Husserl y la Crisis de la Cultura ABSTRACT: The topic of the crisis of culture has been common among philosophers whose thought developed during the beginning of the 20th century, and especially among those who lived through the hard times of the interwar period. Husserl was no exception. I intend in this paper a modest approach to the growth of this subject in the founder of phenomenology. I will attempt to: (1) delimit what Husserl meant by culture; (2) identify the reasons for the crisis
What is at the core of human nature, when all preconceptions and societal obligations have been removed? The philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset stated that "yo soy yo y mi circumstancia" ("I am I and my circumstance"), suggesting that humans are not bound by a predetermined nature, rather adapt to their surroundings and choose their own path in life. Thomas Hobbes, another philosopher, suggested that humans are at the core savage, and need to create social structures and governments to maintain order
Between school and work and studying and spending time with family and friends, most of our youth have packed schedules. Many students have the burden of honors or advanced placement classes piling homework on their shoulders.The real challenges that a youth faces is certainly how will he/she will able to survive in this world,peer pressure, and acceptance. The biggest problem is that we believe that being young automatically means that we can’t do anything important. This feeling, that we are nameless
According to Jose Ortega y Gasset, “Savagery is the process of separation”. This is true in the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, when airplane of young boys crashes onto a desolate island. Two young boys named Ralph and Jack engage in a fight for power from the beginning when Ralph is voted chief by the boys. They try to establish a society by creating a fire for rescue and a democracy with rules, but eventually, as the boys forget their civilization back home they get trapped by savagery
major philosophers identified as existentialists (many of whom — for instance Camus and Heidegger — repudiated the label) were Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, and Martin Buber in Germany, Jean Wahl and Gabriel Marcel in France, the Spaniards José Ortega y Gasset and Miguel de Unamuno, and the Russians Nicholai Berdyaev and Lev Shestov. The nineteenth century philosophers, Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche, came to be seen as precursors of the movement. Existentialism was as much a literary
harmony; the fronts created by the characters were compatible with one another and only led to development of the facades. Somewhere along this process, the lack of moral responsibility was abused and, ultimately, the loss of self-perseverance. Jose Ortega Y Gasset once said, “Indeed it is of the essence of man...that he can lose himself in the jungle of his existence, within himself, and thanks to his sensation of being can react by setting energetically to work to find himself again.” Human nature has
One cold and bleak December day, I set off into the woods with the sole intention of shooting a grouse for dinner. There would be no sport today; no explosive flushes, no finely crafted double barreled shotguns, no spectacular wing shots. They have their place but not today. A semester at college had made me hungry for fresh, clean, unprocessed meat. I would shoot the bird in the head, on the ground, with a .22 rifle. I was unashamedly out to kill. It was getting dark when I glanced up into the
Mass society theory is an interdisciplinary study of the aggregate personality that outcomes from the mass commodification of culture and the broad communications' control of society. Mass society hypothesis summons a dream of society described by estrangement, nonattendance of independence, flippancy, absence of religion, powerless connections, and political lack of care. Mass society hypothesis created toward the finish of the nineteenth century and start of the twentieth century because of the
Introduction In the most recent edition of, The Economist, Robert D. Kaplan essay ends with the following statement: “Europe must now find some other way to dynamically incorporate the world of Islam without diluting its devotion to the rule-of-law based system . . . in which individual rights and agency are uppermost in a hierarchy of needs. If it [Islam] cannot evolve in the direction of universal values, there will be only the dementia of ideologies and coarse nationalisms to fill the void.”
and anti-realism is, at least, a century old. Does Science describe the real world – or are its theories true only within a certain conceptual framework? Is science only instrumental or empirically adequate or is there more to it than that? Jose Ortega y Gasset said (in an unrelated exchange) that all ideas stem from pre-rational beliefs. William James concurred by saying that accepting a truth often requires an act of will which goes beyond facts and into the realm of feelings. Maybe so, but is there
“Design is everything. Everything!”, said once Paul Rand. Design is everything that surrounds us, every visual outcome, every visual experience, every solution created. Design is everything; design is everywhere. Even though is said lightly, the ramification of stating that “Design is everywhere” brings within a bigger picture: design is everywhere because of its relationship with culture, society and the people who is part of it. Without even noticing, design defines and is defined by individuals
bourgeois family in Fuente Vaqueros, in Andalusia, Spain, in 1898. His mother was a teacher and his father a rich farm labourer. He read literature and music at Granada University and in 1919, at the age of 21, he published his first book, Impresiones y Paisaijes, that was inspired by a trip around Spain that he took as part of his degree. That year, Lorca went to Madrid to continue with his studies. He moved into the Residence of Scholars (residencia de estudiantes), a liberal institution that taught
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<a href="http://www.geocities.com/vaksam/">Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Many futurologists - professional (Toffler) and less so (Naisbitt) - tried their hand at predicting the future. They proved quite successful at predicting major trends but not as lucky in delineating their details. This is because, inevitably, every futurologist has to resort to crude tools such as extrapolation. The modern day versions of biblical prophets are much better informed