Look at Politics With Eyes Unclouded By Philosophy

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 171-191
Author(s):  
Matías Sirczuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Power Law ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
The Political ◽  
Living Together ◽  
French Author ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Way

In the following, I will trace the presence of Montesquieu in Arendt’s work, giving an account of both Arendt’s praise for the French writer’s particular way of thinking the political and his approach to problems that will become central to the development of Arendt’s own thought. Firstly, I will follow Arendt down the path that led her to discover fundamental tools in Montesquieu for understanding totalitarianism “with eyes unclouded by philosophy.” Secondly, I will track the way in which the Arendtian reconceptualization of some key political words—power, law and freedom—is threaded through with her reading of the French author. Thirdly, I will look into the way in which Montesquieu’s formulation of a particular link between what Arendt calls the basic experience and the political regime, allows her to go on to discover a criteria that makes it possible to distinguish between political and anti-political ways of living together; and allows us to see that there is a phenomenally essential element within tyranny and totalitarianism that ensures that it “develops the germs of its own destruction the moment it comes into existence.”

scholarly journals Georgy Ivanov on the “Vial of Poison” by Konstantin Leontiev

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-22
Author(s):  
Natalia Solntseva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Russian People ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

The article is devoted to the analysis of G. Ivanov’s judgments about K. Leontiev. The sharpness of Ivanov’s statements is explained by the similarity of Leontiev’s views with the ideology of a new generation of emigrants, including members of the fairly mass party of “mladorosses” (young Russians). From the point of view of Ivanov, Leontiev’s political convictions in many ways contain a danger for the formation of the worldview of contemporaries. Leontiev’s idea that liberal-egalitarian progress would lead to the collapse of the Empire was combined with his belief in the possibility of protective socialism in Russia and a socialist monarch, blessed by the Church. The “mladorosses” were social monarchists who believed that with the older generation of Bolsheviks leaving the political arena, Bolshevism would come to an end; they saw the Soviets without the Bolsheviks as a promising form of self-government. In the political activization of the younger generation of emigrants, their way of thinking, Ivanov was not satisfied with the opposition to the ideals of the old emigration. He considered the ideas of the “new Russian people” contradictory and illusory, and expressed his beliefs in a number of articles. The deceptive hope of emigrants for the Soviets without the Bolsheviks is the motif of the famous poem “The way is Free under Thermopylae...” Ivanov created a complex, contradictory portrait of Leontiev; he is partly close to the opinion of N. Berdyaev, S. Bulgakov, V. Rozanov in his assessments of Leontiev’s human qualities and judgments.

scholarly journals THE ORIGIN OF THE POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN MUHAMMADIYAH: AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL ANALYSIS TOWARD INDONESIA’S MUSLIM-REFORMIST MOVEMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-206
Author(s):  
Ridho Al-Hamdi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Consciousness ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Epistemological Analysis ◽  
The Way

This article examines the origin of the political consciousness of Muhammadiyah. Thus, the article aims to investigate the origin of the political consciousness of Muhammadiyah to be a reference for Muhammadiyah’s elites, functionaries, cadres, and members in the way of thinking and behaving, mainly in the context of political affairs. Methodologically, this article is a qualitative research by applying two techniques in data-gathering: documentary and interview. The finding demonstrates that the origin of political consciousness of Muhammadiyah can be traced back into a fourfold thing: the influence of the Islamic reformist idea mainly coming from the middle east, the awareness of liberation from backwardness, the awareness of liberation from colonization, and the awareness of liberation from the Christian penetration.

