A COMMENTARY UPON GADAMER’S INTERPRETATION OF HEGEL

Author(s): Anton Crisan / Language(s): English / Issue: Sp.Iss./2015

A Commentary upon Gadamer’s Interpretation of Hegel. In light of a renewed scholarly undertaking of the Hegel‒Gadamer connection, the purpose of the present paper is to carry further this much needed re-approach of the issue by stressing yet another one of its aspects. I am referring to the scholarly insights that Gadamer himself provides us with in his interpretation of Hegel. Since many of Gadamer’s essays on Hegel are actually studies originally meant as contributions to major journals dealing with Hegel’s work, my claim is that we can retrieve from them answers to many ongoing debates in the Hegel scholarship. I will insist on only one of these issues, namely Gadamer’s account of Hegel’s relation to metaphysics.

Agon-kompleks

Author(s): Luka Perušic / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 03/139/2015

Considering the three orders in the cosmic assembly (macrocosm, microcosm and mesocosm), using an integrative analysis of cosmological understandings of variously-oriented metaphysicists and scientists, I firstly reach to a conclusion on entanglement of two developed cosmic principles that define the relational totality of objects and meanings. The first I term gathering- one-allness, which I describe with arhe-complex. The second I term itself-against-striving, which I describe with eris-complex. On the basis of a shift from enclosed systems (non-living being) to open systems (living being), I elaborate how arhe- and eris-complex create logoscomplex and agon-complex and in what way this new entanglement passes through corporeality (microcosm) to society (mesocosm), in the broadest sense appearing as a strife between realpolitics and utopian striving. In further development, I suggest an articulation of the current world state with the term biopolitical agon in which the power flows through infosphere relays. It is based on dismembering the living into convertible information that contains power in the ability to regulate and be regulated, i.e. the ability of the biopolitical to subdue logos with agon through logos itself, which I attempt to explain by matching this issue with previously mentioned phenomena. With corporeality as an instrument of transformative bitisation, I further discuss societal leaning towards cancelling the original purpose of logos-complex and depowering it regarding the control of bodily articulation of its own purpose-defining. This I shortly outline and then route back to the research’s starting point.

AN EXISTENTIAL ERRAND: SCHOLARSHIP, AUTHORSHIP AND THE CRISIS OF REPRESENTATION

Author(s): Thomas Basbøl / Language(s): English / Issue: 6/2015

Since 1968, at least, academia has been subject to the “crisis of representation.” This essay explores the consequences of the “postmodern condition” for the identity formation of academics. It is informed by Foucault’s and Deleuze’s understanding of the pivotal intellectual developments in the late 20th century, which are taken to challenge Wittgenstein’s presumption that language is essentially about the assertion of facts. Instead of abandoning representation, however, it proposes to meet this challenge squarely, proposing a disciplined engagement with its particular difficulty. Facts are deployed in academic writing, it argues, through the act of scholarship. The ability to represent a fact is at the core of the knowledge that is implicit in the self-formation of the scholar.

Analiza pojęcia widźnianatman w kontekście adwaitycznej interpretacji relacji pomiędzy podmiotem absolutnym a względnym

Author(s): Marta Kudelska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2015

The topic of the presented article is to show the relation between two dimensions of the reality, one of them is denoted by the term akṣarātman, and the other by the term vijānātman. The term vijānātman occurs only twice in the classical Upanishads. We can find it in the Praśna. That analysis is carried out by the using the hermeneutical methodology. All consideration are based on the main text of Praśna with some additional remarks to the other texts belonging to the line of Atharvaveda, to the Muṇḍaka and to the Māṇḍukya. The leading idea of the Praśna and Muṇḍaka, they are according to the Śankara closely related, are the deliberation between parā and aparā vidyā and the special stress which is put on the describing details concerning yogic procedures. The main aim of that article is to show how the philosophical concepts have been developing. In which way on the base of the introspective experiences have been built upanishadic view of the world and in which way that view had been adopted to advaita thought.

