Grieder, Andrea, Ike, Obiora, Haaz, Ignace (Eds.), Poetry and Ethics: Inventing Possibilities in Which We Are Moved to Action and How We Live Together, Globethics.net Global Series No. 16, Geneva: Globethics.net Publications, 137-160., 2018
In the following text we would like to present the philosophical discussion on untrusting lies, w... more In the following text we would like to present the philosophical discussion on untrusting lies, which introduces a space for innocent lie understood as figurative manipulation of the speech: a poetic trope that we would argue could not only be generously used to help us tolerating our sometime deceiving human condition—which is global and universally ours, that of the finitude of human capacity of knowledge and ethical action—but also to maximise our capacity for knowledge formation and adaptation to values. Concepts formation and communication relates to a collective interplay of different interiorized images, before it comes to the exterior in some well-chosen expressions, in self-mastered way; their origin remain in a mentally latent process of selection of content and ideas, as possible solutions of in a games of compatible propositions. These unconscious materials of our life relies on our capacity to identify and quickly switch between different spans, that enable us to focus on complex sets data, all depending very much on figurative manipulations, that should not be confounded with blameworthy and misleading representations.
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With authors from three continents, this publication endeavours to not only ask the uncomfortable questions with regard to the exteriorisation of human emotive predispositions and inclinations to ostracize, stigmatise and discriminate. The exit door from the extreme is also clearly presented, through four contributions, notably the interplay of Charvaka philosophy, Sikh wisdom on balanced forms of engagement with strong emotions.
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Enlightenment starting point on the anthropological understanding of
our emotions, and thus of focusing mainly on the intentional subject, and
the possibility of doing as if there would be an easy choice between
many object or value options. We call for a perspectivist view as we see
situations where adding the madness of hatred to some frustration, is part of an aggressive intervention in a situation, which is already
emotionally loaded in a strong or negative ways. A heavy frustration
seems a good candidate for a strong emotion as anger, although heavy
frustration might not have one only object and deserve further ethical
not only psychological healing. Consequently, in many situations, there
is no single emotion of hatred but only a complex bundle of emotions
called hatred.
We propose to try to conceptualise this hypothesis from the
distinction between on the one hand, fully achieved state of affairs (or
not), and adequate (or not) postures of the self, where reason redirects
emotions through knowledge (and collective tools of emancipation). On
the other hand, we would like to underline states of not fleeting but
profound and/or visceral emotions. If we consider that ressentiment
loaded hatred and wrath could have a common starting point in time, in
our subjective experience: then we need to cut a string of heterogeneous
things into distinctive entities. As shown in the above chapter on
ressentiment, there could be a transformation in time both melting
ressentiment and hatred in confusing ways.
ressentiment gained popularity through the writings of Friedrich
Nietzsche. According to Nietzsche, ressentiment was a bad feeling that
reflected the suppressed anger, the pain of impotence, and the general
misery of the weak when they compared themselves to the strong and
talented members of society. Max Scheler took up Nietzsche’s thesis
and described ressentiment as a complex condition characterised by a
thirst for revenge. Moreover, ressentiment has the annoying property of
presenting itself as having some merit: the modern social and political
context offers more than enough examples.
First, the aim of this article is to take a closer look at Nietzsche’s
‘man of ressentiment,’ an odious personality characterised by weakness, deep frustrations, and hypocrisy. It will turn out that ressentiment has
many different shades that paint a somewhat different picture and raise
philosophical questions about positive valuation, vulnerability, and the
sense of injustice.
Second, we shall be working on the link between the psychology of
ressentiment and the temptation to lack integrity in writing, art, or
science. The well-described and well-known fact that academic
fraudsters evolve in disguise, that they first reactively endorse values
very different from their own values, and that these plagiarist authors,
second, embark on long-term projects repeating their misdeeds and
errors, as if it were normal, are two facts worthy of our attention.
