Numerosos são os estudos sobre a eternidade na filosofia de Espinosa, contudo, poucas são as pesquisas sobre o tempo e a duração, afinal, por que perguntar-se sobre o tempo numa filosofia da eternidade? Diferentemente dos seus primeiros escritos, na sua obra máxima, a Ética, a singularidade da definição espinosana da eternidade e da duração encontra-se justamente em se restringir à relação entre essência e existência, sem qualquer relação com o tempo. Contudo, acompanhando a gênese dos conceitos de tempo, duração e eternidade, desde os seus primeiros escritos até a Ética, veremos como este deslocamento conceitual revela um duplo movimento: é por desvincular o tempo da duração e da eternidade que a existência ganhará uma profundidade ontológica, ética e política; por outro lado, o tempo ganhará preponderante papel na constituição da imaginação. Nesse duplo movimento, compreenderemos como os conceitos de duração e eternidade, que têm sua terra natal em âmbito ontológico, permitem iluminar outras paisagens, estas sim diretamente vinculadas ao problema da temporalidade: a vida passional e a vida política. / There are numerous studies about the eternity in Spinozas philosophy, however, there are few researches about the time and duration, after all, why to ask on the times quote in a philosophy of the eternity? Differently of his first writings, in Ethics, the singularity of Spinozas definition of eternity and duration is exactly going to restrict essence and existence relation, without any relation with time. However, following the time, duration and eternity concepts genesis, since his first writings until the Ethics, we will see how this conceptual displacement opens to a double movement: for separating duration and eternity from time, the human existence will gain a ontological, ethical and politics depth; on the other hand, time will gain prominent role in the imaginations constitution. In this double movement, we will understand how these concepts, duration and eternity, that has its native land in ontological scope, allows us to illuminate other landscapes directly tied with the problem of the temporality: the passional life and the political life.

Thesis (DTh (Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology))—University of Stellenbosch, 2008. / This study offers an overview, interpretation and critical evaluation of the theology of the Lutheran American theologian Robert Jenson. The first aim is to give an outline of his theology in such a way that the importance of the relation between God and time in his thought will become clear in this process. This study will therefore focus on specific themes in his theology and the implications for the current theological debate on time, eternity, history and God. The title was also the title of Jenson’s own early study of the work of Karl Barth, Alpha and Omega. Jenson’s theology is ecumenical by driven from the beginning to the end. He tries to formulate a theology for the one united church of the future. In his theology he thus focuses on early writers, the church fathers and on ecumenical confessions such as Nicea. He wants to get clarity why the church differs on certain points and investigates where it all started. He then brings his theology in connection with current Orthodox theologians, as well as with the Western theologians of different church traditions and tries to build on the common factors between them. His theology has an ecumenical aim, but it is first and foremost a theology written in reaction to postmodernism and especially the nihilism of his Western and primarily North-American cultural context. To find answers to these (ecumenical and nihilistic) questions, Jenson focuses on mainly three themes that will be discussed in this study: (1) the relation between time, eternity and Trinity, (2) the trinitarian identity and character of God, and (3) the importance of the narrative nature of theology. Jenson appropriates much of Karl Barth’s thought on the Trinity and on the Trinity’s relation to time and eternity but he draws much more radical implications and consequences. He therefore differs from Barth on these issues at critical points. Jenson stands in the tradition of eschatological and trinitarian theologians of the previous century and he builds his theology around these foci in order to serve his ecumenical aim. Finally the critical question is also asked whether and to what extent Jenson succeeds in his aim. It looks at the specific contributions Jenson made and which questions still remain unanswered regarding this key question for Christian faith, thought and life.

A democratic rule of law state combines two legal principles: the principle of democracy and the principle of rule of law. The democratic principle requires rule of the people and therefore implicitly the protection of political rights (in particular the right to vote, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and association) that allow an individual to actively participate in the political community. The formal conception of rule of law, which is defined by the exercise of state power based on law, requires in particular the right of access to a court and the right of due process, which guarantee genuine enforceability of the law. The material conception of rule of law requires a much wider range of rights: according to Czech jurisprudence essentially all that are included in the Charter. This does not mean that any interference with the abovementioned rights means that a state is no longer a democratic rule of law state; if it did, there would not be a single democratic rule of law state in the world. However, any interference with fundamental rights must be carried out according to statute, must be proportionate to a legitimate aim and not interfere with the unbreachable core of human rights. The unbreachable core of a fundamental rights is a limit for the proportionality test; it is the core of...

