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The guises of violence: Paul Ricoeur on the difficulties of constructing an ontotheological bridge between metaphor and politics KU Leuven
Since the last century, ontotheology has been conceived as that which provides the foundations for our sovereign forms of political power. It has also been perceived as the support for any transition from a creative, religious imagination, a world of symbol and metaphor, to those concrete forms of history, politics and even language upon which we continuously depend in our everyday lives. It is for this very reason that ontotheology is also ...
"Technology" as the critical social theory of human technicity KU Leuven
© 2016 Philosophy Documentation Center. The aim of this article is to argue for an interdisciplinary social theoretical approach to the technicity of human agency. This approach covers the spectrum of individual and social action from a perspective that logically precedes techno-optimism and techno-pessimism, and is intended to be both descriptively and normatively plausible. The study is anchored in a critical reading of Aristotle's thought on ...
Schelling, Nietzsche and (Ir)Rationalizing Religion KU Leuven
F.W.J. Schelling and Friedrich Nietzsche appear for all intents and purposes in opposite philosophical corners. One of them is the despiser of Christianity, the hater of metaphysics, the denier of morality and the renouncer of philosophical system and the other could be called the justifier of Christianity and revelation, the builder of metaphysics, the grounder of moral good and evil and the enthusiast of systematic thought. In a grand total ...