Философия
Различные книги в жанре ФилософияReference and Identity in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Scriptures
In Reference and Identity in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Scriptures: The Same God? , D. E. Buckner argues that all reference is story-relative. We cannot tell which historical individual a person is talking or writing about or addressing in prayer without familiarity with the narrative (oral or written) which introduces that individual to us, so we cannot understand reference to God, nor to his prophets, nor to any other character mentioned in the Jewish, Christian, or Muslim scriptures, without reference to those very scriptures. In this context we must understand God as the person who “walked in the garden in the cool of the day” (Gen. 3:8), and who is continuously referred to in the books of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, as well as the Quran. Further developing ideas presented by the late Fred Sommers in his seminal The Logic of Natural Language , Buckner argues that singular reference and singular conception is empty outside such a context.
The Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal in Thucydides and Plato
John T. Hogan’s The Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal in Thucydides and Plato assesses the roles of Pericles, Alcibiades, and Nicias in Athens’ defeat in Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War. Comparing Thucydides’ presentation of political leadership with ideas in Plato’s Statesman as well as Laches , Charmides , Meno , Symposium , Republic , Phaedo , Sophist , and Laws , it concludes that Plato and Thucydides reveal Pericles as lacking the political discipline ( sophrosune ) to plan a successful war against Sparta. Hogan argues that in his presentation of the collapse in the Corcyraean revolution of moral standards in political discourse, Thucydides shows how revolution destroys the morality implied in basic personal and political language. This reveals a general collapse in underlying prudential measurements needed for sound moral judgment. Furthermore, Hogan argues that the Statesman ’s outline of the political leader serves as a paradigm for understanding the weaknesses of Pericles, Alcibiades, and Nicias in terms that parallel Thucydides’ direct and implied conclusions, which in Pericles’ case he highlights with dramatic irony. Hogan shows that Pericles failed both to develop a sufficiently robust practice of Athenian democratic rule and to set up a viable system for succession.
Cosmos and Camus
Over the last two decades, philosophers have been increasingly inclined to consider science fiction films as philosophical exercises that center on the nature of human consciousness and existence. Albert Camus’ philosophy of the absurd, however, has almost never been employed as a constructive perspective that can reveal unexplored aspects of these films. This is surprising, since science fiction films seem to be packed with visions and dialogues that echo the Sisyphean universe. Cosmos and Camus endeavors to set foot in this uncharted terrain. Its first part introduces the main components of Camus’ absurdity so that it can be easily applied to the analysis of the films later. Equipped with these Camusean essentials, the book delves into an indepth analysis of two first-encounter films (Contact and Arrival) and two A.I. films (A.I. and Her). These analyses yield more than an insightful reflection of the absurd contents in science fiction film. Indeed, imaginative collisions with nonhumans seem to tell us a lot about the nature of the absurd in the human condition, as well as raising the question of whether absurdity is exclusively a human matter. Ultimately, the interpretation of the films illuminates the films themselves just as much as it illuminates, challenges, and expands Camus’ concept of absurdity.
Ответы
Откуда мы появились? Зачем? Почему нам был дан разум? Куда нас сможет завести эволюция? Как выглядит наша человеческая раса в глазах богов? Давайте поразмышляем в непринужденной, увлекающей форме повествования. Перед Вами сборник вариантов ответов. С виду – набор научно-фантастических рассказов. Но чем не формат для философских рассуждений?
Случайные мысли. Книга III
«Случайные мысли» – это афоризмы, цитаты, максимы Сергея Веденьё. Иногда они похожи на дзен – буддийский коан, иногда на японскую хокку, а иногда на русскую поговорку. Это отдельный мир образов и чувств. Это картинка, живущая вне строк. Здесь фраза растянута во времени и пространстве, а мысль наделена протяженностью и чувственностью. Эта книга – поток эмоций и образов, которые возвращаются к читателю, как случайно брошенная фраза. Эта книга начинается на любой странице.
