Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-06-22T20:22:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 eduardoarmarolinoguchi.pdf: 1326675 bytes, checksum: 0ab515b269d9be866efeb390105fb254 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-07-13T15:32:47Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 eduardoarmarolinoguchi.pdf: 1326675 bytes, checksum: 0ab515b269d9be866efeb390105fb254 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-13T15:32:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 eduardoarmarolinoguchi.pdf: 1326675 bytes, checksum: 0ab515b269d9be866efeb390105fb254 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-03-26 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O objetivo deste trabalho é investigar a possibilidade de se construir uma antropologia filosófica a partir dos romances de Fiódor Dostoiévski. A primeira noção que se destaca neste discurso filosófico é a de revolta, que está intimamente ligada ao fenômeno da liberdade humana. Dostoiévski mostra como a revolta conduz o homem ao niilismo filosófico, em suas várias manifestações históricas. A única alternativa viável para superar estas aporias seria uma nova religiosidade, fundada num verdadeiro sentimento de compaixão. Para Dostoiévski, isto só é possível quando o homem alcança um total domínio de seus impulsos egoístas. A consumação do egoísmo humano é o altruísmo da fé. / The aim of this work is to investigate the possibility to elaborate a philosophical anthropology on Fiódor Dostoyevsky’s novels. The first idea which is to be stressed in this philosophical discourse is that of revolt, and it is closely related to the phenomenon of human freedom. Dostoyevsky show how revolt leads human being to philosophical nihilism, in its different historical manifestations. The only viable alternative in order to surmount those aporias would be a new religiosity, based in a true sentiment of compassion. For Dostoyevsky, this is possible only when human being reaches full dominion of his egotistic impulses. The fulfillment of human egotism is faith’s altruism.

M.Phil. (Philosophy) / The author's choice of a theme is practical. It is a cultural-philosophical analysis·of the views of GLAZER and MOYNUlAN on ethnicity. 1 The result is studied and viewed in relation to philosophical anthropology and the ·genetic method of explanation of culture of CA VAN PEURSEN and by means of his cultural-historfcal three-tier development of the mythological, successively followed by the ontological and the functional. The author then suggests the. principle of sovereignty, within the limited sphere of competence of social structures within the same cultural ·entity to overcome the dialectic struggle for supremacy between social structures (i.e.: nation and state or church and state, etc). Linking this the writer offers a structural analysis of state versus nation (volk) and also rejects a dualistic (soul versus body) concept of man, preferring the model of man as a single integrated existential being. The author finds the views of GLAZER and MOYNIHAN are that ethnic identification is a natural and inevitable fact of human existence. It has its positive aspects (providing identity ... support ... security) and its negative aspects (encouraging isolation ... ethnocentrism ... conflict ... etc). By rejecting humanistic individualism and integration as ideological (therefore ontological) and ethnicity as practical · (therefore functional), and urging governments to recognise ethnicity within the framework of plural democracy, they by implication become the proponents of ethnicity, and culture with them becomes cultural determinism. By so doing they also derived and subscribed to some inevitable pre-empirical and therefore theoretical-philosophical concepts re group identity and the relation betwe€n soul and body and culture versus physical environment. Within each of the cultural-historical development phases posed by VAN PEURSEN the author finds that group identity as the essence of ethnicity is after all, as proposed by GLAZER and MOYNIHAN not so new, and that ethnicity during the course of history was always coined to the supremacy of an identity carrying social structure (i.e. the state in Greek culture; the church in Roman Catholicism; race in national-socialism; the individual in humanistic liberalism; and the state in dialectic materialism; etc). It is in the functional, practical realm that ethnicity has gained ground during the latter part of this century. The rediscovery of group identity signals the bancruptcy of ontological individualism and the appearance of pragmatism, existensialism and the dramatic growth of cultural anthropology and new-conservatism. The author sees existensial man as a unitary being and by so doing disacknowledges an inner spiritual world of the soul against the outer world of nature and body. This one-ness of man makes culture his first nature and not his second, as suggested by GLAZER and MOYNIHAN. Mans cultural identity is expressed in a variety of social structures and by utilysing the principle of sovereignty within each structural sphere of competence, the author wishes to avoid ethnicity or group identity being captured by one structure (i.e. race in national socialism and volk/nation in ethnocentrism) and thereby becoming an operationalism.

