If we categorize religions according to whether they give greater prominence to time or to space, the role of “promise” marks a religion of covenant as clearly a religion of time. Yet the future is unknowable and can only be present to us as a field of possibilities. How far do these possibilities extend? The question directs us back to the nature of time, a question that became concealed in th...

The fundamental principles of modern dialectical philosophy derive from Hegel. He sums them up as follows. `Everything is inherently contradictory ... Contradiction is the root of all movement and vitality, it is only in so far as something has a contradiction within it that it moves, has an urge and activity' (Hegel 1969, 439). In Hegel's philosophy these ideas form part of an all-embracing id...

ion is from many things to extract the common or essential features, and abandon their different and non–essential features. In the long–term and repeated the test of practice, for those essential features having invariance or absoluteness, which can’t use empirical methods to verify in reality, should belong to metaphysical category. And the others belong to the scope of natural science. Mathe...

We describe the genesis of this special issue on ‘philosophy in/on translation’: a symposium led to formation successful research group. The interface between philosophy and translation studies has become fruitful field, as evidenced by growing number conferences publications. Research into addresses three topics, identified Anthony Pym: what philosophers have said about translation; how theori...

In the Indonesian context, philosophy is described as human philosophy, which attempts to reflect and bring together basic complicated concepts about humans surrounding life. Philosophy articulated by at least three meanings. To begin, are evaluated via Western interpretations, notably colonialization, for advantage of West. The second perspective, views Indonesians through lens indigenous know...

What is “Formal Epistemology”? Not sure, really. I first heard the term from Sahotra Sarkar in 2003 . It seems that it is quite a broad field, which includes: Ampliative inference (including inductive logic); Game theory and decision theory; Formal learning theory; Formal theories of coherence: Foundations of probability and statistics; Formal approaches to paradoxes of belief and/or act...

In 1956, Hans Selye tentatively suggested that the scientific study of stress could 'help us to formulate a precise program of conduct' and 'teach us the wisdom to live a rich and meaningful life'. Nearly two decades later, Selye expanded this limited vision of social order into a full-blown philosophy of life. In Stress without Distress, first published in 1974, he proposed an ethical code of ...

There is a phenomenon that often arises when a philosophy argues that there are limits to thought/language, and tries to justify this view by giving reasons as to why there are things about which one cannot think/talk—in the process appearing to give the lie to the claim. I will be concerned with that phenomenon. We will look at some of philosophies that fall into this camp (those of Wittgenste...

This essay historically explores philosophical views about the nature and significance of human sexuality, starting with the Ancient Greeks and ending with late 20th-century Western philosophy. Important figures from the history of philosophy (and theology) discussed include Sappho, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, the Pelagians, St. Thomas Aquinas, Michel de Montaigne, Rene Descart...