scholarly journals Begriff (Concept)

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clark Muenzer
Keyword(s):  
Close Relation ◽  
Expressive Power ◽  
Reflective Judgment ◽  
Philosophical Concept ◽  
Limit Setting ◽  
Systematic Philosophy ◽  
The World ◽  
Dynamic Perspective ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
Dynamic Plane

The lexeme Begriff marks Goethe’s ongoing reconstruction of the traditional philosophical concept across a variety of disciplinary practices. In its most developed articulations, it also works transcendentally to establish the conditions of possibility for thought and intelligibility on a dynamic plane of verbal experimentation and reinvention that cuts immanently through the world. Unlike the clear and distinct concepts of rationalist metaphysics, which function as fixed universals beyond the reach of the senses, Goethe’s extensive usages and ongoing conceptualizations of Begriff draw on an expressive power within language to generate sequences of cognitive moves and moments of transitional understanding that stand in close relation to each other and can be gathered in graded series to be saved for further observation, description, reflection, and reconfiguration. Through its successive linguistic manifestations, moreover, and in line with Goethe’s heterodox approach to systematic philosophy, Begriff lays out force fields of verbal and philosophical activity and discovery with fluid and permeable borders. In ways comparable to the power of reflective judgment in Kant’s third critique, which dispenses with the categories of the understanding and their determining judgments to work intuitively within the world of living forms (Gestalten), Goethe’s lebendiger Begriff (living concept) proves to be a more encompassing structure of thought and its processes than the conceptual machinery of orthodox metaphysical systems with their regulatory regimes of limit-setting terms. Redeployed as an experimental object of experience, Begriff is, therefore, also anschaulich (visual, accessible to intuition). By offering a dynamic perspective onto the fugitive things of the world—including its thought things—it continually reveals the hidden secrets of its own perpetual becomings.

scholarly journals Will and Volition: Personal Conditions of Possibility of Being an Agent

2021 ◽  
Vol - (4) ◽  
pp. 153-162
Author(s):  
Anna Laktionova
Keyword(s):  
States Of Affairs ◽  
Philosophical Concept ◽  
Very Old ◽  
Philosophical Investigations ◽  
Personal Attitude ◽  
The World ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
Rational Actions

Will is a very old important philosophical concept, an analysis of which is very specific, if not odd, comparatively with the others (when it fruitfully proceeds in terms of criteria). This concept (‘will’) is going to be used to provide and clarify conditions of possibility for person of being an agent. In doing that I refer to the correspondent pieces of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations; and to their interpretations by M. Alvarez in “Wittgenstein on Action and Will” (2009) and D. K. Levy in “Morality without Agency” (2017). Person is essentially constituted by ‘powerless’ will in terms of ‘understanding’ that is experienced during her life. Action depends on and manifests understanding by will of a personal attitude to some states of affairs. Will does not incline a person to particular desires about preferable states of affairs or actions. Will is not about states of affairs. By willing I value the world, its portions, they appear significant, important to me. Volition is treated as related to will. Both are personal conditions of being an agent with priority of agency as capacity realized by rational actions.

The Holy Mountain

Antiquity ◽  
1929 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. 408-413
Author(s):  
J. H. Dunbar
Keyword(s):  
Close Relation ◽  
The World

It seems amazing that an African negro should ever have been able with any sort of justification to style himself – Emperor of the World ', and perhaps even more so that he should have been an enlightened prince ruling a people who were in many ways quite as civilized as we are today. For though it might be easy to imagine a native military genius, it is difficult to picture him as a patron of the finer arts.From the very earliest recorded times what is now the northern Sudan-in those days described variously as Nubia, Ethiopia, or Kushwas in close relation with Egypt; and between the two countries there was a continuous exchange, not only of produce and material, but also of ideas and customs.

scholarly journals Concepts of Digital Labour: Schelling's Naturphilosophie

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Michael Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Self Awareness ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
Online Activity ◽  
Digital Infrastructure ◽  
Personal Interaction ◽  
The World ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
State Of Power ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
Point Of Departure