Apriorinės Čiabūties Egzistencialumo Struktūros Martino Heideggeri O Veikale Būtis Ir Laikas

Author(s): Tautvydas Veželis / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 83/2015

This discussion focuses primarily on the conception of the world and an analysis of the a priori structures of Dasein’s existentiality in Heidegger’s work “Being and Time”. The dialogue clarifies subtle distinctions between ontological existentialities and categories in Heidegger’s fundamental ontology of Heidegger.

Arhaična politika anarhično mišljenje

Author(s): Alen Tafra / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 01/2003

The starting point of this essay is a Reiner Schürmann's book on Heidegger's philosophy, which at the same time attempts to establish the genealogy of the epochal principles. According to Schürmann, in the place of the former metaphysicopolitical structure princeps-principium, an-archic and a-teleocratic epochal constellation of postmodernity ushers a new anarchy principle. It is in these rare times of interregnum when the question of the difference between what is present and its presencing ultimately arises, indicating that the origin is different from arche and princeps-principium, and that it founds nothing. The fact that the given situation has been made transparent in the most instructive manner by Heidegger himself, contributes even more to the confusion about his earlier endeavor to bring the renewal of the authentic historical Dasein. In the wake of some recent works, this essay aims to prove the decisive influence of cultural and historical Zeitgeist on the Heidegger's archaic politics. This effect uncovers itself more directly in the case of intertextual exchange with companion thinkers of conseiVative revolution, as well as in some vague archetypal analogies with his contemporaries - teachers of Tradition (Guenon, Evola). On the other hand, Heidegger's personal experience and typical motives from his occasional dealing with the political (Antigona, Holderlin), point at another controversy arising at the moment of decline of tradition and birth of philosophy: Straussian conflict between philosophy and city, individual and society. Both perspectives- archaic one of comparative mythology, as well as one of anarchic thinking - reveal hypocrisy and illusion of an intellectual or philosophical politics. In this light, the Heidegger case dissolves in the unsuccessful venture to quench the postmodern revolt against the modern world on the well of occulted beginning, while paradoxical nexus of metaphysics and politics, anarchy and principles of archaic societies, remains unsolvable.

ARISTOTELIO KOMENTARAI: DE INTERPRETATIONE 9

Author(s): Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 90/2016

Tai, kas bus paminėta šiame skyriuje, lyg ir priklauso samprotavimui, platesniam nei tas, kuriuo pridera užsiimti logikos moksle. Bet kadangi, kaip dažnai sakyta, kalba atskleidžiami pojūčiai, o jais, akivaizdu, suvokiame dalykų padėtį, tai nėra abejonės, kad tai, kas yra dalykų padėtyje, dažnai yra perkeliama į žodžius. Todėl teisingai nusprendžiau sudėtingiausias Aristotelio pažiūras atskleisti aptardamas jas du kartus: tai, kas yra pirmajame leidime, tarsi paruo- šia tam tikrą lengvesnį kelią besileidžiantiems į šias gilesnes ir painesnes problemas, o kadangi antrajame leidime gilinamasi į sudėtingas pažiūras, reikalingas paaiškinimo, jis skiriamas skaityti ir nagrinėti pažengusiems šiame tyrime bei moksle.

AUTENTIČNO TUMAČENJE KUR’ANA PODSTIČE NA ČINJENJE DOBRA, NA ČISTE RUKE I ČIST OBRAZ...

Author(s): Enes Karic,Senada Tahirovic / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 65/2016

In this interview academic Enes Karić, full-time professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies, relates about contemporary interpretation and hermeneutics of the Qur’an; ‘legitimising evil with the Holy scriptures’; Muslim refugees and inter- Muslim conflicts; intellectual tradition of interpreting Islam in B&H; Islamic Community and other issues underlining the significance for developing peace projects, righteousness and devoted endeavour. He especially stresses the need for affirmation of traditional faith and knowledge.

