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Why Do We Need to Discuss the Practice of Veiling? Sophia Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Reetu Jaiswal, Puja Rai
Veiling is one of the sources of seclusion of women from and within society. Ghūnghat (avagunṭhana, purdāh) or veiling is primarily associated with covering one’s face which performs various functions. The rationale for veiling could be that it becomes a source of refuge to women from the gaze of others, sometimes providing them with a place of their own, without any interference from others, maintains
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Divine Relations: Jīva Gosvāmin and Thomas Aquinas on Acintya and Mystery Sophia Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Jonathan Edelmann
I argue that Jīva Gosvāmin’s (c. 1517–1608 ad) concept of acintya and Thomas Aquinas’s (1225–1274 ad) concept of mystery are similar. To make this case, I examine how each of them characterizes the nature of unity and plurality within the being of God, which is the issue of relations within a single object. I examine contemporary translations of acintya as it is used by Jīva, and I argue that mystery
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How Not to Diversify Philosophy of Religion: A Critique from the Twenty-First Century Sophia Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Rafal K. Stepien
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Unlimited Nature: A Śaivist Model of Divine Greatness Sophia Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Davide Andrea Zappulli
The notion of maximal greatness is arguably part of the very concept of God: something greater than God is not even possible. But how should we understand this notion? The aim of this paper is to provide a Śaivist answer to this question by analyzing the form of theism advocated in the Pratyabhijñā tradition. First, I extract a model of divine greatness, the Hierarchical Model, from Nagasawa’s work
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Would God Really Send Me to Hell for Stealing a Wispa Bar? Sophia Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Nikk Effingham
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A Naturalistic Theodicy for Sterba’s Problem of Natural Evil Sophia Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Dwayne Moore
In a series of writings, James Sterba introduces several novel arguments from evil against the existence of God (Sterba, 2019; Sterba Sophia 59, 501–512, 2020; Sterba International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 87, 203–208, 2020b; Sterba International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 87, 223–228, 2020c; Sterba Religions 12, 536, 2021). According to one of these arguments, the problem of natural
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‘Metaphysics of the Exodus’: Debating Platonic Versus Christian Traces in St Thomas’ Concept of Being Sophia Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Manuel Alejandro Serra Pérez
This paper critically analyzes the deconstructive tendency that some authors have shown against the so-called Metaphysics of Exodus, promoted by philosophers such as Étienne Gilson. The most original notion in Thomas Aquinas’s philosophy is that being (esse) is said to derive not from the Bible as Gilson claims, but from Neoplatonic sources of pagan ambience, such as the author of the De causis (Proclus)
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The Law of Non-contradiction and Global Philosophy of Religion Sophia Pub Date : 2024-02-13
Abstract This article focuses on the applications of philosophical logic in the discipline of philosophy of religion of both ‘Eastern’ and ‘Western’ traditions, in which the problem of apparent ontological contradictions can be found. A number of philosophers have proposed using the work of those non-classical logicians who countenance the violation of the law of non-contradiction (LNC) to address
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Truth in Metaphor: an Exploration into Indian Aesthetics Sophia Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Arundhati Mukherji
Meaning in literary texts such as poetry and novel etc., is not determined on the basis of a literal understanding of the words in it, but through a total evaluation of the devices such as metaphors and similes. This paper deals with metaphor to show its significance, to make us aware that metaphoric expressions do give a different kind of knowledge, and to pave the way to disclose a different kind
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Rescuing the (Open) Theistic Multiverse Against Two Recent Challenges Sophia Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Kirk Lougheed, Timothy Blank
One theistic account of creation says that God created the best possible world in the form of a multiverse containing all and only all of the universes sufficiently good enough to create. Certain proponents of this view urge that it solves the problem of no best world and need not commit one to affirming divine middle knowledge. We address two recent challenges to the (open) theistic multiverse. First
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Heidegger and the Riddle of the Early Greeks’ Encounter with das Asiatische Sophia Pub Date : 2024-01-22
Abstract From the 1920s to the 1960s, Martin Heidegger on several occasions referred to the early Greeks’ encounter with what he called ‘the Asiatic’ (das Asiatische). Meanwhile, he was also concerned with a sort of ontological power of destruction and ruination that according to him should be understood in the Greek sense, which he also called das Asiatische. In this article, I first sketch the contributions
