101.
|
Dialogue and Universalism:
Volume >
24 >
Issue: 3
Shane Ryan
The Value of Knowledge
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
In this paper I make the case that we should reject an argument that even knowledge of pointless truths has pro tanto final value. The argument draws on Greco’s virtue epistemological account of knowledge, according to which knowledge is an achievement and achievements have final value in virtue of being constitutive of the good life. I argue for my position by drawing on a case of knowledge of a pointless truth unlike previous cases of pointless truths discussed in the literature. This is a case in which knowledge of a pointless truth is very cheaply gained, and so it is a case in which the disvalue of the cost of gaining the knowledge cannot plausibly outweigh the supposed pro tanto final value of knowledge.
|
|
|
102.
|
Dialogue and Universalism:
Volume >
24 >
Issue: 3
Marina Zajchenko,
Elena Yakovleva
Characteristics of Recursive Structures of Modernity
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
The focus of the authors’ interest is recursion, serving as one of the principles of design and existence of hierarchical systems. Its features are among others the infinite self-transformation associated with the return and playback based on the algorithm of its own unfolding, by analogy, which ensures the movement inward, on the basis of which complication of the system takes place. This method is quite common in cultural space, giving rise to a situation of multiplicity of values and interpretations.
|
|
|
103.
|
Dialogue and Universalism:
Volume >
24 >
Issue: 3
Tatiana M. Shatunova
Aesthetics as Metaphysics and Passion
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
Philosophy is an inquiry and way of life. Is it possible to apply this formula to aesthetics? There is no doubt that aesthetics is always an investigation, a questioning. However, is it possible to speak about aesthetics as a way of life, too? To answer this question, it is necessary to understand what happens in aesthetic theory today, or rather, what is contemporary aesthetics of today.
|
|
|
104.
|
Dialogue and Universalism:
Volume >
24 >
Issue: 3
Roman S. Kljujkov,
Sergey F. Kljujkov
Plato’s Philosophy of Cognition by Mathematical Modelling
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
By the end of his life Plato had rearranged the theory of ideas into his teaching about ideal numbers, but no written records have been left. The Ideal mathematics of Plato is present in all his dialogues. It can be clearly grasped in relation to the effective use of mathematical modelling. Many problems of mathematical modelling were laid in the foundation of the method by cutting the three-level idealism of Plato to the single-level “ideism” of Aristotle. For a long time, the real, ideal numbers of Plato’s Ideal mathematics eliminates many mathematical problems, extends the capabilities of modelling, and improves mathematics.
|
|
|
105.
|
Dialogue and Universalism:
Volume >
24 >
Issue: 3
Mustafa I. Bilalov
Ethnic Specification of Truth Interpretation
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
The article examines the idea of constructing a truth theory that is ethnic and cognitive culture specific. To this task I use the hypothesis of ethnic and scientific mind. The substance and specifications of different ethnic minds and cognitive cultures are here described. According to the proposed conception, standard theories of truth are revised: correspondence, coherent, pragmatic, etc.
|
|
|
106.
|
Dialogue and Universalism:
Volume >
24 >
Issue: 3
Emiliya A. Tajsina
An Advance to a New Theory of Cognition
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
The theory suggested in the article is revealed in terms of existential materialism finding its source in Aristotle’s maxim that philosophy is a study of the essential unity of the grounds of being and consciousness. This theory still makes use of the old principle of reflection postulating the subject/object dyad. The here-proposed theory points out that there is not really a dyad, but a triad of a cognitive relationship: subject–language-object. To cope with the main epistemological problem of truth, we postulate that not only the paradigmatic, but also the syntagmatic axis be considered. The basic syntagma of gnoseology is contemplation on the absolute and relative in true knowledge, but not in a Hegelian way.
|
|
|
107.
|
Dialogue and Universalism:
Volume >
24 >
Issue: 3
Mikhail M. Prokhorov
The Unity of Being and History as a Principle of Ontology, Gnoseology and Epistemology
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
The principle of unity, interrelation of being and history is viewed here as a principle of ontology, gnoseology and epistemology, as a basis of updating philosophical outlooks, especially the problem of man and his relationship to the world (world-attitude). It is shown that consciousness was been interpreted in the context of a specific type of relations of man to the world. To overcome subjectivism a deep sense of objectivity of being and its development in relation to man is restored. A three-tier definition of being is given: substantive, attributive, and properly historical. The relationship of human activity to being and its development is explicated.
|
|
|
108.
