scholarly journals John Sallis, Ed. 2017. Plato’s Statesman: Dialectic, Myth, and Politics. Albany: SUNY. 326pp.

Plato Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 213-223
Author(s):  
Romeo Domdii Cliff
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Single Character ◽  
Complete Rejection ◽  
New Research

The collected volume Plato’s Statesman: Dialectic, Myth, and Politics presents some of the new interesting research being conducted on the Statesman. The volume is edited by John Sallis who is well known for his work in phenomenology, including writings on such authors as Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche and Immanuel Kant, and he has a continental approach to reading Plato. The new research on the Statesman will proceed by ways of the following three points in the collected volume. We will look at the new trend among scholars to read into the Statesman the complete rejection of the existence of an ideal statesman in our contemporary society. Further, we will discuss the unexplored terrains in the dialogue scholars are gravitating to. And finally, we will comment on the fact that all contributors in the volume show a certain degree of sensitivity to the dramatic context of the dialogue and refrain from attributing Plato’s voice to a single character. A brief remark on an aspect of these points will be furnished at the end.

Introduction: Plato’s Nightmare

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Marmysz
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Objective Reality

This introductory chapter examines the “problem” of nihilism, beginning with its philosophical origins in the ideas of Plato, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger. It is argued that film is an inherently nihilistic medium involving the evocation of illusory worlds cut loose from objective reality. This nihilism of film is distinguished from nihilism in film; the nihilistic content also present in some (but not all) movies. Criticisms of media nihilism by authors such as Thomas Hibbs and Darren Ambrose are examined. It is then argued, contrary to such critics, that cinematic nihilism is not necessarily degrading or destructive. Because the nihilism of film encourages audiences to linger in the presence of nihilism in film, cinematic nihilism potentially trains audiences to learn the positive lessons of nihilism while remaining safely detached from the sorts of dangers depicted on screen.

scholarly journals Permasalahan Iman : Kritik Atas Iman Dalam Filsafat Barat dan Tawaran Jawaban

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Setyo Wibowo
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Infinite Horizon ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Auguste Comte ◽  
Human Desire ◽  
New Situation ◽  
Fallacious Reasoning

<div><p><strong>Abstract :</strong> Faith becomes problematic in our modern world. In the age of secularization and emancipation man masters the Nature with his growing reason and ever developing technology. This new situation brings with itself a discredit toward faith and religion. Without refusing the existence of God, Immanuel Kant declares that theology is a paralogism (a fallacious reasoning). Auguste Comte corners the religion in the realm of infantile age to be overcomed by the progress of science. Meanwhile Friedrich Nietzsche, from his own view, analyses that the phenomenon of fanatism in religion hides the uncontrallble “need to believe” typically found among the weaks.The central critique of Martin Heidegger toward ontotheological metaphysics shows that theology defined as science does not think. Man of faith has already all the answer before a question is posed, therefore he cannot truly pariticipate in the question of Being. This article tries to consider these objections against faith. As an answer, this article offers to acknowledge “the act of believe” as an universal disposition in man. Much wider than his need to possess knowledge, man is driven by a desire for the infinite. Faith resumes this human desire for infinite.</p><p><em>Keywords : Emancipation, theology, metaphysics, faith, knowledge, way of belief, act of belief, passivity, infinite horizon, anthropological disposision.</em></p><p><em><br /></em></p><p><strong>Abstrak :</strong> Iman menjadi problem di dunia modern. Gerak sekularisasi dan emansipasi manusia berkat perkembangan rasionya, yang tampak dalam penguasaan manusia atas alam lewat teknologi, membuat keyakinan pada Tuhan dianggap ketinggalan roh jaman. Meskipun tidak menolak Tuhan, Immanuel Kant menganggap bahwa teologi adalah sebuah paralogisme. Auguste Comte tegas-tegas mengatakan bahwa jaman teologi dan agama adalah era kekanak-kanakan yang harus dilampaui demi kemajuan jaman. Friedrich Nietzsche memperingatkan bahwa fanatisme dalam agama adalah tanda besarnya kebutuhan manusia untuk percaya, yang tidak lain adalah kelemahan diri manusia. Kritikan besar Martin Heidegger kepada metafisika onto-teologis semakin menunjukkan inferioritas iman di depan pemikiran. Beriman artinya tidak bisa berpikir secara sungguh-sungguh. Artikel ini hendak menimbang keberatan-keberatan atas iman di atas dan sekaligus menawarkan bahwa “tindak percaya” adalah sesuatu yang secara antropologis menjadi disposisi setiap manusia. Lebih luas daripada obsesi pada “pengetahuan”, manusia memiliki hasrat akan ketakterbatasan yang menemukan ekspresinya dalam apa yang kita sebut sebagai iman.</p><p><em>Kata kunci : Emansipasi, teologi, metafisika, iman, pengetahuan, cara beriman, tindak percaya, pasitivitas, horison ketakterbatasan, disposisi antropologis.</em></p></div>