Orientador: Pedro Ângelo Pagni / Banca: Rodrigo Pelloso Gelamo / Banca: Divino José da Silva / Banca: Fernando Bárcena Orbe / Banca: Alexandre Filordi de Carvalho / Resumo: O que está proposto na forma deste trabalho de tese se integra ao projeto de pesquisa de doutorado com o qual procuramos investigar o paradigma antropológico na filosofia da educação, isto é, a crítica ao entendimento da educação como um projeto antropológico fundamental. A configuração antropológica do pensamento, que converte a filosofia em uma analítica do homem, e a concepção de uma estrutura antropológico-humanista na educação impedem o exercício de um pensamento crítico e criativo, porque paralisam, ao incidirem sobre uma filosofia da representação e do sujeito transcendental, o exercício de pensamento em face do desafio de investigar o tema do acontecimento na práxis educativa. Desse modo, se por um lado é importante fazer uma análise da configuração antropológica do pensamento e uma crítica à concepção antropológico-humanista predominante nas reflexões sobre a educação, por outro, temos a intenção de sugerir que outra possibilidade é pensar o exercício do pensamento filosófico no campo da educação como uma experiência e um acontecimento. Ou seja, propomos realizar, a partir de Gilles Deleuze e Michel Foucault, um exercício de pensamento em que a filosofia da educação seja pensada no deslocamento entre dois domínios distintos e conflitantes acerca da natureza e do modo de pensar ou exercer a filosofia (e, por conseguinte, de pensar filosoficamente a educação): por um lado, a imagem antropológica do pensamento, isto é, a configuração da filosofia moderna como analítica da finitude, que ainda nos é atual, e que enquanto uma filosofia do Mesmo permanece sendo essencialmente uma filosofia da representação; e, por outro lado, a abertura da filosofia para uma nova imagem do pensamento ou um pensamento sem imagem, quer dizer, sem postulados... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The proposal for this thesis integrates to the doctor degree‟s search work in which it is investigated the anthropological paradigm in philosophy of education, it means, the critics to educational understanding as a fundamental anthropological project. The anthropological configuration of the thought, which converts philosophy into a man analysis, and the conception of an anthropological-humanistic structure in education impede the critic and creative thought exercise, as they paralyze, by focusing on a philosophy of representation and of the transcendental subject, the exercise of the thought facing the challenge of investigating the event theme into educational praxis. Thereby, if by one hand it is important to analyze the anthropological configuration of the thought and a critic to the predominant anthropological-humanist conception on the reflections about education, on the other hand, we intend to suggest that the other possibility is to think the exercise of the philosophical thought into education field as an experience and an event. In other words, we propose to perform, from Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, a thinking exercise in which philosophy of education is thought regarding the displacement between two distinct and conflicting domains involving nature and the way of thinking or to exercise the philosophy (and, therefore, to think philosophically about education): on one hand, the anthropological image of the thought, or else, the configuration of the modern philosophy as finitude analysis, that is still updated for us, and as a Self philosophy is kept being essentially a philosophy of representation; and, on the other hand, the philosophy opening to a new image of the thought or a non-image thought, it means without postulates or presuppositions: a thought of the event. We propose... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

