160 research outputs found
Verwirklichung einer vollkommenen GlĂŒcksmöglichkeit/A perfect bliss-potential realized: âWunsch, Indianer zu werdenâ im Lichte des Dao Kafkas ĂŒbersetzend gelesen/Transreading âWish, to Become Indianâ in light of Kafkaâs Dao
Walking an unexplored path, Huiwen Helen Zhang contextualizes Kafka's pithy and cryptic parable, âWish, to Become Indianâ in his transplantation of Daoist philosophyâan astonishing cross-cultural enigma that Zhang terms âKafka's Daoââand parses it through a micro-level approach that Zhang terms âtransreading.â Contextualizing âWish, to Become Indianâ in Kafka's dialogue with ancient Chinese philosophers such as Laozi, Liezi, and Zhuangzi enables the reader to comprehend a series of otherwise incomprehensible puzzles. Zhang's scrutiny of Kafka's Dao shows how, through creative writing, Kafka not only penetrates esoteric Daoist classics, but also furthers their spirit in a way that transcends Richard Wilhelm, the pioneer European Sinologist. Transreading âWish, to Become Indianâ illuminates nuances that otherwise might have been overlooked. Wordplay, punctuational oddity, syntactic complexity, lyric density, and the curiously interlaced tenses and cases are all part of the idiosyncratic delivery of Kafka's message. Integrating the four activities of transreadingâlento reading demanded and enhanced by cultural hermeneutics, creative writing required and inspired by poetic translationâunravels Kafka's riddle as a historical-cultural phenomenon.publishedVersio
Taking reincarnation seriously: Critical discussion of some central ideas from John Hick
Reincarnation has not been entirely neglected in the philosophy of religion but it has not always been taken seriously or carefully discussed in relation to its role in believersâ lives. John Hick is exceptional insofar as he gave sustained attention to the belief, at least as it features in the philosophies of VedÄnta and Buddhism. While acknowledging the value of Hickâs recognition of the variety of reincarnation beliefs, this article critically engages with certain aspects of his approach. It argues that Hickâs search for a âcriterionâ of reincarnation is misguided, and that his distinction between âfactualâ and âmythicâ forms of the doctrine is over-simplifying
O pensar vivenciado na formação de professores
Analisa-se, neste artigo, um estudo de caso que discute a possibilidade de desenvolvimento do pensar vivenciado na formação de professores. A formação de professores Ă© correntemente conduzida a partir de uma visĂŁo reducionista intelectual. Neste estudo, a formação de professores Ă© entendida dentro de uma visĂŁo ampliada que inclui o desenvolvimento de forma integrada do querer, sentir e pensar. Ancorados em trabalhos anteriores de Goethe, Schiller e Rudolf Steiner, destacamos a importĂąncia e o impacto do trabalho com ciĂȘncia, atividades criativo-artĂsticas e desenvolvimento pessoal no processo de formação de professores
Beyond a Dichotomy of Perspectives: Understanding Religion on the Basis of Paul Natorpâs Logic of Boundary
Based on Paul Natorpâs (1854â1924) late post-Neo-Kantian âLogic of Boundaryâ (German: âGrenzlogikâ) I will offer a methodically controlled, non-reductionist and equally anti-essentialist reconstruction of the notion of religion. The pre-eminent objective of this reconstructive work is to overcome the well-known epistemological as well as methodological problem of a dichotomy between inside and outside perspectives on the subject of religion. Differently put, the objective consists in an attempt to demonstrate that there actually is âreason in religionâ that is intellectually accessible for academic knowledge production. Following Natorpâs splendid formulation I will argue that religion operates neither âwithinâ nor âbeyondâ the âboundary of humanityâ but exactly on [or âinâ] this boundary. More precisely, I will explicate that religious praxis (including its specific production of knowledge) from Natorpâs standpoint can be understood as the performative realization, and habitual embodiment of the (contextually concrete) boundary of humanity or human reason itself. Due to its principial self-referentiality this boundary carries the crucial sense of a first and last positive and, therefore, both in theoretical terms definitive and in practical terms eminently instructive notion of boundary with no outside. This paradoxically all-enclosing, positive boundary, while explicitly including lifeâs inevitable negativity but, nonetheless, able to ideally sublate it, is the reason why the practice of religion, as empirical evidence unmistakably documents, can provide an incommensurably fulfilling, significant and meaningful closure with regards to the innermost self-perception of its practitioners (concerning their self-determination or agency)
Personality psychology: Lexical approaches, assessment methods, and trait concepts reveal only half of the storyâWhy it is time for a paradigm shift
This article develops a comprehensive philosophy-of-science for personality psychology that goes far beyond the scope of the lexical approaches, assessment methods, and trait concepts that currently prevail. One of the fieldâs most important guiding scientific assumptions, the lexical hypothesis, is analysed from meta-theoretical viewpoints to reveal that it explicitly describes two sets of phenomena that must be clearly differentiated: 1) lexical repertoires and the representations that they encode and 2) the kinds of phenomena that are represented. Thus far, personality psychologists largely explored only the former, but have seriously neglected studying the latter. Meta-theoretical analyses of these different kinds of phenomena and their distinct natures, commonalities, differences, and interrelations reveal that personality psychologyâs focus on lexical approaches, assessment methods, and trait concepts entails a) erroneous meta-theoretical assumptions about what the phenomena being studied actually are, and thus how they can be analysed and interpreted, b) that contemporary personality psychology is largely based on everyday psychological knowledge, and c) a fundamental circularity in the scientific explanations used in trait psychology. These findings seriously challenge the widespread assumptions about the causal and universal status of the phenomena described by prominent personality models. The current state of knowledge about the lexical hypothesis is reviewed, and implications for personality psychology are discussed. Ten desiderata for future research are outlined to overcome the current paradigmatic fixations that are substantially hampering intellectual innovation and progress in the field
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