Mahdi Behniafar
Volume 9, Issue 2 , June 2019, Pages 1-23
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This paper is a study and the philosophical critique of the concept of "bête machine" theory with the human environmental behaviors in Modern ages, and our question is what precisely does Cartesian mean the modern and contemporary man's behaviors with animals and the environment? We have first ...
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This paper is a study and the philosophical critique of the concept of "bête machine" theory with the human environmental behaviors in Modern ages, and our question is what precisely does Cartesian mean the modern and contemporary man's behaviors with animals and the environment? We have first studied and evaluated precisely Cartesian propositions about animals and examined the ability of the theory to cover the whole material nature, including the human body. The doctrine of unity and integrity, the doctrine of Genesis Classlessness and the doctrine of non-thinking activism are three basic doctrines that can be deduced from Descartes' thought. Then we have discussed that the way of defining the environment in the modern ages and some humanistic behaviors in modern and pseudo-modern societies with nature and animals is fully compatible with these three Cartesian doctrines and does not consider any natural and inherent right for inhuman vital organisms. Finally, we have argued that Descartes' ability to extract the moral and legal system governing human behavior with animals and nature can be interpreted in two ways: 1. This perspective is sufficient to extract these Systems; 2. This view is certain, but to extract these systems is inadequate, and as a result, we need to advance and develop our knowledge in metaphysics or in science in order to establish a moral and legal system for dealing with animals and nature. Then, with the advent of the second interpretation, we believe that the mere consistency of these Descartes' principles with this kind of modern moral and legal norms is not a good reason to call the behavior of modern humans to animals and nature as Cartesian. In Descartes's view, progress in science is a necessary condition for the establishment of morality; new sciences and sciences such as animal and natural physiology can be considered as such.
Behnam Joodi; Majid Tavasoli Roknabadi; hassan Abniki; Ali Ashraf NAzari
Volume 9, Issue 2 , June 2019, Pages 25-49
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The first half of the twentieth century, the disappointments emerged due to the collapse of Christian values as well as the ideal of progress in Europe, which led to a rethinking of the foundations of the Modern age and its relation to the Christian Middle ages. These efforts put the issue at the core ...
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The first half of the twentieth century, the disappointments emerged due to the collapse of Christian values as well as the ideal of progress in Europe, which led to a rethinking of the foundations of the Modern age and its relation to the Christian Middle ages. These efforts put the issue at the core of the debate, known as 'Secularization'. About the relation of the Modern age and the Middle ages through the secularization, there are two bases: 'Continuity and Discontinuity', and two important theories about it are theories that, in opposition to each other, the Modern age is 'Secularization of Eschatology' or 'Secularization by Eschatology'. The prominent representatives of these two theories are Karl Löwith and Hans Blumenberg. Accordingly, in this article, by categorizing different positions on the secularization category, we identify Löwith and Blumenberg's positions within this category, then, analyze the arguments of Löwith and Blumenberg.
Hamidreza Hajighsem; Masoud Salami
Volume 9, Issue 2 , June 2019, Pages 51-70
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Enlightenment era is in terms of political issues a time of tensions. In theoretical domain we are witness to fundamental changes and in it’s interact in social domains we are confronted with radical and conservative political stances. Recently, research focuses on Enlightenment and its thinkers ...
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Enlightenment era is in terms of political issues a time of tensions. In theoretical domain we are witness to fundamental changes and in it’s interact in social domains we are confronted with radical and conservative political stances. Recently, research focuses on Enlightenment and its thinkers from this point of view, which was inaugurated by the ideas of Margaret C. Jacob and became with the works of Jonathan Israel in the center of attention. Schiller takes definitely a political stance in his philosophical work entitled On the Aesthetic Education of Man that was authored after the French Revolution. Lukács argues that these letters show Schiller’s conservative ideas. Are we confronted with a Schiller, who seeks to keep the status quo after the French Revolution? This essay allows a skeptical view of Lukacs’ conception of the aesthetic education and shows that aesthetic education is based on radical ideas.
fateme saki; Ali Karbasizade; Ali Zarei (Peyman)
Volume 9, Issue 2 , June 2019, Pages 71-86
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The present study shows that how Michel Foucault is inclined to the art of self-invention in his final works through referring to some enlightenment doctrines. Reviewing basic concepts of enlightenment in late Foucault's works is along with a new understanding on the part of Kant and Subject. By placing ...
