heideggerian Construal of οὐσία as a Response to Bergsonian Critique of Classical ThoughtNerijus Stasiulis SummaryThe paper compares the Heideggerian and Bergsonian conceptions of isness, or time. The distinction between these affined non-mechanistic conceptions of time is assumed to be intrinsically linked to the different reflections on the relationship between matter and spirit as well as between the many and the one, and also to presuppose a different relationship to the Greek concept of essence. It seeks to demonstrate that, from the perspective of Heidegger’s thinking of Being, the Bergsonian vitalistic approach to isness reveals itself as a form of the forgetfulness of Being. Displaying the differences between Heidegger’s and Bergson’s conceptions of time allows to establish presumptions for explicating the Heideggerian construal of Aristotle’s conception of οὐσία, which can as well be called a response to Bergson‘s critique of classical philosophy.

Between One and Many: Multiples, Multiplication and the Huayan Metaphysics

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsueh-Man Shen
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
Buddhist Doctrine ◽  
Multiple Copies ◽  
One And Many ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Universe

Modern art history practice often treats Buddhist icons or ritual objects as unique objects, focusing on their originality and uniqueness. This text investigates how the paradoxical Buddhist doctrine of ‘the one and the many’ was translated into visual language through manipulation of the relationship between copies and the original. It analyses the different tactics and strategies formulated around given socio-historical frameworks to visualise the notion of infinity, and ultimately the structure of the universe, and suggests that multiple copies of a single design were more potent a vehicle than single objects in expressing ideas related to the Buddhist metaphysics.

Cinema's Doppelgängers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doug Dibbern
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Fritz Lang ◽  
Sergei Eisenstein ◽  
French New Wave ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

Cinema’s Doppelgängers is a counterfactual history of the cinema – or, perhaps, a work of speculative fiction in the guise of a scholarly history of film and movie guide. That is, it’s a history of the movies written from an alternative unfolding of historical time – a world in which neither the Bolsheviks nor the Nazis came to power, and thus a world in which Sergei Eisenstein never made movies and German filmmakers like Fritz Lang never fled to Hollywood, a world in which the talkies were invented in 1936 rather than 1927, in which the French New Wave critics didn’t become filmmakers, and in which Hitchcock never came to Hollywood. The book attempts, on the one hand, to explore and expand upon the intrinsically creative nature of all historical writing; like all works of fiction, its ultimate goal is to be a work of art in and of itself. But it also aims, on the other hand, to be a legitimate examination of the relationship between the economic and political organization of nations and film industries and the resulting aesthetics of film and thus of the dominant ideas and values of film scholarship and criticism.

Ranking Religions

1986 ◽  
Vol 22 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 377-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Copernican Revolution ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
Roman Catholic Priest ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Radical Transformation

Recently there has been considerable debate about the relationship between the religions of the world; in particular Christians have been anxious to formulate a theology of other religions which transcends the traditional Christian belief that God's revelation and salvation are offered exclusively in Jesus Christ. In this context a number of theologians have questioned the finality of Christ and Christianity. Professor John Hick for example - the leading proponent of this view - speaks of a Copernican revolution in theology which involves a radical transformation of the concept of the universe of faiths. It demands, he writes, ‘a paradigm shift from a Christianity–centred or Jesus–centred to a God–centred model of the universe of faiths. One then sees the great world religions as different human responses to the one divine Reality, embodying different perceptions which have been formed in different historical and cultural circumstances. Similarly, the Roman Catholic priest, Raimundo Panikaar, endorses a new map of world religions. Advocating a revised form of ecumenism which strives for unity without harming religious diversity, Panikaar argues that the fundamental religious fact of the world's religions is the mystery known in every authentic religious experience. For Panikaar, this mystery within all religions is both more than and yet has its being within the diverse experiences and beliefs of the religions: ‘It is not simply that there are different ways of leading to the peak, but that the summit itself would collapse if all the paths disappeared. The peak is in a certain sense the result of the slopes leading to it.… It is not that this reality has many names as if there were a reality outside the name. This reality is the many names and each name is a new aspect.’ Such a vision of the universe of faiths implies that no religion can claim final or absolute authority.

TOWARD A VALUE-ORIENTED METAPHYSICS OF NATURE

2003 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 80-92
Author(s):  
Joseph Bracken
Keyword(s):  
Western World ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Relational Ontology ◽  
A Value ◽  
The World ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Trinity

AbstractThe English philosopher/theologian Colin Gunton argues that many of the problems besetting the contemporary Western world, including those dealing with the environment, are traceable to a mistaken understanding of the relationship between the One and the Many in practical life. A solution, however, is available in retrieval of the doctrine of the Trinity promoted by the early Greek Fathers, in particular the notion of perichoresis as the dynamic bond of unity among the divine persons. While agreeing with Gunton on this point, the author believes that perichoresis can only be applied to the world of creation in terms of a metaphysics of universal intersubjectivity such as he developed in a recent book. After laying out the basic contours of this new 'relational ontology', the author concludes by calling attention to the work of another process-oriented thinker, Douglas Sturm, with the latter's work on the 'politics of relationality' and an ethic of solidarity.

The Period Dictionaries

PMLA ◽  
1932 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 890-891 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles C. Fries
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
General Survey ◽  
Oxford Dictionary ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Definite Period ◽  
Long Chain

Nine years before the Oxford English Dictionary was finally completed, Sir William Craigie proposed his scheme of period dictionaries. Pointing to the many problems in the language still unsolved, and to the “large quantities of interesting material” daily set aside because of the limitations of space, he insisted that this was the only way to meet completely the needs of scholars in English language and of serious students of our literature. Neither he nor the others who have taken up his proposal have ever conceived of these period dictionaries as works to supplant the Oxford Dictionary. They could not because they approach the language with essentially different purposes. Sir William Craigie in his report of 1919 phrases quite clearly the relationship of these later dictionaries to their parent:The Society's dictionary has easily outstripped any thing else of the kind in existence and contains such a general survey of the English language down to the present day as may never be entirely superseded; but its own plan on the one hand, and the immensity of the material on the other, prevent it from being absolutely final. Dealing as it does with English of all periods, from the seventh century to the twentieth, it has been impossible for it (beyond certain limits) to devote special attention to any one time. Yet each definite period of the language has its own characteristics, which can only be appreciated when it is studied by itself, and which are necessarily obscured when it merely comes in as one link in the long chain of the language as a whole.

scholarly journals The Exemplification Theory of History: Narrativist Philosophy and the Autonomy of History

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiel van den Akker
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
The Past ◽  
Exemplification Theory ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theory Of History ◽  
Arthur Danto ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The “exemplification theory of history” is proposed to account for the relationship between the past and historical narratives. The theory states that what belongs to the past according to some narrative does so in order to exemplify the historical thesis of that narrative. As such the theory explains how the past receives its meaning. This implies that the past has no intrinsic historical meaning itself. Moreover, it follows that historical narratives possess an autonomy of their own with regard to the past. It is argued that the exemplification theory of history goes to the heart of narrativist philosophy of history. This claim is supported by the key arguments of three narrativist philosophers: Arthur Danto, Louis Mink and Frank Ankersmit. The distinction between the history of social individuals (“states”, “poverty”, “Thirty Years War”) and the identification of such individuals turns out to be fundamental in this respect. The article concludes by distinguishing between a Platonic and an Aristotelian view on narrative and by explaining why we ought to prefer the former to the latter.

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