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Nietzsche Contra Renan, Gary Shapiro May 1982

Nietzsche Contra Renan, Gary Shapiro

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I mean by the title of this essay to allude to Nietzsche Contra Wagner and thereby to suggest the use which Nietzsche made of Renan in formulating some of his most distinctive thoughts. More specifically I suggest that Nietzsche's later view of history, especially as expressed in The Genealogy of Morals and The Antichrist, is a critique and parody of Renan's History of the Origins of Christianity. (I speak deliberately of Nietzsche's "view of history" rather than his "philosophy of history" because the latter phrase contains too many associations which Nietzsche's view rejects.) What is at issue is not a …

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Review Of Edward G. Ballard, Man And Technology. Toward The Measurement Of A Culture And Of Donald M. Borchert And David Stewart, Eds., Being Human In A Technological Age, Albert Borgmann Jan 1982

Review Of Edward G. Ballard, Man And Technology. Toward The Measurement Of A Culture And Of Donald M. Borchert And David Stewart, Eds., Being Human In A Technological Age, Albert Borgmann

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The two books under review pursue separately what an appropriate philosophy of technology must accomplish: the articulation of an incisive and unified vision of the world on the one hand and on the other the consideration of the variety of ways in which technology shapes our lives and the search for fruitful counterforces to technology. Ballard's book attends to the first task, Borchert's and Stewart's anthology to the second. The two books also demonstrate that one task taken up without the other cannot be accomplished satisfactorily.

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Peirce's Critique Of Hegel's Phenomenology And Dialectic, Gary Shapiro Jul 1981

Peirce's Critique Of Hegel's Phenomenology And Dialectic, Gary Shapiro

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Although Peirce clearly and repeatedly stated his intention to construct a philosophical system, each of his attempts in that direction is at best fragmentary and some are ultimately incoherent. The ambiguities of Peirce's cosmology, his theory of meaning and his conception of truth cannot be avoided by anyone who carefully considers his own "guess at the riddle." Rather than cataloguing these puzzles, I hope to give at least a partial account of why they remain in the work of a philosopher who was avowedly systematic, possessed great analytic and synthetic powers, and had an acute sense of the physiognomy of …

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Nietzsche's Graffito: A Reading Of The Antichrist, Gary Shapiro Apr 1981

Nietzsche's Graffito: A Reading Of The Antichrist, Gary Shapiro

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Even those writers who have good things to say about Nietzsche usually do not have good things to say abut his penultimate book, The Antichrist. Like Ecce Homo it is often described as at least prefiguring Nietzsche's madness if not (as is sometimes the case) said to be part of that desperate glide itself. Those inclined to reject the book may be encouraged in this view by Nietzsche's statement to Brandes, in November 1888, that The Antichrist is the whole of The Transvaluation of All Values (originally announced as a series of four books) and that Ecce Homo is its …

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Styling Nietzsche: A Review Essay Of Jacques Derrida Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles, Gary Shapiro Jan 1981

Styling Nietzsche: A Review Essay Of Jacques Derrida Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles, Gary Shapiro

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Any examination of a text by Derrida challenges us to begin with an inquiry into its style. ''The Question of Style" was in fact the originally announced title of this essay which Derrida has since changed to Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles (Èperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche). Style is often regarded as a somewhat extraneous aspect of the philosophical enterprise; it is thought to be a variable form or container which may obstruct our comprehension of the matter or spirit of philosophical communication. Now it is well known that Derrida's whole enterprise involves a challenge to the "logocentric" tradition of philosophy according …

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Peirce And Hegel On Absolute Meaning, Gary Shapiro Jan 1981

Peirce And Hegel On Absolute Meaning, Gary Shapiro

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When Peirce's philosophy is approached in terms of his theory of meaning, it is usual to think of the connections between the pragmatic maxim and the more reductive accounts of classical empiricism or modern operationalism. The point of this paper is to suggest that this angle of approach is narrow and makes several aspects of Peirce's philosophy difficult to understand; on the positive side, I want to show how both the glories and miseries of Peirce's philosophical endeavor are thrown into high relief by noting his affinities and breaks with Hegel's dialectical theory of meaning. Peirce himself often pointed to …

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Reading And Writing In The Text Of Hobbes's Leviathan, Gary Shapiro Apr 1980

Reading And Writing In The Text Of Hobbes's Leviathan, Gary Shapiro

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Critics have often suggested that Hobbes is a paradigm case of a philosopher whose own style of writing violates the norms he sets down for rational discourse. Philosophy, he says, "professedly rejects not only the paint and false colors of language, but even the very ornaments and graces of the same." More specifically he says that metaphors must be "utterly excluded" from "the rigorous search of truth ... seeing they openly professe deceit, to admit them into counsel, or reasoning, were manifested folly.” Nevertheless, attention focuses on his flair for the dramatic or metaphorical, as in the great mise en …

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The Illusion Of Technique: A Search For Meaning In Technological Civilization, Albert Borgmann Jan 1980

The Illusion Of Technique: A Search For Meaning In Technological Civilization, Albert Borgmann

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The title of the book which seems to promise an essay in the philosophy of technology may be misleading since the avowed purpose of the book is to present "a study of contemporary philosophy" which is at the same time "an attempt at a connected argument for freedom".

