scholarly journals The Other as Another. In the Footsteps of Józef Tischner’s Philosophy of Dialogue

Logos i Ethos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Maciej Manikowski
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Philosophy Of Dialogue

Gewalt und Kommunikation

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-28
Author(s):  
Jens Bonnemann
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Practical Philosophy ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Normal Case ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Philosophy Of Dialogue ◽  
The Individual

In ethics, when discussing problems of justice and a just social existence one question arises obviously: What is the normal case of the relation between I and you we start from? In moral philosophy, each position includes basic socio-anthropological convictions in that we understand the other, for example, primarily as competitor in the fight for essential resources or as a partner in communication. Thus, it is not the human being as isolated individual, or as specimen of the human species or socialised member of a historical society what needs to be understood. Instead, the individual in its relation to the other or others has been studied in phenomenology and the philosophy of dialogue of the twentieth century. In the following essay I focus on Martin Buber’s and Jean-Paul Sartre’s theories of intersubjectivity which I use in order to explore the meaning of recognition and disrespect for an individual. They offer a valuable contribution to questions of practical philosophy and the socio-philosophical diagnosis of our time.

scholarly journals STYGMAT CYPRIANA NORWIDA Z PERSPEKTYWY FILOZOFII DIALOGU EMMANUELA LEvINASA

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Kosmala
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Place ◽  
Philosophy Of Dialogue

Cyprian Norwid’s Stygmat from the perspective of Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy of dialogueThis study is an attempt to read Cyprian Norwids Stygmat anew, employing a deepened perspective that comes from Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy of dialogue. First, the author points to the convergence of the poet’s and the philosopher’s views, especially when it comes to the special place occu- pied by the man, interpersonal relations, and effort. While reconstructing the plot of the novella, the author analyzes relationship between principal characters - Oskar and Róża, and Oskar and the Narrator; he pays atten- tion to the issue of effort and openness towards the other person in forging a relationship. Using Levinas’s terminology, the author describes Oskar’s condition - separation and disintegration of his identity - which made it impossible for him to carry the burden of responsibility for the encounter with the other person. This applies to the Narrator as well; he does not fulfill the role of the confidant - as selected for the role by Oskar - nor does he find fulfilment as a writer. The Narrator remains a passive observer of the events, which his conversation with Redaktor testifies to. As far as the ending of the novella is concerned the author turns to irony (very characteristic of Norwid) and the difficulty in distinguishing between moments in which the poet expresses serious and true statements and those with ironic flair.

scholarly journals Hermeneutische Implikationen im sozialphilosophischen Denken von Jósef Tischner / Hermeneutical Implications in Jósef Tischner’s Social Philosophy

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 235-247
Author(s):  
Paweł Dybel
Keyword(s):  
Social Philosophy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Being And Time ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Late Work ◽  
Philosophy Of Dialogue ◽  
Transcendental Method ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
Truth And Method ◽  
New Formulation

Summary In this article, I point out the hermeneutical implications of the Philosophy of Jósef Tischner, a modern Polish philosopher. In his early writings, the author of the Ethics of Solidarity strongly criticized the claim of the historicity of understanding as developed in Heidegger’s Being and Time and Gadamer’s Truth and Method. Later, however, he dismissed his critical attitude and recognized in both, Heidegger’s and Gadamer’s concepts, an important source of inspiration for a new formulation of the question of the other. At the same time, he tried to stay true to the tradition of the Philosophy of Dialogue (M. Buber, F. Rosenzweig, E. Levinas) as well as to the transcendental method of asking for the last “conditions of possibility” elaborated by Husserl. Thus, in his late work, he took into account some aspects of the hermeneutic concepts of the historicity of understanding and at once fundamentally transformed their meaning. In the last part of my article, I compare his concept of the hierarchy of ideas and values, which determines human relationships, with Gadamer’s notion of prejudices and tradition.

The Voice of Conscience, Kierkegaard’s Theory of Indirect Communication, and Buber’s Philosophy of Dialogue

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Welz
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Indirect Communication ◽  
Existential Approach ◽  
Philosophy Of Dialogue ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Religious Aspects ◽  
The Voice

AbstractThis paper investigates the concept and the experience of conscience as an interface of aesthetic, ethical, and religious aspects of Kierkegaard’s existential approach, while criticizing his reductionist definition of ‘aesthetics’ and the opposition he draws between ethics and aesthetics. A comparison of Kierkegaard’s theory of indirect ‘existence’-communication with Martin Buber’s philosophy of dialogue shows that Kierkegaard overlooks three crucial moments of truly liberating, conscientious communication, including the dialogical dynamics of becoming-oneself vis-à-vis the Other.

scholarly journals Philosophical Roots of the Dialogical Concept of Law

2016 ◽  
pp. 51-58
Author(s):  
Anna Rossmanith
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ancient Greek Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Dialogue ◽  
The Concept Of Law ◽  
Concept Of Law