Autonomija? Autonomija! Estetska iskustva danas

Author(s): Juliane Rebentisch / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 07-09/2015

Polazište mojih promišljanja je dijagnostička teza da tendencije ukidanja granica u umjetnosti tijekom posljednjih četrdeset do pedeset godina suprotno često iznošenim pretpostavkama ne napadaju ideju estetske autonomije kao takve, nego samo njezin objektivistički nesporazum, kakav se između ostaloga očituje u ideji promatračke nezavisnosti umjetnosti. To i način na koji je umjetnost tijekom posljednjih dekada bila usmjerena na promatrača ne proizlazi iz nekog umjetnosti stranog zanimanja za promatrača, nego iz činjenice da umjetnost uzima ozbiljno vlastitu estetičnost, a to znači: svoj zahtjev za estetskom autonomijom.

Autorstvo Petoknjižja (Tora)

Author(s): Monika Bajic / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 2/2016

This piece is a concise summary of the historical and contemporary development of Pentateuch studies in Old Testament Theology. This article aims to provide information on the possible confirmation of the Mosaic authorship. The purpose is to examine how the Documentary Hypothesis, Fragment and Supplemental Hypotheses, Form and Traditio-Historical Criticism, Canonical and Literary Criticism have helped to reveal or identify the identity of the author of the Torah. To better understand the mentioned hypotheses, this article presents a brief description of the J, E, D, and P sources.

Bažnyčios Sakramentalumo Teologinė Pers Pektyva

Author(s): Rimas Skinkaitis / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 85/2015

One of the most prominent features of the ecclesiology of Vatican II is the emphasis on the sacramentality. The conception of the Church’s sacramental theology of the Mystical Body of Christ was a basis for the development. Soon after it found resonance in multiple ecclesiological reflections by Catholic theologians and finally in the official teaching of Vatican II . This article presents the development of Church’s sacramental theology from the 19th century to the documents of Vatican II and discusses it from a Christological perspective. The Church is like the sacrament body of the mystic unity between Christ and his community. Christ and the Church form one body; therefore, the Church is a very real residential place and shape of the Resurrected. This way the Church is also a salvation place where the mystery of Incarnation and Christ’s Easter event are actualized and made present. Due to Christ’s Easter event the salvation reaches all humanity. His salvation work and the grace of salvation are passed on and continued in history by His gathered community – the Church. By proclamation and by all of its activities, the Church delivers to the people Christ’s invisible salvific action and His grace. Thus, the Church, being a concrete form and realisation of salvific grace, is Christ’s visible tool which the Lord uses in history to spread God’s kingdom.

Beleška o hermeneutici

Author(s): Milorad Belancic / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 297-298/1983

Hermeneutika, bez sumnje, nije nikakva gotova, dovršena filozofska teorija, niti u »bitnim« crtama precizirana i zaokrugljena metafizička intuicija ... Reč je pre o značajnoj teorijskom mogućnosti koja pokazuje da filozofija još ni izdaleka nije iscrpljena i dovedena do svog kraja. Svrha ove beleške nije u tome da se ta mogućnost prebrzo definiše, sistematizuje i iscrpi, već pre u tome da se ona bitno problematizuje, tj. osvetli kao složeni, dinamični filozofski problem. Pri tom bi valjalo imati na umu da ne postoji samo jedno veliko, sveobuhvatno, potpuno homogeno. Pitanje hermeneutike, koje bi moglo da se odmah izloži, da bi kasnije sledile različite etape njegovog rešavanja

Between emotion, imagination and cognition: Play as a hybrid neuro-evolutionary concept in bridging Saussure, Hegel and Alexander von Humboldt

Author(s): Jui-Pi Chien / Language(s): English / Issue: 2-3/2015

This study seeks to discover hidden links between Saussure’s Third Course of Lectures on General Linguistics, Hegel’s Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics / Philosophy of Mind and Alexander von Humboldt’s Cosmos. To begin with, the notion of play is employed to examine the interplay between our emotion, imagination and cognition, and to examine how such a composite of faculties serves to unify conceptualizations of communicationmodelling systems, philosophical hermeneutics and moral psychology in our times. At discovering a certain future-oriented and symbiotic scheme of time implied in these theories, the inquiry moves on to engage with certain perspectives on the evolution of our verbal and nonverbal capacities.