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Education: Postdoctoral research on the philosophy and ethics of punishment (University of Fribourg Switzerland), PhD. and M.A. in Philosophy (University of Geneva, Switzerland): in the areas of the philosophy of rhetoric and 19th Century philosophy; Expertise: Project management for Globethics.net Foundation in Geneva, world largest online ethics library, specialized in applied ethics with a focus on the Global South (http://www.globethics.net/library). Editorial and Publication management in global ethics and theology (http://www.globethics.net/publications). Postdoctoral research in philosophy and ethics, Philosophy teacher; Regional Experience: Switzerland (Fribourg, Lausanne, Geneva), France (Paris). Languages: French (Mother tongue), English, German and Hungarian.
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With authors from three continents, this publication endeavours to not only ask the uncomfortable questions with regard to the exteriorisation of human emotive predispositions and inclinations to ostracize, stigmatise and discriminate. The exit door from the extreme is also clearly presented, through four contributions, notably the interplay of Charvaka philosophy, Sikh wisdom on balanced forms of engagement with strong emotions.
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This book focuses on an anthropological approach to mental illness, describing how schizophrenia can distort one's experience of empathy and of the presence in the world through pathological indifference. It describes factual and phenomenological perspectives on a case of schizophrenia, based on the method of Eugène Minkowski.
Enlightenment starting point on the anthropological understanding of
our emotions, and thus of focusing mainly on the intentional subject, and
the possibility of doing as if there would be an easy choice between
many object or value options. We call for a perspectivist view as we see
situations where adding the madness of hatred to some frustration, is part of an aggressive intervention in a situation, which is already
emotionally loaded in a strong or negative ways. A heavy frustration
seems a good candidate for a strong emotion as anger, although heavy
frustration might not have one only object and deserve further ethical
not only psychological healing. Consequently, in many situations, there
is no single emotion of hatred but only a complex bundle of emotions
called hatred.
We propose to try to conceptualise this hypothesis from the
distinction between on the one hand, fully achieved state of affairs (or
not), and adequate (or not) postures of the self, where reason redirects
emotions through knowledge (and collective tools of emancipation). On
the other hand, we would like to underline states of not fleeting but
profound and/or visceral emotions. If we consider that ressentiment
loaded hatred and wrath could have a common starting point in time, in
our subjective experience: then we need to cut a string of heterogeneous
things into distinctive entities. As shown in the above chapter on
ressentiment, there could be a transformation in time both melting
ressentiment and hatred in confusing ways.
ressentiment gained popularity through the writings of Friedrich
Nietzsche. According to Nietzsche, ressentiment was a bad feeling that
reflected the suppressed anger, the pain of impotence, and the general
misery of the weak when they compared themselves to the strong and
talented members of society. Max Scheler took up Nietzsche’s thesis
and described ressentiment as a complex condition characterised by a
thirst for revenge. Moreover, ressentiment has the annoying property of
presenting itself as having some merit: the modern social and political
context offers more than enough examples.
First, the aim of this article is to take a closer look at Nietzsche’s
‘man of ressentiment,’ an odious personality characterised by weakness, deep frustrations, and hypocrisy. It will turn out that ressentiment has
many different shades that paint a somewhat different picture and raise
philosophical questions about positive valuation, vulnerability, and the
sense of injustice.
Second, we shall be working on the link between the psychology of
ressentiment and the temptation to lack integrity in writing, art, or
science. The well-described and well-known fact that academic
fraudsters evolve in disguise, that they first reactively endorse values
very different from their own values, and that these plagiarist authors,
second, embark on long-term projects repeating their misdeeds and
errors, as if it were normal, are two facts worthy of our attention.
Education: Postdoctoral research on the philosophy and ethics of punishment (University of Fribourg Switzerland), PhD. and M.A. in Philosophy (University of Geneva, Switzerland): in the areas of the philosophy of rhetoric and 19th Century philosophy; Expertise: Project management for Globethics.net Foundation in Geneva, world largest online ethics library, specialized in applied ethics with a focus on the Global South (http://www.globethics.net/library). Editorial and Publication management in global ethics and theology (http://www.globethics.net/publications). Postdoctoral research in philosophy and ethics, Philosophy teacher; Regional Experience: Switzerland (Fribourg, Lausanne, Geneva), France (Paris). Languages: French (Mother tongue), English, German and Hungarian.