Judaism and Hellenism in Palestine and Alexandria: Two Models of a National and Cultural Encounter

1997 ◽  
pp. 306-336
Author(s):  
Yaacov Shavit
Keyword(s):  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Encounter ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines the period between Alexander the Great’s conquest of Palestine and the moment when paganism gave way to Christianity. In Palestine — just as in Egypt — Hellenistic culture continued to flourish under Roman rule, and there the confrontation-cum-encounter with the Jews took place with Rome as the political authority — and with Hellenism as the culture. The focus here is on the way in which this period served as an inclusive historical paradigm, and on the way in which different parts of it were symbols’ of historical phenomena. As the chapter shows, the encounter with Hellenism, particularly in the Hasmonean era, had a powerful and influential impact, and its effects on future generations — and on Jewish historical consciousness — were profound. That is precisely why it functioned as a model of the nature of the encounter between Judaism and other cultures.

Moments of the Future’: Imagining the City and Monuments of Pyongyang in 2050

2019 ◽  
pp. 55-71
Author(s):  
Jelena Mandić
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Urban Futures ◽  
Scenario Technique ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The City

The possibility of reconciliation between the two Koreas and a potential change of the political regime in North Korea raises the question of the urban futures of North Korean cities, which at the moment serve as a stage for power consolidation through the monumental propaganda of the present regime. This paper examines an urban design project that imagines urban future of Pyongyang in 2050 and its colossal socialist era monuments after an assumed unification. Instead of erasing the socialist past of the city by removing the existing monuments (which was the practice in other socialist countries), this project proposes adding new layers of monuments that would represent and commemorate the new political and economic realities of ‘unification,’ and at the same time preserve the identity and legibility of the city. This alternative strategy was made possible by combining design thinking with the scenario technique utilized in Future Studies. Within the framework of the established scenario and politico-economic circumstances it compels, the method of writing History of the future was developed as a tool for envisioning an urban reality of 2050 Pyongyang, from which the Grid of Moments project would arise. The resulting project, conceived within the fictional story, allows historical and future ideologies, represented by the historical and new monuments, to coexist in Pyongyang through concurrent and respective acknowledgement. In this way, the role of architecture is shifted from serving the political regime towards acting as a social critique, as well as inducing a social transformation. These thought strategies were enabled by approaching design through scenario and storytelling method developed within it, as it left space for more imagination and creativity, and introduced a degree of objectivity to the design process by allowing different ideologies to be considered.

Anti-preferences

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-328
Author(s):  
Roy Kreitner
Keyword(s):  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Labor Law ◽  
The Political ◽  
Wage Labor ◽  
Extreme Caution ◽  
Normative Economics ◽  
Normative Framework ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Policy Discussion ◽  
The Way

Abstract This Article offers a critical evaluation of preference satisfaction as a frame for normative thinking. It begins with an internal critique of the way preferences work in normative economics, distinguishing among three elements: welfare; preferences; and choices. For preference satisfaction to work well, it must be able to bridge two gaps, one between choice and preferences, and another between preferences and welfare. In contexts where both those gaps are bridged, preference satisfaction offers a workable normative framework; where at least one of those gaps is unbridgeable, the framework should be treated with extreme caution if not jettisoned altogether. The Article then goes on to pursue an external critique, by asking what price we pay for using the preference satisfaction framework when it appears to perform well. The point of the critique is that even when preference satisfaction provides a good normative framework on its own terms, the framework obscures considerations that should not be ignored. By pursuing one concrete example, the Article shows how broad considerations regarding the implications of the regime of wage labor are absent from legal contemplation when labor law is imagined and shaped through the lens of preference satisfaction. The Article concludes with a speculation about how different theories of welfare might be employed in concert, rather than as alternatives. It suggests that a pluralism of theory is a way to expose the political stakes in the kinds of policy discussion where preference satisfaction is often a dominant way of thinking.

scholarly journals Legal Use of Archives in Romania after 1989: Impact and Effects on the Institution of National Archives

Atlanti ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-141
Author(s):  
Ana-Felicia Diaconu
Keyword(s):  
Political Regime ◽  
The Political ◽  
National Archives ◽  
The Way

The paper covers the way in which the institution of the National Archives was confronted with and tackled citizens` necessities to prove or redeem their rights after the change of the political regime in 1989. A first direction envisages the land legislation, which had a major impact on the National Archives` activity. A second direction is based on the National Archives` control duties upon archives creators and owners institutions by inspecting the way in which they issue documents attesting the rights of citizens. All these developments have made the National Archives a very active institution with a major role in terms of proof of the claimed rights by citizens.