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The Mātṛkā Dance: Conceptualizing the Dancing Body of the Goddess Sophia Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Ana Laura Funes Maderey
Conceptualizing the image of a dancing Supreme Goddess in the Hindu tradition presents a philosophical challenge because it demands a coherent rational reconciliation between her nature as continuously changing into multiple forms and the realm of pure, absolute, never-changing, formless being. Different strategies have been proposed in the history of philosophy in India. This paper analyzes the image
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How to Move Beyond the Human Sophia Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Petra Carlsson
The article briefly introduces an academic debate between two different responses to the predicament of the human in the ecological crisis, namely the object-oriented ontology and the vitalist response to that approach. Based on that introduction, it argues for the need of a complementing analytical tool and sketches the contours of such a tool by suggesting an epistemological tactic for a decolonizing
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Back to the Supernatural via the Posthumanist Turn Sophia Pub Date : 2024-01-11 David Gawthorne
The humanities have begun to embrace self-consciously the idea that our present age has exhausted the plausibility of philosophical humanism. This paper attempts to explain the condition of our posthumanism as the result of a tacit deferral to an exclusively scientific picture of the reality behind all causal explanations. A new role for the philosophy of religion therefore arises in the need and opportunity
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Toward a Neuro-ethics in Islamic Philosophy: Trauma, Memory, and Personal Identity Sophia Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Mona Jahangiri, Muhammad U. Faruque
This study deals specifically with one of the most relevant issues in neuro-ethics, namely the philosophical classification of so-called memory dampening, which refers to the attenuation of traumatic memories with the help of medication. Numerous neuroethical questions emerge from this issue. For example, how is a person’s identity affected by using such drugs? Does one still remain the same person
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Is Your Computer Lying? AI and Deception Sophia Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Noreen Herzfeld
Recent developments in AI, especially the spectacular success of Large Language models, have instigated renewed questioning of what remains distinctively human. As AI stands poised to take over more and more human tasks, what is left that distinguishes humans? One way we might identify a humanlike intelligence would be when we detect it telling lies. Yet AIs lack both the intention and the motivation
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Decentering Humanism in Philosophy and the Sciences: Ecologies of Agency, Subversive Animism, and Diffractional Knowledge Sophia Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Kocku von Stuckrad
The idea that humans are clearly distinguished from other animals and from the natural world in general is a cornerstone of European philosophy and culture at least from the sixteenth century onward. Often, this idea is related to understandings of ‘humanism’ that emerged in that period and legitimized regimes of power and control over non-European cultures; it also sanctioned the exploitation of the
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Fudo: a Buddhist Response to the Anthropocene Sophia Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Arianne Conty
For many environmental philosophers, the dualisms intrinsic to Modernity that separate body from mind and nature from culture must be deconstructed in order to develop an inclusive ecology that might respond to the Anthropocene Age. In seeking alternatives to human exceptionalism and humans as exclusive owners of souls to the exclusion of other animals, many scholars have turned to Asian philosophies
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A New Day for Perennialism: the Case for a Perennial Phenomenology, or ‘Soft’ Perennialism Sophia Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Steve Taylor
This paper argues for a ‘perennial phenomenology’ (or ‘soft’ perennialism) varying from the traditionalist notion of a ‘perennial philosophy.’ Perennial phenomenology offers a more nuanced form of perennialism that focuses on spiritual/mystical experiences rather than the teachings and beliefs of different religions. While teachings and beliefs vary greatly, the mystical experiences associated with
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‘Surabhi Candanam’: the First Acquaintance of Fragrant Sandal: a Problem Sophia Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Mainak Pal
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Fleeing the Absolute: Derrida and the Problem of Anti-Hegelianism Sophia Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Gregory S. Moss
Derrida defines différance as the “interruption of Hegelian dialectics.” Although scholars have noted that Derrida pursues his critique of Hegel by means of Hegelian concepts, the way that Derrida employs specific Hegelian concepts in his critique, such as non-positionality, self-reference, and contradiction, has not been sufficiently investigated. In this essay, I reconstruct Derrida’s critique of
