The World as Idea

Filozofski vestnik, 2021

The world has not always been there. At least not in philosophy. This two-part article examines the complex interplay of concepts among which the idea of the world appeared, and analyses the characteristics that allow it to play a central role in the space of philosophy. These are found to be fundamentally two. First, its capacity to identify with the idea of a closed, ordered totality (the classic idea of the cosmos), at the same time as it erodes the consistency of the latter and opens the philosophical space onto a positive use of the idea of indetermination. And second, the way in which it operates inside several well-ordered philosophical systems as a point of confusion: as a blurred point that lacks the type of clarity and distinction normally required of philosophical concepts, and that nonetheless appears to be important enough not to be expelled from philosophy. The first part of the article, published in this issue, reconstructs some of the coordinates within which the pro...

Filozofski vestnik, 2021

CONTENTS: Introduction: The World According to Contemporary Philosophy Rok Benčin The World: The Tormented History of an Inescapable Para-Concept Bruno Besana World? Which World? On Some Pitfalls of a Concept Peter Klepec On Acosmic Realism Roland Végső The Actuality of a World: What Ceases Not to Be Written Ruth Ronen The End of Life Is Not the Worst: On Heidegger’s Notion of the World Jan Völker The Anatomy of the World Magdalena Germek Capital, Logic of the World Nick Nesbitt World(s) Marina Gržinić Worlds as Transcendental and Political Fictions Rok Benčin Dispersed Are We: The Novel of Worlds and the World of the Novel in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts Jean-Jacques Lecercle Architecture and the Distribution of the Sensible Nika Grabar How the True World Finally Became Virtual Reality Anna Longo Spectres of Eternal Return: Benjamin and Deleuze Read Leibniz Noa Levin

Beshara Magazine, 2020

reviews Bernardo Kastrup's recent book, which aims to reinstate consciousness as the fundamental principle of reality Bernardo Kastrup is a man with a mission. His mission is to persuade us that the current scientific view of the world is wrong-seriously wrong. Reality is not what we have been told it is. It is not fundamentally made up of material stuff despite the apparent evidence of our senses and the work of scientists. No, reality is simply and only consciousness clothed in many and varied guises. Expressed more formally, Kastrup argues against the prevalent philosophy of materialism or physicalism and argues for the philosophy of idealism. He comes well equipped and well qualified for his self-appointed mission. He has a PhD in Computer Engineering and has worked as a research scientist at CERN, so he knows the physicalist paradigm from the inside and in depth. From science he turned to philosophy and a second PhD for work on ontology and the philosophy of mind. This unique combination of knowledge and experience has led to many publications. The Idea of the World-subtitled 'A multidisciplinary argument for the mental nature of reality' [1]-bundles together ten articles by him which have previously been published in academic journals spanning the fields of philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry and physics between 2017 and 2018.

Filozofski vestnik, 2021

The aim of this essay is not to provide a solution to a theoretical problem or a clear guide to political action, but merely to point out 1-in the least technical way possible-certain pitfalls that await us when we attempt to define the concept of world. The latter, in fact, is one of those concepts that seem simple, clear, and self-evident, but ultimately turn out to be very slippery, elusive, and tricky. The very mention of the word "world" constantly leads to ambiguity and paradox for several reasons. First, the word "world" constantly shifts between its cosmological, ontological, theological, chronological, anthropological, sociological, political, and existential meanings. 2 Second, the word "world" can have contradictory meanings even within a single meaning, especially with regard to its definition in terms of space, time, and ontology. The consequences of this affect its strict definition. Moreover, third, the world involves a peculiar paradox. It is with us from the beginning, it is always already there, but not really, or at least not yet completely-what appears to us as the world is either not the world at all, but an erroneous, inaccurate, or false conception of it, or the world itself is not yet at the level of its own concept. Yes, the world is there, but that does not mean it is simply identified with being (all that is) out there. This may seem strange, since "being there", "presence", "the outside", "the real world", and "the external reality" are often used as synonyms for "the world". There are 1 This article is a result of the research programme P6-0014 "Conditions and Problems of Contemporary Philosophy" and the research project J6-9392 "The Problem of Objectivity and Fiction in Contemporary Philosophy", which are funded by the Slovenian Research Agency. 2 There is, of course, a great deal of philosophical discussion on this subject. Although we will not deal with the history of these discussions, here we have drawn on the following recent overviews of the subject:

2009

How are we to make sense of the Bible in the context of the modern world? In this book, you will discover a new way of perceiving the world; a way in which the biblical view of the world can be seen as just as true-for-us as the modern scientific view of the world. The World Perceived explores how we think about the world, how we perceive the world, and how we choose to live our lives in-the-world. Using phenomenology as a philosophical framework for the construction of a biblical theology of appearances, the author illustrates how the biblical description of reality is of far greater relevance to us than are the descriptions of reality given to us by modern science and popular science writers. By exploring the epistemological bases of both science and theology as a forms of knowledge along with the assumptions implicit within both worldviews, The World Perceived invites the reader upon an intellectual journey into the world of phenomenal reality. The author makes a strong case for the validity of the biblical description of the world and reality by demonstrating how the modern scientific description of the world and reality are in no way superior to the biblical description. Using three examples of conflicting scientific and biblical descriptions of the world (i.e., the geocentric versus the heliocentric conception of the universe, creation versus evolution, and absolute time versus relative time) The World Perceived demonstrates the Bible's relevancy to the modern world, which is often hostile to both religion and the Bible, like no other book on the market today.

Filozofski vestnik, 2021

Introduction to the special issue The Concept of World in Contemporary Philosophy

Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion, 2020

We have no other experience of God but the human experience, claims Emmanuel Falque. We – human beings – are in the world. Whatever we do, whatever we think and whatever we experience happens in the world and is mediated by the manner of the world. This also includes religious experience. Reflection on the possibility of religious experience – the experience of God – suggests that the world is interrupted by someone or something that is not of the world. The Christian worldview makes the tension explicit, which is perhaps why theology neglects the concept and fails in any proper sense to address the world. Through following the phenomenologist Jan Patočka, critiquing the theologian Johann B. Metz and exploring the theological turn in phenomenology, I will face the challenge and argue for a genuine engagement with the world as a theological problem.

Grey Room, 2015

2019

Abstract: Thinking about the Transcendent Worldview and its Immanence. -- Key Words: Thinking, Philosophy, Worlds Theory, Worldview