scholarly journals Streger på Nattehimlen: Om subjektivitet og fiktion i antropologisk analyse

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Line Dalsgård
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Northeast Brazil ◽  
Female Sterilization ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Inner World ◽  
Literary Writing

Artiklen bygger på en undersøgelse af kvindelig sterilisation i Nordøstbrasilien, udført i årene 1997-2000. Studiet er publiceret i bogen Matters of Life and Longing (2004). I en refleksion over dette arbejde argumenterer jeg for, at skønlitterær tekst – inklusive forestillingerne om den Andens aldrig helt tilgængelige subjektivitet – kan udgøre et fænomenologisk studie i sig selv og indgå som eksperiment i den antropologiske analyse. Forsøget på at skrive den Andens subjektive verden frem lægger de formodede forbindelser blot, som binder antropologens observationer og fornemmelser af hende sammen. Uden en sådan blotlæggelse vil antropologen naivt kunne fortsætte sit arbejde, som havde intet spring udi gætværk fundet sted. Dette er imidlertid ikke muligt, når gætværket gøres så tydeligt, som det gøres i beskrivelsen af den Andens tanker og følelser. Skønt denne artikel fokuserer specifikt på den antropologiske brug af fænomenologisk analyse, mener jeg, at en naiv indstilling til den Anden er en potentiel risiko i enhver antropologisk analyse, som tager „det indfødte synspunkt“ som sit udgangspunkt. Samtidig må man spørge, hvad alternativet til dette udgangspunkt er. Risikerer vi ikke at forblive selvcentrerede og irrelevante, hvis vi ikke strækker os ud mod det fremmede? Min konklusion i denne artikel er i hvert fald (skønt anderledes udtrykt): Hellere springe ud i gætværket med åbne øjne end at forblive ligeglad med verden. Søgeord: Subjektivitet, skønlitterær tekst, moderskab, motivation, fænomenologi, metode. This article draws on a study of female sterilization in Northeast Brazil, carried out between 1997-2000 and published in 2004. Reflecting upon her previous work the author argues that literary writing, including assumptions on the never fully comprehensible subjectivity of the Other, may be a phenomenological study in itself and a helpful method in anthropology. Writing forth the subjectivity of one’s interlocutor lays bare the associations, which tie together the anthropologist’s observations and sensations of the Other’s – presumed – inner world. Without such an exposure the anthropologist may naively continue her work, as if no leap into guesswork had taken place. Despite focusing particularly on the anthropological use of the phenomenological approach, the author finds this potential naivety in any anthropological analysis that takes the “native’s point of view” into consideration. On the other hand, the risk of being self-centered and irrelevant may be the only alternative. Hence, the conclusion of this article, though differently expressed, is: Better leap with open eyes than stay indifferent to the world. Keywords: subjectivity, literary writing, motherhood, motivation, phenomenology, method 

scholarly journals KRISIS DISIPLIN PENDIDIKAN ISLAM: ANTI PLURALISME

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-86
Author(s):  
Zainal Lutfi
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Normative Belief ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Curriculum Model ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World

This article discusses the problem of Islamic education from a theological and sociological point of view. The emergence of normative and verbalist Islamic education curriculum distorts the universality of Islam. Islam that is contextual in space and time, always in contact with sociological aspects, should be understood as something that can change its partiality dynamics continuously, even though there is a universal thing that is maintained as a normative belief. On the other hand, the failure of education to produce educational output that is dignified and virtuous has caused some people to distrust the world of education in developing the character and ethics of children. The vote of disbelief is getting stronger with the emergence of the National curriculum model which gives a greater portion of general subjects than religious subjects. This paper is a criticism of the development of the world of education in Indonesia, with the hope that education stakeholders make changes to the education system and the applicable curriculum.

scholarly journals On certain properties of the alloys of the gold-copper series

1901 ◽  
Vol 67 (435-441) ◽  
pp. 105-112 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Technical Point ◽  
Physical Constants ◽  
Systematic Examination ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Molecular Constitution

Notwithstanding the extraordinary importance from a technical point of view of the members of this series, which constitute the gold coinages of the world, singularly little is known respecting either their molecular constitution or even their physical constants. Both the authors of this paper possess unusual facilities for studying them, and they felt that time should not be lost in beginning a systematic examination of the series. The other alloys used for coinage have, on the other hand, not been so neglected.

