Lecture 7 The three turns of immanence Flashcards

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Where does “one is a secret to another, and perhaps even to oneself” come from?

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Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities

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what are the 3 themes of inwardness in western philo?

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  1. ANCIENT: socrates; greek injuction “know thyself” “unexamined life is not worth living
  2. MEDIEVAL: st. augustine’s in interiore homine (the interior man)
  3. MODERN: descartes; cartesian cogito; i think therefore i am
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When did the dawn of interiority begin and where?

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renaissance in italy

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What are the 2 forces that composed the dawn of interiority in the west?

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  1. secularism that characterized the creative and scholarly retrieval of the ancient classics of greece and rome (passionate attention to the mundane and human)
  2. intensified individualism (increased study of roman law)
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5
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Contemporary interiority was characterized by:

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  1. self identities
  2. search for uniqeness
  3. NO LONGER SATISTIFED WITH BEING GOD’S CHILDREN
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6
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Who greatly influenced the renaissance climate of interiority?

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Desiderius Erasmus

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7
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What are the 3 turns to immanence:

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  1. SUBJECTIVE TURN
  2. LINGUISTIC TURN
  3. EXPERIENTIAL TURN
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How did modern period end up with religion/ turn to interiority?

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Anthropomorphism + discovery of God (immanence)

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9
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it is when we come to appreciate religion because we realize that there is SOMETHING GREATER than OURSELVES

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immanence

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10
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it is the search for spirituality and finding a place for religion in ourselves.

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religion/ interiority

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It is when we look for whatever can fit the hole to find ourselves or God

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God-shaped hole

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12
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What did st. augustine write? (book w/ talked about “in interiore homine)

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The Confession

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13
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Who is the proponent of the subjective turn?

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Descartes

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14
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Who is the guarantor of clarity and distinctness of the cogito Fundamentum Inconcussum?

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God

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15
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What imposes order upon reality?

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cogito’s dynamic will

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16
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Who discussed “ethic of poiesis”?

Man’s will imposes order in reality

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Charles Taylor

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17
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In the subjective turn, the _____ gains KNOWLEDGE of SELF in relation to the WORLD

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subject

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18
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What is the the most celebrated philosophic dictum

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cogito

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19
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This is descartes’ method of discovering who i am

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methodic doubt

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20
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I think therefore i am

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cogito ergo sum

21
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What is descartes’ Subjectivist Principle?

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says that the data of philo is not just the object that enters into experience by the subject experiencing

22
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What are problems of the subjectivist principle?

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  1. Acceptance of the substance-quality concept as expressing the ultimate ontological principle
  2. Acceptance of Aristotle’s definition of a primary substance as always a subject and never a predicate
  3. Assumption that the experient subject is the primary substance
23
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____ is that which requires nothing else but itself to exist

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Substance

24
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for a reformed subjectivist principle, substance must be replaced by_______

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ultimate metaphysical category

25
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What is ultimate metaphysical category ?

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it is the concept by which we understand the whole of reality , which is TOGETHERNESS & RELATION

26
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What are the 2 metaphysical fruits of the cogito?

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  1. res cogitans

2. res extensa

27
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Why does the “i” under descartes beocome fragmented?

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I am a thinking being, but I am not by body.

28
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Who proposed the Brain-in-a-vat concept?

–divide bet self and the body

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John Searle

29
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Who says that the subjective turn is “the solipsism of the present moment” ?

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Santayana

30
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Who proposes the “reformed SUBJECTIVIST PRINCIPLE” ?

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Whitehead

31
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What is the “reformed SUBJECTIVIST PRINCIPLE” ?

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The experiential turn

32
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Primary togetherness of things is in their togetherness in _______.
(the experiential turn)

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experience

because apart from experience, there is “NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING, BARE NOTHINGNESS”

33
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Who is the main proponent of the Linguistic Turn?

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Charles Taylor

34
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Language is not only an articulation of ideas or a means of communication, but it is a method to know & understand the self through _____

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self-reflexivity

35
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Language makes the self _____ to itself

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transparent

36
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Taylor’s philosophy of language is ______

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hermeneutical (not just articulation but determinitng who we are)

37
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What are the 2 semantic dimensions of language? (2 sides of meaning ful objects)

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  1. designative

2. expressive

38
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it is a semantic dimension of language where a word’s meaning points to what it designates. Language of science

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Designative

39
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it is a semantic dimension of language where a word manifests its meaning by embodying it. Language of arts and feelings. Language that captures who we are.

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Expressive

40
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Who is the main proponent of the experiential turn?

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Whitehead

41
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What is at the core of one’s identity?

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experiences

42
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What does experience recognize?

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that we are all interconnected

43
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What are the 3 points to which whitehead reacts concerning his emphasis on experience?

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  1. Reacts against the substance-quality concept
  2. Reacts against the Aristotle’s concept of the passive perceiver in their accounts of experience
  3. Reacts against Kant’s doctrine that states that the objective world is a construct of subjective experience = PHEMOMENALISM
44
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means that the many experiences grow together to become one emergent subject

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concresco ergo sum

45
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The concrescence of each individual is_____

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internally determined and externally free

46
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A subject is active if he ___

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creates his own world

47
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What means that Subject is PRIOR to experience?

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TERMINUS A QUO

48
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What means that Superject: Subject is POSTERIOR to the experience?

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TERMINUS AD QUEM

49
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Subject is the _____ of EXPERIENCE TERMINUS AD QUEM (and not terminus a quo)

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ENDPOINT or PRODUCT