scholarly journals Wybrane konteksty edukacji europejskiej w Wielkiej Brytanii i Polsce. Próba porównania

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-280
Author(s):  
Daria Hejwosz-Gromkowska
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
British Society ◽  
The Political ◽  
Contemporary Debate ◽  
Educational Trends ◽  
Unity In Diversity ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Way

Europeanism exceeds the political and social mindset, it also provides the way of thinking about Europe, the Europeans, their identity, culture and homogeneity, which is paradoxically constituted on the basis of heterogeneity (“unity in diversity”). One may distinguishes two contrary approaches towards the UE: Euroscepticism and Euroenthusiasm The first orientation is very vivid in the British society and it is reflected not only in the words of politicians but also in the mood of the nation, expressed in the Brexit referendum. The latter orientation is common among Poles who enjoy the privilege of joining to the exclusive club. The European and citizenship education reflect these antagonistic approaches. The aim of the paper is an attempt to reconstruct and analyse the contemporary debate on citizenship education in the perspective of European Union. The analyse of educational trends about Europe and Europeanism is significant if Brexit is taking into the consideration.

Leone de' Sommi and Jewish Theatre in Renaissance Mantua

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-19
Author(s):  
Donald Beecher
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Social Negotiations ◽  
Renaissance Artist ◽  
The Way

This is a study of a Renaissance artist and his patrons, but with an added complication, insofar as Leone de' Sommi, the gifted academician and playwright in the employ of the dukes of Mantua in the second half of the sixteenth century, was Jewish and a lifelong promoter and protector of his community. The article deals with the complex relationship between the court and the Jewish "università" concerning the drama and the way in which dramatic performances also became part of the political, judicial and social negotiations between the two parties, as well as a study of Leone's role as playwright and negotiator during a period that was arguably one of the best of times for the Jews of Mantua.

“I'd make thee eat the mischief thou hast vented”: Discourse of Law in Ben Jonson's Catiline His Conspiracy

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-45
Author(s):  
Akihiko Shimizu
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Legal Discourse ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
Gunpowder Plot ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Legal Procedures ◽  
The Way

This essay explores the discourse of law that constitutes the controversial apprehension of Cicero's issuing of the ultimate decree of the Senate (senatus consultum ultimum) in Catiline. The play juxtaposes the struggle of Cicero, whose moral character and legitimacy are at stake in regards to the extra-legal uses of espionage, with the supposedly mischievous Catilinarians who appear to observe legal procedures more carefully throughout their plot. To mitigate this ambivalence, the play defends Cicero's actions by depicting the way in which Cicero establishes the rhetoric of public counsel to convince the citizens of his legitimacy in his unprecedented dealing with Catiline. To understand the contemporaneousness of Catiline, I will explore the way the play integrates the early modern discourses of counsel and the legal maxim of ‘better to suffer an inconvenience than mischief,’ suggesting Jonson's subtle sensibility towards King James's legal reformation which aimed to establish and deploy monarchical authority in the state of emergency (such as the Gunpowder Plot of 1605). The play's climactic trial scene highlights the display of the collected evidence, such as hand-written letters and the testimonies obtained through Cicero's spies, the Allbroges, as proof of Catiline's mischievous character. I argue that the tactical negotiating skills of the virtuous and vicious characters rely heavily on the effective use of rhetoric exemplified by both the political discourse of classical Rome and the legal discourse of Tudor and Jacobean England.

The Political Theology of Schelling

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saitya Brata Das
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
The Political ◽  
Franz Rosenzweig ◽  
Political Works ◽  
The Way

This book rigorously examines the theologico-political works of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, setting his thought against Hegel's and showing how he prepared the way for the post-metaphysical philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Franz Rosenzweig and Jacques Derrida.

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