Pub Date : 2013-01-01DOI: 10.2143/TVF.75.1.2977256
J. Koenis
In recent years Dutch society has been stirred by waves of anger and resentment. What are the sources of this discontent and resentment? Populist parties like those of Pim Fortuyn and Geert Wilders are not so much the cause of this resentment but the skillful exploiters of an underlying discontent which is endemic to modern democracies in general. The central claim of this article is that if we want to understand this underlying discontent we need to reconsider our conception of democracy. Instead of seeing democracy exclusively as the realization of the good life and the battleground for the emancipation of disadvantaged groups, we should focus more on the enduring tension between equality and inequality and the resentment this tension produces. Democracy has a Janus face: one face shows democracy as the source of empowerment and emancipation, the other face shows democracy as the source of resentment. Using the work of Nietzsche, Scheler, Rawls, Ferro, and Sloterdijk the nature and social consequences of resentment are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2013-01-01DOI: 10.2143/TVF.75.1.2977259
Tamar Sharon
Contemporary philosophy of technology is usually characterized as being less dystopic, more pragmatic and more empirical than classical philosophy of technology. This article argues that a deeper, ontological commitment informs this move: a shift from a dualist and essentialist framework of human subjects and technological objects, to an understanding of the human and technology as intricately interwoven. This has important repercussions for human ontology, which takes on a fundamentally relational and material nature. But the identification of this anthropo-ontology raises two concerns: it remains all too implicit in the works of philosophers of technology, and further, it should aim to account for the material relationality of the human as a biological organism within the material matrix of human-technology collectives. This paper suggests that a means of addressing this latter concern is to look at models of biological inter-relationality in recent biological theory, where non-dualist and non-essentialist frameworks for thinking the relationship between organisms and their environments are also being developed. It is argued that such biological models can thus help provide a 'missing link' the claim that the human, qua biological organism, is inextricably interwoven with its material environment - within contemporary philosophy of technology's ontological shift.
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Pub Date : 2013-01-01DOI: 10.2143/TVF.75.4.3007376
M. Brugnera
{"title":"De nomadische enkeling op het immanente plan. Een zoektocht naar Deleuzes en Guattari's 'personnage conceptuel' doorheen een lezing van Kierkegaard","authors":"M. Brugnera","doi":"10.2143/TVF.75.4.3007376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/TVF.75.4.3007376","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53935,"journal":{"name":"TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR FILOSOFIE","volume":"56 1","pages":"667-696"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79829260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-01-01DOI: 10.2143/TVF.75.1.2977254
P. Tongeren
{"title":"Vriendschap en nihilisme","authors":"P. Tongeren","doi":"10.2143/TVF.75.1.2977254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/TVF.75.1.2977254","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53935,"journal":{"name":"TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR FILOSOFIE","volume":"51 1","pages":"5-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85401758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-08-01DOI: 10.2143/TVF.74.2.2162469
W. V. Bunge
textabstractIn this paper an attempt is made to argue for the coherence of Spinoza’s insistence on the truthfulness of Christianity. A lack of empirical data on the causal factors responsible for the occurrence of prophecies, the origins of Scripture, and the possibility of obtaining salvation by practicing obedience (to what he considers to be the moral essence of true religion) prohibits Spinoza from claiming mathematical certainty on the truth of revealed religion. The available Scriptural evidence, however, enables the author of the Tractatus theologico-politicus to conclude that we can be morally certain of the truth of Christianity. In view of Spinoza’s assessment of the cognitive possibilities offered by our temporary existence as finite modes this assessment of religion appears to make considerable sense.
{"title":"Spinoza over ware godsdienst. Causaliteit en intelligibiliteit in de Tractatus theologico-politicus","authors":"W. V. Bunge","doi":"10.2143/TVF.74.2.2162469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/TVF.74.2.2162469","url":null,"abstract":"textabstractIn this paper an attempt is made to argue for the coherence of Spinoza’s insistence on the truthfulness of Christianity. A lack of empirical data on the causal factors responsible for the occurrence of prophecies, the origins of Scripture, and the possibility of obtaining salvation by practicing obedience (to what he considers to be the moral essence of true religion) prohibits Spinoza from claiming mathematical certainty on the truth of revealed religion. The available Scriptural evidence, however, enables the author of the Tractatus theologico-politicus to conclude that we can be morally certain of the truth of Christianity. In view of Spinoza’s assessment of the cognitive possibilities offered by our temporary existence as finite modes this assessment of religion appears to make considerable sense.","PeriodicalId":53935,"journal":{"name":"TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR FILOSOFIE","volume":"19 1","pages":"241-267"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2012-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74704966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.2143/TVF.74.2.2162471
G. Vanheeswijck
{"title":"Hamlet without the Prince : religie zonder geloof in een naturalistisch perspectief","authors":"G. Vanheeswijck","doi":"10.2143/TVF.74.2.2162471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/TVF.74.2.2162471","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53935,"journal":{"name":"TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR FILOSOFIE","volume":"8 1","pages":"287-297"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84707635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.2143/TVF.74.1.2152715
J. Janssens
{"title":"Het middeleeuwse Arabische en Joodse denken. Een vernieuwde aandacht","authors":"J. Janssens","doi":"10.2143/TVF.74.1.2152715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/TVF.74.1.2152715","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53935,"journal":{"name":"TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR FILOSOFIE","volume":"72 1","pages":"129-144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89602053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.2143/TVF.74.4.2965136
G. Faure
{"title":"Modellen van verlossing in Wagners late opera's","authors":"G. Faure","doi":"10.2143/TVF.74.4.2965136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/TVF.74.4.2965136","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53935,"journal":{"name":"TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR FILOSOFIE","volume":"28 1","pages":"655-686"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74516019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.2143/TVF.74.3.2174104
Lode Lauwaert
{"title":"Roland Barthes' semiologische lezing van Sade. Sadisme als formalisme","authors":"Lode Lauwaert","doi":"10.2143/TVF.74.3.2174104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/TVF.74.3.2174104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53935,"journal":{"name":"TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR FILOSOFIE","volume":"111 1","pages":"425-459"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74847608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}