A presente tese de doutorado investiga como, na hipótese cosmológica do eterno retorno do mesmo, ou seja, na possilidade de uma eternidade temporal, Nietzsche julgou encontrar uma nova medida de valor para realizar a transvaloração de todos os valores. Para isso, foi necessário estudarmos a formação da noção de valor em seu pensamento. Por meio dela buscamos compreender que, ao diagnosticar a morte de Deus, sua atenção estava concentrada, fundamentalmente, na perda da medida de valor que determinava todos os valores até então existentes. E se, por um lado, a desvalorização dos valores, e o consequente avanço do niilismo, serão seus alvos de preocupação e crítica, por outro, é o anelo incondicional ao pensamento do eterno retorno, dependente de uma adesão ao amor fati, que forma sua filosofia da afirmação. Considerando que a hipótese cosmológica do eterno retorno trata de uma eternidade no tempo, analisamos inicialmente a relação entre tempo e eternidade no contexto da história da filosofia. O percurso dos gregos antigos até Kant torna possível compreender como a reflexão ocidental passa a orbitar em torno da eternidade atemporal. De outra parte, é somente a fundação e o desenvolvimento da termodinâmica que reacende a discussão, presente já no pensamento grego antigo, sobre se o curso do mundo é ou não cíclico. Uma vez que Nietzsche toma partido neste debate para pensar uma nova medida para os valores, procuramos estudar a gênese da noção de valor nas obras que precedem a anotação realizada sobre o eterno retorno em agosto de 1881. Desenvolvida a partir de uma reflexão que pensa a constituição da moral, a noção de valor atinge uma radicalidade maior do que em Adam Smith no âmbito da economia política. Buscando sustentar que o pensamento do eterno retorno é a condição de possibilidade da transvaloração, investigamos o conjunto dos escritos de Nietzsche compreendidos entre 1881 e 1888. Analisando o modo como o tema se manifesta na obra publicada e nos fragmentos póstumos, procuramos mostrar que a hipótese cosmológica do retorno tanto possibilita a criação de novos valores quanto coloca o problema do eterno retorno do niilismo. Por fim, preocupamo-nos em reconstituir o itinerário da reflexão de Nietzsche para pensar por que, somente no derradeiro ano de sua filosofia, ele leva a termo a tarefa da transvaloração de todos os valores. / This thesis investigates how was it possible for Nietzsche to see in the cosmological hypothesis of eternal return of the same (that is, in the possibility of a temporal eternity) a new value measure by which transvaluation of all values could be achieved. We have investigated how Nietzsche shaped his notion of value and how his diagnosis of Gods death evidenced his concern with the lost of those value-measures which were determinant for all values until his time. Therefore, his affirmative philosophy is constituted by an apparently contradictory pair of concerns. While, on one hand, his critic and philosophical concerns concentrate on the devaluation of values and the spread of Nihilism, on the other hand, his affirmative philosophy springs from his unconditional attachment to the idea of eternal return, an idea that depends on mens adhesion to amor fati. Esteeming that the cosmological hypothesis of the eternal return is concerned with eternity in time, we first analyzed the relation between time and eternity in the context of History of Philosophy. The reassessment of some ideas on this subject from Greek to Kantian philosophy allowed us to understand how a-temporal eternity becomes a pivotal locus in western philosophy. However, the discussion about the cosmic course and on the plausibility of its cyclic nature will have to wait for the emergence and development of thermodynamics in order to reemerge in the western philosophical scenario. Since Nietzsche himself was engaged in this debate and tried to reflect on a new scale for all values, we investigated the genesis of the concept of value in those of his works written before august 1881, when his famous note on eternal return was recorded. Since this notion originates from a reflexion on the genesis of morality, it proves to be even more deep-rooted than the concept by Adam Smith in the scope of political economics. In our attempt to support the idea that the eternal return is the condition of possibility for transvaluation, we investigated Nietzsches works written between 1881 and 1888. After an analysis of how this theme occurred in his works and posthumous papers, we tried to prove that the cosmological hypothesis of the eternal return both enables foundation of new values, and introduces the problem of the eternal return of Nihilism. Finally, we were interested in rebuilding Nietzsches reflexive trajectory in order to understand why only in his last active year as a philosopher his task of transvaluation all values was brought to an end.