Speculating about Diogenes of Apollonia

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Laks
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Textual Evidence ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Philosophical Contribution

This article takes up Diogenes again, investigating some of the reasons Diogenes has been unappreciated, and making a case for Diogenes' mind-based teleology as a significant philosophical contribution. The sophists, too, have suffered from the charge, which goes back to Plato, of not being “real” philosophers. Diogenes did not bother himself with, or was not interested in, showing in what sense the world is organized in the best possible manner; this looked to him as something that happened as a matter of course. What did interest him, on the other hand, was to show what the thing that exercised intelligence is. From this point of view, the emphasis is definitely not on teleology, but rather on noetics. Here, primary textual evidence is available, for the fragments, as well as Simplicius's presentation of them, definitely support the view that the point of Diogenes' argumentation was to show that intelligence is air's.

scholarly journals Jordan Role in Compacting International Terrorism

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Ziad M. Rabie
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
International Terrorism ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Great Role ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Terrorist Acts

<p class="Body">Many Arabic countries are suffering from big waves of International terrorism, to a point that it requires from all countries to unify their efforts in compacting the international terrorism; Jordan in other hand had played a great role in compacting it, and as a result many laws had been issued in Jordan criminalizing such terrorist acts.</p><p class="Body">Not only that, but Jordan had joined the international coalition to compact the International terrorism effectively; as a result, the Jordanian forces are participating effectively in targeting many terrorist locations around the world, on the other hand it was targeted by many terrorist attacks resulted in many deaths and casualties among Jordanian citizens.</p><p class="Body">In this research I addressed the International terrorism concept and the laws issued in Jordan to compact terrorism, in addition pinpointing the acts that are considered terrorist acts.</p>the research ended with a conclusion that include the most important recommendations from the restate point of view.

The Tradition and the Traditions: The Confrontation of Religious Doctrines

1974 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-417
Author(s):  
Philip Sherrard
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Physical Barriers

One of the consequences of the breakdown of physical barriers between the various peoples of the world has been that the question of the relationships between the major religious traditions still actively functioning at the present time has become more acute than it ever has been before. Previously a degree of exclusivity, either partial or total, could be maintained without adherents of one particular tradition being seriously troubled by the fact that elsewhere men worshipped ‘other gods’ through other forms. To maintain a rigorous exclusivity today in the name of one particular tradition is a far more difficult matter, for it means denying the validity of what appear to be manifestations of the Spirit outside this particular tradition; and to go to these lengths would be a sign of an extreme prejudice. But how, on the other hand, is one to account for these manifestations? Are they simply to be regarded as evidence of the Spirit blowing where he wills? Or do they indicate the intrinsic sacred quality of the traditional forms through which they occur, with the implication that each tradition within which they do occur is equally and fully with each other such tradition a divinely-instituted way of spirituai realisation? It is to this latter point of view that many most seriously concerned with the question are now tending to subscribe. Yet it does have serious implications. One of these is that it appears to involve the assumption, tacit or explicit, not only that there are the particular traditions themselves but also that there is something which one can only describe as the Tradition: a body of doctrine or form of revelation which is intrinsically superior to other religious traditions and which in some manner completes or subsumes them. How does this come about and what does it amount to?

scholarly journals PETER VAN INWAGEN’S FIVE THESES OF BEING AND HIS CONTROVERSY WITH THE EXISTENTIALPHENOMENOLOGICAL TRADITION

2019 ◽  
pp. 180-193
Author(s):  
Maxim A. Gusev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Phenomenological Tradition ◽  
Analytic Tradition ◽  
Ontological Question ◽  
The World ◽  
Inner World ◽  
As If

The article considers P. van Inwagen’s theses about being, including the thesis «being is not an activity». In formulating that Inwagen argues with the existential-phenomenological tradition. The article aims to investigate the causes of the misunderstanding between Inwagen and the existential-phenomenological tradition. It is shown that Inwagen treats this tradition as if it were an «objectivist» approach, just like the analytic tradition but presenting another answer to Inwagen’s meta-ontological question. Ignoring the radical difference between the existential-phenomenological approach and the analytical, «objectivistic» approach leads Inwagen to misunderstanding of Heidegger’s statements about being. From the «objectivist» analytical standpoint, the question of existence has nothing to do with the course of our experience, with fact something has been given to us, or with giving meaning to something, etc. That is why Inwagen wonders how existence can be associated with an «activity» at all. For the same reason, Inwagen does not understand why the existential-phenomenological tradition’s adherents talk about some differences in such «activities». From Inwagen’s point of view, all the differences lie in the «nature» of things, not in being. From the «objectivist» point of view, it seems exactly like that, because it is impossible to understand «from the outside», for example, the convergence of awareness and being-in-the-world. Within Inwagen’s objectivist position, Heidegger’s philosophy can only be comprehended as anthropology or psychology, which are studies limited to the topic of human beings or their inner world. The article concludes that although one can deny the phenomenological approach in general, but it is possible to show from the inside of that approach that what Heidegger says in his philosophy is, firstly, meaningful and, secondly, relates to ontology and not to anthropology or psychology.

