A experiência religiosa na Teurgia

Neste texto investigaremos a experiência religiosa na teurgia. Primeiramente analisaremos as principais categorias do “numinoso” segundo Rudolf Otto, a saber 1) sentimento de criatura, 2) mysterium tremendum, 3) fascinans e 4) sanctum, observando-as nos Oráculos Caldeus. Em seguida estudaremos o “miraculoso” na teurgia jambliqueana segundo Emma C. Clarke usando as categorias de Otto; neste momento observaremos aspectos como 1) transcendência da verdade, 2) crença no sobrenatural, 3) inspiração e 4) epifanias. Por fim estudaremos o “assombro” de Dacher Keltner e Jonathan Haidt, composto pela 1) vastidão e pela 2) acomodação, podendo conter 3) ameaça, 4) beleza, 5) habilidade, 6) virtude e 7) sobrenatural; veremos que a teurgia inclui o assombro associado aos demais elementos.

The Twenty-First-Century Postsecular University

Many observers agree that twenty-first-century universities have lost their way with respect to the task of providing moral leadership for their students and for the nation. This chapter surveys leading commentators, including Harry Lewis, Anthony Kronman, Andrew Delanco, William Egginton, Jonathan Haidt, and Greg Lukiankoff, on these themes, especially in the decline of the humanities. Many blame the business and economic interests and related careerism that shape most of university education. Still, as John Schmalzbauer and Kathleen A. Mahoney show, religious interests can still be found in many aspects of university life, including study of religion, campus ministries, and personal religious beliefs of many professors and students. Nonetheless, emphases on diversity do not always include religious diversity.

Sự dữ dội của chủ nghĩa an toàn và hệ lụy

This paper illustrates our view about the book “The coddling of the American mind” by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt: Book Review

In The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt examines the moral grounds that people intuitively believe. He presented his idea by asking why good people are divided by politics and religion. Then, he asked about morality by asking, “Where does morality come from?” (Haidt, 2012, p. 3). He explained that people understand social morality in different ways. People live in unique societies that shape their understanding of social norms, which are based on many factors, such as culture, religion, and education. Haidt based his ideas about the righteous mind on three principles and demonstrated them through three metaphors to help his readers understand his theory. The first principle is “intuitions come first,” and its central metaphor is that the mind is like a rider on an elephant, where the rider’s job is to serve the elephant. The second principle is “there is more to morality than harm and fairness,” and its central metaphor is that the righteous mind is like a tongue with six taste receptors. The third principle is “morality binds and blinds,” and its metaphor is that we are 90 percent chimp and 10 percent bee (Pp. 3, 109, 217).

Puntos de encuentro entre pensamiento crítico y metacognición para repensar la enseñanza de ética

La visión tradicional del pensamiento crítico (PC) fundada en un enfoque racionalista ha sido puesta en duda a partir de fines del siglo pasado por la ‘segunda ola’ del PC, la cual, a pesar de no ser un movimiento del todo definido, ha incluido aspectos como la imaginación, la creatividad y el trabajo cooperativo en su comprensión y en su aplicación a la enseñanza. Paralelamente, perspectivas actuales en psicología moral como el modelo ‘intuicionista social’ propuesto por Jonathan Haidt, representan un desafío al modelo racionalista de la moral que suponen gran parte de las éticas normativas canónicas. Siendo que tanto el PC como el fundamento moral representan factores fundamentales en la enseñanza de ética, se hace explicito que esta última precisa también ser revisada. Es por ello que el presente trabajo analiza una perspectiva del PC alternativa a la tradicional basada en el potencial aporte de la metacognición y del modelo intuicionista social, con el fin de abrir nuevas vías de investigación para la actualización del fundamento moral que se supone en la enseñanza de ética. Para ahondar en ello, se ejemplificará la relevancia y aplicabilidad de la metacognición en la enseñanza de ética con situaciones vinculadas a la actual pandemia por Covid-19.

Book Review “The Righteous Mind-Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion” by Jonathan Haidt

Book Review of “The Righteous Mind-Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion” Written by Jonathan Haidt (2012). New York: Pantheon Books. eISBN: 978-0-307-90703-5.