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Book Review On The Philosophical Challenge From China (Edited By Brian Bruya), Hans Van Eyghen
Book Review On The Philosophical Challenge From China (Edited By Brian Bruya), Hans Van Eyghen
Comparative Philosophy
In this paper, I review the book The Philosophical Challenge from China, edited by Brian Bruya. I critically discuss each of the 13 contributions.
Sunyata In The West, David Grandy
Sunyata In The West, David Grandy
Comparative Philosophy
I argue that sunyata, or something like it, manifested itself in early Western thought. While Plato and Aristotle resisted emptiness or nothingness, they nevertheless felt themselves obliged to venture close to its edge in order to ground their explanations of changing reality to unchanging principles. These principles (Plato’s receptacle and Aristotle’s prime matter) embody much of the indeterminancy long associated with the Mahayana understanding of sunyata. Although their function was to enable lasting (static) explanations of reality by putting change out of play, they themselves shade off toward a featureless being evocative of non-being. Moving along a somewhat …
Moral Saints, Hindu Sages, And The Good Life, Christopher G. Framarin
Moral Saints, Hindu Sages, And The Good Life, Christopher G. Framarin
Comparative Philosophy
Roy W. Perrett argues that the Hindu sage, like the western moral saint, seems precluded from pursuing non-moral ends for their own sakes. If he is precluded from pursuing non-moral ends for their own sakes, then he is precluded from pursuing non-moral virtues, interests, activities, relationships, and so on for their own sakes. A life devoid of every such pursuit seems deficient. Hence, the Hindu sage seems to forsake the good life. In response, I adapt a reply that Vanessa Carbonell offers in the context of the moral saint. The Hindu sage might pursue non-moral virtues, interests, activities, relationships, and …
The Social Nature Of Individual Self-Identity: Akan And Narrative Conceptions Of Personhood, Corey L. Barnes
The Social Nature Of Individual Self-Identity: Akan And Narrative Conceptions Of Personhood, Corey L. Barnes
Comparative Philosophy
Marya Schechtman has given us reasons to think that there are different questions that compose personal identity. On the one hand, there is the question of reidentification, which concerns what makes a person the same person through different time-slices. On the other hand, there is the question of characterization, which concerns the actions, experiences, beliefs, values, desires, character traits, etc. that we take to be attributable to a person over time. While leaving the former question for another work, Schechtman answers the latter question by proposing what she terms the narrative self-constitution view, whereby Schechtman claims that we account for …
Climbing A Ladder To Heaven. Gnostic Vision Of The World In Jacob's Ladder (1990), Fryderyk Kwiatkowski
Climbing A Ladder To Heaven. Gnostic Vision Of The World In Jacob's Ladder (1990), Fryderyk Kwiatkowski
Journal of Religion & Film
Contemporary film-makers quite willingly employ motifs typical of various gnostic trends. The author shows that ancient gnosticism is a treasury of motifs and a source of aesthetical and narrative strategies present in contemporary cinema. The article treats Jacob’s Ladder (1990, dir. Adrian Lyne) which is analyzed through Gnostic beliefs. In the author’s opinion, this film can be treated as a model where the gnostic thought has been presented in a coherent and systematic manner.
Bedecke Deinen Himmel, Zeus! Goethe And The Quest For Individual Sovereignty, Anthony D. Magestro
Bedecke Deinen Himmel, Zeus! Goethe And The Quest For Individual Sovereignty, Anthony D. Magestro
Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato
This project examines Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Die Leiden des jungen Werther (The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774) and his early poetry and their influence on the German literary movement of Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress, 1770-1785). As a reaction to the rise of rationalism, Goethe’s texts embody the value of raw, subjective emotion versus logical, objective understanding of the preceding Enlightenment period. Through his literature, Goethe challenges the status quo of absolute rule of church and state as well as humanity’s relationship with God: are we bound to the laws of the Almighty’s design or are …
Editor’S Postscript: From The Vantage Point Of Constructive-Engagement Strategy Of Comparative Philosophy, Bo Mou
Comparative Philosophy
No abstract provided.