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Notes On The Animal Kingdom Of The Spirit, Gary Shapiro Apr 1979

Notes On The Animal Kingdom Of The Spirit, Gary Shapiro

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One of the more neglected chapters of Hegel's Phenomenology, which contains neither the obvious drama of the master and slave dialectic nor the deep enigmas of the final pages on absolute knowledge, carries the somewhat puzzling title Das geistige Tierrefrh und der Bertrug oder die Sache selbst. Of the major commentators on Hegel only Lukács has suggested its central place in the design of the whole: Kojéve and Lowenberg (following Royce) have suggested vivid readings of it as an analysis of the conflicts and jealousies of intellectual, artistic, and professional work. What follows is a series of remarks and variations …

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A Reasoned Ethical Incoherence?, Edward W. James Jan 1979

A Reasoned Ethical Incoherence?, Edward W. James

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Tom Robbins' Chink: A Posthumous Zarathustra, Charles Taylor Jan 1979

Tom Robbins' Chink: A Posthumous Zarathustra, Charles Taylor

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This essay examines the ideas of one of the central characters in Tom Robbins’ 1977 novel, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues/ in relation to the thinking of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Zarathustra. It makes no argument for any influence of Nietzsche upon Robbins but rather considers similarities in thought as such.

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The Education Of The Emotions, Daniel R. Denicola Jan 1979

The Education Of The Emotions, Daniel R. Denicola

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Human emotion is, to some, an embarrassment. They regard our emotional aspect as not fully human; like some grotesque offspring, it should be hidden away in our psychic cellar or gotten rid of altogether. Our emotions (or "passions" or "affections") are powerful, but they may be kept at bay by our fair child, reason. The enmity seems natural; reason represents the orderly, the proper, the Apollonian; emotion is the disruptive, the capricious, the Dionysian. The accomplishments of cool reason may be consumed in the heat of passion. To give vent to emotion is thus to turn irrational and to reveal …

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The Philosopher, The Teacher, And The Quest For Clarity, Daniel R. Denicola Jan 1978

The Philosopher, The Teacher, And The Quest For Clarity, Daniel R. Denicola

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As the weeks have come and gone, my inflated expectations for this address have been punctured. I once hoped to take the presidential torch into some unexplored recess of the philosophical cave, there to illuminate an unsuspected cavern that would sparkle with truth. Cut and polished crystals of new truth would be the yield from my address. But then I remembered Whitehead's dictum that "It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true." Thinking this to be particularly sound advice for one whose role is to close a long day of philosophizing, I decided to …

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The Owl Of Minerva And The Colors Of The Night, Gary Shapiro Oct 1977

The Owl Of Minerva And The Colors Of The Night, Gary Shapiro

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What I wish to do, however, is to call attention to the manner in which Hegel speaks of Minerva's owl and to juxtapose both the manner and the substance of his thought about the twilight of philosophy and civilization with some of Hölderlin's dichterisch and Heidegger's denkerisch meditations on similar themes. For if Hegel has announced the coming of the night, Hölderlin and Heidegger have sought to make the night their very own territory and to comprehend it from within. If Hegel has rather gingerly allowed himself to lapse into that famous figurative discourse of the owl and the gray …

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Hegel's Dialectic Of Artistic Meaning, Gary Shapiro Oct 1976

Hegel's Dialectic Of Artistic Meaning, Gary Shapiro

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Whatever else they are, works of art are intentional human products. Our responses to such works are understandings and interpretations. That the works are or may be physical objects, cultural symptoms, or commodities and that audiences may be shocked, sexually excited, or politically instructed are irrelevant to the cognitive poles of intention and interpretation; these make art philosophically significant and differentiate it from that which has no meaning, despite possible similarities in apparent structure or emotional effect. Cognitivist theories of art usually tend to focus rather exclusively on just one of the two poles which characterize art so conceived - …

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Hegel On The Meanings Of Poetry, Gary Shapiro Apr 1975

Hegel On The Meanings Of Poetry, Gary Shapiro

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Since Socrates' attack on poetry, philosophers and critics have been faced with the problem of reconciling two convictions which seem equally pressing. While poetry (or imaginative literature) is and has been valued as a source of insight and knowledge, it also seems clear that poetic meaning is of a rather different sort than that found in science, ordinary language, or (to introduce the classical contrast) prose. Philosophical theories of poetry, then, take one of two forms: either they deny one of these two beliefs, implying perhaps that poetry has only nonsensical or literal meaning, or they provide a cognitive analysis …

