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'Mourning Academic Mentors and Mentees'
No full textMy approach is both autobiographically reflective and collegial, seeking to share experiences that others may also have felt over the years, but which seldom find either public expression or disciplinary recognition. As for the “method” informing this exploration, I adopt an informal “conversation” between personal experience and longstanding anthropological and theological research on mortality in general, complemented by some limited comment from other academic colleagues. As for “reflection,” it is something that, for the moment, I distinguish from the more developed social-scientific fashion of “reflexivity” for reasons that will become apparent. Similarly, despite the fact that this chapter is not a formal essay on grief theory, I will introduce three theoretical topics to provide some direction for the flow of argument, namely Disenfranchised Grief, Uncommon Losses, and Continuing Bonds. Finally, since my focus concerns a type of mourning engendered by a mutual participation in “knowledge,” I will invoke a brief formulaic approach to ideas, emotions, and identity as interlinked facets of the distinctive academic way of life. My hope is that these interplaying considerations may allow colleagues at large, as well as some Death Studies specialists in particular, to gain their distinctive purchase on this otherwise meditative consideration of shared knowing
The Two Cultures in Philosophy
No full textIn this paper I revisit the debate concerning the distinction, which is sometimes made between “analytic” and “continental” philosophy. I look at the historical context in which the distinction came to prominence in the twentieth century, the reasons why it subsequently declined in popularity, and eventually had begun to be undermined. I argue that the distinction possesses intuitive content, which the recent attempts at exposing it as conceptually flawed fail to account for. I suggest that the intuitive content of the distinction provides us with resources to usefully define two different ways philosophical reflection has been approached during the course of the twentieth century. I conclude by suggesting that we can bring these two ways of approaching philosophy into focus by appealing to the idea of philosophical temperament
Science versus Religion as Guide to Metaphysics
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This is the second volume of the double issue of Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture devoted to the relationship between science and religion.
The contributions across these two volumes have mostly been concerned with, and argued for, various aspects of a non-reductive view of this relationship, according to which reality is not limited to what the natural sciences can tell us about it. That is the view that science and religion are not in conflict, or that the advances made by the natural sciences do not undermine religion as an adequate means of addressing the big questions humanity faces.
This is not only a very welcome but also exciting result confirming that after many decades of an almost complete monopoly of scientific naturalism in English language philosophy the field is beginning to open up to a more diverse range of views. This development has made it possible for philosophers in the analytic tradition to engage with topics of deep human importance in a serious and systematic way
T.S. Eliot i R.V. Scruton: wspólne dążenie do właściwego osądu
No full textRoger Scruton refers to Thomas Stearns Eliot in almost every one of his books, but despite the undoubtedly fundamental influence, which Eliot had exerted on the development of Scruton’s outlook, apart from a short article entitled Eliot and Conservatism, Scruton did not devote a separate work to Eliot’s thought. As I try to show this is due to the fact that Scruton was not so much a scholar of Eliot, as a continuator of his thought – not merely an expert on his philosophy and poetry, but an inheritor of his spiritual legacy. Both Eliot and Scruton belong to a current, which may rightly be called conservative philosophy of culture. In this paper I outline the conception of culture advanced by Eliot, and show how Scruton draws on this conception in his own spiritual development
T.S. Eliot i R.V. Scruton: wspólne dążenie do właściwego osądu
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