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The ‘Therapy of Desire’ in Kierkegaard’s Discourse on Lk 22:15 Sophia Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Jeronimo Ayesta
This paper aims to develop the notion of ‘therapy of desire’ as a hermeneutic key for understanding Kierkegaard’s view of desire. First, I develop the notion of ‘therapy of desire’ as it has appeared in the secondary literature on Kierkegaard and Augustine, particularly in Lee C. Barrett. In my reading, I underscore how a ‘therapy of desire’ implies that the desire can be ‘healed’ and that the desirer
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Heidegger’s Answer to Plato’s Parmenides Sophia Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Michael Thatcher
Plato’s dialogue Parmenides remains one of—if not, the—most perplexing text in the Platonic corpus. Specifically, it examines the difficulties surrounding the concepts of unity, multiplicity, and Being that are required for participation in the Ideas. One of the problems forced upon the young Socrates by Parmenides and Zeno in the second half of the dialogue concerns the relationship between Being
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Wes Morriston’s ‘Skeptical Demonism’ Argument from Evil and Timothy Perrine’s Response Sophia Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Michael Tooley
Wes Morriston has argued that given the mixture of goods and evils found in the world, the probability of God’s existence is much less than the probability of a creator who is indifferent to good and evil. One of my goals here is, first, to show how, by bringing in the concept of dispositions, Morriston’s argument can be expressed in a rigorous, step-by-step fashion, and then, second, to show how one
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Casting Justice Before Swine: Late Mediaeval Pig Trials as Instances of Human Exceptionalism Sophia Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Sven Gins
In recent years, several cases about the legal personhood of nonhuman animals garnered global attention, e.g. the recognition of ‘basic rights’ for the Argentinian great apes Sandra and Cecilia. Legal scholars have embraced the animal turn, blurring the once sovereign boundaries between persons and objects, recognising nonhuman beings as legal subjects. The zoonotic origins of the Covid-19 pandemic
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Answering Divine Love: Human Distinctiveness in the Light of Islam and Artificial Superintelligence Sophia Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Yusuf Çelik
In the Qur’an, human distinctiveness was first questioned by angels. These established denizens of the cosmos could not understand why God would create a seemingly pernicious human when immaculate devotees of God such as themselves existed. In other words, the angels asked the age-old question: what makes humans so special and different? Fast forward to our present age and this question is made relevant
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Inhuman Rationality: Speculative Realism, Normativity, and Praxis Sophia Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Carool Kersten
This article addresses how the Iranian-born philosopher Reza Negarestani has negotiated human distinctiveness in the course of his intellectual journey from speculative realism to inhuman rationalism (Rather than rationalist inhumanism, as some sources have it (Anon 2021)). Moving from challenging the correlationism of post-Kantian Western philosophy, via critiques of the Deleuze and Guattari’s war
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An Early Medieval Account of the Human Condition: Augustine’s liberum arbitrium as a Mediator Between Reason and the Will Sophia Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Magdalini Tsevreni
Saint Augustine is sometimes introduced as the first theologian-philosopher, a founder of the Western theologico-philosophical tradition, and a figure who unites two historical times—the Late Antiquity with the Middle Ages—and two different major schools—the Hellenistic philosophy with Christianity. Augustine lives and writes in the era of eudaimonism, teleology and virtue ethics, and he accomplishes
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Vasubandhu’s Refutation of the Aggregate of Atoms: a Reading Inspired by Van Inwagen’s Objection to Series-Style Answers to the Special Composition Question Sophia Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Yufan Mao
Vasubandhu’s arguments against atomism in Viṃśikā stanzas 12–13 are not strong enough to disprove that atoms are simple partless substances. However, if we take the special composition question into consideration, Viṃśikā stanza 13ab can be regarded as an objection to so-called series-style answers, which results in an undesirable conclusion for the opponents, i.e. the Vaibhāṣikas. A step back to a
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Gappying Curry Redux Sophia Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Jeremiah Joven Joaquin
In ‘Currying omnipotence: A reply to Beall and Cotnoir’, Andrew Tedder and Guillermo Badia argue that Jc Beall and A. J. Cotnoir’s gappy solution to the traditional paradox of unrestricted omnipotence does not extend to a Curry-like version of the paradox. In this paper, we show that it does extend to it.
