item: #1 of 79 id: dianoia-10061 author: Kim, Lucia title: Issue I (Spring 2012) date: 2017 words: 23655 flesch: 62 summary: While nature provides its own rule, according to Kant, the rule for Art, is manifested through the individuals’ talent in so far as “beautiful art is only possible as a product of Genius.” When we think of the surrealist movement, of Rodin’s drawings of prostitutes, of interpretive dance, or of certain works of modern art, many of us find nothing beautiful on the surface, and we even feel discomfort rather than pleasure upon viewing it. keywords: alex; art; beckett; dianoia; draper; form; foucault; godot; good; heidegger; ibid; imagination; judgment; kant; life; man; men; nature; new; philosophy; plato; pleasure; print; reason; society; taste; truth; waiting; way; work; world cache: dianoia-10061.pdf plain text: dianoia-10061.txt item: #2 of 79 id: dianoia-10064 author: Kim, Lucia title: Issue II (Spring 2013) date: 2017 words: 1124 flesch: 61 summary: e Grand Inquisitor Notes from the Underground is Basic Writings of Existentialism Existentialism Existentialism Basic Writings of Existentialism 30 DIANOIA UNDERGRADUATE PHILOSOPHY JOURNAL ! e Absurd in Camus and Frankl 10 DIANOIA UNDERGRADUATE PHILOSOPHY JOURNAL !e keywords: batman; dianoia; philosophy cache: dianoia-10064.pdf plain text: dianoia-10064.txt item: #3 of 79 id: dianoia-10461 author: Forslund, Noah title: Spinoza the Hindu: Advaita Interpretations of The Ethics date: 2018 words: 4924 flesch: 50 summary: Advaita philosophy promotes a similar human union with God, since atman is non-different from brahman. It is from this foundational understanding of substance that Spinoza derives the claim that “there can be, or be conceived, no other substance but God,” and, that, consequently, “whatever is, is in God, and nothing can be or be conceived without God. keywords: advaita; brahman; god; human; knowledge; reality; spinoza cache: dianoia-10461.pdf plain text: dianoia-10461.txt item: #4 of 79 id: dianoia-10462 author: Stanley, Matthew A. title: A Conversation with Heidegger and the Kyoto School on Nothingness date: 2018 words: 7652 flesch: 64 summary: Abe calls this “self- centeredness,” an obstacle to truly knowing other things. Because self-centeredness presumes that other things are not settled within themselves and not sufficient unto themselves. keywords: anxiety; dasein; heidegger; nishitani; nothingness; object; self; things cache: dianoia-10462.pdf plain text: dianoia-10462.txt item: #5 of 79 id: dianoia-10464 author: Cartaya, Jazlyn title: The Representational Fallacy and the Ontology of Time date: 2018 words: 7317 flesch: 63 summary: This example successfully shows that we cannot translate tensed sentences into tenseless sentences without loss of meaning. (Russell 1915; Goodman 1951: 287-301; Quine 1960: 36; Smart 1963: 132-42).21 B-theorists tried to appeal to parsimony or Ockham’s razor to support their claim that tenseless sentences displayed the true nature of reality, since tenseless sentences on their own imply the existence of fewer entities than tensed sentences (and are thus preferred) (Dyke 2007: 43). keywords: language; reality; sentences; time; truth cache: dianoia-10464.pdf plain text: dianoia-10464.txt item: #6 of 79 id: dianoia-10465 author: Fineman, Max title: Revolution, Revelation, Responsibility: Emancipatory Futures in Benjamin and Habermas date: 2018 words: 5625 flesch: 45 summary: Thus, divine violence destroys law, firstly, in the sense that it replaces the methods of control used by legal violence with direct annihilation wherever it finds something it regards as a transgression. Based on a critique of the instrumental use of legal violence, Benjamin argues that this violence inevitably will serve the interests of state power, and he concludes that the only remedy to this situation is the total annihilation of the legal order. keywords: benjamin; divine; law; means; violence cache: dianoia-10465.pdf plain text: dianoia-10465.txt item: #7 of 79 id: dianoia-10466 author: Fahey, Christopher title: A Defense of the Gods: Interpreting Plato's Myth of Er date: 2018 words: 5851 flesch: 65 summary: 84 Plato, Republic, 379c. 85 Ibid., 380b-c. 79Issue V F Spring 2018 A Defense of the Gods and had become just and pious, they were rewarded according to the same scale.86 The totally incorrigible receive their just punishment as well, and are “thrown into Tartarus” for eternity.87 Socrates also upholds the second point—that the gods should not be blamed for the bad that befalls humans. At the same time, a “critique of myth” is to be found in Plato because Socrates never subscribes to “undiscriminating, uncritically naive acceptance of what is handed down” through myth.94 Indeed, Pieper says that “defend[ing] the truth about the gods as it is revealed in legitimate sacred tradition [...] defines Plato’s most genuine aim. keywords: annas; ibid; johnson; myth; plato; socrates cache: dianoia-10466.pdf plain text: dianoia-10466.txt item: #8 of 79 id: dianoia-10467 author: Victor, Jon Stuart title: Language and Signs in Heidegger's What is Called Thinking date: 2018 words: 3589 flesch: 66 summary: Yet, while any combination of signs can yield new meaning, there can be only one relationship of sign to