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The present study shows that how Michel Foucault is inclined to the art of self-invention in his final works through referring to some enlightenment doctrines. Reviewing basic concepts of enlightenment in late Foucault's works is along with a new understanding on the part of Kant and Subject. By placing aesthetic theories regarding to the self in the text of enlightenment thinking, Foucault shows that not only he doesn't ignore enlightenment values (on the contrary to his previous works), but also addresses restructuring some of these concepts. Such enlightenment reflects itself in that ethics implying rapport à soi. The formation of such ethics is possible with the help of Foucault's research regarding ethics in Greece and Rome from the one hand, and referring to Nietzsche as well as Charles Baudelaire's doctrines from the other. The ethics in ancient world is seeking to offer a method to nurture creativity, which faces them with their presence at first, and then the self in order to think in another way and change their life; i.e, to create themselves. Baudelaire, too, interprets being modern as creativity and dynamicity and believes that the person's life should be concomitant to self- invention and change like an artistic work. Our objective in the present study is to investigate an aspect of Foucault is thinking that has less been attended to which is invention and beautiful living.
Sadreddin Taheri; Elaheh Shams najafabadi
Volume 9, Issue 2 , June 2019, Pages 87-110
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History is a chain without breaks, which shift flowingly from an era to another. A paradigm shift is a fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental practices of a scientific discipline. Institution of art will rearrange, when a paradigm shift occures as result of a dialectical encounter. ...
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History is a chain without breaks, which shift flowingly from an era to another. A paradigm shift is a fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental practices of a scientific discipline. Institution of art will rearrange, when a paradigm shift occures as result of a dialectical encounter. Thus art world coordinate itself with philosophical, political, economical and social aspects of the emerging era. This essay is trying to persue paradigm shifts in the western thought from Renaissance to beginning of Modernism, and their impacts in formation of art schools. Renaissance art rose with emblem of genius godlike man, to supersession pivotal position of god in the art of Middle Ages. Baroque artists took the first steps to be independent. Neoclassic art used ideas of the Enlightenment to serve the french revolution. Romantics became rebellious and restless illustrators of nature. Realists reflected protests of the downstream in their works, and Impressionists challenged these traditional approaches to be the pioneers of an endless conflict named Modernism.
sedighe mirzaie; ali moradkhani
Volume 9, Issue 2 , June 2019, Pages 111-132
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One of the main issues in Herder's thinking is nationalism. It puts nationalism in conflict with attitude of Cosmopolitanism of Enlightenment; according to that, all human beings, under the rule of reason, must regulate their various aspects in a certain way. In contrast to this view of Enlightenment, ...
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One of the main issues in Herder's thinking is nationalism. It puts nationalism in conflict with attitude of Cosmopolitanism of Enlightenment; according to that, all human beings, under the rule of reason, must regulate their various aspects in a certain way. In contrast to this view of Enlightenment, nationalism was supported by thinkers who were dominant in the movement of Romanticism. Nationalism sought to revive and recognize the social units that, over centuries, under the rule of a single unit, were deprived of their sovereignty. But, although Herder's thinking is not in conflict with the political aspect of nationalism, his conception of nationalism can be considered a largely cultural nationalism, rather than a political one. This article intends to articulate this idea.
nayerehsadat mirmousa
Volume 9, Issue 2 , June 2019, Pages 133-156
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In Being and Time, Heidegger acknowledges Bergson as a pivotal thinker with respect to time and praises his attempt to overcome the traditional concept of time. But he claims that Bergson’s way of doing so ultimately fails. Because the concept of duration as “qualitative succession of conscious ...
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In Being and Time, Heidegger acknowledges Bergson as a pivotal thinker with respect to time and praises his attempt to overcome the traditional concept of time. But he claims that Bergson’s way of doing so ultimately fails. Because the concept of duration as “qualitative succession of conscious states” is still involved with the components of traditional time like succession. In The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, he argues that Bergson misunderstands Aristotle’s account of time in ways that lead to the view that Aristotle reduces time to space. In this article, I have considered Heidegger’s critiques, and have concluded that these critiques seem to be correct. According to Heidegger, the duration is not original Temporality. The original time is understood with respect to Being, which is neglected in the definition of duration. Time is a temporality of the existence of Dasein. By analyzing the existence of Dasein as a care, time cannot be present-at-hand. the temporality of Dasein is nothing but a process that temporalizes itself. The temporalizing is the condition of both meanings of time; traditional time and duration.
