2015 Sayı 24

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Distrusting the “Archimedean view” of philosophy: A plea for tolerance in the ”voices and conversations of mankind”
(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2015) Udefi, Amaechi
It is not uncommon to hear philosophers or even students of philosophy when asked to define their discipline to say that philosophy is the ‘queen of the sciences’, ‘first philosophy’, and so on. These phrases and appellations are often deliberately ascribed to philosophy to denote its centrality to human existence and pursuits as well as its rootedness or connection to other disciplines. They can attempt to justify this by jokingly saying that after all, the academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy’ (Ph.D), which is usually awarded after some years of research and course work is given in due respect and obeisance to its ancestry and gerontologically prior to all classes of knowledge viz, humanities, social sciences and natural science. At a deeper level, it offers useful insights into knowing the business and preoccupation of philosophers from the ancient through modern to contemporary periods. Here, the main concern of the philosopher is to conceive philosophy and its task as ‘a cognitive enterprise and attempt to establish/ through conceptual analysis, any claims to knowledge. In this conception, philosophy examines the substructure of issues and raises foundational or second-order questions. The intent of this paper is to show that philosophy still retains its original image, but its omnibus interpretation and application by some scholars in the present times throw up some problems, one of which is the dictatorial and hegemonic tone implicit in the conception which may inadvertently marginalize and sideline the emergence of other forms of discourses.
An examination of David Hume’s use of “propositon” and “deduction” in Hume’s law: An objection to the standart interpretation of the “is-ought” problem
(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2015) Erdenk, Emre Arda
Contemporary scholars frequently interpreted Hume’s Law as a logical or semantic thesis. Accordingly, no argument can have a conclusion with moral content without having at least one premise containing a moral term. This interpretation depends on the misconception of Hume’s use of the terms “proposition” and “deduction”. I argue that “proposition” and “deduction” in the relevant context should not be interpreted anachronistically. The correct interpretation of these terms would be that; (i) “proposition” has no special (logical) meaning, and (ii) “deduction” means very broadly all types of multi-step inferences. In this case, Hume’s Law offers a wider claim than the logical and semantic thesis suggest. In this paper, I am going to argue for this correct interpretation of Hume’s use of the terms “proposition” and “deduction”. If we appeal to this correct interpretation, we can see that Hume’s thesis has no specifically a logical or semantic point. Hume wants to argue instead that our moral judgments have no underpinning psychological relations of ideas or matters of facts. According to this interpretation, it can be seen that the crucial term of the “is-ought” passage is Hume’s “relations”.
Good governance, leadership and making decision
(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2015) Slimane, Melouki
Frequency in recent years, the term «good governance», which was reduced in some of the literature of political science and systems of governance under the word «governance» is not enough .I believe that the worst thing we suffered in our modern history can be shortened in the «lack of vision» and «weak insight» or « poverty of imagination ». We were not inspired by the footsteps of enlightened thought or culture rooted, but the past is always in dispute and clear among the holders of power and decision-makers in the side and awareness of history and political culture on the other side, so missed opportunities and wasted resources and disappeared vision and missed awareness. The reviewing what happened in the last three decades, we will discover that great sin lies in the poverty of imagination and lack of foreseeing vision in every field from education through to health and access to a low of basic services and the decline in indicators of social justice, which means clearly the absence of «good governance» and the disappearance of its components for the benefit of individual agendas, and with a case of lack of clarity or the ability to read the future, including making us prisoners of random intellectual reflected. Therefore, the objective study of recent years will put our hand clearly citizen malady underlying causes of error which robbed judgment vitality and its ability to regenerate and wounding some kind of sag due to aging political and ending life span, length of the growing period to stay in power leads to disastrous results paid for by the people of present and future, as they move away necessarily about the characteristics of good governance.
