Pub Date : 2019-11-20DOI: 10.26520/ijtps.2019.3.5.53-61
Florea Ștefan
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Pub Date : 2019-05-25DOI: 10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.77-92
Spiros Makris
In this article we thoroughly explore and analyze Hannah Arendt’s ontological, political and ethical theory about refugee as a conscious pariah. Hannah Arendt’s philosophical thought on homeless and stateless people is by definition the locus classicus of contemporary ‘Refugee Studies’. Building a typology on conscious pariahs, Hannah Arendt literally formulates a phenomenological and existential political and ethical theory of public sphere in which the figure of modern refugee dominates. Actually, Arendt founds a public sphere as an ultimum refugium for the sake of the world. Arendtian refugee is just the identification and personification of amor mundi. In this vein, Aristotle-like Arendtian republican approach of public space is a political and ethical theory of friendship and humanitas. For Arendt, the only chance we have, as unique human beings, to protect the world from the sandstorms of Totalitarianism is to protect first and foremost the refugees and the homeless people from world alienation. According to Hannah Arendt, stateless people are just the sensitive indicators of our lost thoughtfulness. Loving the refugees is like loving the world itself.
{"title":"PUBLIC SPHERE AS ‘ULTIMUM REFUGIUM’ THE PHILOSOPHICAL, POLITICAL AND ETHICAL THEORY OF HANNAH ARENDT","authors":"Spiros Makris","doi":"10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.77-92","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.77-92","url":null,"abstract":"In this article we thoroughly explore and analyze Hannah Arendt’s ontological, political and ethical theory about refugee as a conscious pariah. Hannah Arendt’s philosophical thought on homeless and stateless people is by definition the locus classicus of contemporary ‘Refugee Studies’. Building a typology on conscious pariahs, Hannah Arendt literally formulates a phenomenological and existential political and ethical theory of public sphere in which the figure of modern refugee dominates. Actually, Arendt founds a public sphere as an ultimum refugium for the sake of the world. Arendtian refugee is just the identification and personification of amor mundi. In this vein, Aristotle-like Arendtian republican approach of public space is a political and ethical theory of friendship and humanitas. For Arendt, the only chance we have, as unique human beings, to protect the world from the sandstorms of Totalitarianism is to protect first and foremost the refugees and the homeless people from world alienation. According to Hannah Arendt, stateless people are just the sensitive indicators of our lost thoughtfulness. Loving the refugees is like loving the world itself.","PeriodicalId":150920,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Theology, Philosophy and Science","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134599145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-25DOI: 10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.70-76
Ramona Nicoleta Arieșan
{"title":"BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND REALITY","authors":"Ramona Nicoleta Arieșan","doi":"10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.70-76","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.70-76","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":150920,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Theology, Philosophy and Science","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132988400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-25DOI: 10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.14-31
M. Byrne, Lawton Michigan U.S. th Street
{"title":"A UNIVERSAL BASIS FOR RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY","authors":"M. Byrne, Lawton Michigan U.S. th Street","doi":"10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.14-31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.14-31","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":150920,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Theology, Philosophy and Science","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129119573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-25DOI: 10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.93-112
Alexandru-Corneliu Arion
This article presents the so-often discussed problem of the core of religions, of what seems to link them rather than to separate them. Thus, after having presented the characteristics of unitive mysticism and its language at a phenomenological level, we turn to mystical union in the three major monotheistic religions of the world. Judaism, Christianity and even Islam have all developed the idea of a personal God, this ideal representing religion at its best. In the monotheistic faiths the God of creation, revelation, and redemption is not a static and indifferent First Principle but a loving and all-knowing God, who creates humans whose likeness to Him consists precisely in their ability to know and to love. However, the variations found in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam on this topic are too multiple to be easily characterized. That’s why it is difficult to appreciate the dynamics of union unless one addresses the relation between unitive expressions and the roles of love and knowledge. Union, whether conceived of as the uniting of God and human or in a deeper way as some form of identity with God, has been a key feature of the mystical traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Most mystics claim that both knowing and loving are necessary in the way to God, but many mystics stress the superiority of love, often expressed in highly erotic ways, whereas others conceive of union as attaining mental identity with the Divine Intellect. They make use of a variety of images and symbols, as well as distinctive expressions and forms of technical discourse, in their attempts to suggest through language what lies beyond language: the ‘ineffable’ God.
