{"title":"Philosophical Enhancements of the Humanistic Phenomenology of Karol Wojtyla to the Thomistic Philosophy of the Human Person","authors":"Robert A. Montaña","doi":"10.25138/15.1.a6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25138/15.1.a6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41978,"journal":{"name":"Kritike-An Online Journal of Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46291208","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}
{"title":"Tunnels","authors":"Paolo A. Bolaños","doi":"10.25138/15.1.cp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25138/15.1.cp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41978,"journal":{"name":"Kritike-An Online Journal of Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45287727","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}
{"title":"The Affirmation of Nothingness in Zhuang Zi’s Humor","authors":"A. Rennesland","doi":"10.25138/15.1.a4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25138/15.1.a4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41978,"journal":{"name":"Kritike-An Online Journal of Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48777624","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}
{"title":"Ricoeur’s First Aporia of Time: The Problematics of Visibility vs. Invisibility of Time","authors":"Hafiz Syed Husain","doi":"10.25138/15.1.a5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25138/15.1.a5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41978,"journal":{"name":"Kritike-An Online Journal of Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49127011","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}
Generally, the study of image is deeply influenced by image ontology. However, if we use image ontology as methodology, we will understand image as a copy of idea and thus be attached to truth. In doing so, we will not be able to carry out image research from the perspective of mobilities and thus ignore the significance and importance of mobilized images. Under this motivation, this paper will gradually clarify the meanings of image of mobilities, the relation between subjectivity and image, and “historical image. In the process of revealing the ethical of image, we should carry out research on affirming the mobilities of image and try to explain the influence and importance of this research on human life.
{"title":"Homeland, Historicity, and the Ethical of Image From the Mobilities of Image","authors":"Wanting Yang","doi":"10.25138/14.3.A5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25138/14.3.A5","url":null,"abstract":"Generally, the study of image is deeply influenced by image ontology. However, if we use image ontology as methodology, we will understand image as a copy of idea and thus be attached to truth. In doing so, we will not be able to carry out image research from the perspective of mobilities and thus ignore the significance and importance of mobilized images. Under this motivation, this paper will gradually clarify the meanings of image of mobilities, the relation between subjectivity and image, and “historical image. In the process of revealing the ethical of image, we should carry out research on affirming the mobilities of image and try to explain the influence and importance of this research on human life.","PeriodicalId":41978,"journal":{"name":"Kritike-An Online Journal of Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43644949","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}
: In mobility studies, it is commonly recognized that the development of mobility technologies brings about a vast range of changes in human lived experiences. Taking the autonomous vehicle as an example, this paper investigates the possible changes in human lived experiences resulting from said development. Based on phenomenological and cognitive scientific studies, this paper gives a detailed analysis of how the kinesthesis and sense of agency vary from everyday bodily movement to manual driving to autonomous driving following six levels of driving automation. This paper identifies, through philosophical analyses and interpretation, the problem of how the human driver can attend to driving without being fully engaged in it and suggests the possibility of considering the “driver - car” assemblage, a unified agent that gives relevant secondary attention to and is responsible for the driving situation. In doing so, this paper contributes to the discussions not only on the descriptive features of human lived experience but also on the normative issues around human drivers’ responsibility in an autonomous vehicle.
{"title":"How Mobility Technologies Change Our Lived Experiences: A Phenomenological Approach to the Sense of Agency in the Autonomous Vehicle","authors":"Taehee Kim","doi":"10.25138/14.3.A2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25138/14.3.A2","url":null,"abstract":": In mobility studies, it is commonly recognized that the development of mobility technologies brings about a vast range of changes in human lived experiences. Taking the autonomous vehicle as an example, this paper investigates the possible changes in human lived experiences resulting from said development. Based on phenomenological and cognitive scientific studies, this paper gives a detailed analysis of how the kinesthesis and sense of agency vary from everyday bodily movement to manual driving to autonomous driving following six levels of driving automation. This paper identifies, through philosophical analyses and interpretation, the problem of how the human driver can attend to driving without being fully engaged in it and suggests the possibility of considering the “driver - car” assemblage, a unified agent that gives relevant secondary attention to and is responsible for the driving situation. In doing so, this paper contributes to the discussions not only on the descriptive features of human lived experience but also on the normative issues around human drivers’ responsibility in an autonomous vehicle.","PeriodicalId":41978,"journal":{"name":"Kritike-An Online Journal of Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48095684","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}
This paper examines Namcheon Kim’s novel The Aquarium of Love and, using Japanese colonialism as an example, identifies the aquarium as a paradigm of political space in terms of the right to mobility. It pays special attention to mobility biopolitics which a colonial biopower imposes upon the colonized lives by managing their mobilities, redefining the threshold in life. In the novel, Kim describes colonial Korea as a mobile society composed of citizens with the right to mobility and non-citizens without it, and as a colonial-political space in which a colonial biopower excludes (probably) threatening mobilities from society for the maintenance of the colonial regime. In the colonial-political mobile space, non-citizens, including the poor and the threats, are identified as lives devoid of value. At the same time, by utilizing an aquarium as a paradigm of political space, Kim characterizes citizens in the colonial society as fish in an aquarium, who (un)consciously practice “sheer political thoughtlessness,” restricting their movements within “animal reaction and fulfillment of functions.” Thus, as the colonized, citizens and non-citizens are homogenized equally as the bare life deprived of political rights, that is, the sacred life. Thus, the aquarium discloses the colonial space’s insubstantiality originating from the categorical exclusion of political subjects, which then encourages the politics of “more than” to seek the decolonized-humanized formation of society.