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What Comes After Postcolonial Theory? Sophia Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Bhrigupati Singh
This essay explores possible paths after postcolonial theory, with the after understood not as a negation, but as a form of inheritance and the creation of routes, such that an aftermath need not have a resentful or self-hating relation and nor simply an acceptance of given pictures of ‘western’ thought. The route explored here is neither fully secular nor religious, and nor from a radically alternative
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Cognitive Science of Religion Debunking Arguments: Some Methodological Considerations Sophia Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Bradley L. Sickler
Theories in the cognitive science of religion (CSR) are sometimes seen as debunking religious or supernatural beliefs (SBs). To date, arguments have been produced by proponents on both sides, with some claiming that debunking would result and others claiming that it would not. In this paper, I depart from the approach taken by others and offer an approach based in broadly Bayesian methods of updating
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Two Accounts of Deity: Classical Theism versus Theistic Personalism Sophia Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Igor Gasparov
In his recent paper, Page (International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 85, 297–317, 2019) raised the question of what, if anything, is it that distinguishes an account of a personal God, i.e., an account to which classical theists are committed, from an account of God as a person, i.e., an account of deity to which personal theists are committed. Page himself proposed ‘a criterial approach’ to
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Heidegger’s Question of Being: the Unity of Topos and Logos Sophia Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Axel Onur Karamercan
In this article, I elucidate the significance of Heidegger’s ‘question of being’ from a topological point of view by explaining the relationship between his thought of place and language. After exploring various hermeneutic strategies of reading Heidegger’s oeuvre, I turn to Richard Capobianco’s interpretation of Heidegger and critically engage with his idea of the experience of being itself as the
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Cosmopsychism and the Problem of Evil Sophia Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Harvey Cawdron
Cosmopsychism, the idea that the universe is conscious, is experiencing something of a revival as an explanation of consciousness in philosophy of mind and is also making inroads into philosophy of religion. In the latter field, it has been used to formulate models of certain forms of theism, such as pantheism and panentheism, and has also been proposed as a rival to the classical theism of the Abrahamic
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What is Western About Western thought? Sophia Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Sudipta Kaviraj
The question at the centre of this paper is part of a larger debate. Though the more limited question is hardly ever asked in academic discussions, the larger question – how can knowledge - or more broadly and less helpfully- thought in the world outside the West can be decolonized is at the center of lively debates surrounding the ‘end’ of postcolonial theory. Even this question can be asked in two
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An Everyday Malhar: A Raag’s Relation to the Earth Sophia Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Ahona Palchoudhuri
As a response to the invitation to a form of global thought, this paper asks: what is the relationship between Indian classical music and everyday seasonal life? Indian classical music has been studied in the social sciences as a tradition belonging to a distinctly South-Asian past (Neuman, 1980; Mukherjee, 2006), in which newness has emerged only as a consequence of techno-auratic reconfigurations
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Natural Theology and Divine Freedom Sophia Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Philipp Kremers
Many philosophers of theistic religions claim (1) that there are powerful a posteriori arguments for God’s existence that make it rational to believe that He exists and at the same time maintain (2) that God always has the freedom to do otherwise. In this article, I argue that these two positions are inconsistent because the empirical evidence on which the a posteriori arguments for God’s existence
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The Luckiest of All Possible Beings: Divine Perfections and Constitutive Luck Sophia Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Andre Leo Rusavuk
Many theists conceive of God as a perfect being, i.e., as that than which none greater is metaphysically possible. On this grand view of God, it seems plausible to think that such a supreme and maximally great being would not be subject to luck of any sort. Given the divine perfections, God is completely insulated from luck. However, I argue that the opposite is true: precisely because God is perfect
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Iqbal Before the Mosque of Cordoba: Goethean Crossings Sophia Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Naveeda Khan
This is a tale of two thinkers across time and space who have been read together but in conventional ways as representing the meeting of the East and the West. I propose instead a different relationship between them, that of hidden relays and realizations, in which one who comes later receives and actualizes a potential in the writings of the one earlier but in implicit ways to avoid the political