scholarly journals Telaah Epistemologis Harmonisasi Sufisme dan Surealisme dalam Perspektif Adonis

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-281
Author(s):  
Asmara Edo Kusuma
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Institution ◽  
Religious School ◽  
Philosophy Of Life ◽  
The World ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Epistemological Point

This article explores the idea of mysticism promulgated by Adonis. To him, his works are an attempt to arrive at the disclosure of the visible and the hidden (al-kashf ‘an al-mar’ wa al-lā mar’ī). He acknowledges that the effort is based on the concept of ẓāhir and bāṭin within Sufism. The element of mysticism in Adonis’s idea has been manifested through the harmonization of Sufism-Surrealism. He uses other perspectives in defining Sufism and Surrealism; a perspective that enables the harmonization of both. To investigate the harmonization, the author employs epistemological point of view coupled with phenomenological approach as the methods of analysis of Adonis’s texts. The study reveals another type of Sufism and Surrealism, which emanates from the world of Adonis. Adonis has understood Sufism and Surrealism as two separate realms but they share one similar purpose, namely being identical with the Absolute or united with Him. Most radically, he views Sufism as a non-religious school, instead a universal philosophy of life to understanding the Universe. On the other hand, Adonis sees Surrealism as another form of mysticism, i.e. mysticism with no religious institution;  

scholarly journals “All Them Aliens Had It”: Pinter’s Cosmopolitanism

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-105
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Sakellaridou
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Political Actions

Throughout his life Pinter always showed, both as artist and as social being, a profound respect for the rights of the individual and human dignity. His dramatic output as well as his overt political activity demonstrate his unbroken adherence to the ideology and behaviour of a citizen of the world. My endeavour in this paper will be to argue about what I shall call Pinter’s visceral cosmopolitanism. This approach, on the one hand, reads his political actions through the highly politicized agenda of the contemporary cosmopolitan discourse and, on the other hand, it adopts a more retrospective point of view, which seeks to find a fundamental correspondence between the Pinteresque uncertainty, fear and ambiguity and Immanuel Kant’s rather more ethical understanding of cosmopolitanism, especially his novel idea of hospitality.

Can the Academic Self-Concept be Positive and Realistic?

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reimer Kornmann
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Opposite Effect ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
High Ability ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Other Hand

Summary: My comment is basically restricted to the situation in which less-able students find themselves and refers only to literature in German. From this point of view I am basically able to confirm Marsh's results. It must, however, be said that with less-able pupils the opposite effect can be found: Levels of self-esteem in these pupils are raised, at least temporarily, by separate instruction, academic performance however drops; combined instruction, on the other hand, leads to improved academic performance, while levels of self-esteem drop. Apparently, the positive self-image of less-able pupils who receive separate instruction does not bring about the potential enhancement of academic performance one might expect from high-ability pupils receiving separate instruction. To resolve the dilemma, it is proposed that individual progress in learning be accentuated, and that comparisons with others be dispensed with. This fosters a self-image that can in equal measure be realistic and optimistic.

Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Individuation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Hengehold
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
The Other ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Second Sex ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World

Most studies of Simone de Beauvoir situate her with respect to Hegel and the tradition of 20th-century phenomenology begun by Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. This book analyzes The Second Sex in light of the concepts of becoming, problematization, and the Other found in Gilles Deleuze. Reading Beauvoir through a Deleuzian lens allows more emphasis to be placed on Beauvoir's early interest in Bergson and Leibniz, and on the individuation of consciousness, a puzzle of continuing interest to both phenomenologists and Deleuzians. By engaging with the philosophical issues in her novels and student diaries, this book rethinks Beauvoir’s focus on recognition in The Second Sex in terms of women’s struggle to individuate themselves despite sexist forms of representation. It shows how specific forms of women’s “lived experience” can be understood as the result of habits conforming to and resisting this sexist “sense.” Later feminists put forward important criticisms regarding Beauvoir’s claims not to be a philosopher, as well as the value of sexual difference and the supposedly Eurocentric universalism of her thought. Deleuzians, on the other hand, might well object to her ideas about recognition. This book attempts to address those criticisms, while challenging the historicist assumptions behind many efforts to establish Beauvoir’s significance as a philosopher and feminist thinker. As a result, readers can establish a productive relationship between Beauvoir’s “problems” and those of women around the world who read her work under very different circumstances.

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