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The Ungrounded Nature of Being: Grounding a Dynamic Ontology from Nature-Philosophy to Positive Philosophy
No full textThe fact that in around 1844, and at the height of his positive philosophy period, Schelling dedicates himself to drafting a work entirely dedicated to issues in the nature-philosophy, such as the Presentation of the Process of Nature (Darstellung des Naturprozesses), in the explicit attempt to give continuity to the speculative physics theories set out in the 1799 First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature (Erster Entwurf eines Systems der Naturphilosophie) and in the 1801 General Deduction of Dynamical Process (Allgemeine Deduktion des dynamischen Processes) in particular, raises a number of questions of both a historiographic nature and, above all, of a more strictly theoretical nature, which merit an in-depth analysis. The Presentation of the Process of Nature, together with the other works from Schelling’s later Naturphilosophie, brings into question all of the interpretations that split Schelling’s philosophy into different phases, as well as highlights how his interest in the nature-philosophy did not die out between the late 1790s and 1806. In addition, and far more significantly, the presence of a work such as the Presentation of the Process of Nature in that theoretical context, in which Schelling was working in particular on the grounding of positive philosophy and on its relationship with negative philosophy and on the passage from the latter to the former, leads us to reflect on the radical role and relevance of the nature-philosophy for Schelling’s entire philosophical development, as well as on the particular relationship that his positive philosophy has with Naturphilosophie
On Matter: Schelling’s Anti-Platonic Reading of the Timaeus
No full textThis essay contrasts the so-called emanationism of Neoplatonism, particularly Proclus’s, with the naturephilosophy of F.W.J. Schelling. The contention is that Schelling’s thought is Neo-Platonist because thoroughly Platonist (albeit not at all Platonic, that is, dualistic), except that his project stands Neoplatonism on its head by inverting the order of procession. Schelling agrees with Neoplatonism that matter is the lowest and most inferior of the hypostases—not even constituting a proper hypostasis itself, because incapable of self-reversion—but he differs in viewing matter as cosmologically prior to intellect, soul, the demiurge and so forth. The question concerns not the hierarchical but the ontological ordering of matter. For Schelling, procession is not a descent into being (and eventually non-being) from a one beyond being, but an elevation (Steigerung) and intensification of being, which precludes the need for return (έπιστροφή [epistrophē]). This is the trademark of Schelling’s late distinction between positive and negative philosophy. Positive philosophy is progressive, beginning with the inferior as the most original in order to ascend to the superior through a consequent intensification of being, while negative philosophy is regressive, beginning with the inferior only as something already derived in order regressively to retrace its descent back up to the superior one. Being, for Schelling, is not constituted as an eternal circle but the irretrievable temporality of the line, because no level of reality reverts upon itself without remainder. In order to elucidate how Schelling’s inversion of Neoplatonism forged his later distinction between positive and negative philosophy this essay begins with his reading of the role of “matter” in Plato’s Timaeus and then offers an experimental reading of Proclus’s Elements of Theology
Scholarly Reception of Sulpicia: A Victim of Early Sexist Scholarship
No full textThe poetry of Sulpicia, the lone extant female author amongst the Latin love elegists, has been unjustly criticized and viewed as frivoulous amongst scholars. However, Sulpicia's work demonstates a level of skill and technique which is comparable to her male counterparts. Despite this the sexism which characterised the work of early scholars has stained Sulpicia's poetry resulted in it being viewed as inferior
An Apparent Anomaly in Lonergan Scholarship
Get PDFA search for the occurrences of the word 'implementation' and its cognates in Lonergan's texts uncovers an apparent anomaly in the indexing. The article presents the research and contextualizes it results. Some possible implications for functional interpretation of the meaning of implementation in metaphysics and the function specialization are considered.
Sane Economic Theory and the Failure of Religion
Get PDFA more elaborate elementary economy of fishing is considered here than that provided by Shute. The broader complexity of economic progress is attended to briefly, in the context of Lonergan‟s view of profit as a social dividend. The function of that dividend is a global well-being that pivots, for its effectiveness, on the luminousness regarding promises discussed in the previous essay. This essay draws attention to a force in that effectiveness that is to be brought forth from all patterns of religious commitment. The issue is to make operative the human drive to make sense
The Global Economy and My Little Corner
Get PDFThis final essay returns to the basic issue raised in the first essay and places it in the fuller context of the dynamics of the untrammelled spirit of inquiry. That spirit of inquiry, the heart of serious science, is just not present either in contemporary establishment economics or in the range of views opposed to it. So, neither group takes seriously the quest for real basic variables. Such seriousness has to emerge from a creative minority, towards which this volume reaches. The creativity demanded is the coming to grips with the dynamics of any business and the drawing of attention to it
Preparing to Read Economic History Functionally
Get PDFThe article explores Lonergan’s use of the word ‘transition’ in For a New Political Economy as a basis for examining how we might read history functionally. The essay stresses the importance of developing standard models in reading the history of economics and suggests that Lonergan’s work in economics provides just such a basis for developing standard models for both economics and general method
Perspective: Interprofessional education: skills training (IPST) team projects, processes, and reactions.
Get PDFDeveloping a research education curriculum for rural doctors: trials, teachings and testaments.
Get PDFDoctoral Education, Pedagogy, and Autoethnography
Get PDFThis special issue of the Morning Watch brings together papers written for a doctoral course in the Faculty of Education. As facilitators of ED 702A/B Advanced Research Methodology in Education, a core course in the Faculty of Education’s doctoral program, we welcome you to this Special Edition of the Morning Watch