Philosophy Today, Vol. I, No. 1

1957 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Robert J. Kreyche
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Today

On the possibility/possibilities of the history of philosophy today

2006 ◽  
Vol 49 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 81-95
Author(s):  
Predrag Milidrag
Keyword(s):  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Today ◽  
Philosophical Interpretation ◽  
History Of

The article discusses the philosophical presuppositions of the history of philosophy as a philosophical discipline on the example of the problem of interpreting mutually incoherent claims of a philosopher. The conclusion is that the constitution of these presuppositions is onto-theo-logical. The importance of the criteria of coherence and comprehensiveness for historic philosophical interpretation is analyzed. Finally, the idea of the possibility of a postmetaphysical history of philosophy as a philosophical discipline is exposed, viewed as the accumulation of understandings of various paths - followed and not followed alike -found in past philosophers.

Oneness and Spontaneity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip J. Ivanhoe
Keyword(s):  
Moral Agency ◽  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Philosophy Today ◽  
Early Chinese Philosophy ◽  
Important Objective

This chapter elaborates on the connections between oneness, moral agency, and spontaneity by distinguishing between two general kinds of spontaneity: untutored spontaneity, which is characteristic of traditions such as Daoism, and cultivated spontaneity, representative of traditions such as Confucianism. This discussion intersects with oneness on the matter of “metaphysical comfort,” the sense of oneness, harmony, and happiness that one experiences when acting or reacting spontaneously, on either the untutored or cultivated model. Daoists argued quite plausibly that this experience goes hand in hand with certain kinds of untutored spontaneity, but an important objective of the chapter is to show that even cultivated spontaneity can provide the same comfort. The chapter makes the case that both forms of spontaneity are familiar, though largely unrecognized, in all forms of human life and that the descriptions provided, inspired by early Chinese philosophy, offer important theoretical resources for philosophy today.

Contextual Ethics: Taking the Lead from Wittgenstein and Løgstrup on Ethical Meaning and Normativity

SATS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-158
Author(s):  
Cecilie Eriksen
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Empirical Science ◽  
Philosophy Today ◽  
Human Practices ◽  
Relevant Context ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Contextual Ethics

AbstractA prominent trend in moral philosophy today is the interest in the rich textures of actual human practices and lives. This has prompted engagements with other disciplines, such as anthropology, history, literature, law and empirical science, which have produced various forms of contextual ethics. These engagements motivate reflections on why and how context is important ethically, and such metaethical reflection is what this article undertakes. Inspired by the work of the later Wittgenstein and the Danish theologian K.E. Løgstrup, I first describe one of the ways in which context plays a central role with regard to ethical meaning and normativity. I then examine how ‘context’ is to be defined, and finally I discuss some of the questions which arise when giving context prominence in ethics – namely, how to delimit the scope of relevant context, the relevant traits of a particular context and what ‘the ethical’ is.

Glauben

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Kemmerling
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Philosophy Today ◽  
Definite Answer ◽  
Theoretical Philosophy

Belief and our conception of it have been at the center of theoretical philosophy for at least a hundred years, the concept taken in its broadest sense, meaning every conceivable manner in which something is taken for truth. The question of precisely what belief is and what concept we have of it, was and remains a topic of epistemology, philosophy of mind and ontology in particular. What advice does philosophy today offer about what belief is? How good is this advice? To what extent can it be justified by the concept we have of belief? What kind of concept is that? Is it possible for us to attain knowledge of belief, at least of our own? Such are the questions this essay pursues, albeit often without a definite answer. Rather it is an attempt to elucidate why the expectation that there are such answers has no good philosophical reason – and that this is no reason to question the reality of belief.

We, the Unborn: On Derrida’s Geschlecht III

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
David Farrell Krell
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Philosophy Today ◽  
Georg Trakl

Abstract The article pursues the theme of “the unborn” in the poetry of Georg Trakl and in the commentaries on Trakl’s poetry by Heidegger (in Unterwegs zur Sprache) and Derrida (in Geschlecht III). It continues a decades-long conversation with Trakl, Heidegger, and Derrida developed most recently in Phantoms of the Other: Four Generations of Derrida’s Geschlecht (Albany: SUNY Press, 2015) and in “Derrida, Heidegger, and the Magnetism of the Trakl House,” Philosophy Today, 64:2 (Spring 2020), 1–24.

Philosophy Today

2012 ◽  
pp. 137-145
Author(s):  
Paul Feyerabend
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Today

Philosophy today: cries of alarm and prospects of progress

SATS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-116
Author(s):  
Paolo Parrini
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Critical State ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Historical Survey ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Philosophy Today ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Way

AbstractToday’s critical state of philosophy is examined by considering two of its aspects: the way in which philosophy presently is ever more typically practised (increasing professionalism and specialisation) and the new challenges it has to face to keep up with the changed scientific, and more generally cultural and social context. The essay outlines some prospects of progress in the light of those which still now can be considered the proper tasks of philosophical inquiry. Such tasks are singled out through an historical survey of the original characters of philosophy and an appraisal of its theoretical motivations. The importance of the history of philosophy and the necessity of achieving a virtuous relation among the various philosophical disciplines are stressed to contrast the dangers of excess specialisation and professionalism.

The Historical Discourse of Philosophy

1993 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 127-158
Author(s):  
Barry Allen
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Know How ◽  
Philosophy Today ◽  
Hans Blumenberg ◽  
Insight Into

What is philosophy today—philosophical activity, I mean—if it is not the critical work that thought brings to bear on itself? In what does it consist, if not in the endeavor to know how and to what extent it might be possible to think differently, instead of legitimating what is already known?Michel FoucaultIt may be that we can learn nothing from history but the fact that we have a history ... but there is simply no other way of gaining sensitivity to a future than through insight into the uniqueness and irretrievability of what is past.Hans Blumenberg

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