This paper uses F.W.J. Schelling’s Naturphilsophie as a point of departure to theorize the concept of digital labour. Beginning with Marx’s distinction between fulfilling and unfulfilling labour, it is argued that the former is labour that is immanent to, and in line with, the Schellingian notion of Nature as process and ungrounded ground, while the unfulfilling variant externalizes Nature and attempts to use it against itself in the service of capital, and the establishment of what I call a state-of-power. Schelling’s The Ages of the World is re-interpreted by exchanging his version of immaterial spirituality for digital virtuality, and as a result, digital labour is viewed as a consequence of previous forms of world historical developments. While digital virtuality is in fact materialist in terms of both the labour that activates it, and the substrate that sustains it, the materiality of the digital is often overlooked in favour of an anti-materialist stance that works to disconnect the digital labourer from their online activity, and preclude the critical self-awareness necessary for the acknowledgement of their online “playful” activity as work. It ends with an analysis of Mark Zuckerberg’s ideational attempt to “re-wire” the world via Facebook’s digital infrastructure, which begins to set the conditions of possibility for inter-personal interaction, and explores the possibilities for resistance available in Foucault’s notion of the care of the self.

scholarly journals Multiple, connective intellection: the condition for invention

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
C S De Beer
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Multiple Reality ◽  
Great Hope ◽  
The World ◽  
Dynamic Perspective ◽  
Ultimate Condition ◽  
Scientific Endeavour

Since this article involves invention, the conditions for inventiveness become the issue: assuming multiple reality; thinking in a special way; transgressing boundaries; acknowledging networks (in the terms of Michel Serres: communication, transduction, interference, distribution, passages between the sciences. There are, however, misplaced expectations: technology should work wonders in this regard while forgetting that humans, redefined though, remain the key to establish connections and networks between people, paradigms, disciplines, sciences and technologies.Against this background, Michel Serres’s emphasis on invention and “thinking as invention” and his a-critical anti-method – ‘connective, multiple intellection’ which is a special kind of thought – are desperately needed.Guattari’s articulation of the three ecologies and the ecosophic views he developed in this regard provides a significant amplification of the approach of ‘multiple connective intellection’. These insights can be enlightened and strongly driven home through the views of Latour with an anthropological and socio-dynamic perspective on the scientific endeavour with the articulation of the actor-network theory inherited from Serres. The thoughtful beyond-methodology of Edgar Morin with his strong noological position as the ultimate condition for inventiveness, and Gregory Ulmer with his special emphasis on invention and inventiveness, especially with the help and assistance of electronic means (video and internet), and with his work with the architect Bernard Tschumi on invention and inventiveness, are of special significance in the sphere of inventiveness, the real and final guarantee for a spirited re-enchantment of the world as well as the final demonstration that the battle for intelligence as opposed to ignorance, stupidity and barbarism can be fought with great hope to succeed.

III.—The Fissure Theory of Volcanoes

1910 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 392-394
Author(s):  
E. H. L. Schwarz
Keyword(s):  
Close Relation ◽  
Earth’S Crust ◽  
The World ◽  
Vertical Fault ◽  
Central Crater ◽  
Earth's Crust ◽  
The Many ◽  
Escape Vent

Dr. Hans Beck has adduced an example of a volcano which, according to him, has been formed independently of a fissure. The volcano pierces the centre of a faulted block, the Herdubreid, in Iceland, and on the vertical fault-faces there is no sign of any fissure. The example is probably unique in the world, and seems at first sight to negative the hypothesis that the escape of gases which tear through the earth's crust and form the chimneys of volcanoes is in the first place initiated by a fracture; on closer examination, however, the fact that the volcano stands in close relation to the faults which bound the horst, and the many cases which are known to occur where a fracture in the earth's crust may be healed at the surface so that the rocks about the fracture are subsequently more resistant than before, seem to point to the Herdubreid volcano being a normal fissure-formed volcano, only that it stands in the same relation to the fracture as a parasitic cone stands to the central crater. In other words, the chimney is an escape vent leading below the surface to one of the bounding faults of the horst.

