Union Of Philosophy Research Articles

Literary creativity and Russian philosophy

The article traces the lines of interrelation of philosophy as a systematic knowledge of the world and literature as a form of artistic contemplation. Conceptual and figurative comprehension of the world, according to the author, are attributive properties of the spiritual life of society. In the paradigm of this understanding, the union of philosophy with diverse types of literary creativity is considered as a basic component of the national spiritual culture of the XIX — early XX century, which determined its national peculiarity, becoming a kind of symbolic code. On the one hand, she set the main vector of literary creativity, including the search for the meanings of being, and filled the intuitions of artistic and imaginative thinking with philosophical content, on the other hand, she "added" metaphysics of philosophical thought with ideological questions about progress, social justice and equality, insuring philosophical reflection from the dictates of rigid conceptual schemes

Filosofia e espiritualidade em Simone Weil à luz da miséria humana

In this article, we want to reflect on philosophy and spirituality in the light of human misery in Simone Weil. For this, first, we present the idea of strength from the Weil's interpretation of the Iliad and next we analyze the concept of unhappiness (malheur) contained in the book Waiting for God. Finally, we return to some ideas exposed in the initial considerations, trying to think a bit about the idea of intellectual vocation that the French philosopher presents, resuming this idea at the intersection of the concepts of strength and unhappiness with the union of philosophy and spirituality for a better understanding of human misery.

A HERMENÊUTICA DA BÍBLIA EM FÍLON DE ALEXANDRIA

Fílon de Alexandria é um precursor tanto da união entre filosofia e teologia como da hermenêutica bíblica do texto em diversos níveis de aprofundamento. Herdeiro de uma longa tradição, teve seu pensamento rejeitado no judaísmo após uma ruptura. com a cultura grega no século I d.C, porém, manteve-se como referência da Patrística e de todo pensamento cristão, tendo uma influência perene. A hermenêutica em Fílon é estudada, sua opção pelo platonismo, seu método alegórico e o que nosso autor buscava contemplar através deste método. A união das culturas grega, judaica e cristã é abordada, buscando analisar a complexa realidade que surgiu deste encontro e a marca que deixou na Bíblia, nas obras de Fílon e nos autores que foram por ele influenciados.

Philosophy and Aesthetic: To Begin with the Case of Western Postmodern Art

Philosophy is, generally speaking, divorced from real life, and therefore, monotonous and rigid. But the author maintains that philosophy must be poetic. He advocates philosophy with beautiful features. Western postmodern art is closely related to real life, so art becomes life-oriented and vitalized. Philosophy may be inspired by Western postmodern art as follows: It should philosophize about life; philosophers may use reason to argue for an art-oriented realm of life and achieve a philosophy featuring beauty. Traditional Western philosophy is typical of pursuit of abstract concepts and ideals and an estrangement from the sensible world and life. To make philosophy achieve artistic beauty, we must bring to an end traditional Western philosophy. With the end of old philosophy, a new philosophy came into being with the name of “post-philosophy”. One of the features of “post-philosophy” is the union of philosophy and poetry, which is no other than making philosophy achieve artistic beauty. The union of philosophy and poetry is also an important feature of most of traditional Chinese philosophy. Traditional Chinese philosophy ,especially, that of Daoism is similar to Western post-modern art. Both of them stress the realm of life and uphold the beauty of life, mind and spirit. Since the middle of the last century, under the influence of traditional Western philosophy, Chinese philosophy lost its traditional beauty. To keep this beauty, we need to go further and understand philosophy as a discipline to upgrade the realm of life. The beauty of life realm comes before the beauty of philosophy. Therefore, Chinese philosophy needs to become life-oriented like postmodern art. Inheriting and developing Daoism philosophy while absorbing the philosophy of life shown through postmodern art, seems to be a good way for us to enhance the realm of life and pursue the beauty of philosophy.