CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY

THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN MIND

IS THERE A MEANING TO HUMAN LIFE?

CAN THIS QUESTION BE ANSWERED BY PHILOSOPHY?

THOUGH WE ARE IN, WE ARE NOT ALTOGETHER IN THIS WORLD..

AXIAL SENSIBILITY..

FINDING OURSELVES CAUGHT UP..

THERE MUST BE AN ELSEWHERE..

BETTER WAY OF BEING HERE IN THE WORLD AS IT IS NOW..

SENSE OF LIBERATION

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JOHN 12:24

IS THERE A MEANING TO HUMAN LIFE?

CAN THE PREVIOUS QUESTION BE ANSWERED BY PHILOSOPHY?

COULD ANY POSITIVE ANSWER BE PURSUED THRU THE PRACTICE OF PHILOSOPHY?

EXISTENTIAL TENET

THE TRUTH..

WHY IT MAKES SENSE EVEN IF PARADOXICAL?

ABSOLUTE PARADOX..

DEATH & LIFE..

DARKNESS & LIGHT..

HARMONY & TRUTH IN PARADOX

INTELLECTUAL HISTORY & CONCEPTUAL CHANGE..

REVOLUTIONS IN WAYS OF THINKING..

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• Thinking, in many ways than one, is the most influential & far reaching of all revolutions..

ON THINKING..

• Thinking affects our entire sense of legitimate authority, of the possible & the impossible, of right & wrong, & the potentials of human life..

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• Revolutions in ways of thinking are in many ways the most influential and far-reaching of all revolutions, because they affect our entire sense of legitimate authority, of the possible and the impossible, of right and wrong, and the potentials of human life..

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• The revolution in thought that occurred in the 17th and 18th centuries was perhaps the most profound such transformation of European—if not human—life..

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• Europe did nothing less than change its way of thinking abt mind & knowledge themselves, abt what is real in the world, and abt how things happened..

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• In short, Europe altered its relationship to knowledge and to nature.

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• Political revolutions come and go, but this intellectual revolution has had enduring and profound effects.

HISTORY & THOUGHT

CYCLICAL HISTORY

CORSI E RICORSI

• cycles and counter cycles of growth and decay
• suggesting that political life and order, or human creations, are oriented "backward," as it were, or called back to their constitutive "metaphysical" principle.

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• On present day "constructivist" readings, Vico is supposed to have promoted a vision of man and society as moving in parallel from barbarism to civilization.

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• As societies become more developed socially, human nature also develops, and both manifest their development in changes in language, myth, folklore, economy, etc.; in short, social change produces cultural change.

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• Vico argues in the Scienza Nuova that civilization develops in a recurring cycle (ricorso) of three ages: the divine, the heroic, and the human.

SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS..

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