|
Dialogue and Universalism:
Volume >
24 >
Issue: 3
Aleksey N. Fatenkov
Realistic Strategy in Comprehending Being
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
The article deals with the category of sense. It examines the meaningfulness of the absurd and takes realism to be a basic strategy in comprehending being. This strategy is compared with constructivism and reflection, or correspondence (copy) theory.
|
|
|
109.
|
Dialogue and Universalism:
Volume >
24 >
Issue: 3
Evgeniy Bubnov
Truth in Religion, Science, and Postmodernism
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
In this paper different approaches to the concept of truth are compared. Many changes in the concept of truth result in making it a zero notion. Similar processes are described in Max Müller’s conception of the genesis of religion. In this respect we suggest that postmodern philosophy should be treated as a new mythology.
|
|
|
110.
|
Dialogue and Universalism:
Volume >
24 >
Issue: 3
Elena N. Bolotnikova
Philosophy as Self-Care
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
This article states that the search for the meaning of life is possible only through an address to non-existence, and it is a sign of genuine human self-care. Religion and philosophy are considered as incarnation of the space of care. Philosophy here is understood in a broad sense, not as a rigorous science, but as search for wisdom. Based on the structure of self-care, given in Michel Foucault’s works, here are revealed peculiarities of the search for the meaning of life in respective fields. This also implies different lifestyles. The author believes that genuine self-care is available to everyone, in spite of the nature of modern mass culture.
|
|
|
111.
|
Dialogue and Universalism:
Volume >
24 >
Issue: 3
Artur Karimov
Analyticity and Modality
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
In this paper I defend the concept of metaphysical analyticity, and argue for the notion of analyticity as truth in virtue of the reference determiner, introduced by Gillian K. Russell. Contrary to Russell, I try to show that necessary a posteriori statements are analytic under this notion. Also, I maintain that contingent a priori statements cannot be properly called analytic.
|
|
|
112.
|
Dialogue and Universalism:
Volume >
24 >
Issue: 3
Olga N. Dyachenko
Religious Faith in the Context of Personality Self- Determination
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
The spread of Christianity reveals a new interpretation of human existence. In it temporality is regarded as a universal characteristic of the human race. The interpretation of God's word is based on a medieval understanding of being, as the Word. In the theocentric perspective Jesus Christ’s personality is a unique form of human self-consciousness. Christian thought unveils within it the dialogue between a faithful mind and a personal God, the relationship of “You” versus “Me.” Dialogic activity of a human agent is kept up by the constant renewal of religious communication contexts that arises from the process of spiritual contemplation. Theocentric thinking explains the self-sufficiency of human existence through the infinity of the knowledge of God that gives a person the opportunities of self-improvement and self-fulfillment. Faith is equal to finding one’s inner self; that is why it always considers a person as a personality containing unlimited perspectives for personal self-determination.
|
|
|
113.
|
Dialogue and Universalism:
Volume >
24 >
Issue: 3
Vladimir Przhilenskiy
Suspicion and Method: Towards the Post-Theoretical Lifeworld
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
The article analyzes the historical and philosophical roots of the art of suspicion and its role in the development of modern philosophy and its method. Particular attention is paid to the issues of the comparison of philosophical suspicion and conspiracy theories as a special state of mass consciousness. The article also specifies the dependence of the art of suspicion on the sociology of knowledge and post-theoretical thinking.
|
|
|
114.
|
Dialogue and Universalism:
Volume >
24 >
Issue: 4
Gernot Böhme
Being Human Well. A Proto-ethic
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
Gernot Böhme discusses the nature of moral good in the light of what he calls proto-ethics, considering how to be human “well.” Here the predicate “good” takes on an adverbial and not an adjectival form, and Böhme refers to the Aristotelian distinction between praxis and poiesis to show that today's activistic civilisation with its emphasis on achievement as the effect of activity (poiesis) has deprived humans of their ability to focus on activity itself (praxis). Böhme rejects ideologies which profess the “enhancement” of humans by medical/pharmacological means, and instead postulates the recrea-tion of praxis skills by physical and spiritual training, especially in human relations with nature and the own body. Backing this postulate are numerous examples of how to be human “well.”
|
|
|
115.