This dissertation exposes the status of eros in the works of Levinas, Irigaray, and, Nancy. I begin by evaluating Levinas’s phenomenological analyses of eros in Time and the Other and Totality and Infinity. In order to fully appreciate this, however, I must necessarily also provide a summary overview of the central theme which guides Levinas’s work: ‘the Other.’ This leads Levinas to develop ethics as first philosophy, which in turn implies that the reduction of the Other to the same is the unethical gesture par excellence. Levinas formulates eros as the ‘equivocal par excellence’; a profane relation with the radical alterity of the feminine. Eros, for Levinas, inevitably lapses back to the economy of the same, and hence he looks to paternal fecundity to understand a relation with alterity untainted by erotic sensuality. Moreover, I identify the themes in Levinas’s work which guide this dissertation: the plurality of being, the tactility of erotic caressing, transcendence in eros, sexual difference, the affair between love and death, revisiting Plato’s Symposium, and, the erotic relationship with alterity. Having exposed these themes, and pre-empting a feminist critique of Levinas, I move on to the work of Luce Irigaray. After contextualising Irigaray’s feminist project, I expose and evaluate her critical reading of Levinas, particularly in her essay “The Fecundity of the Caress.” For Irigaray, Levinas mistakenly assumes a universal masculine subject, which in turn denies the feminine (and thus empirical women) a chance to be subjects. The fact that Levinas considers eros profane suggests, for Irigaray, that Levinas’s phenomenology of eros is haunted by a patriarchal bias evinced in the way he turns to paternity to salvage eros from a damnable carnality. Irigaray, in contrast, asserts eros as a relationship between the two real poles of sexual alterity. Eros thus holds potential as a just relation between the sexes. However, I find that Irigaray’s insistence on the biological markers of sexual difference becomes somewhat too idealistic. When compared with one another, Irigaray and Levinas arrive at an impasse which is solved by turning to the work of Jean-Luc Nancy. Nancy insists that love (including eros) cannot be thought as anything but an indefinite multiplicity. Nancy’s thought on love reflects his formulation of ‘being-singular-plural,’ an ontology which asserts ‘being-with’ is axiomatic in all philosophical investigations. In Shattered Love, Nancy deconstructs dialectics in order to show that love does not operate in a dialectical fashion. Both Levinas’s and Irigaray’s accounts of eros are exposed as dialectical. Nancy, in contrast, formulates love and sex/gender as the exposure of a subject to the relation with the other. Moreover, by examining Nancy’s thought on the body, eros can be derived as subtending all relations between sexed bodies. Thus Nancy figures eros as neither ideal nor profane, nor does he restrict eros to an ideal relation between the masculine and the feminine. However, Nancy’s opaque philosophy is not without fault. Although Nancy offers an interesting way in which to think eros, certain avenues of thought remain unexplored. / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Philosophy / unrestricted

The work brings critical and philosophical perspective on the issue of art and mass culture in contemporary society. Relying on H.-G. Gadamer's, T. W. Adorno's and Walter Benjamin's ideas. The work performs a summary of their thoughts, focusing on art as an example of humanities- scientific investigation in the case of H.-G. Gadamer, the criticism of the cultural industry and its vital role in the thinking of T. W Adorno and the issue of technical reproducibility of works of art in a Walter Benjamin's essay. The work focuses on the present social functions of mass culture, its internal structure, on the issue of its quality, taking into account the extent to which this appears to be useful. The main topic was ultimately shown to be a phenomenon of education. Keywords. Philosophical Anthropology, Philosophy of Art, Culture and Society, Mass Culture.

PhDr. Tomáš Kunca The Humanist Virtuoso: Beginnings, Idea and Illustration of Hume's experimental philosophical anthropology in Treatise of Human Nature UK FHS, Praha 2013 Thesis introduces a concept of "The Humanist Virtuoso" as distinctive feature reflecting Hume's effort to introduce an idea of experimental philosophical anthropology based on study of human nature and manifested in his A Treatise of Human Nature. Concept is justified by three steps, through analysis of the beginnings of Hume's philosophy, explication of his "science of man" idea in Treatise and illustration of this idea in action, as appears in analysis of passions (Book 2). The beginnings of Hume's way to experimental philosophical anthropology are explained thorough interpretation of historical facts connected with his early study at College of Edinburgh. First meetings with culture of science ( both British Christian tradition of experimental philosophy and Newtonian mathematical philosophy) are considered as particularly important. Detailed analysis of pre-Treatise letters (the Letter to Physician and to Michael Ramsey) is provided to make explicit the beginnings of his "science of man" idea, turn to study of human nature. Castration of Treatise is observed and discussed via analysis of his letter to Home (1737). The second...