{"title":"MYSTICAL UNION IN JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM","authors":"Alexandru-Corneliu Arion","doi":"10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.93-112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.93-112","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents the so-often discussed problem of the core of religions, of what seems to link them rather than to separate them. Thus, after having presented the characteristics of unitive mysticism and its language at a phenomenological level, we turn to mystical union in the three major monotheistic religions of the world. Judaism, Christianity and even Islam have all developed the idea of a personal God, this ideal representing religion at its best. In the monotheistic faiths the God of creation, revelation, and redemption is not a static and indifferent First Principle but a loving and all-knowing God, who creates humans whose likeness to Him consists precisely in their ability to know and to love. However, the variations found in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam on this topic are too multiple to be easily characterized. That’s why it is difficult to appreciate the dynamics of union unless one addresses the relation between unitive expressions and the roles of love and knowledge. Union, whether conceived of as the uniting of God and human or in a deeper way as some form of identity with God, has been a key feature of the mystical traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Most mystics claim that both knowing and loving are necessary in the way to God, but many mystics stress the superiority of love, often expressed in highly erotic ways, whereas others conceive of union as attaining mental identity with the Divine Intellect. They make use of a variety of images and symbols, as well as distinctive expressions and forms of technical discourse, in their attempts to suggest through language what lies beyond language: the ‘ineffable’ God.","PeriodicalId":150920,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Theology, Philosophy and Science","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125435562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-25DOI: 10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.60-69
Marin Bugiulescu
{"title":"ONTOLOGY AND METAPHYSICS. BEING AND PERSON - GOD AND MAN","authors":"Marin Bugiulescu","doi":"10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.60-69","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.60-69","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":150920,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Theology, Philosophy and Science","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125767275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-25DOI: 10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.5-13
Florea Ștefan
{"title":"THE PREMISES OF A PUBLIC DIALOGUE BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION","authors":"Florea Ștefan","doi":"10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.5-13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.5-13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":150920,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Theology, Philosophy and Science","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115261501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-25DOI: 10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.32-45
Frederick Choo, Esther Goh
Alvin Plantinga has famously responded to the logical problem of evil by appealing to the intrinsic value of significant free will. A problem, however, arises because traditional theists believe that both God and the redeemed who go to heaven cannot do wrong acts. This entails that both God and the redeemed in heaven lack significant freedom. If significant freedom is indeed valuable, then God and the redeemed in heaven would lack something intrinsically valuable. However, if significant freedom is not intrinsically valuable, then Plantinga’s reply to the logical problem of evil fails. In this paper, we assess three contemporary solutions to the dilemma above. The first is the love solution, which proposes that significant freedom is necessary for agents to love, and loving others is intrinsically good. The second is the soul-making solution, which argues that significant freedom is necessary for selfdeveloping one’s moral character, and having a self-developed moral character is intrinsically good. The third is the derivative free will solution, which argues that significant freedom is necessary for derivative free will in heaven, and derivative free will is intrinsically good. We raise problems against all three solutions and instead defend a fourth solution – the ultimate responsibility solution. That is, SF is instrumentally valuable as it gives agents ultimate responsibility with regards to morally significant acts. Finally, we defend the ultimate responsibility solution against two major objections.
{"title":"THE FREE WILL DEFENSE REVISITED: THE INSTRUMENTAL VALUE OF SIGNIFICANT FREE WILL","authors":"Frederick Choo, Esther Goh","doi":"10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.32-45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.32-45","url":null,"abstract":"Alvin Plantinga has famously responded to the logical problem of evil by appealing to the intrinsic value of significant free will. A problem, however, arises because traditional theists believe that both God and the redeemed who go to heaven cannot do wrong acts. This entails that both God and the redeemed in heaven lack significant freedom. If significant freedom is indeed valuable, then God and the redeemed in heaven would lack something intrinsically valuable. However, if significant freedom is not intrinsically valuable, then Plantinga’s reply to the logical problem of evil fails. In this paper, we assess three contemporary solutions to the dilemma above. The first is the love solution, which proposes that significant freedom is necessary for agents to love, and loving others is intrinsically good. The second is the soul-making solution, which argues that significant freedom is necessary for selfdeveloping one’s moral character, and having a self-developed moral character is intrinsically good. The third is the derivative free will solution, which argues that significant freedom is necessary for derivative free will in heaven, and derivative free will is intrinsically good. We raise problems against all three solutions and instead defend a fourth solution – the ultimate responsibility solution. That is, SF is instrumentally valuable as it gives agents ultimate responsibility with regards to morally significant acts. Finally, we defend the ultimate responsibility solution against two major objections.","PeriodicalId":150920,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Theology, Philosophy and Science","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126249996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-25DOI: 10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.53-59
H. Fisher
{"title":"IS IT COHERENT TO CONCEIVE OF GOD AS A FREE, PER-SONAL AGENT THAT HUMANITY CAN FREELY INTERACT WITH?","authors":"H. Fisher","doi":"10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.53-59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.53-59","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":150920,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Theology, Philosophy and Science","volume":"73 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134059369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-25DOI: 10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.46-52
Alexander Kokobili
{"title":"AN APPROACH TO JOHN WITTE ON THE REFORMATION OF RIGHTS AND RELIGION","authors":"Alexander Kokobili","doi":"10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.46-52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26520/IJTPS.2019.3.4.46-52","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":150920,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Theology, Philosophy and Science","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126644711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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