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Colonial India in a Crusades Mirror: Fantasy and Reality in a Nineteenth-Century Urdu Novel Sophia Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Shahzad Bashir
This article extends Georg Lukács’s theorization pertaining to historical fiction by considering a novel written in response to colonial conditions. It treats Abdulhalim Sharar’s Urdu Malik al-‘Aziz and Virginia (1888) as a case where a fictional version of the encounter between Muslims and Christians during the crusades in the twelfth century is used to counter the colonial Indian present in the nineteenth
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‘The More You Think of It, the Less the Difference’: Rebirth and Animals in Thoreau and Tagore Sophia Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Ruth Vanita
The British Romantics and American Transcendentalists were deeply influenced by translations of Indian philosophical and literary texts. These writers in turn influenced English-educated Indians in the late colonial period. Living at opposite ends of the globe at different times and in vastly different societies, Thoreau and Tagore, in different but overlapping ways, drew on the Hindu concept of rebirth
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The Ordinary Global Sophia Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Sandra Laugier
In this paper, I confront various conceptions of meaning and articulate them to anthropological styles of thought: W.V. Quine’s thesis of the indeterminacy of translation, Wittgenstein’s conception of meaning as use, Cavell’s philosophy of ordinary language, of ‘what we say’; Barbara Cassin’s Dictionary of Untranslatables where I approached English terms as inherently untranslatable; attention to details
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Language in Flight: Home and Elsewhere Sophia Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Andrew Brandel, Veena Das, Michael Puett
How is meaning conceptualized within a language in terms of capacities and potentials of words and sentences? Analyzing words within the sentence as event-makers in Sanskrit and as creating new possibilities and of divining events in Chinese, this paper argues that writing commentaries, making translations, reciting texts and transcribing them, belong to a family of activities that we normally do with
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Religious Parallels to the Simulation Hypothesis: Gnosticism, Mormonism, and Neoplatonism Sophia Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Ian Huyett
According to the simulation hypothesis, our universe is almost certainly a simulation created by posthuman programmers. Although the hypothesis has become an object of fascination and debate, little attention has been paid to its implications for religion and naturalism. An often-overlooked aspect of the hypothesis is Nick Bostrom’s suggestion that ‘the posthumans running our simulation are themselves
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God’s Love and the Horrendous Deeds Objection: a Response to Flannagan Sophia Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Jason Thibodeau
The horrendous deeds objection to metaethical divine command theory (MDCT) says that since God can command anything whatsoever, even things that are horrendous, MDCT seems to imply that God can make any action, no matter how repugnant, morally obligatory. Defenders of MDCT frequently claim, by way of response, that since God is essentially omnibenevolent, it is impossible that he commands us to do
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Übermensch or Untermensch: an Existential Critique of Heidegger’s ‘Overman’ Sophia Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Sheridan Hough
At the end of ‘The Age of the World Picture,’ Heidegger offers a brief sentence, ‘Keiner stirbt für blosse Werte’ (No one dies for mere values.). This sentence underscores one of the central themes of Heidegger’s later essays, the nihilism that results from living in an economy of value. This way of life is lived by a certain kind of human being, one who treats a culture’s embedded habits and practices
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On the Autonomy of the Transcendental Time-Horizon: an Essay in De-Subjectivizing Heidegger’s Kant-Interpretation Sophia Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Renxiang Liu
In this paper, I discuss, in a Heideggerian context, the possibility of de-subjectivizing the notion of the transcendental time-horizon and reinterpreting it as a formally indicated ‘whereto’ of releasement. The structures of the time-horizon depict the way beings unfold in the fullness of time in their alterity, and they orient the subject’s activity of ‘projection.’ What results is a field-oriented
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Muḥammad as the Qur’an in Ibn ‘Arabī’s Metaphysics Sophia Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Ismail Lala
Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn ‘Arabī (d. 638/1240) is regarded as one of the foremost mystical thinkers in Islam. This paper explores the ways in which he and his followers distinguish between the reality of Muḥammad (al-ḥaqīqa al-Muḥammadiyya) or the light of Muḥammad (al-nūr al-Muḥammadī), as the metaphysical reality of Muḥammad, and his metahistorical manifestation as Muḥammad Ibn ‘Abd Allāh. In his metaphysical
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Moral Difference and Moral Differences Sophia Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Craig Taylor