Public Philosophy: Cross-Cultural And Multi-Disciplinary, Anand Jayprakash Vaidya
Public Philosophy: Cross-Cultural And Multi-Disciplinary, Anand Jayprakash Vaidya
Comparative Philosophy
In this paper I propose a future direction for comparative philosophy on which it enters the space of public philosophy by capitalizing on the fact that it is already cross-cultural, and adding multi-disciplinary research to its proper foundation. This is not a new thesis. Rather, it is an ideological articulation of thought that is already underway in what is sometimes called fusion philosophy, as found in the work of Evan Thompson, Jay Garfield, or Christian Coseru. My articulation begins with a non-exhaustive delineation of distinct types of public-philosophy that are already well known in the public space. One core distinction …
It’S Not Them, It’S You: A Case Study Concerning The Exclusion Of Non-Western Philosophy, Amy Olberding
It’S Not Them, It’S You: A Case Study Concerning The Exclusion Of Non-Western Philosophy, Amy Olberding
Comparative Philosophy
My purpose in this essay is to suggest, via case study, that if Anglo-American philosophy is to become more inclusive of non-western traditions, the discipline requires far greater efforts at self-scrutiny. I begin with the premise that Confucian ethical treatments of manners afford unique and distinctive arguments from which moral philosophy might profit, then seek to show why receptivity to these arguments will be low. I examine how ordinary good manners have largely fallen out of philosophical moral discourse in the west, looking specifically at three areas: conditions in the 18th and 19th centuries that depressed philosophical attention …
Tradition, Culture, And The Problem Of Inclusion In Philosophy, Justin E. H. Smith
Tradition, Culture, And The Problem Of Inclusion In Philosophy, Justin E. H. Smith
Comparative Philosophy
Many today agree that philosophy, as an academic discipline, must, for the sake of its very survival, become more inclusive of a wider range of perspectives, coming from a more diverse pool of philosophers. Yet there has been little serious reflection on how our very idea of what philosophy is might be preventing this change from taking place. In this essay I would like to consider the ways in which our ideas about philosophy's relation to tradition, and its relation to other dimensions of human culture, influence efforts to promote greater diversity in the field.
Models Of Time Travel And Their Consequences, Antonio M. Mantica
Models Of Time Travel And Their Consequences, Antonio M. Mantica
Oglethorpe Journal of Undergraduate Research
How do we travel through time? We know that we can move forward in it (we have no choice), but can we jump forward in time? Can we go backward in time? It also gives rise to other troubling questions: is time measurable in distinct increments, or does it flow continuously? In "Models of Time Travel and their Consequences," Antonio Mantica walks the reader through current understandings of how time functions in Einstein's universe and proposes three distinct models to explain it. Following that, he provides a list of experiments to credit or discredit the models. Appropriate for audiences of …
The Effect Of God On The Cogito: An Examination Of Descartes' Meditations On First Philosophy, Alex Valin
The Effect Of God On The Cogito: An Examination Of Descartes' Meditations On First Philosophy, Alex Valin
Oglethorpe Journal of Undergraduate Research
In Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy, he claims on of his most enduring arguments, the Cogito: I think, I am. Following his argument for the Cogito, however, Descartes argues for the existence of an infinite, all powerful, all knowing God. Critiques of this argument fall into several different camps. First, that God remains a fundamental principle for Descartes’ epistemology and metaphysics. Secondly, that the inclusion of the argument for God was put in to please Church officials. Finally, that what Descartes’ terms God actually represents his own mind. In this essay, I examine Descartes’ argument for God as a fundamental …
Replies To Brons And Mou On Wang Chong And Pluralism, Alexus Mcleod
Replies To Brons And Mou On Wang Chong And Pluralism, Alexus Mcleod
Comparative Philosophy
No abstract provided.
Rooted And Rootless Pluralist Approaches To Truth:Two Distinct Interpretations Of Wang Chong’S Account, Bo Mou
Comparative Philosophy
No abstract provided.
Wang Chong, Truth, And Quasi-Pluralism, Lajos L. Brons
Wang Chong, Truth, And Quasi-Pluralism, Lajos L. Brons
Comparative Philosophy
No abstract provided.
Heidegger And Indian Thinking: The Hermeneutic Of A “Belonging-Together” Of Negation And Affirmation , Jaison D. Vallooran
Heidegger And Indian Thinking: The Hermeneutic Of A “Belonging-Together” Of Negation And Affirmation , Jaison D. Vallooran
Comparative Philosophy
No abstract provided.
Health As Human Nature And Critique Of Culture In Nietzsche And Zhuang Zi , Danesh Singh
Health As Human Nature And Critique Of Culture In Nietzsche And Zhuang Zi , Danesh Singh
Comparative Philosophy
No abstract provided.
Performativity, Social Ontology, And The Uses Of Narratives In Latin America , Ivan Marquez
Performativity, Social Ontology, And The Uses Of Narratives In Latin America , Ivan Marquez
Comparative Philosophy
No abstract provided.
The Bhagavad Gita’S Ethical Syncretism, Roopen Majithia
The Bhagavad Gita’S Ethical Syncretism, Roopen Majithia
Comparative Philosophy
No abstract provided.
Hazel Barnes And Octavio Paz:Two Existentialist And Pan-American Philosophies Of Education, John Kaiser Ortiz
Hazel Barnes And Octavio Paz:Two Existentialist And Pan-American Philosophies Of Education, John Kaiser Ortiz
Comparative Philosophy
No abstract provided.
Personal Identity, Moral Agency And Liang-Zhi: A Comparative Study Of Korsgaard And Wang Yangming , Tzu-Li Chang
Personal Identity, Moral Agency And Liang-Zhi: A Comparative Study Of Korsgaard And Wang Yangming , Tzu-Li Chang
Comparative Philosophy
No abstract provided.
Wittgenstein And Buddhism? On Alleged Affinities With Zen And Madhyamaka , Florian Demont-Biaggi
Wittgenstein And Buddhism? On Alleged Affinities With Zen And Madhyamaka , Florian Demont-Biaggi
Comparative Philosophy
No abstract provided.
Editor's Words, Bo Mou