Name: Daniel Janoško Title: Capacity for Suicide and its Consequences for the Conception of Human Nature Abstract The aim of the thesis is, first, to analyze the ability to deliberately end one's own life, which, assuming its human exclusivity within the animal kingdom as well as its universality within the human species, should provide a rich source for revealing some already known and some potentially entirely novel aspects of human nature and condition. The capacity for suicide is therefore analysed not from the dominating position of moral philosophy, but rather from the perspective of philosophical anthropology. Based on both the philosophical (Scheler, Heidegger, Landsberg, Jaspers, etc.) and empirical anthropological literature, we attempt to answer the question of human exclusivity of the capacity for suicide. The intention of this analysis is, then, to find the essential aspects of this exclusivity from which practical consequences can be drawn for further philosophical conceptualizations of human nature. The most crucial of these appears to be the awareness of one's finality. A detailed examination of such awareness then reveals other aspects of human nature and condition, such as the specifically human communal way of living, the human's effort to endure, both materially and spiritually, in the...

PhDr. Tomáš Kunca The Humanist Virtuoso: Beginnings, Idea and Illustration of Hume's experimental philosophical anthropology in Treatise of Human Nature UK FHS, Praha 2013 Thesis introduces a concept of "The Humanist Virtuoso" as distinctive feature reflecting Hume's effort to introduce an idea of experimental philosophical anthropology based on study of human nature and manifested in his A Treatise of Human Nature. Concept is justified by three steps, through analysis of the beginnings of Hume's philosophy, explication of his "science of man" idea in Treatise and illustration of this idea in action, as appears in analysis of passions (Book 2). The beginnings of Hume's way to experimental philosophical anthropology are explained thorough interpretation of historical facts connected with his early study at College of Edinburgh. First meetings with culture of science ( both British Christian tradition of experimental philosophy and Newtonian mathematical philosophy) are considered as particularly important. Detailed analysis of pre-Treatise letters (the Letter to Physician and to Michael Ramsey) is provided to make explicit the beginnings of his "science of man" idea, turn to study of human nature. Castration of Treatise is observed and discussed via analysis of his letter to Home (1737). The second...

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This dissertation explores the role and significance of the ancient Greek myth of Prometheus in Western philosophy from Antiquity to today. Paying particular attention to its moral and existential meanings, an analysis of this in-depth investigation produces an overview of the exceptional array of the myth’s functions and themes. It demonstrates that the most significant functions of the Prometheus myth are its social, epistemic, ontological and moral functions and that the myth’s most significant themes are fire, rebellion, creation, human nature and ambiguity. The dissertation argues that this analysis brings to light meaningful information on two sides of a reference to the Prometheus myth: it reveals the nature, functions, themes and connotations of the myth, while information about these functions and themes provides access to fundamental meanings, moral statements and ontological concepts of the studied author. Based on its findings this work claims that, as in history, first, the Prometheus myth will still be meaningful in philosophy today; and second, that the analysis of the myth’s functions and themes will provide access to essential ideas underlying contemporary references to the myth. To prove the validity of these claims this thesis examines the contemporary debate on ‘human enhancement’. Advocates as well as opponents of enhancement make use of the Prometheus myth in order to support their arguments. Employing the acquired knowledge about the myth’s functions and themes, the dissertation analyses the references encountered. The results of this analysis confirm that the Prometheus myth still has a significant role in a contemporary philosophical context. They improve our understanding of the philosophical argument, ontological framework and ethics of the debate’s participants; and thus demonstrate that the information about the Prometheus myth acquired in this thesis is a useful means to reveal fundamental ideas and conceptualisations underlying contemporary (and possibly future) references to the myth.