scholarly journals The Authentic and Inauthentic Sport in the Hermeneutic and Phenomenological Perspectives

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Ivo Jirásek ◽  
Josef Oborný ◽  
Emanuel Hurych
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Specific Kind ◽  
Philosophical Concept ◽  
Opposite Pole ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Sport Events ◽  
Time And Being

Summary The philosophical concept of hermeneutics presents the opposite pole of human mental activities than positivism. Phenomenology, together with hermeneutics, also presents a kind of opposition to the positivistic reduction of learning the world. This paper focuses on the topic of authenticity of sport from these two (hermeneutic and phenomenological) approaches. As a basic theoretical platform Martin Heidegger’s book Time and Being is used. The authors develop a specific kind of categorization of the social groups engaged in sport events via the ancient concepts of “TECHNÉ ATHLETIKÉ” and “TECHNÉ GYMNASTIKÉ”. Two different phenomena: sport and “sport” are examined within the next part of the paper. There are some reasons mentioned in conclusions coming from the hermeneutic and phenomenological approach which help us to understand and accept the opinion that a kind of return to “techné gymnastiké” can support the authentic modes of being in human approach to sport.

What Cries Out

Atopias ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frédéric Neyrat
Keyword(s):  
Political Life ◽  
Philosophical Concept ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Sense Of Wonder ◽  
Living Being

The conclusion, “What Cries Out,” argues that there is no relation without atopia. Here the book unfolds the implications of its analysis for translation, ecology, and political life. When each philosophical concept and each living being contains an out-of-place, then the world is a relational field composed of out-of-fields. The metaphysical propositions of philosophy make liveable the space between the immemorial and the end of time, restoring a sense of wonder about the existence of the universe.

scholarly journals Panentheisms, Creation and Evil

Open Theology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-181
Author(s):  
Robin Attfield
Keyword(s):  
Close Relation ◽  
Problem Of Evil ◽  
Classical Theism ◽  
The World ◽  
The Problem Of Evil

Abstract Can panentheism cope with the problem of evil? This problem is often understood as one for classical theists, who maintain that the cosmos, together with its evils, was created by an all-powerful and benevolent God. For classical theists need to reconcile the world’s evils with divine creation. But corresponding problems re-emerge for theologies of both pantheistic and panentheistic kinds. Thus a problem arises for panentheists, with their teachings about a close relation between God and the cosmos. The closer the relation, the more intense the problem. Thus panentheists who regard the world as necessary to or part of God must hold that its evils are likewise necessary to or part of God. I explore in this paper whether panentheism can overcome the corresponding problem. This exploration involves sifting different varieties of panentheism. While for some varieties the problem is insoluble, this turns out to be less so for others, which retain central features of classical theism, while stressing interaction between God and the created world. In particular, grounds will be offered for holding that the version of panentheism put forward by Jürgen Moltmann and by Arthur Peacocke is defensible and can overcome this problem.

The world is a room

Focaal ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 (63) ◽  
pp. 8-19
Author(s):  
Blai Guarné
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
History Of Anthropology ◽  
Academic History ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
The Mediterranean

It is well accepted that the discussion about intellectual centers and peripheries has a reductionist character that conceals the complexity of a globalizing world. Despite this, we cannot ignore that in the academic history of anthropology central traditions and hegemonic discourses were established, while others were rendered as peripheral or marginal. This historical context has set a disciplinary framework of inequalities and imbalances that created the conditions of possibility for the global production and dissemination of anthropological knowledge. By re-examining the controversy surrounding the anthropology of the Mediterranean and its relation with debates about native anthropology, this article points out the challenge of revising this disciplinary framework in the project of developing a truly global anthropology.

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