A presente tese de doutorado investiga como, na hipótese cosmológica do eterno retorno do mesmo, ou seja, na possilidade de uma eternidade temporal, Nietzsche julgou encontrar uma nova medida de valor para realizar a transvaloração de todos os valores. Para isso, foi necessário estudarmos a formação da noção de valor em seu pensamento. Por meio dela buscamos compreender que, ao diagnosticar a morte de Deus, sua atenção estava concentrada, fundamentalmente, na perda da medida de valor que determinava todos os valores até então existentes. E se, por um lado, a desvalorização dos valores, e o consequente avanço do niilismo, serão seus alvos de preocupação e crítica, por outro, é o anelo incondicional ao pensamento do eterno retorno, dependente de uma adesão ao amor fati, que forma sua filosofia da afirmação. Considerando que a hipótese cosmológica do eterno retorno trata de uma eternidade no tempo, analisamos inicialmente a relação entre tempo e eternidade no contexto da história da filosofia. O percurso dos gregos antigos até Kant torna possível compreender como a reflexão ocidental passa a orbitar em torno da eternidade atemporal. De outra parte, é somente a fundação e o desenvolvimento da termodinâmica que reacende a discussão, presente já no pensamento grego antigo, sobre se o curso do mundo é ou não cíclico. Uma vez que Nietzsche toma partido neste debate para pensar uma nova medida para os valores, procuramos estudar a gênese da noção de valor nas obras que precedem a anotação realizada sobre o eterno retorno em agosto de 1881. Desenvolvida a partir de uma reflexão que pensa a constituição da moral, a noção de valor atinge uma radicalidade maior do que em Adam Smith no âmbito da economia política. Buscando sustentar que o pensamento do eterno retorno é a condição de possibilidade da transvaloração, investigamos o conjunto dos escritos de Nietzsche compreendidos entre 1881 e 1888. Analisando o modo como o tema se manifesta na obra publicada e nos fragmentos póstumos, procuramos mostrar que a hipótese cosmológica do retorno tanto possibilita a criação de novos valores quanto coloca o problema do eterno retorno do niilismo. Por fim, preocupamo-nos em reconstituir o itinerário da reflexão de Nietzsche para pensar por que, somente no derradeiro ano de sua filosofia, ele leva a termo a tarefa da transvaloração de todos os valores. / This thesis investigates how was it possible for Nietzsche to see in the cosmological hypothesis of eternal return of the same (that is, in the possibility of a temporal eternity) a new value measure by which transvaluation of all values could be achieved. We have investigated how Nietzsche shaped his notion of value and how his diagnosis of Gods death evidenced his concern with the lost of those value-measures which were determinant for all values until his time. Therefore, his affirmative philosophy is constituted by an apparently contradictory pair of concerns. While, on one hand, his critic and philosophical concerns concentrate on the devaluation of values and the spread of Nihilism, on the other hand, his affirmative philosophy springs from his unconditional attachment to the idea of eternal return, an idea that depends on mens adhesion to amor fati. Esteeming that the cosmological hypothesis of the eternal return is concerned with eternity in time, we first analyzed the relation between time and eternity in the context of History of Philosophy. The reassessment of some ideas on this subject from Greek to Kantian philosophy allowed us to understand how a-temporal eternity becomes a pivotal locus in western philosophy. However, the discussion about the cosmic course and on the plausibility of its cyclic nature will have to wait for the emergence and development of thermodynamics in order to reemerge in the western philosophical scenario. Since Nietzsche himself was engaged in this debate and tried to reflect on a new scale for all values, we investigated the genesis of the concept of value in those of his works written before august 1881, when his famous note on eternal return was recorded. Since this notion originates from a reflexion on the genesis of morality, it proves to be even more deep-rooted than the concept by Adam Smith in the scope of political economics. In our attempt to support the idea that the eternal return is the condition of possibility for transvaluation, we investigated Nietzsches works written between 1881 and 1888. After an analysis of how this theme occurred in his works and posthumous papers, we tried to prove that the cosmological hypothesis of the eternal return both enables foundation of new values, and introduces the problem of the eternal return of Nihilism. Finally, we were interested in rebuilding Nietzsches reflexive trajectory in order to understand why only in his last active year as a philosopher his task of transvaluation all values was brought to an end.

