For everything at the nexus of philosophical analysis and religion: classical theism and beyond; analytic theology, metaphysics and cosmological/ontological problems; current issues in the problem of evil.
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Tragedy and the Oedipal Subject: Shakespeare (and Freud) in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 1 week, 5 days ago
Notes on the second half of Nicholas Ray’s ‘Tragedy and Otherness: Sophocles, Shakespeare, Psychoanalysis’—a reading of Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar ‘, with some interesting dimensions for the student of retroprospective action. The relationship to the Freudian project is rather indirect, but the chapter stands on its own strength as an o…[Read more]
Allan Savage deposited HUMAN NATURE: 20th Century Philosophy in a new Key in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
This essay is a précis (for which I take full responsibility) of Chapters One and Two of Leslie
Dewart’s seminal book consisting of Nine Chapters. The perspective he presented here, to my
mind, sets a fresh intellectual trajectory for philosophical contemplation. Written towards the
end of the 20th century the book is not an easy read, bu…[Read more]Allan Savage deposited A CHRISTIAN PHENOMENOLOGICAL CULTURE: A in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
In this short book, only an introductory and partial discussion can be undertaken respecting the issues distinguish between religious (philosophical) and secular (political) cultural values from a phenomenological point of view. Further, the ideas I consider here are not original. By and large they derive from a new interpretation of human…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited El mercado de la atención, al alza: Dinámica social de la autoimagen in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Spanish abstract: Nos comportamos en sociedad de maneras que potencien nuestra autoestima, eligiendo las estrategias adecuadas para ello. Algo en esta línea había argumentado Mark Twain en su sarcástico ensayo ‘What Is Man?’ —pero ahora los sarcasmos de Twain parece que tienen respaldo científico en la psicología evolucionista. Así comenta…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Dialéctica de la Religión y la Ilustración in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
Spanish abstract: Examinamos el tratamiento que da Hegel, en su ´Fenomenología del Espíritu´, a la crítica racionalista a la religión, con algunas observaciones sobre la situación en nuestros propios tiempos. Hegel aporta una perspectiva compleja, y desde el planteamiento mismo de su teoría del del espíritu superando una forma de concienc…[Read more]
Allan Savage deposited Secular Polity at Vatican II in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
This article concludes with the following observations. First, there is a demonstrable shift from monarchical government to democratic governance in the Church as a product of the evolution of ecclesial polity. But it must be acknowledged the secular polity is incompatible with divinely inspired government as is most evident from a…[Read more]
Albert R Haig deposited Dialectic as Ostension Towards the Transcendent: Language and Mystical Intersubjectivity in Plotinus’ Enneads in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 2 months, 4 weeks ago
The theory of language that underlies Plotinus’ Enneads is considered in relation to his
broader metaphysical vision. For Plotinus, language is neither univocal nor equivocal,
but is something in-between, incapable of precisely describing reality, but nonetheless
not completely useless. Propositional knowledge expressed discursively r…[Read more]Allan Savage deposited A Monograph on “Laïcité”: A Phenomenological Perspective in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
My intention in this brief monograph is to stimulate a re-assessment of laïcité by philosophers and theologians, particularly within the Anglophone academic world. Often the term is understood by Anglophones not quite as accurately as its French advocates intend. The translated texts are copied from the official French Government website, as i…[Read more]
Allan Savage deposited GAUDIUM ET SPES and LAÏCITÉ: A Philosophical Understanding in Anticipation of Posthumanity in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
Laïcité: Some Catholic readers may be familiar with Giuseppe Alberigo’s understanding of the term as outlined in “Facteurs de laïcité au Concile Vatican II” in Revue des Sciences Religieuses, tome 74, fas. 2, 2000, in which he writes in a footnote: “Ce mot est utilisé dans le sens du processus de ‘déclericalisation’ à l’interieur de l’É…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘Ayat-Ayat Cinta’ (Verses of Love): Versículos de amor in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 3 months, 4 weeks ago
English abstract: ‘Verses of Love’, an Islamic film on the extended couple, features a melodramatic plot in which love triumphs after many difficulties, and the virtuous protagonists Fahri and Aisha are happy in their marriage, having shown the value of their Islamic faith amidst the trials of life—accepting these with sumbission, which is the s…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Somos hijos de la guerra: La cooperación para la violencia como clave para la evolución humana in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 4 months ago
