scholarly journals The Hidden God, Second-Person Knowledge, and the Incarnation

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 559
Author(s):  
Marek Dobrzeniecki
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Interpersonal Relationship ◽  
Personal Relationship ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Hidden God

The paper considers premises of the hiddenness argument with an emphasis on its usage of the concept of a personal God. The paper’s assumption is that a recent literature on second-person experiences could be useful for theists in their efforts to defend their position against Schellenberg’s argument. Stump’s analyses of a second-person knowledge indicate that what is required in order to establish an interpersonal relationship is a personal presence of the persons in question, and therefore they falsify the thesis that a minimalist requirement for a relationship between a man and God has to be belief in his existence. Recent works by developmental psychologists not only verify a hypothesis that a second-person knowledge is not reducible to knowledge-that, but also suggest that one needs a shared form of life in order to establish an interpersonal relationship. These two insights allow the author to formulate his own response to the hiddenness argument: only when God’s presence is non-explicit—for example, when God is hidden in a human nature—can a finite person enter into a personal relationship with him. It is the fulfilment of the requirement of being personally present that is the justifying reason for God to permit non-resistant non-belief.

scholarly journals Understanding the Choices of Terms of Address: A Sociolinguistic Study of Malay Cultural Practices

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Nor Shahila Mansor ◽  
Normaliza Abd Rahim ◽  
Roslina Mamat ◽  
Hazlina Abdul Halim
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Interpersonal Relationship ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
Address Terms

This paper investigates the choices of second person terms of address in the Malay culture. It examines the different patterns of address terms used in a range of communicative situations by interlocutors coming from diverse social backgrounds. The data for this study was obtained from two Malay dramas Ijab & Qabul (The solemnization of marriage) and Tiga Hari Menanti Mati (Three Days Until Death). These dramas were selected because they reflect in the usage of terms of address in an authentic social context of the Malay culture and represent various interpersonal relationships in a range of situations. This is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach. Forty-eight different second person terms of address were recorded and analysed in specific contexts based on the framework for classifying address terms established by Kroger, Wood and Kim (1984). The findings suggest that sociolinguistic elements such as interlocutors, contexts, determinants of interpersonal relationship, and intentions were determining factors influencing the choice of second person terms of address in the Malay culture. These findings have implications on the understanding of current trends in choosing the terms of address among Malay speakers.

Personality traits and music in adolescence

2019 ◽  
pp. 99-108
Author(s):  
Dave Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Psychology Perspective

For centuries, and across cultures, people have wondered what kind of relationship there is between music and human nature. A personality psychology perspective may address this fundamental question on music by considering that personality traits are dispositions that constitute part of human nature. Hence, the classic question about how music is associated with human nature may at least in part be answered by examining if and how personality traits and music are interrelated. The objective of this chapter is to review the recent literature on personality traits and music in adolescence, with an eye on wellbeing. The first part discusses possible interrelations between personality traits and music listening. The second part considers putative relationships between personality traits and music making. Research directions are briefly outlined.

scholarly journals Troubled Homecomings: Rosa Praed and Lemuria

2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-36
Author(s):  
Kay Ferres
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Human Origins

This paper has many beginnings. My interest in Rosa Praed's involvements with spiritualism and theosophy has taken me into the nineteenth century literatures and practices of spiritualism, to debates about the specification of human nature and human origins and to the recent literature on the administration and regulation of populations in the cities at the centre of Empire and the colonial periphery. But my thinking about Lemuria had been caught up with the ‘nowhere’ of Utopian discourse.

scholarly journals PROPERTY IN THE MORAL LIFE OF HUMAN BEINGS

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 404-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Bertram
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
The State ◽  
Natural Rights ◽  
Moral Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Complex Society ◽  
Property Concepts

AbstractLiberal egalitarian political philosophers have often argued that private property is a legal convention dependent on the state and that complaints about taxation from entitlement theorists are therefore based on a conceptual mistake. But our capacity to grasp and use property concepts seems too embedded in human nature for this to be correct. This essay argues that many standard arguments that property is constitutively a legal convention fail, but that the opposition between conventionalists and natural rights theorists is outmoded. In doing this, the essay draws on recent literature in evolutionary biology and psychology. Even though modern property in a complex society involves legal conventions, those conventions should be sensitive to our natural dispositions concerning ownership.

scholarly journals Philosophia Naturalis Rediviva: Natural Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century

Philosophies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Bruce MacLennan
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Century ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Full Account ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
The World ◽  
Natural Philosophers ◽  
Unconscious Mind

A revitalized practice of natural philosophy can help people to live a better life and promote a flourishing ecosystem. Such a philosophy is natural in two senses. First, it is natural by seeking to understand the whole of nature, including mental phenomena. Thus, a comprehensive natural philosophy should address the phenomena of sentience by embracing first- and second-person methods of investigation. Moreover, to expand our understanding of the world, natural philosophy should embrace a full panoply of explanations, similar to Aristotle’s four causes. Second, such a philosophy is natural by being grounded in human nature, taking full account of human capacities and limitations. Future natural philosophers should also make use of all human capacities, including emotion and intuition, as well as reason and perception, to investigate nature. Finally, since the majority of our brain’s activities are unconscious, natural philosophy should explore the unconscious mind with the aim of deepening our relation with the rest of nature and of enhancing well-being.