現今社會離婚現象普及化讓一般大眾對於婚姻一詞重新定義，也威脅到當前愛情跟婚姻的行為模式。最近所盛行的新型態的軟體，像是：Beetalk人們可以輕而易舉的利用此類的交友軟體在線上找尋自己的對象，在這些交友軟體興起所造成的影響讓男女對於感情的維繫變得導向結果論發展，也因此形成一種速食愛情的現象，也造成許多一夜情的情況發生，這跟過去婚姻所代表的永恆定義形成了強大的衝擊。 許多年輕男女變得更加不重視維繫長期性的感情關係，隨著許多交友軟體的數量增長也讓許多年輕男女視為這是正常的感情發展現象產生了許多謬誤，為了解決上述所提之社會問題，本研究了提出一項創新的經營模式以app模式來增進已經互相產生承諾的男女。為了能夠提供符合男女心理需求之服務，本研究透過創新提案的制定經過市場需求分析，調查目前台灣男女主要的感情心理需求以及活動內容的接受意願，並藉由專家訪談、消費者的深度訪談，加以驗證其實際需求與創新服務之可行性。最後提出一個能滿足社會需求並能讓服務參與者共同獲益的解決方案，並針對問卷調查結果所發現之目標客群研擬創新經營模式的營運計畫。 / Divorce is getting more and more common in Taiwanese society. This phenomenon also threatens those who are currently living in a relationship or a marriage. With modern age tools, such as apps like "Beetalk", people can find partners online, with ease. The concept behind "Beetalk" however, does not manifest in creating real and meaningful relationships, rather mostly one night affair. Many young men are becoming ingorant or uninterested in long term relationships. The popularity of dating apps is causing an advent of confusion for the meaning of love. To remedy this social problem, I propose an app-based service to enhance the intimacy between two committed lovers. This innovative business model is based on thorough analysis of academic theories and empirical studies, including expert interview, focus group discussion, and consumer behavior survey.

However reluctant he may be about providing details, Karl Barth dares to affirm the coming resurrection, even in the strong corporeal sense of the Apostles Creed, “I believe in . . . the resurrection of the flesh.” At the heart of Barth’s creative approach is an equation between revelation and resurrection. Indeed, everything said about the human addressed now in revelation is to be said about the human at the coming resurrection, including the remarkable fact that resurrection raises the “flesh” (inasmuch as God has revealed Himself to those “in the flesh”). Barth’s early training inculcated in him dialectical themes that would emerge throughout his career. His early work is dominated by a sense of encounter with the present but transcendent God, an encounter described in terms of the raising of the dead. Human existence is sublated – “dissolved and established” – unto a higher order in God. Yet even after Barth abandons the resurrection of the dead as his preferred theological axiom, he portrays eschatology proper in terms of the human sublated in the divine presence. Therefore, in Church Dogmatics he expresses the doctrine of the resurrection of the flesh in three primary ways: eternalization, manifestation and incorporation. The human, delimited as he or she is by death, is made durable in God, obtaining the gift of eternalization. The human, ambiguous in the creaturely mode of earthly life, has one’s true identity revealed with Christ at His return, and obtains the gift of manifestation with the divine. The human, isolated as he or she is in one’s autonomy, is incorporated into the body of Christ by His Spirit, obtaining the gift of communion. In each of these expressions of resurrection Barth desires to preserve fleshliness. His account, however, entails a certain loss of temporality, creatureliness and particularity of the human when it comes to the final state. Instead of being resurrected from the dead in the strong corporeal sense, human bodies appear to be memorialized, deified, recapitulated. Though written with the language of the Antiochene and Reformed schools, Barth’s position enjoys the same strengths and suffers the same weaknesses of a more Alexandrian or Lutheran theological trajectory. Like each of the traditional lines of Christian thought about the resurrection of the flesh, Barth gravitates toward an eschatology centered around the human’s vision of God in the heavenly life. To this extent Barth’s creative treatment of the resurrection of the dead can be understood as broadly Christian, even if he risks undermining the very flesh he hopes to save.

The thesis deals with the struggle for the Eternal and the Infinite in the works of Kierkegaard and Patočka. It starts with their respective concepts of existence. Based on them, positive and negative aspects of the relation of existence and transcendence are described. The main guiding principle of the description is the movement of the infinite resignation and the movement of the faith in Fear and Trembling, which is compared with the de-objectifying and all-founding force of the Idea in Negative platonism. It turns out that in the relation between existence and transcendence, one can discern the two basic meanings of the transcendent reality. These meanings, together with the positive and negative aspects of the relation of existence to transcendence, form the dialectic of positive and negative, in which the struggle for the Eternal nad the Infinite is set, as well as the struggle for an authentic human existence.

Thesis "Does the change of the substantive requisites of the democratic, law-abiding State is really impermissible or unimaginable?" aims to answer the question if it is not really acceptable to change or modify the substantive requisites of the democratic, law-abiding State or their understanding. The main outcome of the work should be practical reflection of these issues. Paper is divided into seven parts. The first part defines the democratic, law-abiding (rule of law) State, Second part deals with the threats to the democratic, law-abiding (rule of law) State - these are the people (populous), elite and international community. Next part deals with the opposite - the system of protection. Fourth part presents comparison of approaches to the question of constitutional amendments and its limitations on examples of several states. Parts five and six are based on the approach of the Czech Constitutional Court to the change or modification of the substantive provisions of the democratic, law- abiding State and their understanding, from both, national and international perspective. The last section is based on past previous sections and tries to answer a title question in a practical and abstract ways; therefore this part is the highlight of the work.

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