{"title":"Mobility Biopolitics and the Aquarium as a Paradigm of Political Space","authors":"Jinhyoung Lee","doi":"10.25138/14.3.A7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25138/14.3.A7","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines Namcheon Kim’s novel The Aquarium of Love and, using Japanese colonialism as an example, identifies the aquarium as a paradigm of political space in terms of the right to mobility. It pays special attention to mobility biopolitics which a colonial biopower imposes upon the colonized lives by managing their mobilities, redefining the threshold in life. In the novel, Kim describes colonial Korea as a mobile society composed of citizens with the right to mobility and non-citizens without it, and as a colonial-political space in which a colonial biopower excludes (probably) threatening mobilities from society for the maintenance of the colonial regime. In the colonial-political mobile space, non-citizens, including the poor and the threats, are identified as lives devoid of value. At the same time, by utilizing an aquarium as a paradigm of political space, Kim characterizes citizens in the colonial society as fish in an aquarium, who (un)consciously practice “sheer political thoughtlessness,” restricting their movements within “animal reaction and fulfillment of functions.” Thus, as the colonized, citizens and non-citizens are homogenized equally as the bare life deprived of political rights, that is, the sacred life. Thus, the aquarium discloses the colonial space’s insubstantiality originating from the categorical exclusion of political subjects, which then encourages the politics of “more than” to seek the decolonized-humanized formation of society.","PeriodicalId":41978,"journal":{"name":"Kritike-An Online Journal of Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41296445","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}
Although the field of mobility research has always been interdisciplinary, its relation to philosophy has not been particularly close. This essay attempts to give a philosophical contribution to the field: an ethical consideration regarding mobility. Specifically, the dangers and potentialities in the highly mobile world will be identified and clarified through the phenomenological concepts of lifeworld, home world, and alien world. Our home world will be revealed as the sole foundation of values and norms for us. Based on these concepts, the meaning of mobility and highly mobile world will be clarified, and we will understand how high mobility leads to destabilization of the home world thereby posing a threat to our ethical foundation. Finally, three ethical potentialities that emerge from the highly mobile world will be discussed: new ways of understanding, building of a more universal lifeworld, and formation of a new ethical category.
{"title":"Dangers and Potentialities of the Highly Mobile World: An Ethical Consideration","authors":"Ilman Choe, Myung-hee Yang","doi":"10.25138/14.3.A4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25138/14.3.A4","url":null,"abstract":"Although the field of mobility research has always been interdisciplinary, its relation to philosophy has not been particularly close. This essay attempts to give a philosophical contribution to the field: an ethical consideration regarding mobility. Specifically, the dangers and potentialities in the highly mobile world will be identified and clarified through the phenomenological concepts of lifeworld, home world, and alien world. Our home world will be revealed as the sole foundation of values and norms for us. Based on these concepts, the meaning of mobility and highly mobile world will be clarified, and we will understand how high mobility leads to destabilization of the home world thereby posing a threat to our ethical foundation. Finally, three ethical potentialities that emerge from the highly mobile world will be discussed: new ways of understanding, building of a more universal lifeworld, and formation of a new ethical category.","PeriodicalId":41978,"journal":{"name":"Kritike-An Online Journal of Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45144318","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}
oday, we are experiencing an unprecedented surge in mobility technologies and a corresponding increase of movement among humans, objects, data, and cultural constructs. Advanced mobile media such as wireless Internet, IoT, small portable devices, as well as renovated conventional vehicles—for example, high-speed trains and autonomous cars—provide us with seemingly unlimited freedom of movement and reflect the unremitting expansion of the global network. However, global mobility disturbance due to Covid-19 emergency triggers the apparent shrinking and blaming of “mobility” on the one hand, but, significantly, encourages us to identify our being mobilized as our supposed “normal status” to be restored, i.e., what we (should) be, on the other. It is the time when mobile technologies condition us and become part of our social life, when motion and movement are embedded in our epistemological, ethical, and aesthetical practices, and when we thus consider not only our existence but also our nature in light of these mobilities. We can denominate this time as the age of high mobility. In the introduction to his seminal book, Being and Motion (2019), Thomas Nail describes the age of high mobility, noting that,
{"title":"Introduction to the Kritike Special Issue: Philosophical Thoughts in the Age of High Mobility","authors":"Jinhyoung Lee","doi":"10.25138/14.3.ED","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25138/14.3.ED","url":null,"abstract":"oday, we are experiencing an unprecedented surge in mobility technologies and a corresponding increase of movement among humans, objects, data, and cultural constructs. Advanced mobile media such as wireless Internet, IoT, small portable devices, as well as renovated conventional vehicles—for example, high-speed trains and autonomous cars—provide us with seemingly unlimited freedom of movement and reflect the unremitting expansion of the global network. However, global mobility disturbance due to Covid-19 emergency triggers the apparent shrinking and blaming of “mobility” on the one hand, but, significantly, encourages us to identify our being mobilized as our supposed “normal status” to be restored, i.e., what we (should) be, on the other. It is the time when mobile technologies condition us and become part of our social life, when motion and movement are embedded in our epistemological, ethical, and aesthetical practices, and when we thus consider not only our existence but also our nature in light of these mobilities. We can denominate this time as the age of high mobility. In the introduction to his seminal book, Being and Motion (2019), Thomas Nail describes the age of high mobility, noting that,","PeriodicalId":41978,"journal":{"name":"Kritike-An Online Journal of Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48814644","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}
{"title":"The Political Eocnomy of Global Mobility","authors":"A. G. Lee","doi":"10.25138/14.3.A1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25138/14.3.A1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41978,"journal":{"name":"Kritike-An Online Journal of Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44622612","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}