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Beyond “Indigenous Social Work” and Toward Decolonial Possibility: Stories from Toronto’s Red Road
No full textWhile social work has been a specific technology of settler colonialism levied against Indigenous Peoples, the phenomenon of “Indigenous social work” is now rather comfortably discussed and included within university curricula and places of social work practice. This article is a creative adaptation of a research project with four generations of Indigenous social workers in Toronto, culminating in 10 intersecting short stories that work to make visible “the Good Red Road” in the city. The story landmark shared here is one of these stories, a pit stop along the road. Its function exists somewhere between that of petroglyphs, and carving your name into wet cement. It helps mark where we have been as Indigenous social workers, how we imprint onto the landscape, and how the Land can guide us in important directions. This landmark is an invitation for those involved in Indigenous social work to not only consider the story pathways we have created, but how these story landmarks could lead Indigenous Peoples, communities, and Nations to destinations previously foreclosed to our imaginaries by the boundaries of our professional survival. That what may lay between us and decolonial possibilities, is our refusal of the profession itself
Quantum Entanglement and Emergence
Get PDFPaul O’Hara has a Ph.D. in mathematics from UCLA and has widely published in theoretical physics especially in the areas related to general relativity and quantum mechanics. Currently, he is a professor of scientific methodology at the Instituto Universitario Sophia (Italy), where he teaches course on Lonergan
Here Comes Everybody: A Wake for Phil-again
Get PDFBrendan Purcell Brendan embarked on what became a 10-year haul on a PhD in psychology via Leuven and UCD (1980) after completing his BA studies in philosophy at UCD (1963) and an STL in theology at the Lateran University in Rome (1967). His publications include From Big Bang to Big Mystery (2011) and Where Is God in Suffering? (2016). He is now at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, and is adjunct professor at the University of Notre Dame (Australia)
Memories of and Gratitude for Philip McShane
Get PDFWilliam J. Zanardi is Professor Emeritus at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. Over the last thirty plus years, the works of Bernard Lonergan and Philip McShane have greatly influenced his teaching and writing. As one of the authors in a series of eight books on the fourth functional specialty, he has been slowly educating himself on how to do dialectic and sharing the results with others
Editors' Introduction
Get PDFWe provide this introduction as a brief attempt at supplying a wider context for the essays in the tribute volume. We intend it only as a kind of invitation to begin the climb toward what Phil called “expectational reading and living.” The Allure of the Compelling Genius of History: Teaching Young Humans Humanity and Hope, 146
Rekindling Nature: Freedom, Time, and the In-Itself
No full textIn the Freedom Essay, before formulating what he considers to be the central philosophical problem concerning human freedom—the capacity for good and evil—Schelling unpacks some remarks about logic and the uses of the copula as well as a very brief comment on Kant’s use of the concept of the in-itself within the domain of practical philosophy. Schelling’s move from the exclusively human to things, to nature, when it comes to matters of freedom, seems like a direct challenge to Kant, while still pursuing the latter’s most popular motto: “Sapere aude! Have courage to use your own understanding!” (Ak. VIII: 35). Instead of presenting Schelling’s efforts within this enlightened frame of daring and courage, I will try to present it as a matter of care, of asking difficult questions that escape any preconceived answer of thinking the unspeakable that is latent in the present—this is how the task of rekindling nature begins
The Philosophical Foundations of the Late Schelling: The Turn to the Positive, by Sean J. McGrath, Edinburgh University Press, 2021
No full textAppearing in New Perspectives in Ontology McGrath´s thoughtful and insightful study not only offers a consistent reading of the late Schelling but also demonstrates the relevance of Schelling´s later works to contemporary post-secular philosophy of religion, especially concerning its potential political-theological impact. As the first of two books, of which the second is still to appear, this study is so far the only example that offers an interpretation which brings together the late Schelling and (post-)secularism. Being a sequel to The Dark Ground of Spirit: Schelling and the Unconscious the present book continues as well as advances the original point of McGrath’s earlier project, to demonstrate how “secular, philosophical psychology, political theory, even economic theory, unconsciously depend upon forgotten theological controversies.” McGrath thus inquires into the late Schelling’s “speculative repetition of Christian theology.” He identifies “three pillars of the philosophy of the late Schelling”: the theorem of absolute transcendence; (2) non-dialectical personalism; and (3)Trinitarian eschatology
