Journal of Philosophical Investigations

Spring is in the Air A new philosophy of love

Hans L.M. Dassen

Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, , Pages 95-116

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.18421

Abstract

The experience of our conscience belongs in the same category as feeling, thinking and wanting. However, it has a special aspect, namely the presence of other human beings as absolute ... Read More The experience of our conscience belongs in the same category as feeling, thinking and wanting. However, it has a special aspect, namely the presence of other human beings as absolute entities. The process of experience is concerned with the way to best promote your own interests, with how far you will go in actualising your essential characteristics as an absolute entity. The discussion of our urge for survival shows that we can go quite far in that respect, and that to actualise that urge, there are in fact no boundaries; everything is permitted. The same can be said about actualising our other essential characteristics, but the difference is that our need to do so is perhaps less cogently present; it is not our life, or at least not our continued material existence, that is at stake. Nonetheless, we can and may even choose to go to extremes in this respect and thus to give ourselves priority over others. Respect for the interests of others is based on self-respect, which may lead you to decide to subject your dealings with other people to a set of standards for yourself. Here we enter the area of morals and ethics, to which we can attach a complete moral philosophy and on the basis of a belief, a moral theology. At the end of this road is total love of yourself and others, because you have come to realise that it is the only way that can lead to the fourth essential characteristic of human beings as absolute entities, namely self-fulfilment. You will then have developed in a way that allows you to give yourself and others the scope we need as absolute entities (compassion, solidarity). Self-fulfilment is achieved through self-development, i.e. discovering and honing our gifts and talents and thus finding our own identity (development), a process by which the lives of human beings as absolute entities acquire purpose (the search for meaning). Self-fulfilment is self-actualisation, the state that results from the realisation of the essential characteristics of human beings as absolute entities, and it leads to satisfaction derived from ourselves or our activities, a sense of being satisfied with what we have accomplished.

Beauty and Neutrality in Alice Munro’s Selected Works: A Socio-Philosophical Reading of Lacanian Ethics

Pegah Sheibeh; Hossein Moradi

Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, , Pages 277-290

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.60928.3752

Abstract

Lacanian Beauty in his ethics is encapsulated as making decisions and “act[ing] in conformity with one’s desires”. This idea is thought while reading Munro’s ... Read More

Many Shades of Love in Kant

Maria Borges

Volume 18, Issue 47 , August 2024, , Pages 219-232

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.62599.3829

Abstract

Kant is usually considered a cold moralist who does not give any importance to feeling and emotions. In this paper I show that Kant has a place for love although he uses this word in ... Read More

Love, Compassion and Reason in The Open Society and Its Enemies

Alain Boyer

Volume 17, Issue 42 , June 2023, , Pages 242-257

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.16586

Abstract

One may say that The Open Society and Its Enemies (OS) offered in 1945 the first complete elaboration of the general approach proposed by Karl Popper, namely his ‘critical rationalism’, ... Read More

The Critique of the Anthropological Dimensions of Prayer from Vincent Brommer's Perspective

Marveh Dolatabadi; Eainollah Khademi; AmirHossein Mansouri Nouri; Zeinab Darvishi

Volume 15, Issue 35 , September 2021, , Pages 81-96

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.44296.2756

Abstract

This research seeks to explain the most important anthropological dimensions of prayer according to Vincent Brommer through analytical and citation methods. The independent man is one ... Read More

Phenomenology of love: the destructive and constructive nature of love

Alireza Farnam; Masumeh Zamanlu; Sahar Khoshdeli

Volume 11, Issue 21 , December 2017, , Pages 233-242

Abstract

Love, this eminent humane experience, has been explored not only by writers and poets, but also by philosophers, psychologists and even experimental scientists. This paper aims to discuss ... Read More

Being for Others from Sartre's Viewpoint

Mustafa Shahraeini; Raziyeh Zeynali

Volume 5, Issue 9 , November 2011, , Pages 107-128

Abstract

The relation between subject and object is the main concern for Jean-paul Sartre, especially in his Being and Nothingness. Thus, he first of all divides Being into two categories: ... Read More

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Spring is in the Air A new philosophy of love

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Beauty and Neutrality in Alice Munro’s Selected Works: A Socio-Philosophical Reading of Lacanian Ethics

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Many Shades of Love in Kant

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Love, Compassion and Reason in The Open Society and Its Enemies

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The Critique of the Anthropological Dimensions of Prayer from Vincent Brommer's Perspective

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Phenomenology of love: the destructive and constructive nature of love

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Being for Others from Sartre's Viewpoint

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