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Sydney Frankfurt and His Wonderful Cabinet of Curiosities
No full textPermission from the author to release Chapters 1-4 (revised) has been given. Please contact the ICS Library ([email protected]) for further information.School is out and summer vacation has just begun. Rose Tang however, is not looking forward to the holidays. She is burdened with studies from her father and feeling lonely without her friends. With the sudden arrival of a new neighbour, it all changes. As Sydney D. Frankfurt introduces her to his wonderful cabinet of curiosities and the tales that come with it, the two immerse themselves in a sea of stories and discover that the imagination is not only for their fantasy world, but for the real one as well.Elita Fung is the first ICS student to complete the Aesthetics, Religion and Theology (ART) Master of Worldview Studies by fulfilling the requirements for the program with an arts concentration
'Seeing Beyond the Scenery': Exploring the World Through Metaphor
No full textMetaphor has been called a 'form of listening.' In its enacting of a hinge between language and the beyond of language, metaphor points to something bigger than language that Christians might call the glory of God revealed in the material world by common grace (Ps.19.1-4, Rom.1.20). Two contemporary poets who pay particularly careful attention to the matter of the world are John Terpstra, a Christian writing a kind of 'lectio divina' about the abused body of the earth in south-western Ontario, and Don McKay, Canada's premier 'nature poet,' who describes 'the disturbing thrilling awareness that there really is a world outside language, which, creatures of language ourselves, we translate with difficulty.' Thus, despite different belief commitments, both these poets create what Madeleine L'Engle calls 'icons of the true' that open new windows onto God's glory
The Spiritual Meaning of Technological Evolution to Life
No full textThere are two senses by which technology can be seen as a new layer of living complexity: first, while biological systems can only appropriate 24 of the 91 natural elements into their metabolic processes, technological systems can imbue complex form into all 91 elements; second, this added capacity gives life the potential to expand across its current limit – the atmosphere of the Earth – in the same way as it expanded from the oceans to the land some five hundred million years ago. This essay explores what such an understanding of life and technology might mean to us, humanity, in the context of our current ecological and social catastrophe
The I's Relationship to the other as Transcendent, Foundational, and Ethical in Levinas' Totality and Infinity
No full textAn interpretation and application of the key insights about the I and the other from Emmanuel Levinas' book: Totality and Infinity. The first chapter interprets Levinas' terminology, specifically his notions of the I and the other, and shows how he describes human experience. The second chapter explores how the other is transcendent to the I as a site of ongoing possibility for the significance of experience, how the other founds the I during human development in the person of the caregiver, and how the I's basic relationship to the other has an ethical character. The third chapter applies these insights to show how they can lead to a more authentic living out of interpersonal relationships and to better ways of thinking about human living in social and political contexts
Translation of the Implicit: Tracing How Language Works Beyond Gendlin and Derrida
Full text linkThis thesis discusses the explication of the implicit side of language, from the perspective of the self, the social, and the text, as situated in the wider context of thinking about language 'beyond post-modernism.' Language is first discussed as an intricacy, an intricate and changing complex of explicit signs and implicit elements and processes. It is shown that the implicit processes, such the speaking of being (Heidegger), focusing (Gendlin), and the interrelatedness of language and culture (Agar), are ruptured by processes like deconstruction (Derrida) and the semiotic breach of the symbolic (Kristeva). Explication brings a part of the implicit to the surface in the form of creativity (Deleuze) and critique, which is also discussed in the examples of play (Gadamer) and care. The transformations involved are illustrated in reflections on writing (Plato), poetry (Trakl), life as immigrant, and on translation as a philosophical practice