The main task which I pose for myself is to indicate the philosophical roots of the dialogical concept of law. First and foremost, I would like to present dialogue in the context of ancient Greek philosophy and in the context of the classicists of the philosophy of dialogue. Furthermore, I seek phenomenological bases for constructing the dialogical concept of law. The phenomenological method, starting with its classical Husserlian form, has undergone many changes. Thanks to the indication of new horizons of phenomenology by Emmanuel Levinas, discovering dialogical consciousness and the subject constituted in being with the Other are possible. The reference point of reflections on the concept of law is the relationship with the Other as an ethical relationship. Philosophy of dialogue is a certain possible prism of thinking about the social, public, and institutional space. It is thinking through the prism of dialogue (speaking), but also through the third who contributes discourse relevant to what is said. Law as the third, as the mediating element, is a co-constituting element of the entire legal world.

scholarly journals Alteridade, diálogo e direitos humanos: Desafios formativos no cenário atual e a perspectiva do interhumano

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Betânia Do Nascimento Santiago ◽  
Ferdinand RÖHR
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Martin Buber ◽  
The Other ◽  
Essential Difference ◽  
Human Formation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Philosophy Of Dialogue ◽  
Current Scenario ◽  
Formative Experience

A experiência formativa envolve um amplo leque de questões que tornam o filosofar sobre a educação um grande desafio, especialmente considerando o atual cenário das sociedades contemporâneas. É tarefa de uma filosofia da educação o exercício do pensar sobre essa realidade, que se encontra marcada pela negação de princípios fundamentais à humanização. Nela a afirmação da diferença se configura como um problema, que se alia às formas de indiferença e à ausência de vínculos entre as pessoas. Esse quadro tende a impulsionar o fenômeno da violência, do qual se ocupa o debate sobre os Direitos Humanos. É neste cenário que podemos compreender a exigência de refletir sobre alguns conceitos, e que situamos a problemática da alteridade, como afirmação da essencial diferença do outro. A partir dessa realidade indagamos sobre o papel da educação na constituição de relações mais solidárias no mundo, como possibilidade de que no interior da instituição educativa se compreenda a relação com o outro como modo de ser e sentido do ético. O olhar lançado a essas questões assume as contribuições da antropologia do interhumano de Martin Buber, que, ao reconhecer o primado da relação, do diálogo, nos leva ao sentido do educativo e aos desafios à formação humana em nosso contexto. Desse modo, o trabalho busca articular a problemática anunciada às contribuições advindas dessa filosofia do diálogo, pelo que essa experiência pode oferecer de significativo à compreensão e enfrentamento das questões em pauta, como exigência que se coloca à educação em nossos dias. Alteridade.Diálogo. Direitos Humanos. Formação Humana. Martin Buber.abstractOtherness, dialogue and human rights: Formative challenges in the current scenario and the perspective of the interhuman in Martin BuberThe formative experience involves a wide range of issues that make philosophizing about education a major challenge, especially considering the current scenario of contemporary societies. It is the task of a philosophy of education to exercise the thinking about this reality, which is marked by the denial of fundamental principles to humanization. In it the affirmation of difference is a problem, which is allied to the forms of indifference and the absence of bonds between people. This situation tends to promote the phenomenon of violence, which is the subject of debate on human rights. It is in this scenario that we can understand the need to reflect on some concepts, and that we situate the problem of otherness as an affirmation of the essential difference of the other. From this reality, we inquire about the role of education in the constitution of more solidary relations in the world, as a possibility within the educational institution to understand the relationship with the other as a way of being and a sense of the ethical. The gaze on these questions assumes the contributions of the anthropology of the interhuman of Martin Buber, who, in recognizing the primacy of the relation, of the dialogue, brings us to the educational sense and the challenges to human formation in our context. Thus, the work seeks to articulate the problems announced to the contributions coming from this philosophy of dialogue, so this experience can offer significant to the understanding and confrontation of the issues at hand, as a requirement that is placed on education today.Otherness. Dialogue. Human rights. Human formation. Martin Buber.

scholarly journals The Phenomenon of Simone Weil as “Excess” and “Lack” in the Symbolic Structure of Philosophical Language: a Personalist Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-132
Author(s):  
Andrii Kulyk
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Concept Of God ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
Philosophical Language ◽  
Modern Psychoanalysis ◽  
Symbolic Structure ◽  
Simone Weil ◽  
Philosophy Of Dialogue

Simone Weil as a subject of philosophizing is the effect of excess, vacuum, or scarcity in the harmoniously coordinated system of paradigms that make up the indicators of intellectual language. Her concept of “God-absence” (silence) as the negative presence of God in the sacred experience of the atheist is a paradox of meeting with God through a metaphysical break with religious orthodoxy. The article analyzes the synchrony and diachrony of S. Weil’s views from materialism to spiritualism in interdisciplinary discourse outside the linear stages and sectoral fragmentation on the methodological basis of personalism. The author pays special attention to reading S. Weil’s autobiographical essay Waiting for God and her Diaries. In these works, S. Weil as an expression of the semiotic unity of the life and the text describes his own experience of emptiness, the Other, attention, desire, faith, dis-belief, love, encounter with Christ. Analysis of the works of famous philosophers and theologians gives grounds to conclude that the views of S. Weil had an impact on modern psychoanalysis, philosophy of dialogue, critical theory, traditionalism, phenomenology.

