Chains of Dependency
On the Disenchantment and the Illusion of Being Free at Last (Part 2)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11952869 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Smeyers (0000-0001-5427-8014, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 461-471 |
| Publication date | 2012-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Philosophy of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-8249 • E-ISSN: 1467-9752 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2012.00862.x |
| OpenAlex | W1740895909 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This paper is the sequel to Part 1, which appeared in this Journal, Vol. 46 No. 2, 2012. Following Cavell and his insistence that we should not try to escape from the existential conditions we find ourselves in and look for false certainties, the relevance of embracing a particular stance is elaborated. A commitment to giving substance to an ideal of the good life is neither an injustice towards the other nor an ignorance of her freedom. On the contrary, here responsibility is accepted and at the same time it is acknowledged that we always have only the particular points of departure that we contingently start from. Coming to terms with this kind of dependency constitutes living out the scepticism that is implied by our being human: the logic of this is given along with our human condition
Cognitive psychology · Dependency (UML · Disenchantment · Higher education · Illusion · Media studies · Philosophy of education · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Law · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |