Schopenhauer’s pessimism, aesthetic contemplation and the value of artAccording to Schopenhauer, the aesthetic contemplation of art temporarily offers some kind of redemption: art is valuable because ...of its liberating effect on the spectator’s will, i.e. his or her urges, strivings and desires. He also acknowledges that works of art have cognitive value, since they offer insight into timeless Platonic Ideas. I argue that Schopenhauer is right to acknowledge the cognitive value of art, but that his aesthetic Platonism is flawed and thus cannot offer a solid foundation for the envisaged redemption, let alone for human happiness. By confronting Schopenhauer’s aesthetic theory with some aspects of Kant’s, I aim to show that by disentangling Schopenhauer’s theory from Platonism and focusing on his psychology of aesthetic contemplation we can provide a more plausible view of aesthetic contemplation, which is compatible with Schopenhauerian pessimism as well as with the possibility of human happiness.
idealidad del dolor Villarreal Barajas, Fernando
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12/2022, Letnik:
51
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Este artículo tiene como objeto analizar las convergencias, divergencias e influencias de Arthur Schopenhauer sobre Leopoldo Alas “Clarín” en dos facetas de su carrera literaria e intelectual. Si ...bien la crítica ha estudiado tal influjo, este estudio busca profundizar más al respecto y destacar la función del sufrimiento humano en el credo estético de Alas; su adopción y asimilación parcial. Para elucidar el fundamento de tal temática, se ha analizado la obra periodística de Alas que trata sobre temas filosóficos. Esta herramienta hermeneútica permite establecer los postulados fundamentales del pensamiento filosófico clariniano y determinar los puntos de contacto iniciales. Asimismo, se argumenta que el espiritualismo clariniano de los años noventa presenta una influencia ecléctica, en la cual Schopenhauer ocupa un lugar eminente, en particular su estética y la manifestación del sufrimiento. Este artículo busca determinar el principio artístico de este gran tema clariniano, el cual tiene una función metafísica.
That Schopenhauer's view of Buddhism influenced Wagner's and Nietzsche's Buddhism seems a commonplace among scholars. However, there seem to be no studies which actually demonstrated this, showing ...how Schopenhauer was their main source of Buddhism compared to the other Buddhist texts they read. In this article, I aim to fill this gap, analysing Wagner's and Nietzsche's Buddhism in the light of the sources of Buddhism they read. This will allow me to demonstrate how Schopenhauer was the main source of Buddhism for both Wagner and Nietzsche, having a deep and long-lasting impact on their conceptions of Buddhism.
Schopenhauer repeatedly claims that all pleasure is negative, and this view seems to play key roles throughout his work. Nonetheless, many scholars have argued that Schopenhauer actually acknowledges ...certain positive pleasures. Two major arguments have been offered for this reading, one focused on the link between Schopenhauer's view of pleasure and Plato's, and one focused on Schopenhauer's distinction between two components of aesthetic pleasure. I argue that neither way of motivating the positive pleasure reading succeeds. Both overlook a key aspect of Schopenhauer's account: namely, his suggestion that there are two distinct kinds of negative pleasure, pleasures of satisfaction and pleasures of distraction. When Schopenhauer claims that all pleasure is negative, he means it.
Emily Thomas's seminal book The Meaning of Travel has brought the philosophy of travel back into the public eye in recent years. Thomas has shown that the topic of travel can be approached from ...numerous different perspectives, ranging from the historical to the conceptual‐analytical, to the political or even social‐philosophical perspectives. This article introduces another perspective, which Thomas only indirectly addresses, namely the argumentation‐theoretical perspective. It is notable that contemporary philosophy of travel lacks the nineteenth‐century approach of using diagrams and maps to examine arguments for and against travel. Since this approach starts with Schopenhauer, we first introduce his argument maps, discuss their advantages and disadvantages, and argue that a modified version is suitable to visualize and analyze arguments for and against traveling as presented in Thomas's work.
...the Handbook helpfully catalogs the many contributions to strategy formulation theory, including SWOT analysis, the BCG growth/share matrix, the Five Forces Model, PESTEL, core competency, RBV ...(resource-based view) and blue ocean strategy. The Handbook’s Table 1 summarizes the survey’s important findings: Because strategy means different things to different people, it is essential to define key terms such as strategic planning, strategic management and strategic thinking, as well as each element of a firm’s strategic management system including mission, vision, values, goals, strategy and measures. Multiple internal and external participants may be involved in the strategy process, including senior executives, an internal strategy team, external strategy consultants, the board of directors, middle management and employees, key customers and activist shareholders.
Purpose The paper redefines workplace spirituality (WS/WPS) by transcending the existential vacuum (in psychiatric terms a sense of lack of meaning of human existence and thus of work), leading to ...the development of workplace creativity, productivity and satisfaction, targeting operational profitability and organizational optimization. Design/methodology/approach Spirituality is analyzed philosophically, following the Nietzschean definition in response to Schopenhauer’s primordial suffering . Philosophical syncretism yields a viable organizational culture change model of spiritualizing the workplace. For this purpose, specific techniques are proposed which are combined with those already applied to various large companies and organizations. Findings Spirituality in the workplace acts as a catalyst for developing beneficial qualities by increasing employee job satisfaction, organizational efficiency and business profitability, when equally responding to stakeholders’ needs. Practical implications The suggested change model holistically fosters organizational, operational, individual and collective effectiveness through work place spirituality redefined. Originality/value For the first time spirituality in the workplace is discussed under a brand new perspective, resulting in an interdisciplinary emerging model, contributing to the field by providing guidance to academics and practitioners to its auspicious implementation through organizational culture change.
According to Schopenhauer's compensation argument for pessimism, the non‐existence of the world is preferable to its existence because no goods can ever compensate for the mere existence of evil. ...Standard interpretations take this argument to be based on Schopenhauer's thesis that all goods are merely the negation of evils, from which they assume it follows that the apparent goods in life are in fact empty and without value. This article develops a non‐standard variant of the standard interpretation, which accepts the relevance of the negativity thesis but rejects that the argument assumes that life's goods are all empty and valueless. Instead, it argues that whatever value negative goods might possess, they do not have the kind of value to compensate for positive evils. This involves additional development of the negativity thesis and a defense of it against objections from Byron Simmons.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) permet de construire une épistémologie des émotions en sciences humaines et sociales par le prisme du corps vivant. En effet, au moment où les sociétés occidentales ...s’interrogent sur leur rapport au vivant dans une perspective écologique, il est encore difficile de se représenter ces processus autonomes qui opèrent aussi dans nos corps. Face à cet écueil, nous mobilisons notre propre corps de chercheur pour élaborer une recherche-création schopenhauerienne dont l’une des étapes est cet article. Nous interrogeons ici deux concepts (l’effort et l’émotion) à la lumière de certaines expériences de notre vie ordinaire de chercheur. Ce texte se présente comme une discussion épistémologique dont chacun peut se saisir pour créer de nouvelles représentations du vivant à partir de son corps.
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