In modern times, philosophy finds itself in a contradictory position. On the one hand, it has long been a theoretical abstract knowledge of the phenomena of reality and the ideas that express it. On ...the other hand, it is, at its core, a science that reflects on changes in fundamental human values. Values are embedded in the structure of each society, in the variety of issues that it has to deal with. Therefore, to be in touch with changing reality, philosophy naturally responds to societal issues that have a lasting impact on human beings and their environment. Being aware of the multi-layered nature of the Anthropocene, the author of the article explores the values that emerge in Lithuanian philosophy in the context of research on the Anthropocene. For this purpose, the insights of Lithuanian philosophers Naglis Kardelis, Gintautas Mažeikis, Arvydas Šliogeris, Mintautas Gutauskas and Danutė Bacevičiūtė into the most significant changes in nature caused by the Anthropocene are discussed.
The author of the article analyses the problem of climate change by comparing the philosophical ideas of the leading figure of Chinese Daoism Laozi and the German philosopher Norbert Bolz. The ...article highlights the complexity, relevance and interdisciplinarity of the problem. It is assumed that the focus on the problem of climate change is closely linked to changes in the social structure of the Western society and the controversial technological progress that has already made it possible to capture the signs of global warming in nature. At the same time, the problem of climate change is seen as a conflict of different interpretations. For this reason, emphasis is placed on the need for a dialogue between specialists in natural and social sciences as well as humanities in addressing issues arising from the latter problem.
Thomo Kasulio civilizacinio mąstymo bruo Vareikis, Žilvinas
LOGOS - A Journal of Religion, Philosophy, Comparative Cultural Studies and Art,
2022
113
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
The scholarly work of Lithuanian-born American philosopher Thomas Kasulis has been little studied in Lithuania. Kasulis has contributed to Japanese studies by translating numerous Japanese ...philosophical texts and writing works on Zen – Buddhism and Shinto. In his studies of Zen – Buddhism, he highlighted the importance of pre-reflective experience to explain reality. In his studies of Shinto, he revealed the profound meanings of essentialist and existential spirituality. In the comparative philosophy he emphasized two significant concepts of intercultural interaction: integrality and intimacy. With it the thinker tries to substantiate the dynamics of different cultures by explicating art, policy, mentality. Basing on the relevant national analogies the author of the article deepens his knowledge into the most important ideas of Kasulis, his comparative philosophy and his research contexts of Zen – Buddhism and Shinto.
The article focuses on the aspects of self-expression that are revealed in the ethical and cognitive activities of individuals. With reference to Laozi's philosophy, the ideological proposition that ...has risen from Hegel's thinking and has rooted in modernity, is disputed. This proposition voices that specialists of a particular scientific field are confident bearers of reliable truth. This view is opposed to the mystery of nature and human origin, the depths of which no empirical science can exhaust. By exploring one‘s inner world, by cultivating spirit educative moral values and beliefs, it is possible to avoid the opposition between illusions created by the individual and reality. This calls for the aspiration to learn oneself, put efforts in the process to develop, and confidence in a spiritual being higher than man himself.
The paper proposes a comparative intercultural approach to the climate change. The author bases on the cases of Chinese Daoism and Norbert Bolz’s philosophy to present his personal general viewpoint. ...The today greatest challenge is the recovery after the Covid-19 pandemic by getting rid of the financial burden and by introducing individual economical solutions to each country as well as accepting international conventions on the reduction of climate change results. According to the author of the article, the increasing consequences of the climate change liven up international business and indifferent politicians to make positive decisions concerning it.
This paper links the beginnings of anarchism to the works of some ancient Greek Cynic philosophers. Its reflections are also visible in the Chinese Daoist civilizational paradigm, so comparatively ...relevant ideas developed by the Greek Cynics are analysed in relation to the Chinese Daoists ideas. Basing on the surviving works by the representatives of the above-mentioned schools or only fragments of these works, the author of the paper draws attention to the aspects of social behaviour and social activities of the thinkers of the civilizational paradigms in question. These aspects are discussed in the light of the idea of anarchism, which helps to reveal distinctive contents of values. These contents are fundamentally different from the models of anarchism of the New Ages that are oriented towards the transformation of social structure or its individual systems. The radical idea of social revolution was not important to the Greek Cynics and the Chinese Daoists, although, in the course of time, there have been attempts to link these ideas with revolutionary attitudes. However, due to the ideological divide and the divide in values, the author of the paper sees no basis for a more detailed comparative analysis of the ideas of anarchism of the New Ages and ancient anarchism.