Being Guilty

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Elgat
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Arthur Schopenhauer ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
German Philosophy ◽  
Main Claim ◽  
Human Agent ◽  
History Of

What can guilt, the painful sting of the bad conscience, tell us about who we are as human beings? This book seeks to answer this question through an examination of the views of Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Wilhelm von Schelling, Arthur Schopenhauer, Paul Rée, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Martin Heidegger on guilt, freedom, responsibility, and conscience. The concept of guilt has not received sufficient attention from scholars of the history of German philosophy. The book addresses this lacuna and shows how the philosophers’ arguments can be more deeply grasped once read in their historical context. A main claim of the book is that this history could be read as proceeding dialectically. Thus, in Kant, Schelling, and Schopenhauer, there are variations on the idea that guilt is justified because the human agent is a free cause of his or her own being—a causa sui—and thus responsible for his or her “ontological guilt.” In contrast, in Rée and Nietzsche, these ideas are rejected, and the conclusion is reached that guilt is not justified but is explainable psychologically. Finally, in Heidegger, we find a synthesis of sorts, where the idea of causa sui is rejected, but ontological guilt is retained and guilt is seen as possible, because for Heidegger, a condition of possibility of guilt is that we are ontologically guilty yet not causa sui. In the process of unfolding this trajectory, the various philosophers’ views on these and many other issues are examined in detail.

Åbningen af et filosofisk rum – Interview med Slavoj Žižek

2018 ◽  
pp. 15-32
Author(s):  
Glyn Daly
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Personal Relationship ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Long Day

In this interview with Glyn Daly, Slavoj Žižek talks about the birth of ‘The Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis’, and his own overall philosophical approach. He touches upon his intellectual relationship to thinkers such as Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Immanuel Kant and of course Jacques Lacan. His sources of inspiration are not only these great theorists, but also his four year long day job as a minute taker for the Yugoslavian communist party, and his personal relationship to Jacques-Alain Miller who gives him his psychoanalytical upbringing.Oversat af Nicklas Weis Damkjær

The Political Theology of Schelling

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saitya Brata Das
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
The Political ◽  
Franz Rosenzweig ◽  
Political Works ◽  
The Way

This book rigorously examines the theologico-political works of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, setting his thought against Hegel's and showing how he prepared the way for the post-metaphysical philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Franz Rosenzweig and Jacques Derrida.

Waste and Welter: Derrida's Environment

2010 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Sellars
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Wallace Stevens ◽  
The Earth

At first sight, environmental issues do not seem to feature prominently, if at all, in the work of Jacques Derrida. This essay aims to take a closer look, and thereby to issue a challenge to the burgeoning discipline of eco-criticism. Instead of promoting the Beautiful Soul who is equipped to save the planet by virtue of reading poetry, I argue for the ethical primacy of waste and welter (to recycle a phrase from Wallace Stevens). Jonathan Bate's The Song of the Earth, a powerful but pious work of eco-criticism, ends with a test proposed to the reader; I take the test, which entails reading Stevens's late poem ‘The Planet on the Table’, and fail. Bate's invocation of Martin Heidegger is briefly examined, as are traces of Derrida. What remains of Derrida, I propose, is neither method nor concept but rather remainders that trouble the grounding of environment (Umwelt) as such.

The Taste to Come

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 238-262
Author(s):  
Virgil W. Brower
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
The Body ◽  
Helene Cixous ◽  
Specific Kind ◽  
To Come

This article exploits a core defect in the phenomenology of sensation and self. Although phenomenology has made great strides in redeeming the body from cognitive solipsisms that often follow short-sighted readings of Descartes and Kant, it has not grappled with the specific kind of corporeal self-reflexivity that emerges in the oral sense of taste with the thoroughness it deserves. This path is illuminated by the works of Martin Luther, Jean-Luc Marion, and Jacques Derrida as they attempt to think through the specific phenomena accessible through the lips, tongue, and mouth. Their attempts are, in turn, supplemented with detours through Walter Benjamin, Hélène Cixous, and Friedrich Nietzsche. The paper draws attention to the German distinction between Geschmack and Kosten as well as the role taste may play in relation to faith, the call to love, justice, and messianism. The messiah of love and justice will have been that one who proclaims: taste the flesh.

scholarly journals O fundamento como "fundamento ausente" nas ciências sociais: Heidegger, Derrida e Laclau