Bolest u procjepu biologije i kulture

Postmoderno shvaćanje bolesti kao biokulturne pojave

Author(s): Darija Rupcic / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 03/143/2016

The intention of this paper is to highlight and reflect on the development of a tradition that considers the importance of cultural influences on health and illness. Delicate balance between illness and culture is what constitutes the elusive truth of illness and post-modern understanding of the illness as biocultural phenomenon in biocultural model. Using authors such as Michel Foucault, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Ivan Illich, David B. Morris and others helps to bring out the intricate, complex and subtle link between illness and culture. Scientifically based biomedical model, outdated in its Cartesian-mehanicistic conceptual scheme but growing in popularity at enormous speed, considers illness as an object and body as a mechanical machine. Although it did bring prosperity and eradicated many diseases, it offers us an alternative path to a new and still uncertain understanding of illness as transformable process, resulting as the intertwining of culture and biology. By putting an emphasis on this narrative, we will critically overview the existing dominant biomedical model of illness and we will consider the possibility of introducing a new biocultural model of illness expanding the existing biomedical model. The expected contribution of this work will go towards the possibilities of theoretical and practical foundation and a search for the possibility of the different pluriperspective and multidimensional approach to illness and health.

Budistinė Samdhinirmocana Ir H. G. Gadamerio Hermeneutika: Lyginamoji Analizė

Author(s): Tadas Snuviškis / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 90/2017

Gadamer’s hermeneutics and Buddhist samdhinirmocana are two different traditions of interpretation that have common parallels between them. Samdhinirmocana is closely related to the Buddhist religious context and developed as guidelines to interpret the words of Buddha (Buddhavācana). The similarities between Gadamer’s hermeneutics and Buddhist samdhinirmocana can be indicated at various levels. In the paper Sache selbst of Gadamer and paramārtha of samdhinirmocana are highlighted as examples of providing ways for any interpretation of an object. In both theories the interpretation process is grounded in a particular situation. The hermeneutics of Gadamer and Buddhist samdhinirmocana do not seek objective understanding, but the one, which preserves the intention of the other, while exploring it in different profiles.

Creation and Salvation in Edward Schillebeeckx. Well-being as more About Jesus' Death less About Resurrection

Author(s): Ramona Simu? / Language(s): English / Issue: 46/2017

This paper is not merely an attempt to come to terms with Edward Schillebeeckx’s theology and his philosophical mindset. Such attempts have already been made years back, when his ties with phenomenology, and also with postmodern hermeneutics and culture were pivotal for us in order to better understand his influence on mid-20th century Continental philosophy. This present study partially remains on those premises, but also brings Schillebeeckx’s thought closer to the 21st century, since nowadays concepts like salvation and resurrection tend to embed particular meanings, such as well-being and ancestrality, which until recently were considered halfway synonyms of the previous images, and thus were looked upon with less persuasion. This study follows their interchangeable use in Schillebeeckx’s doctrine of creation, where the purpose of the Christian creedal formula is to appease in a tribal sense, rather than to fun-ction as a confession of faith. On the other hand, Schillebeeckx’s take on the resurrection as a means to reconnect humanity to its ancestral faith will further be inspected as the starting point of his rehabilitated anthropology or the humanum. The initial discussion on the relationship between God and Jesus in the history of salvation finalized with Jesus’ death receives a new turn in Schillebeeckx’s thought when in this same context he talks about the resurrection. Jesus’ status after the resurrection is analyzed here considering the tribal flavors it receives in Schillebeeckx’s work with an accent on its outcome for the new humanity and its well-being.

Critical Remarks on Alf Ross’s Probabilistic Concept of Validity

Author(s): Katarzyna Eliasz,Wojciech Zaluski / Language(s): English / Issue: 61-62/2015

The concept of legal validity is regarded within the dominant legal-positivistic account of law as a non-gradable concept: a legal rule is either valid or non-valid. However, this account of validity is criticised by some scholars for being too strict and rigid. An attractive alternative would appear to be offered by Alf Ross’s account of validity as a probabilistic concept. Ross assumed that the stronger the predictions of judicial behaviour that a given rule generates, the higher the probability that can be assigned to its validity. However, this account of legal validity is by no means uncontroversial. In this paper, four objections against it are formulated: apparent gradability, problematic ascertainability, the normative insignificance of probabilistic information and the neglecting of the normativity of legal rules. These objections are treated in this paper as strong grounds for rejecting Ross’s claim that predictions of judicial behaviour formulated on the basis of rules are conceptually linked to their validity (i.e. they define their meaning); it is argued in the paper that they are merely a way of testing empirical hypotheses concerning the application (effectiveness) of legal rules.