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Intention And Interpretation In Art: A Semiotic Analysis, Gary Shapiro Oct 1974

Intention And Interpretation In Art: A Semiotic Analysis, Gary Shapiro

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Kant was perhaps the first philosopher to note the distinctive puzzle, verging on paradox, which marks our dealings with art. Works of art seem to place us under an obligation to interpret them and yet we are convinced that our interpretations will never be exhaustive. Kant attempts to account for this peculiar phenomenon by talking of "purposiveness without purpose" or of the aesthetic idea as "a representation of the imagination to which no concept is adequate." We are constrained to see some pattern or organization in a work of art and this is typically understood as a teleological or purposive …

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Choice And Universality In Sartre's Ethics, Gary Shapiro Feb 1974

Choice And Universality In Sartre's Ethics, Gary Shapiro

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Does Sartre have a coherent ethical position? At the end of Being and Nothingness he raises questions about the ethical implications of his ontology but refers them to a promised future work. For the student of existentialism it is an interesting question whether any of Sartre's later works offer this anticipated and definitive statement. Yet in the controversy over whether Saint-Genet or the Critique of Dialectical Reason fills the gap in Sartre's thought, the one concise presentation of his ethics in Existentialism Is a Humanism has been generally neglected. This neglect has not been groundless, for the essay, originally delivered …

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Biography And The Curriculum, Daniel R. Denicola Jul 1973

Biography And The Curriculum, Daniel R. Denicola

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In recent years many critics have written of the pervasive dehumanization and possible rehumanization of education. Plighting their troth to the autonomy and integrity of the human person, these commentators scour the educational landscape in search of policies and practices that depersonalize. They have often attacked teaching methods and the social and institutional situation in which teaching is undertaken; a few errant knights have even assailed the enterprise of teaching itself. Less often has curriculum content been questioned, and when it has been, the critics were usually concerned about "irrelevance." There is, however, another way in which the curriculum is …

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Habit And Meaning In Peirce's Pragmatism, Gary Shapiro Jan 1973

Habit And Meaning In Peirce's Pragmatism, Gary Shapiro

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The pragmatic movement has often been misunderstood; the most frequent misconceptions, which assimilated the philosophies of Peirce and James in particular to forms of positivism, reductionism, or crude voluntarism seem to be on the wane. Peirce's scholastic realism, his doctrine of signs, and his conception of truth as the unique and destined goal of inquiry now tend to receive the attention that was formerly reserved for his empiricism and pragmatism. A similar change in the estimation of James seems to be taking place insofar as his theory of truth is seen as much less simplistic than was formerly supposed; and …

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Illich And The Education Business, Gerard Farley Jan 1972

Illich And The Education Business, Gerard Farley

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A review of Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution by Ivan Illich.

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Review Of: Intentionality And The Problem Of The Unconscious, Albert Borgmann Jan 1970

Review Of: Intentionality And The Problem Of The Unconscious, Albert Borgmann

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No abstract provided.

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A Dialogue With Barth: The Problem Of Natural Theology, The Problem Of Natural Theology, The Natural Knowledge Of God As A Transcendental Condition Of Faith, Gerard Farley Apr 1968

A Dialogue With Barth: The Problem Of Natural Theology, The Problem Of Natural Theology, The Natural Knowledge Of God As A Transcendental Condition Of Faith, Gerard Farley

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My Translation of these excerpts from Father Henri Bouillard's study of Karl Barth's Theology (Paris: Aubier, Editions Montaigne, 1957) first appeared in the Spring, 1968 issue of Cross Currents.

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Karl Barth By Father Henri Bouillard Translated By Gerard Farley, Gerard Farley Jan 1968

Karl Barth By Father Henri Bouillard Translated By Gerard Farley, Gerard Farley

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Review Of: Sense, Understanding And Reason (A Digest Of Kant's First Critique), Albert Borgmann Jan 1968

Review Of: Sense, Understanding And Reason (A Digest Of Kant's First Critique), Albert Borgmann

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The Freedom Of The Subject, By Hans Urs Von Balthasar, Translated By Gerard C. Farley, Gerard Farley Jan 1962

The Freedom Of The Subject, By Hans Urs Von Balthasar, Translated By Gerard C. Farley, Gerard Farley

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Translation from the Original German of Hans Urs von Balthasar's Wahrheit, Kosel Verlag, 1946 Cross Currents, Winter 1962

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Ecumenical Catholicity, By Otto Karrer, Translated By Gerard Farley, Gerard Farley Jan 1960

Ecumenical Catholicity, By Otto Karrer, Translated By Gerard Farley, Gerard Farley

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No abstract provided.

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The Origin Of Living Things, By Julius Seiler, Translated By Gerard Farley, Gerard Farley Jan 1959

The Origin Of Living Things, By Julius Seiler, Translated By Gerard Farley, Gerard Farley

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