This essay is a critical theological and pastoral study of the Working Document of the Second African Synod. The article engages the articles in the document which deal with the theme of reconciliation. This essay begins by exploring the Christological and ecclesiological foundations for an African theology of reconciliation as found in the working document. While engaging the significant aspects of the working document which relate to articulating an African theology of reconciliation, this essay shows the limitations of the document (...) in its historical and cultural analysis of the situation in Africa. Drawing from a phenomenological hermeneutical engagement with African history, cultural grammar, and Christ-centered African Christian imagination, the essay widens the scope of theological engagement with the task of reconciliation in Africa. It does a theological aesthetics of reconciliation in Africa, by integrating diverse cultural, ontological, and Christological symbols within the African world on vital participation and vital union. Through the inculturation of vital participation as analogous to Trinitarian Communion, the essay shows how the Church in Africa can deal with the ever-revolving cycle of violence, conflicts, and divisions in the churches and political institutions which have all hampered the mission of building relationship and God's kingdom in Africa. The essay concludes by recommending four pastoral approaches through which the Catholic Church in Africa can be both a reconciled community and an instrument for reconciliation in Africa. (shrink)

Biography of Tran Duc Thao, 1917-1993, a Vietnamese philosopher.

El valor moral de nuestra vida práctica depende de nuestro conocimiento de valores. Más aún, según Scheler, la intuición adecuada de un valor plenamente dado motiva necesariamente nuestro querer a la realización de ese valor. Pero lo habitual es, más bien, que los valores de diferentes tipos nos sean dados en diferentes grados de inadecuación. Por esa razón, estamos sometidos a posibles engaños valorativos y, por tanto, a la posibilidad de una vida éticamente mala. Con el fin de mostrar las (...) formas y fuentes de engaño valorativo identificables a priori, este artículo aborda, en primer lugar, la correlación estratificada entre valores y emociones intencionales a partir de los sentidos schelerianos del concepto de ordo amoris; en segundo lugar, se considera algunas “medidas del conocimiento” para, a partir de ellas, distinguir dos grandes tipos de trastorno del ordo amoris basados en diferentes formas de engaños o ilusiones del sentir, preferir y amar. (shrink)

The title of Gao Xinhua's 高新華 work contains two somewhat distinct elements: "Huang-Lao thought" (huanglao sixiang 黃老思想) and "Warring States to Early Han" (zhanguo zhi Han chu 戰國至漢初). They are distinct insofar as "Huang-Lao" takes on a different meaning when described based on the works of political philosophy--the task of roughly the first half of the book--and when traced through history in the thought of the political elite, as is the focus of the second half. Of course, they are not (...) entirely distinct and to some extent the historical Huang-Lao is a manifestation of the philosophical works. As Gao shows, however, the relationship between the two is far from simple. The book consists of an Introduction, four chapters--each containing three to five sections--and a short Conclusion. (shrink)

우리 시 21편을 통해 현대 철학을 쉽고 재미있게 배운다! 김수영, 김춘수, 황동규, 황지우, 기형도, 최영미 등 우리에게 친숙한 현대 시인의 시를 통해 현대 철학의 주요 개념을 알기 쉽게 설명한 『철학적 시 읽기의 즐거움』. 노장사상을 전공한 동양철학자이면서 서양철학의 흐름에도 해박한 저자, 강신주는 시는 짧지만, 그 속에 철학책 한 권 못지않은 무한한 고뇌와 사유의 세계를 담고 있다고 말한다. 이 책은 우리에게 신선한 충격과 사고의 전환을 가져다준 들뢰즈, 푸코, 사르트르 같은 현대 철학자들의 사유가 우리 현대 시인들의 시와 어떻게 행복하게 만나는지 보여준다. 그리고 그 (...) 철학자들이 고뇌했던 문제들이 우리 현대 시인들이 고민했던 문제들과 다르지 않다는 점을 감각적인 문장으로 녹여낸다. (shrink)

イスラーム哲学vs中国哲学、対決・調和・熟成。イスラーム思想はどのように東漸し、中国はそれをいかに受容し、そしていかにして新たな哲学を形成したのか。イスラームと中国の文明接触を哲学レベルで解明し、その 歴史を実証的に探求する。.