The idea that human beings have a distinct moral worth—a moral significance over and above any moral worth, such as that may be, possessed by other animals—has a long history and has traditionally been taken for granted by philosophers and theologians. However, in a variety of quarters in recent philosophy, this idea has come into disrepute, seeming to indicate a mere prejudice in favour of our own
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When Pain Becomes an Expression of Love: a Phenomenological Analysis of Self-inflicted Pain Among Christian Monastic Ascetics in Central Medieval Europe Sophia Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Roni Naor Hofri
This paper shows how self-inflicted pain enabled the expression of love for God among Christian monastic flagellant ascetics in medieval central Europe. As scholars have shown, being in a state of pain leads to a change in or a destruction of language, an essential attribute of the self. I argue that this transformation allows the self to transcend its boundaries as a conscious object, even if only
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The Strange Implications for Bioethics of Taking Christianity Seriously Sophia Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Stephen Kershnar
In this paper, I argue for two theses. First, if Christianity is true, then morality should depend on the metaphysics of the afterlife. Second, if Christianity is true, then contemporary moral theory is mistaken. The argument for the first thesis rests on two premises. If rightness depends on an act’s effects on an individual, then—at least in part—it depends on the long-term effects on him. If rightness
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A Strategy for Interpreting the Philokalia by Peter D. Ouspensky in Tertium Organum Sophia Pub Date : 2023-03-04 Sergei Sergeevich Loginovsky
The article examines the use of texts by Church Fathers in esoteric constructions, specifically Tertium Organum, an early work of P. D. Ouspensky created in 1911 before his acquaintance with George I. Gurdjieff. The author analyzes fragments from The Philokalia, the well-known collection of texts by Orthodox ascetic writers of the Middle Ages. Despite the difference between the esoteric system developed
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Religious Belief and the Wisdom of Crowds Sophia Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Jack Warman, Leandro De Brasi
In their simplest form, consensus gentium arguments for theism argue that theism is true on the basis that everyone believes that theism is true. While such arguments may have been popular in history, they have all but fallen from grace in the philosophy of religion. In this short paper, we reconsider the neglected topic of consensus gentium arguments, paying particular attention to the value of such
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The Modal-Epistemic Argument Self-undermined Sophia Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Stefan Wintein
In a recent article, Emanuel Rutten defends his Modal-Epistemic Argument (MEA) for the existence of God against various objections that I raised against it. In this article, I observe that Rutten’s defence fails for various reasons. Most notably though, the defence is self-undermining: the very claims that Rutten argues for in his defence yield novel counterexamples to the first premise of the MEA
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The Psychopath Challenge to Divine Command Theory: Reply to Flannagan Sophia Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Erik J. Wielenberg
Erik Wielenberg has presented an objection to divine command theory (DCT) alleging that DCT has the troubling implication that psychopaths have no moral obligations. Matthew Flannagan has replied to Wielenberg’s argument. Here, I defend the view that, despite Flannagan’s reply, the psychopath objection presents a serious problem for the versions of DCT defended by its most prominent contemporary advocates
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How to Speak the Truth According to Kierkegaard Sophia Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Matthew Jacoby
In this article, I examine Soren Kierkegaard’s existential critique for truth-speaking. My contention is that this is more than a mere quest for sincerity in religious profession. Kierkegaard, rather, is concerned with the existential position that is inherent in the way a person confesses the doctrines of the Christian faith. I show how Kierkegaard uses his pseudonyms to problematise the issue of
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A Natural Philosopher in Solidarity with the Oppressed: Savita Singh’s Interview with Roy Bhaskar Sophia Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Charles Reitz
Roy Bhaskar, renowned philosopher of naturalism and critical realism, discloses key new personal and political context to his writings to interlocutor Savita Singh.
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A Critical Notice on the Moral Grounding Question in David Chalmers’ Reality+ Sophia Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Anand Jayprakash Vaidya
In this critical discussion, I evaluate David Chalmers’ position on the moral grounding question from his (2022) Reality + . The moral grounding question asks: in virtue of what does an entity x have moral standing? Chalmers argues for the claim that phenomenal consciousness is a necessary condition for moral standing. After a brief introduction to his book, I evaluate his position on the moral grounding