Human Nature in Politics: The Dialogue of Psychology with Political Science

1985 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert A. Simon
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Bounded Rationality ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Model Predictions ◽  
Substantive Rationality ◽  
Human Rationality

This article compares two theories of human rationality that have found application in political science: procedural, bounded rationality from contemporary cognitive psychology, and global, substantive rationality from economics. Using examples drawn from the recent literature of political science, it examines the relative roles played by the rationality principle and by auxiliary assumptions (e.g., assumptions about the content of actors' goals) in explaining human behavior in political contexts, and concludes that the model predictions rest primarily on the auxiliary assumptions rather than deriving from the rationality principle.The analysis implies that the principle of rationality, unless accompanied by extensive empirical research to identify the correct auxiliary assumptions, has little power to make valid predictions about political phenomena.

scholarly journals Philosophia Naturalis Renovata: Natural Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce MacLennan
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Century ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Full Account ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
The World ◽  
Natural Philosophers ◽  
Unconscious Mind

A revitalized practice of natural philosophy can help people to live a better life and promote a flourishing ecosystem. Such a philosophy is natural in two senses. First, it is natural by seeking to understand the whole of nature, including mental phenomena, In particular, a comprehensive natural philosophy should address the phenomena of sentience by embracing first- and second-person methods of investigation. Moreover, to expand our understanding of the world, natural philosophy should embrace a full panoply of explanations, similar to Aristotle’s four causes. Second, such a philosophy is natural by being grounded in human nature, taking full account of human capacities and limitations. Future natural philosophers should also make use of all human capacities, including emotion and intuition as well as reason and perception, to investigate nature. Finally, since the majority of our brain's activities are unconscious, natural philosophy should explore the unconscious mind with the aim of deepening our relation to the rest of nature and enhancing well-being.

Normativity, volitional capacities, and rationality as a form of life

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-161
Author(s):  
Gabriele De Anna
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Practical Rationality ◽  
Philosophical Method ◽  
Set Constraints ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Normative Significance ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
Normative Constraints

Contemporary neo-Aristotelianism attempts to ground normative constraints on action on the notion of human nature and this opens it to two main objections: Firstly, human nature seems to be too indeterminate to set constraints on action; secondly, it is unclear why knowledge of human nature should motivate agents. This essay considers the contribution that Wittgenstein’s notion of form of life can give in answering these challenges. It suggests that forms of life are not objects of analysis, but rather a new philosophical method, which allows us also to investigate human volitional capacities and their normative significance for practical rationality.

Fallenness and anhypostasis: a way forward in the debate over Christ's humanity

2014 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darren O. Sumner
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Original Sin ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Real Possibility ◽  
Hypostatic Union ◽  
Point Of Departure

AbstractThe doctrine of the incarnation suggests that Christ is necessarily like us in some respects, and also unlike us in others. One long-standing debate in modern christology concerns whether Jesus’ human nature ought to be regarded as ‘fallen’ – as conditioned by the effects of the Fall – despite the fact that he himself remained without sin (Heb 4:15). Is fallenness a condition which is necessary in order for Christ to sympathise with human beings, to represent them, and so to reconcile them to God? Is fallenness logically separable from sinfulness? Recent literature has suggested an increasing intractability on both sides of this debate. This article seeks to bring clarity to the question of the fallenness of Christ's human nature by identifying areas of common ground between advocates and opponents of this position. It engages the work of representatives from both sides – Oliver Crisp in opposition and Karl Barth in support – in order to determine the different ways in which they approach the matter of Jesus’ fallenness and impeccability, and to locate points of potential consensus. Crisp argues that fallenness cannot be detached from sin and guilt – i.e. Augustine's notion of both original sin and original corruption, in which sin is an inevitability. Barth, on the other hand, is critical of the Augustinian view and takes as his point of departure Jesus’ unity and sympathy with fallen creatures. Yet the fallenness of Jesus’ humanity does not mean that sin was a real possibility for him.In this article the christological doctrine of anhypostasis – a way of speaking exclusively of human nature apart from its hypostatic union with God the Son – is suggested as the primary way forward. Advocates of the fallenness position seem to have this qualifier in mind when describing Jesus’ human nature as ‘fallen’: it is true of the assumed nature only when considered in itself, apart from the hypostatic union. There are logical and historical grounds for opponents to accept fallenness strictly on these terms, as well. Beyond this, I argue that anhypostatic fallenness should be acceptable to both sides because it is never without a corresponding sanctification of Jesus’ human nature by its encounter with God. Though Jesus’ humanity was conditioned by the fall, by virtue of the communicatio gratiarum it was not left in a state of peccability.

Solving a paradox against concrete-composite Christology: a modified hylomorphic proposal

2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 493-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDREW LOKE
Keyword(s):  
Recent Literature ◽  
Divine Nature ◽  
Second Person ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Modified Theory ◽  
Over Time

AbstractA paradox adapted from the well-known ‘paradox of increase’ has been formulated against composite Christology in recent literature. I argue that concrete-composite Christologists can reply by denying the premise that the pre-incarnate divine nature=the Second Person of the Trinity. This denial can be made by modifying a hylomorphic theory of individuals. Using an analogy from material coinciding objects, this modified theory provides an illuminating account of how a person can gain (or lose) parts over time but remain numerically identical, and it demonstrates that concrete nature and person are not the same thing.

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