scholarly journals The common fate of the European man and philosophy

2003 ◽  
Vol 46 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 27-46
Author(s):  
Jovan Arandjelovic
Keyword(s):  
Transcendental Phenomenology ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Common Fate ◽  
Vital Power ◽  
European Values ◽  
The Common ◽  
Fundamental Transformation ◽  
Essential Connection

From the antiquity, science and philosophy have formed an inextricable unity and also from the period of Renaissance philosophy and the modern scientific spirit have influenced the destiny of the European man. But the contemporary crisis of philosophy, according to Husserl, results from the fact that it has lost its own essence and ceased to be the force of the fundamental transformation of man. So the European man cannot rely any more on philosophy as the medium of universal liberation. Showing the actuality of Husserl's ideas from The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology the author considers that it is of crucial importance to overcome this crisis by founding of new philosophy, which would be appropriate to 'the spiritual Europe'. Science, as well as philosophy, must revindicate their vital power from politics, returning to the hellenistic ideals, that are also stressed by Husserl, too. Since the crisis of European values originates in the crisis of its science and philosophy, and that crisis is common to philosophy and the European man, the essential connection between them should be re-established by reviving the hope in the inappreciable value of the community of the European man and philosophy through the discovery of a new image of philosophy in the time when it seems that it has lost its former significance.

Ainsworth's Historical Accuracy Reconsidered

1972 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
Llewellyn Ligocki
Keyword(s):  
Historical Novel ◽  
Sir Walter Scott ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Waverley Novels ◽  
Literary Figure ◽  
Historical Fact ◽  
The Common ◽  
Failure To Progress

After Sir Walter Scott made the historical novel popular with his Waverley novels, many other writers, including the major novelists Dickens and Thackeray and the minor novelists Ainsworth, G. P. R. James, Bulwer-Lytton, and Reade, took up the form. But while the major novelists are credited with artistry in their use of history, the minor ones are generally regarded as hacks who used history indiscriminately in any way they wished in order to “make saleable novels.” The disparaging criticism of William Harrison Ainsworth's use of history exemplifies this unreflective critical tendency.For several probable reasons, critics have not been inclined to credit Ainsworth with using history responsibly; however, none of the reasons is based on an examination of his sources: his rapid ascension and decline as an important literary figure, his popularity with the common reading public, and his failure to progress artistically after his first few good novels. His artistic growth seems to have ended in 1840, forty-one years before the publication of his last novel. These critics have seen him as a “manufacturer of fiction,” and therefore not responsible in his treatment of historical fact and his use of historical documents, even though time and place are of crucial importance to Ainsworth. One could hardly regard Ainsworth more incorrectly. A close reading of Ainsworth's historical sources demonstrates that Ainsworth's history is extremely reliable in both generalities and particulars; his alterations, usually minor, serve only to adumbrate his concept of history as cycle. Thus, even though he is a novelist and not a historian, the faithful revelation of the past is central to his work. He examines history carefully in order to present truths about life and in order to demonstrate how history reveals these truths.

scholarly journals Relativity of Taste without Relativism. An Introduction to Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-81
Author(s):  
Carlos Lobo
Keyword(s):  
Physical Theory ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Transcendental Phenomenology ◽  
Theory Of Relativity ◽  
Phenomenological Interpretation ◽  
Value Judgements ◽  
The Common ◽  
Artistic Values ◽  
Aesthetic Values

The author explores Ingarden’s aesthetics taking as a leading thread his repeated attempts at a refutation of the common locus of relativity of taste. Ingarden’s position is summarized in four theses: (1) values do exist as the proper correlates of aesthetic experience, (2) aesthetic values must be distinguished from artistic values, (3) artistic and aesthetic values are founded in other ontic strata, and finally (4) acts of valuation in aesthetic experience are presupposed by value judgements. In the light of the philosophical and phenomenological interpretation of the physical theory of relativity (special and general) by authors such as Weyl or Geiger, Ingarden’s refutation of the relativity of taste appears as incomplete. The phenomenology of aesthetic experience formulated by Geiger and Husserl and their own refutations of relativism in general and aesthetic relativism in particular suggest a more fruitful approach, which is undermined by Ingarden: the transcendental phenomenology of intersubjective aesthetic experience.

scholarly journals In varietate Concordia: two perspectives on the European values

Conatus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Liliya Leonidovna Sazonova
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The West ◽  
East European ◽  
Common Culture ◽  
Culture History ◽  
European Values ◽  
The Common ◽  
East West ◽  
The Eu

In the first chapter of the paper we elaborate on the attitude towards the Other in the European Union by discussing two adversative yet simultaneous processes taking place in the EU. The first tendency is a legacy from the centuries-lasting model of European unification against certain important Others. The second one refers to the aspiration of the supra-national European project to encourage in an unprecedented manner the co-existence with the otherness. We argue that this ambivalence results from the fact that the transformation of the attitude towards the otherness takes place with different tempo in the different social spheres.   In the second chapter we develop further the reflection on the EU attitude towards the Other by focusing on the East European Other. We discuss the normative and de facto application of the European values both in the West and in the East part of the continent.In the last chapter we articulate two separate discourses framing the European values. The first one refers to the essentialist approach looking for a metaphysical reasoning of their universality by developing the common culture, history and spirit rhetoric. The second reading of the European values presents them in a more postmodern and debatable way and offers a mechanism for reconciling the heterogenic East-West European society.