Critical theory and its controversies

Author(s): Algis Mickunas / Language(s): English / Issue: 02/2015

The essay explicates the debates within the Critical School, including the major controversy between Habermas and Gadamer. While the debates are within the “inner circle” of this school, external questions enter concerning the status of sciences, technology, life world, values, language and the possibility of reflective emancipation. Thus, the question of scientific “neutrality” becomes relevant with respect to objective rationality, resulting in a debate whether reason is in a position to justify itself without becoming circular. The critical part of the essay consists of the demonstration that reflective reason offers another level of discursive practice, capable of adjudicating the issues in terms of primacy of experience – in a broadest sense of the term.

Czy można pogodzić dekonstrukcję z hermeneutyką?

Dialog Derridy z Gadamerem

Author(s): Patryk Szaj / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 05/2014

The article attempts to reinterpret the ties between Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction and the hermeneutic philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer. Although research has traditionally emphasized the antagonisms between these two thinkers, a comparative reading of their philosophical dialogue reveals that hermeneutics and deconstruction have a common source and aims: This is their anti-metaphysical attitude, openness to otherness, praise of democracy, and desire for social justice. From this perspective, deconstruction is seen not as an anti-hermeneutics, but as hermeneutics taken to its extremes, exploiting the emancipatory and political potential of their postulates for sympathetically listening to that which is Other, and the continuous reordering of existence.

DAS AUßER-SICH-SEIN BEI SCHELLING UND HEIDEGGER

Author(s): Andrei Patkul / Language(s): German / Issue: 2/2015

The author of the article framed the question of the possible relevance of the treatment of the Schelling’sphilosophy in the context of a phenomenological one. Thereby, he points its problematic character,referencing Husserl’s treatment of German idealism after Kant (including the thought of Schelling)as the romantic idealism. At the same time, he also states the influence of Schelling on the few phenomenologistswho made their careers after Husserl. The article’s author reviews the concept of the«being outside-itself» or «ecstasy» in Schelling and Heidegger (as one of the phenomenologists) forthe further concretization of the theme. The ecstasy in Schelling is the new name for the idealisticintellectual intuition, by which a singular subject loses its own position as subject and thereby getsto the position of the absolute subject. The absolute subject is one which cannot be an object already.Schelling identifies the ecstasy understood in this way with the wondering as philosophical initiationin Ancient Greece. Such ecstasy leads to unknowing knowledge in Schelling’s words. The conceptof being outside-itself means the structural element of being of human Dasein, i.e. of temporality inHeidegger. This philosopher thinks that a human being is always already outside itself ontologically,before any intuition both sensual and intellectual. The human subject is not closed in on itself, forthen it has to transcend from its immanence to the outside. It is always outside itself, it is ecstatic. Inits ecstasies, it is always in the world, instead of being inside the world and other people. Heideggerbases his critique of the traditional metaphysics of the subject on such understanding of the ontologicalstructure of Dasein, i.e. of the true «subject». In conclusion, the article’s author states that the approachesto the problem of being outside-itself of both mentioned philosophers are in principle, quitedifferent. Schelling tries to rehabilitate the subjectivity by the reduction of the singular subject to theabsolute one. On the contrary, the finitude of human Dasein is the necessary condition of its being inHeidegger. The ecstasy is interiorization in Schelling, but it is exteriorization, which has been alwaysalready realized, in Heidegger. However, the author of the article also pinpoints a certain isomorphismof the treatments of ecstasy in both thinkers. In the different ways they attempt to overcome the crisisof the understanding of the subject as closed in itself, create the conditions of this isomorphism.