Humanization and Health: Assays on the Alterity in Hands-On Therapies

This study represents a theoretical-philosophical essay on the practice of care by participants of therapies by laying on of hands present in our professional daily life and is based on the concept of alterity developed by Emmanuel Lévinas, evidencing the manifestation of alterity in the art of caring for others. , which represents the humanization that arises from the relationship and dialogue between the therapist and the beneficiary. In this practice of donation, dialogue is established and care is carried out, expressing the living thought of beneficence and the humanization process

Radykalność filozofii. Rozważania wokół książki Pawła Kłoczowskiego Rewolucja kartezjańska i inne szkice

The radical nature of philosophy. Reflections on Paweł Kłoczowski’s book Cartesian revolution and other sketches: This paper offers a polemical discussion on Paweł Kłoczowski’s recently published book concerning the so‐called Cartesian revolution and other issues in social and political philosophy. The author presents Kłoczowski as the ideological heir of Leszek Kołakowski (1927–2009), and simultaneously a virtuoso of Polish philosophical essay writing. She demonstrates how topical, and at the same time timeless, are those problems considered by Kłoczowski. In doing so, she examines the inspirations of Kłoczowski and highlights some of his arguments: ones seemingly still stimulating triggers for our thinking.

Igaz és hamis az új médiában

New media has become a part of everyday life. This is particularly true of Facebook, which everyone tends to visit, even if they deny it. Significant academics and seemingly serious politicians are as present on social media as charlatans and rogues; organizations with an interest in causing confusion are also active, while organizations dedicated to obstructing confusion are not passive. It is also well known that one wrong Facebook post can cause an avalanche – whether consciously or accidentally. On the net – and to a degree on Facebook – all facts appear directly or referenced as in line with reality and thus true. At the same time, all positions that are false are also present. It is common knowledge that false, faked, misleading, or – let’s be honest – simply stupid statements are difficult to recognize, especially in the time of a pandemic. We face several entirely new phenomena which lack explanations based on scientific consensus. Social responses to the pandemic and the effects of political and bureaucratic efforts are controversial. Furthermore, even the best-intended actions – which in some cases are rational – cause interruptions in the usual carrying on of life, and factual pandemic news cause uncertainty. That is to say, true statements awaken the desire for “fake news”. Wittgenstein closed his famous logical-philosophical essay with the words “that whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent”. It is possible that the situation is now reversed. That whereof we must remain silent, thereof we must speak.

Here is a Table: A Philosophical Essay on History and Race in South Africa

Our understanding of racism is that it is the systematic doubt concerning the humanity of the other. It is a means to an end, namely, to pursue the dehumanisation of the other for one’s sole and exclusive benefit. The doubt is in itself ethically indefensible. Yet, it ultimately acquires the status of an incontrovertible truth around which economic and political life is organised and conducted. This has been and continues to be the reality in South Africa today. The hypothesis of this book is that a philosophical-historical study of racism will reveal that it has only ever been and continues to be white supremacy. In South Africa the actuality of the doubt is that it has always arisen from one side (“whiteness”) and directed itself against the other (“blackness”). Our purpose is to show that racism properly speaking is white supremacy and that it cannot be properly understood without African philosophy.

Drummond e o acontecimento ontológico / Drummond and the Ontological Event

Resumo: O presente ensaio de filosofia pretende analisar o poema “Ser”, de Carlos Drummond de Andrade, à luz de algumas reflexões de ordem ontológica. Não partiremos da análise literária, mas tentaremos chegar a ela pelo impulso da própria reflexão filosófica, que se inicia na primeira parte com uma indagação muito próxima do estilo do segundo Heidegger, porém sem a preocupação de manter-se na ortodoxia heideggeriana; e que só se completa com a meditação sobre Drummond, cujo poema oferece não só oportunidade para pensar a questão do ser no limiar de certa concepção de temporalidade, como também se dá ele mesmo como uma forma possível desse pensamento do limite entre ser e tempo. Para tanto, mais que uma simples referência à noção freudiana de pulsão de morte parece surgir como uma exigência de primeira necessidade.Palavras-chave: acontecimento ontológico; forma esquizofrênica; poesia; Drummond.Abstract: This philosophical essay intends to analyze the poem “Being”, by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, in the light of some ontological reflections. We will not start from the literary analysis, but we will try to arrive at it by the stream of the philosophical reflection itself, which begins in the first part with a question very close to the style of the second Heidegger, but without the concern of keeping in the Heideggerian orthodoxy; and which is only complete with meditation on Drummond, whose poem offers not only opportunity to think about the question of being on the threshold of a certain conception of temporality, but also gives itself as a possible form of that thought of the limit between being and time. For this, more than a simple reference to the Freudian notion of death drive seems to appear as a strong necessity.Keywords: ontological event; schizophrenic form; poetry; Drummond.

Contributions of critical thinking as a form of participation and political deliberation

Critical thinking is an attribute of consciousness that can be manifested in all human activities where it is required, as a condition of possibility, in the use of critical reason and deliberation. Consequently, it is in the domains of politics that critical thinking is used more frequently, to discuss the scope and concrete significance of the discourses and practices that, from the exercise of public powers, are deployed on intelligent citizenship and with the minimum necessary of information for peer deliberation. The objective of this article is to deconstruct the most common contributions of critical thinking as a form of participation and political deliberation. Methodologically it is a research of documentary design developed in the coordinates of the philosophical essay, next to the Latin American philosopher and the revision of the most popular political theory. Among the main findings, the idea that critical thinking is not the exclusive patrimony of certain self-defined political and ideological tendencies as progressive in the region stands out. It is concluded that, this way of thinking is uncomfortable per se for all the paradigms that serve as the basis for the status quo, in politics and society.