|
Dialogue and Universalism:
Volume >
24 >
Issue: 4
Gernot Böhme
Light and Space. On the Phenomenology of Light
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
As its subtitle suggests, the essay is a phenomenological account of the diverse ways in which light can be experienced by the senses. Gernot Böhme divides these experiences into two types depending on whether they concern the relation between light and space (the categories “light-cleared space,” “lightspace,” “lights in space”) or between light and objects (“things in light,” “light upon things”). Böhme sees the synthesis of both these types of experiences in the illumination phenomenon, in which spatial/light effects and the way in which objects are illuminated combine to create a specific atmos-phere during the sensual, bodily experiencing of space. Böhme also discusses the applications of light effects in contemporary architecture and art.
|
|
|
116.
|
Dialogue and Universalism:
Volume >
24 >
Issue: 4
Rudolf Wolfgang Müller
Gernot Böhme—Anima Naturaliter Japonica
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
The author points to the spiritual relationship between certain underlying ideas in the philosophy of Gernot Böhme—especially in the areas of aesthetics and anthropology—and the typical features of Japanese culture as visible in its art, language and everyday life. For this, he turns to Böhme’s essay On the Aesthetics of the Ephemeral to show the typically ephemeral character of the Japanese painting school, he also reflects on the sophisticated aesthetics of Japanese culinary art. In Mueller’s opinion Japanese culture in many ways put some of Böhme’s philosophical postulates to practical use, notably those concerning the contemplative tendencies of individuals, the obliteration in experience of the difference between the subjective and objective (and in language between the active and passive voice), and the passive acceptance of atmospheric factors.
|
|
|
117.
|
Dialogue and Universalism:
Volume >
24 >
Issue: 4
Beata Frydryczak
Landscape Garden as a Paradigmatic Model of Relationships between Human and Nature
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
Following the suggestion expressed in the title of this essay, I deal with the idea which allows for considering landscape garden as a paradigmatic indicator of our relationship with nature. Focusing on the idea of landscape garden and its aesthetics I analyze two aesthetic notions: the picturesque and sublime, which are the background of the kind of experience accompanying a perception and participation of and in the landscape and environment. I analyse the kind of experience, which captures all the aspects that situate the human in the environment instead of opposing it. The analysis will be conducted within the framework of aesthetics.
|
|
|
118.
|
Dialogue and Universalism:
Volume >
24 >
Issue: 4
Gernot Böhme
My Body—My Lived-body
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
In this essay about the philosophy of human corporeality Böhme asks about the sense of the I—body relation. He enters a polemic with Hegel, who wrote about the self-appropriation of the own body in acts of will, and points to passive acts of bodily sensing like experiencing pain or fear as that which builds an awareness of the own body’s “mineness.” Böhme calls this awareness affected self-givenness, linguistically articulated by the pronouns “mine” and “me,” which are genetically precedent to awareness and the pronoun “I”. Against this categorial background Böhme considers the argumentative role both these philosophical models of the I—body relation could play in contemporary debates on the diverse cultural forms in which the human body has been commercialised.
|
|
|
119.
|
Dialogue and Universalism:
Volume >
24 >
Issue: 4
Gisbert Hoffmann
The Median Mode of Being
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
The author presents Gernot Böhme’s median mode of being theory, which attempts to find an anthropological middle ground between the rational and the irrational, the spiritual and the corporeal and the active and passive in human experience. Böhme’s reflections on the median mode of being are normative in character and linked to the concept of “sovereign man,” which he strongly defends and whose main characteristics Hoffmann outlines in the first part of the essay. Among others, Hoffmann argues against Böhme’s excessive emphasis on the controlling/restrictive functions of awareness at the cost of those functions which serve to protect and stimulate life, his non-distinction between the distance to a cognized object and its intellectual instrumentalisation, and his rather one-sided tendency to seek the sources of European rationalism in the Socra-tean tradition.
|
|
|
120.
|
Dialogue and Universalism:
Volume >
24 >
Issue: 4
Stanisław Czerniak
The Philosophy of Gernot Böhme and Critical Theory. Doctrinal Positions and Interdisciplinary Mediations
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
My intention in this paper is to answer two quite separate questions in a single interpretational narrative: a) about the philosophical (and often critical) content of Gernot Böhme’s expressis verbis—and, at times, “between the lines”—reference to the legacy of critical theory (especially the philosophical thought of Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno and Jürgen Habermas), and b) Böhme’s use of interesting mediatory devices to combine three different philosophical discourses: the philosophy of science, ethics and aesthetics. The three are in fact related—after all, Horkheimer ran comparisons between “traditional” and “critical” theory, Adorno is the father of the original aesthetical theory, and Habermas laid the ground for what we call “discursive ethics”—but this is a matter for separate and broader treatment. In this perforce shorter paper I will only attempt some initial reflections on the subject.
|
|
|