Sociologias ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (41) ◽  
pp. 164-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel de Mendonça ◽  
Bianca de Freitas Linhares ◽  
Sebastián Barros
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Ernesto Laclau

Neste artigo, refletimos teoricamente sobre o pós-fundacionalismo, corrente filosófica que influenciou o surgimento do pós-estruturalismo francês na segunda metade do século XX. De uma forma mais específica, nosso objetivo é discutir as implicações ontológicas, teóricas e epistemológicas da abordagem pós-fundacional para pesquisas em ciências sociais. Para tanto, cumprimos o seguinte percurso. Primeiramente, discorremos sobre o que chamamos de o Zeitgeist pós-fundacionalista, em especial a ênfase na diferença ontológica e no fundamento como Abgrund oriundos da obra de Martin Heidegger. A seguir, apresentamos a influência heideggeriana na reflexão filosófica pós-estruturalista de Jacques Derrida. Na sequência, discutimos a incorporação e a aplicação da ontologia heideggeriana na obra de Ernesto Laclau, principalmente a partir da discussão das noções de hegemonia e de populismo. Ao final, apresentamos nossas considerações acerca da importância do pós-fundacionalismo para pesquisas na área das ciências sociais.

scholarly journals Interpretación de Ortega y Gasset de la filosofía de Kant: del idealismo marburgués a la ontología crítica

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Dorota Maria Leszczyna
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Karl Jaspers ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Nicolai Hartmann

El objetivo del presente artículo consiste en presentar la evolución de los estudios orteguianos relativos a la filosofía de Immanuel Kant. El filósofo madrileño recorrió en ellos un camino desde el idealismo lógico, específico de la escuela de Marburgo, hasta el enfoque metafísico y ontológico presentado por los alumnos de los maestros neokantianos, tales como Nicolai Hartmann, Heinz Heimsoeth, Karl Jaspers y Martín Heidegger. Estos filósofos hicieron de la filosofía de Kant su punto de partida, puesto que en ella radicaban las cuestiones metafísicas y ontológicas olvidadas y omitidas por los representandes de las escuelas neokantianas. TITLE: Interpretation of Kant’s philosophy by Ort ega y Gasset: from marburguian idealism to the critical ontologyABSTRACT: The purpose of this article is to present the evolution of Orteguian studies on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. The spanish philosopher went from the logical idealism of the Marburg School to the metaphysical and ontological interpretations presented by the students of neo-Kantian masters such as Nicolai Hartmann, Heinz Heimsoeth, Karl Jaspers y Martín Heidegger. Those philosophers made the starting point of their reflection the philosophy of Kant because they found there metaphysical and ontological problems which were forgotten and omitted by the representatives of Neo-Kantian schools. 

scholarly journals Affective Aporetics: Complementary Contradictions in the Interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche

PhaenEx ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
NANDITA BISWAS MELLAMPHY
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
The Self ◽  
Leo Strauss ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
Karl Jaspers ◽  
Place Holder ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

In 1971, Wolfgang Müller-Lauter introduced his study of Nietzsche as an investigation into the history of modern nihilism in which “contradiction” forms the central thread of the argument. For Müller-Lauter, the interpretive task is not to demonstrate the overall coherence or incoherence of Nietzsche’s philosophy, but to examine Nietzsche’s “philosophy of contradiction.” Against those such as Karl Jaspers, Karl Löwith and Martin Heidegger, Müller-Lauter argued that contradiction is the foundation of Nietzsche’s thought, and not a problem to be corrected or cast aside for exegetical or political purposes. For Müller-Lauter, contradiction qua incompatibility (not just mere opposition) holds a key to Nietzsche’s affective vision of philosophy. Beginning with the relationship between will to power and eternal recurrence, in this paper I examine aspects of Müller-Lauter’s account of Nietzsche’s philosophy of contradiction specifically in relation to the counter-interpretations offered by two other German commentators of Nietzsche, Leo Strauss and Karl Löwith, in order to confirm Müller-Lauter’s suggestion that contradiction is indeed an operative engine of Nietzsche’s thought. Indeed contradiction is a key Nietzschean theme and an important dynamic of becoming which enables the subject to be revealed as a “multiplicity” (BGE §12) and as a “fiction” (KSA 12:9[91]). Following Müller-Lauter’s assertion that for Nietzsche the problem of nihilism is fundamentally synonymous with the struggle of contradiction experienced by will to power, this paper interprets Nietzsche’s philosophy of contradiction in terms of subjective, bodily life (rather than in terms of logical incoherences or ontological inconsistencies). Against the backdrop of nihilism, the “self” (and its related place holder the “subject”), I will argue, becomes the psycho-physiological battlespace for the struggle and articulation of “contradiction” in Nietzsche’s thought.  

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