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An Introduction to Foucault's Nietzschean Genealogy
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2018
Pages:
19-22
Received:
29 April 2018
Accepted:
25 May 2018
Published:
11 June 2018
Abstract: This paper intend to demonstrate, as in Foucault, from the 1970s onwards, the archaeological question of how knowledge emerged and transformed, strongly marked by discursiveness, gave rise to the theme of why knowledge? Foucault began to worry about historical investigations about the question of power as an instrument of analysis capable of explaining the production of knowledge and which the philosopher explained in a more elaborate way in his works of Discipline and Punish (1975) and of the History of Sexuality I (1976), naming this method of genealogy of power, appropriating a Nietzschean terminology. Thus, in his 1971 essay titled, "Nietzsche, Genealogy and History” (NGH), the French philosopher, when approaching Nietzsche's On Genealogy of Morals (GM), was not only meant to understand his philosophical method, limiting himself to the function of a mere historian of philosophy, but Foucault was chiefly intending to make use of certain “torsion”, which is ordinary in his interpretive strategy, to prepare in a subtle way the bases of what would become the its own method of analysis in subsequent years. Intend in this paper is to demonstrate, therefore, to what extent, the Nietzschean genealogy constitutes the basis of the genealogy of power in Foucault.
Abstract: This paper intend to demonstrate, as in Foucault, from the 1970s onwards, the archaeological question of how knowledge emerged and transformed, strongly marked by discursiveness, gave rise to the theme of why knowledge? Foucault began to worry about historical investigations about the question of power as an instrument of analysis capable of explai...
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Nietzschian Considerations About Obstacles to Action in Face of Consciousness –Bewusstsein – and Conscience –Gewissen
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2018
Pages:
23-31
Received:
4 May 2018
Accepted:
1 June 2018
Published:
25 June 2018
Abstract: Consciousness, both in its physiological meaning and in its moral meaning, is a feeling of powerlessness, passivity and starvation. With that, destiny appears as an obstacle, in face of which there are resignation, prostration but no jubilant and affirmative coping. Its origins are linked to a movement of internalization of instincts, instead of making exteriorizing them in the form of works of art, which results in a fight against oneself. To the unfinished physiological development and to the resigned struggle, no affirmative, would not a process of self-destruction be linked, which amounts to an abdication of action?
Abstract: Consciousness, both in its physiological meaning and in its moral meaning, is a feeling of powerlessness, passivity and starvation. With that, destiny appears as an obstacle, in face of which there are resignation, prostration but no jubilant and affirmative coping. Its origins are linked to a movement of internalization of instincts, instead of ma...
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The ‘Truth’ Between Realism and Anti-Realism
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2018
Pages:
32-39
Received:
4 May 2018
Accepted:
30 May 2018
Published:
25 June 2018
Abstract: This article examines what realists and anti-realist debates are all about. Through presenting the core of the main arguments in these debates, these are significant arguments and they are the kind of arguments that can clarify what it meant by ‘truth’ between Realist and anti-realist in general. The concluding remark is that though the main anti- realist’s arguments in these debates can be seen as some powerful arguments through raising questions on the relationship between theory and evidence, success and truth. However, the success of science and the use of science in everyday life has not been given any satisfactory explanations by the anti-realists nor the use of it has been shut out from the daily life by these arguments against it.
Abstract: This article examines what realists and anti-realist debates are all about. Through presenting the core of the main arguments in these debates, these are significant arguments and they are the kind of arguments that can clarify what it meant by ‘truth’ between Realist and anti-realist in general. The concluding remark is that though the main anti- ...
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The Permanent Condition of War-And-Peace: From the Total Mobilization to the Absolute Construction of the Event
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2018
Pages:
40-54
Received:
2 June 2018
Accepted:
19 June 2018
Published:
10 July 2018
Abstract: In the present consideration the author tries to explain on three levels a fundamental shift which occurred and changed the dynamics of the binary opposition of war and peace and the globally defined area, the post-national sovereignty. Those levels are: (1) transition from the metaphysics of modern history to the production of bio-political power on a global scale between the "Empires" (United States, Russia and China) against "rogue states which calls into question the ontological definition of the modern war as a civilian, guerrilla as warfare or ethnic conflict; (2) definition of the world as a total mobilization (techno-science and capital) which necessarily leads to the possibility of total war as the absolute construction of events on a planetary scale; (3) review of the Enlightenment's ideas of Kant's "perpetual peace " in correlation with the condition of permanent "state of emergency" on a global level, which break up the Manichean logic “either war or peace”, because we are living in an age characterized by the logic of war and peace in the intervals it constructed crisis of the global security. Therefore, the question of "human nature" as good or bad does not make decisive philosophical meaning, and even theological problem, because the ethics of responsibility becomes only a weak appeal for the preservation of life on earth and the theology of salvation already assumed the fight against evil in the form of negative theodicy. What, then, is left of the idea of not only world history but also of the different versions of the "just war" at a time when terror, total control and politics should decide on events in the world? The answer could not lie in the pseudo-humanization of the world and the inflation of ethical doctrine as a treatment for a technology-designed apocalypse. Instead of utopias and apocalyptic narratives, the solution lies in rethinking the constellation of techno-cybernetic thinking as the dangers that allow conditions of "total mobilization" and "absolute construction".
Abstract: In the present consideration the author tries to explain on three levels a fundamental shift which occurred and changed the dynamics of the binary opposition of war and peace and the globally defined area, the post-national sovereignty. Those levels are: (1) transition from the metaphysics of modern history to the production of bio-political power ...
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Feasibility Analysis and “Alienated” Expression of Qu Qiubai’s View of Happiness
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2018
Pages:
55-60
Received:
21 June 2018
Accepted:
6 July 2018
Published:
2 August 2018
Abstract: It has both theoretical and practical significance on the study of Qu Qiubai’s heart path from the perspective of happiness. So the key points of this thesis are the existence of Qu Qiubai’s view of happiness, the necessity of the research and the foresight of its development. On the basis of previous research, the study eventually forms a prospective analysis of the relevant research and the conclusion of the existence of Qu Qiubai’s “alienated” happiness. “Alienated” happiness is a kind of happy expression which has the characteristics of Chinese traditional Taoist theory. It is not only a kind of happy attribute, but also a form of happy practice. Qu Qiubai’s “alienated” happiness is attributed to the special identity and temperament of his “scholar leader”, which is formed in the elastic wisdom that his alienation is consciously transformed into the pursuit power and the catalytic element.
Abstract: It has both theoretical and practical significance on the study of Qu Qiubai’s heart path from the perspective of happiness. So the key points of this thesis are the existence of Qu Qiubai’s view of happiness, the necessity of the research and the foresight of its development. On the basis of previous research, the study eventually forms a prospect...
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