scholarly journals From Similarities to Singularity: the common fate dimensions and toolkit  for cities of tomorrow: من التشابه إلى الانفراد: أبعاد وأدوات المصير المشترك لمدينة الغد

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisham G. Abusaada
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Common Fate ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Common

This article examines the common fate of the three concepts that interprets the sameness of cities. It begins with a concise exploration of “personality”, “identity” and “character” in terms of the dual singularity—difference and similarity—of cities. Whatever, there is still a significant overlap between the meaning of identity and character, which threatens to weaken both concepts. This research addresses two aspects. The first is the dimensions of the common ground between personality, identity, and character. The second explores these two dimensions in the conventional and the contemporary prospects concepts in the Western paradigms to create the cities of tomorrow for offering the toolkit of singularity. The main conclusion highlights the question is: What should be examined to produce cities that are not alike in the future? Ultimately, there is scope to further strengthen singularity- based planning and design approaches through a toolkit help specialists to dominate the sameness of cities.

scholarly journals Eurocentrism and International Thinking - a brief introduction

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 15-17
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Fesich
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Important Phenomenon ◽  
New Development ◽  
The World ◽  
European Values ◽  
The Common

International thinking – a nice expression, widely used by political and economical leaders and easily found on all major newspapers nowadays. But has it been always like that? Globalisation is considered to be a rather new development in history. On the contrary, the term eurocentrism is not spread so widely in the common language (not taking into consideration the so-called scientific community). However, eurocentrism has been an important phenomenon during the development of Europe in the world. Eurocentrism, as a variant of ethnocentrism, describes the way of emphasising European values and culture (often also described as the Western culture, contrasting with the Islamic culture – which actually compares a geographical character with a religious one and therefore, a priori, leads to confusion and unfair comparisons!) i compared to other cultures.

scholarly journals In Search of a Pan-European Culture: European Values, Beliefs, and Models of Selfhood in Global Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 868-887 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivian L. Vignoles ◽  
Peter B. Smith ◽  
Maja Becker ◽  
Matthew J. Easterbrook
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Large Datasets ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Multilevel Analyses ◽  
Cultural Variation ◽  
Cultural Model ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
European Culture ◽  
European Values ◽  
The Common

What, if any, are the common cultural characteristics that distinguish European societies and groups when viewed against a backdrop of global cultural variation? We sought to identify any shared features of European cultures through secondary multilevel analyses of two large datasets that together provided measures of cultural values, beliefs, and models of selfhood from samples in all inhabited continents. Although heterogeneous in many respects—including the value dimension of autonomy versus embeddedness—European samples shared two distinctive features: a decontextualized representation of personhood and a cultural model of selfhood emphasizing difference from others. Compared with samples from other regions, European samples on average also emphasized egalitarianism and harmony values, commitment to others in their models of selfhood, and an immutable concept of personhood, but not uniformly so. We interpret these findings in relation to a Durkheimian model of individualism.

Comparing Two Models of Dyadic Change: Correlated Growth Versus Common Fate

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 957-965
Author(s):  
Jacob S. Gray ◽  
Daniel J. Ozer
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Growth Model ◽  
Growth Parameters ◽  
Growth Trajectories ◽  
Romantic Couples ◽  
Dyadic Data ◽  
Common Fate ◽  
The Common ◽  
Complex Structural ◽  
The Relationship

The analysis of longitudinal dyadic data often requires complex structural models. Two models of dyadic change, the correlated growth model and the common fate growth model, differ in their description of change. The correlated growth model estimates separate but correlated growth trajectories for each member of a dyad. The common fate growth model treats the dyad as the unit of analysis and estimates growth parameters for the dyad. Relationship and life satisfaction are important outcomes that feature prominently in the relationship literature and must be modeled adequately to be understood. In a sample of 325 romantic couples, the relative efficacy of these two models for describing change in relationship and life satisfaction is compared. The common fate growth model better described relationship satisfaction, while the correlated growth model provided superior fit to life satisfaction. Implications for the modeling of dyadic data are discussed.

The Conference of European Churches

2021 ◽  
pp. 353-368
Author(s):  
Peter Pavlovic
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Theological Foundations ◽  
European Values ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Bridge Building

This chapter outlines the history and work of the Conference of European Churches (CEC). CEC was founded in the middle of the Cold War in a divided Europe as an instrument promoting dialogue, bridge-building, cooperation, and ecumenical fellowship between churches of Anglican, Orthodox, and Protestant traditions. From its inception, CEC has promoted values of peace, reconciliation, justice, solidarity, and human dignity, and has been engaged in the building of trust and a sense of community in Europe. Through fostering the active engagement of churches in society, CEC has contributed to the discussion on European values and the future of the European project. The final section of the chapter elaborates on the theological foundations framing the churches’ action for justice and the common good. Such pursuits are central to the theological principles underpinning a healthy society.

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