scholarly journals One’s Own vs. Other / Another / Alien in the Conceptual and Aesthetic Paradigm of Modernism

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-245
Author(s):  
Roman Mnich ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Conceptual System ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Philosophy Of Dialogue ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
The One

This article focuses on the issue of the Other/Alien within the conceptual and aesthetic paradigm of modernism. In the context of modernistic ideas, the author analyses the philosophy of dialogue and phenomenological views on the Other as represented in the intellectual heritage of the twentieth century. Taking into consideration these ideas, the author discusses three mainstream aspects of the Other/Alien in Russian modernist literature: 1) mythological tradition, which provokes the image of the enemy through the image of the Other; 2) Romantic tradition of the double (doppelganger), and 3) philosophical / phenomenological notion of the body, which views personality as “me/Self” and “my body”. Conceptual analysis of these aspects is provided with reference to poetic texts by Alexander Blok, Innokenty Annensky, and Osip Mandelstam. The author stresses the conventionality of such a division, on the one hand, and the influence of the analysed aspects of the Other/Alien onto the conceptual system of Postmodernism. Modernism in European culture, in contrast to other historical periods, is characterised primarily by the fact that many of its ideas and concepts were only proclaimed, but not presented in the form of complete theoretical concepts/systems. In this sense, modernism turned out to be open to the future, which allows us to call it an “uncompleted project” (Jürgen Habermas). Previous eras offered solutions to important existential problems in the form of complete philosophical systems (Immanuel Kant or Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel), ideas or concepts (Kant’s concept of “eternal peace” and a moral imperative, Hegel’s idea of state and law). Modernism, influenced by the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, destroyed the systematic nature of thinking, doubted traditional morality, and offered paradoxical solutions to many problems in the form of conceptual questions, which are discussed to this day. One of these uncompleted modernist projects was the concept of the Other/Alien, discussions about which have been going on for over a century.

scholarly journals Nacjonalizm a uniwersalne wartości. Spór o tożsamość z perspektywy filozofii dialogu

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-44
Author(s):  
Marcin Rebes
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
The Other ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Philosophy Of Dialogue ◽  
Universal Values ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

In this chapter I deal with the problem of contemporary nationalism through the prism of the philosophy of dialogue and the question about the identity of the individual and society. The chapter consists of three parts. Firstly, I conceptualise the notions of nationalism and nation states. Secondly, I present the assumptions of the philosophy of dialogue concerning the problem of identity and the source relationship in philosophy. Thirdly and lastly, I analyse how nationalism is juxtaposed with the universal values as set against the background of the philosophy of dialogue. Here I do not focus on presenting the definition or assessment of nationalism. I offer instead an insight on some elements that appear particularly strong in the initial phase of the transformation of nationalism in nation-states, which lead to various kinds of dangerous phenomena, and present the problem of nationalism through the prism of national socialism. The phenomenon of nationalism, for which the uniqueness of a nation is one of the most characteristic features, may pose a serious problem not only in international or social relations, but also concerns individuals. The philosophy of dialogue is involved in ethical relations between individuals, but its scope also extends to social and even political issues. Representatives of the philosophy of dialogue noticed the problem of culture grounded in the question of the subject before it led to the drama of the citizens of Europe and, consequently, of the whole world. Therefore, the article juxtaposes nationalism with the postulates of the philosophy of dialogue, which shows identity through the prism of a relationship to another human being. I consider this problem on the basis of philosophical anthropology. For this purpose, a phenomenological reflection was used, which consists in describing the phenomenon and trying to understand it through the prism of “I”. The reason why the philosophy of Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche inspires, on the one hand, National Socialism, and on the other, the philosophy of dialogue, is shown. This particular task is to help understand today’s problems of nation-states seeking their own identity. The common denominator of these two separate phenomena is the problem of identity. The problem of symmetry and asymmetry of relations or the problem of violence and being for the other in the concept of the national idea and the philosophy of dialogue is presented. They can be seen through the prism of the question of identity. On the one hand, nationalism is based on universalism, and on the other, it seeks uniqueness, a unique place for its nation. It is clearly in contradiction to universal values which are the same for all. The dispute over identity from the perspective of the philosophy of dialogue touches upon an important issue, which is the importance of the Other for identity. The philosophies of Kant, Hegel, or Nietzsche, when misunderstood, may lead to the conclusion that they are the precursors of nationalism, including National Socialism. However, this is a great misconception. The philosophy of dialogue critically evaluates these thinkers, but they give it a reason to reflect on the essence, on the root question of philosophy. The philosophy of dialogue teaches that individual experience can be universal, without excluding others. This helps to see the necessary balance between the identity of the individual and the national identity that need each other. National identity is a very important element of human nature, but it must be based on symmetry in interpersonal relations, which can guarantee peace in Europe and the world.

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