2020-04Thematic Section
On Gadamerian Hermeneutics: Fusions of Horizons, Dialogue, and Evolution(s) within Culture as Dynamic System of Meaning

31/03/2021  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2020.0040

Abstract: Culture as a dynamic system of meaningful relations can naturally accommodate a hermeneutic analysis. In this essay, the notion of Gadamer’s hermeneutics as involving interpretable meaning throughout experiential reality permits a natural concordance with an understanding of culture as meaningful. The Gadamerian idea that prejudices inform the horizons that make our experiences intelligible is applied to the…

Jan Molina

2020-04Thematic Section
Max Scheler’s Two Approaches to Philosophy of Culture

31/03/2021  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2020.0039

Abstract: Max Scheler seems to present two distinct approaches to philosophy of culture.  In the early period of his Formalismus in der Ethik und die materiale Wertethik and “Ordo Amoris,” he describes cultures as being defined by their distinct order of value preferencings.  In his later period of his “Probleme einer Soziologie des Wissens,” however, Scheler explains the dynamics of culture…

Jan Molina

2020-04Thematic Section
Toward a “Cultural Philosophy”: Five Forms of Philosophy of Culture

31/03/2021  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2020.0038

Abstract: This work argues that an opportunity is being missed by the philosophical tradition, especially within philosophy of culture: an opportunity not just to philosophize “about” culture, but to embody culture and put it into practice. It argues that philosophy itself is a powerful form of culture – one that needs to be better understood and…

Jan Molina

2020-04Thematic Section
Truth, Practice, and Philosophy of Culture

31/03/2021  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2020.0051

Abstract: The paper offers a glimpse at the diversity of what is labelled Philosophy of Culture, and then brings out some important issues concerning culture (aristocratic vs democratic vision, genealogical unification vs respect of heterogeneity, relevance vs irrelevance of social and historical approach). The first section expounds etho-analysis as a way of doing philosophy of culture, introducing the notions of solicitator, sensance and ethos. It also gives an…

Jan Molina

2020-03Thematic Section
Relational Plurality as a Corrective to Liberal Atomistic Pluralism

05/11/2020  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2020.0031

Abstract: This essay argues for a concept of political identity that is fundamentally relational in nature contra more liberal accounts of identity that are atomistic. I consider John Rawls’ account of political identity in his Political Liberalism and provide a response stemming from Hannah Arendt’s account of political identity grounded in the existential condition of politics:…

Jan Molina

2020-03Thematic Section
Interpersonal Experience and Psychopathology

05/11/2020  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2020.0030

Abstract: The article deals with relational aspects of mental disorders. The author takes into account the influence of mental illness on intersubjectivity and interpersonal relations in three aspects: (1) “attitude to the illness,” that is, changes in the functioning of the subject and difficulties in dealing with the experience of mental illness; (2) “dialogical relationship”…

Jan Molina

2020-03Thematic Section
That Thou Art: Aesthetic Soul/Bodies and Self Interbeing in Buddhism, Phenomenology, and Pragmatism

05/11/2020  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2020.0029

Abstract: The inheritance of dualism from Plato to Descartes, and since, has impoverished the human relation with nature, the world, other humans, and other species. The division of soul and body, and its counterpart of mind and body, gave us a world from which we believe ourselves to be separate from and superior to other species….

Jan Molina

2020-03Thematic Section
On the Relation with One’s Own Body

05/11/2020  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2020.0028

Abstract: The paper discusses the unique relationship that exists between the ego and one’s own body. There are two fundamental possibilities to grasp it – using the verb “to be” or “to have,” which results in two known formulas: “to be the body” or “to have the body.” However, after careful examination, it turns out…

Jan Molina

2020-03Thematic Section
Power, Possibility, and Agency: Speculative Realism and Whitehead’s Theory of Relations

05/11/2020  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2020.0027

Abstract: At the turn of the twentieth century, the debate between supporters of internal and external relations showed how our assumptions on the nature of relations result in ontological, epistemic, and ethical commitments. In this debate, Alfred North Whitehead provided the most articulated and satisfying account through his “philosophy of the organism,” which holds…

Jan Molina

2020-02Thematic Section
Testimony of Death: From Extermination Camps to Clinical Practice: A Discussion with Winnicott, Blanchot and Derrida

05/08/2020  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2020.0019

Abstract: Is there any witness to death? As detailed by Jacques Derrida, any testimony is detached from the direct perception of the event it reports. Thus, a testimony may report one’s encounter with death, not only with the death of the other, but also with one’s own death, even though it can never by experienced…

Jan Molina