Spanish abstract: Comentarios sobre la guerra desde un punto de vista etológico y evolucionista, sugeridos por el libro de Javier Falgueras ‘Somos Hijos de la Guerra’. _________________________________________________________________________________ English abstract: Disquisitions on war from an ethological and evolutionary perspective, suggested…[Read more]
Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited Weaning Away from Idolatry: Maimonides on the Purpose of Ritual Sacrifices in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
This essay explores Maimonides’ explanation of the Bible’s rationale behind the ritual sacrifices, namely to help wean the Jews away from idolatrous rites. After clearly elucidating Maimonides’ stance on the topic, this essay examines his view from different angles with various possible precedents in earlier rabbinic literature for such an under…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Coronavirus/Covid-19 Pandemic Scare: A Bibliography in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 5 months, 1 week ago
A bibliographical listing, including audio, video, etc., from the perspective of critical and cultural studies, on the 2020-2021 SARS-CoV-2 pandemic scare (Coronavirus, COVID-19). From ‘A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism, and Philology’, 2021.
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Dieta generalista (Compitiendo con los ogros) in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Spanish abstract: Los paleantropólogos de Atapuerca van descubriendo más datos sobre la alimentación de los Homo heidelbergensis y Homo antecessor que habitaron la Península Ibérica antes del Homo sapiens y de los neandertales. Aquí reflexionamos sobre el componente de canibalismo en la dieta de estos y otros humanos primitivos… así como de alg…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Ideología de van Dijk in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week ago
Spanish Abstract: Proponemos, en contraposición a la noción de ideología corriente en la crítica cultural y ejemplificada aquí por el libro de Teun A. van Dijk “Ideología: Un enfoque multidisciplinario” (Gedisa, 1999), una noción de ideología más interaccional, más dialógica y más unida a las situaciones efectivas en las que la ideología s…[Read more]
Allan Savage deposited Creed of Life as Realized Through Book Reviews in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks ago
This book is a compendium of book reviews reflecting my “Creed of Life.” The fact is that my Creed of Life has been fashioned through these authors, as well as others not mentioned here, whose works were personally important to me and significant to my intellectual development. This list is continually being lengthened as authors, living or dea…[Read more]
Allan Savage deposited Critical Thinkers on the Threshold of Posthumanity in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks ago
In this book I contemplate the possibility of posthuman philosophy within the religious and theological schools of thought. In doing this, I do not focus on the traditional philosophical humanism which characterizes the scholastic and neo-scholastic approach within Western philosophy. Rather, I focus on a dehellenized philosophical way of thinking…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Sarcasmos, Indignaciones, Invectivas y Acres Aforismos contra los Enmascarillado(re)s in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Es una desdicha vivir en el único país del mundo en el que el Virus ataca al paseante solitario en mitad de sus ensoñaciones campestres… Cuando el espacio público está ocupado por necios y regentado por pillos, el sarcasmo y la sátira son la respuesta más adecuada. Todo para enfatizar una cuestión muy simple que se ha perdido de vista: EL DERE…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Símbolo político: El chamizo de los Indignados in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 9 months ago
Spanish abstract: Un comentario sobre la gestión de la opinión pública durante las protestas del 15-M en 2011. La choza los “Indignados” en la Puerta del Sol se promueve en los medios como el ombligo simbólico del país. Enfatizamos la importancia simbólica de los centros en el condicionamiento de la opinión pública. Aquí tenemos, pues, un monument…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘Never Let Me Go’: El sujeto en la sociedad orgánica in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 9 months ago
Spanish abstract: Artículo sobre algunas implicaciones ideológicas de la película ‘Never Let Me Go’ (Mark Romanek, 2010), basada en la novela de Kazuo Ishiguro. Ofrece un retrato de la sociedad como un sistema educativo manipulador, que mantiene a los niños ignorantes de las cosas más importantes que se pueden saber sobre el poder y la expl…[Read more]
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