The logical limits and the ontological principle of the idea of university
(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2015) Bilgiç, Meriç
This article settles an account with the idea of “university” that has been a traditional debate in philosophy. An idea can be accepted as necessarily true by a consensus among some reasonable people, if and only if, its premises could be grounded on true knowledge, and its result could be reached by true reasoning. Then, we have three questions: What is the idea of university, why should it be necessary, and how can a norm be grounded on knowledge? Behind the idea of modern university there is a principle called “Universitas”, named “metaphysics” by Kant, and “prote philosophia” by Aristotle. The opposite of it would be postmodern university, called “multiversity” in principle. Here, we ground the norm Universitas by the logical form of reductio ad absurdum, under the light of the knowledge of the value of some possibilities of human being, or simply, of human dignity
Mediating ethnic identities in Africa
(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2015) Ebijuwa, Temisanren; Gbadegesin, Adeniyi Sulaiman
In recent times, African states have experienced multiple challenges. The most disturbing is the inability to evolve a sustainable culture of dialogue that is suitable for the mitigation of ethnic conflicts in contemporary Africa. It is this failure that has generated many other problems in other spheres. These problems, in concert, have made the socio-political space largely that of frustration, despair and disappointment. This accounts for the social design of unhealthy alliances and the basis for the affirmation of parochial primordial frivolities at the detriment of a trans-national identity. But why have the affirmation of these primordial alliances and its attendant conflicts remain daunting, intricate and resilient, in spite of the several attempts by scholars to mitigate it? The attempt in this paper will be to argue that extant discourse of the above concern fails because it ignores the value of the conditions for the practical realisation of agreement in situations of conflict. Specifically, the attempt here is to explore indigenous mediation strategies in arriving at trans-national identity in Africa, which will be inclusive other than the divisive structure that has exclusive character inherent in extant discourse.This paper, therefore, will employ the analytic-descriptive method to interrogate the above in a manner many scholars are wont to ignore. Hence, it is expected that this paper will initiate a perspective that will challenge extant interpretation of the conditions of dialogue and consequently human solidarity in African States.
Re-thinking on modern political theory: Political theology and political messianism
(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2015) Güngörmez, Bengül; Uludağ Üniversitesi/Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi/Sosyoloji Bölümü.
According to modern social theory political science belongs to secular domains of social sciences, it is scientific and it immunes from theology. However, in political theory and political philosophy this view is outmoded and one sided today. In this paper I will examine the transformation of modern political theory after German political philosopher Carl Schmitt’s understanding of modern political theory as “political theology”. With this aim, I will evaulate theologicopolitical leitmotives of modernity and modern political theory such as reason and revelation distinction in philosophy, immanentize the Christian Eschaton, millenarianism (belief that an ideal world will be achieved in the near future), worldly or immanent salvation and particular attention is paid to political messianism and religiosity after secularism.
A review from denotation to denoting
(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2015) Alvandı, Ebrahim Oshni
Gray’s Elegy is an argument towards meaning and denotation of denoting concepts. Denoting concepts occur in propositions and quantifier phrases occur in the sentences that express those propositions. Russell used this argument to distinguish meaning from denotation. The study will follow this argument comparing two other ideas raised by Makin and Pakaluk. The paper ends up discussing the meaning of a denoting phrase or a complex in a proposition which becomes about the denotation by a chain of objects and ideas. A formulization will be introduced for the proposal at the final step.
A study on the criticisms about Foucault’s opinion of power
(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2015) Becermen, Metin; Uludağ Üniversitesi/Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi/Felsefe Bölümü.
In this study, will be made the evaluation of some criticisms made for Foucault’s power views in the context of state and power relationship. While doing this, first of all Foucault’s views about the power will be discussed shortly in this context and then the criticisms will be examined. Finally, an evaluation will be made moving from Foucault’s ideas. Foucault criticizes the viewpoints discussing the power dependent on the state. Because according to him, such kind of evaluations remains insufficient while discussing power problem. However, power has a wider and more common basis. Of course, the state has an important role in the functioning of the power; however this is not mean that power is equal to the state. On the other hand, the power is running not only with the power of the rules but also through the norms when the law is concerned. Right runs in the context of a “game of norm”. This doesn’t mean that to reduce the rules to the norms or to say that the rules are insignificant in legal procedures. This, rather, emphasizes the role of norm in the law.
The value and the indispensability of justice in the quest for development in Africa
(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2015) Olatunji, Felix O.
The discourse about justice in any society is unquestioned, and interpreting this in the context of other influences and isolating the significance of justice towards development is challenging. Justice has been accepted as one of the fundamentals of democracy whether in its old form from the Athenian city-states to the new waves in its representative form. Examining justice as being sacred to human society is important in the sacredness of human dignity. But the problem today is the way the ‘leaders’ of new modern-day democracies tend to look at the discourse and praxis of justice because transparency, common good and truth among others, which are the hall-marks of justice, have been eroded especially in countries below the Mediterranean. The tenets of justice have been replaced with manipulation, relativism, negotiations, inequality, usurpation of power, compromises among others. The thrust of this paper will be to thematise the discourse of justice and its significance as a sacred issue in the governance of human societies towards enduring development. If the dignity of man is sacred in itself, so also the discourse of justice cannot be under-valued. Hence, the sacredness of the nature of social justice will be examined, and argued for in the quest for survival and sustenance of Africa. The paper will therefore, project that justice is a necessity in human society and without it; there will be no peace and development. In order to achieve our objective, this paper will employ descriptive-analytic method towards examining the significant roles justice, if enthroned, will engender towards development in Africa. It is, therefore, expected that this paper will initiate a platform in the discussion of justice for the attainment of authentic development in Africa.

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