signifier. Language as a combination of signs is constantly productive, but the relation of sign to signifier, or of human to Being, is transcendent, in that it is fixed in its singular meaning. keywords: heidegger; language; sign cache: dianoia-10467.pdf plain text: dianoia-10467.txt item: #9 of 79 id: dianoia-10468 author: Klapes, Peter title: Masthead date: 2018 words: 164 flesch: 44 summary: The materials herein represent the personal opinions of the individual authors and do not necessarily represent the views of Dianoia or Boston College. Dianoia The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Boston College Spring 2018 Issue V Boston College 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/mcas/departments/philosophy/undergraduate/dianoia.html keywords: boston cache: dianoia-10468.pdf plain text: dianoia-10468.txt item: #10 of 79 id: dianoia-10470 author: Klapes, Peter title: Author Biographies date: 2018 words: 774 flesch: 49 summary: Other specific areas of philosophical interest include philosophy of art, philosophy of religion, and existentialism. JAZLYN CARTAYA New York University Jazlyn Cartaya is a recent graduate of New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, with a BFA in Film and TV and Philosophy. keywords: college; philosophy; senior; university cache: dianoia-10470.pdf plain text: dianoia-10470.txt item: #11 of 79 id: dianoia-10472 author: Hasdan, Leah title: Praxis of the Soviet Avant-Garde date: 2018 words: 4898 flesch: 53 summary: However, Adorno mentions that the Soviet artist, through his violence—in enforcing the pragmatic direction of reformism and in moments where Constructivist art merely reverts to industry of pedagogical directness—creates an impositional alterity that severs their art from its autonomous roots. This loss of revolutionary experience isolates theory from its praxis by collapsing the distinction between the artwork and its message: What since then has been called the problem of praxis and today culminates in the question of the relation between theory and praxis coincides with the loss of experience caused by the rationality of the eternally same. keywords: adorno; art; experience; new; praxis cache: dianoia-10472.pdf plain text: dianoia-10472.txt item: #12 of 79 id: dianoia-10538 author: Klapes, Peter title: Letter from the Editors date: 2018 words: 489 flesch: 54 summary: Dianoia Philosophy Journal Issue V Spr 18 FINAL PDF NO CROP MARKS.pdf 5Issue V � Spring 2018 Spring 2018 After a lengthy review process, we selected for publication seven truly impressive philosophical works which present a diverse array of philosophical themes. keywords: journal; philosophy cache: dianoia-10538.pdf plain text: dianoia-10538.txt item: #13 of 79 id: dianoia-10539 author: Klapes, Peter title: Acknowledgements date: 2018 words: 147 flesch: 26 summary: 4 The Editorial Staff of Dianoia: The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Boston College would like to extend our sincerest thanks to the following individuals for their assistance in making this issue of Dianoia possible: Nancy Adams, BC Libraries Mary Crane, Institute for the Liberal Arts RoseMarie DeLeo, Philosophy Susan Dunn, Center for Centers Rev. Gary Gurtler, S.J., Philosophy Department Peter Marino, Center for Centers Cherie McGill, Philosophy Department Jane Morris, BC Libraries Dermot Moran, Philosophy Department Paula Perry, Philosophy Department Christopher Soldt, Media Technology Services Eileen Sweeney, Philosophy Department Rev. Ronald Tacelli, S.J., Philosophy Department We would also like to thank Rev. Dr. Ronald Tacelli, S.J., of the B.C. Philosophy Department, for his invaluable assistance as our advisor. keywords: philosophy cache: dianoia-10539.pdf plain text: dianoia-10539.txt item: #14 of 79 id: dianoia-10922 author: Celie, Karel-Bart title: Issue III (Spring 2014) date: 2017 words: 51793 flesch: 38 summary: Nietzsche, Portable Nietzsche, 491. 44 Nietzsche, Basic Writings, 710. Nietzsche, Portable Nietzsche, 122. keywords: 902980_text.indd; argument; banksy; dianoia; e vig; enpu evig; evi g; evig reven; evig revenreve; existence; faith; form; god; hegel; ibid; iii reven; kierkegaard; life; man; new; nietzsche; paradox; philosophy; pu evig; pu evigreven; public; rev en; reve n; reven pu; reven reven; reven revenreven; revenreven pu; self; undergraduate; way cache: dianoia-10922.pdf plain text: dianoia-10922.txt item: #15 of 79 id: dianoia-11709 author: Klapes, Peter title: Acknowledgements date: 2019 words: 126 flesch: -6 summary: 4 The Editorial Staff of Dianoia: The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Boston College would like to extend our sincerest thanks to the following individuals for their assistance in making this issue of Dianoia possible: Nancy Adams, BC Libraries Mary Crane, Institute for the Liberal Arts Susan Dunn, Center for Centers Gabriel Feldstein, BC Libraries Gary Gurtler, S.J., Philosophy Department Stephen Jarjoura, Information Technology Services Peter Marino, Center for Centers Cherie McGill, Philosophy Department Sarah Melton, BC Libraries Dermot Moran, Philosophy Department John O'Connor, BC Libraries Paula Perry, Philosophy Department Sarah Smith, Philosophy Department Christopher Soldt, Media Technology Services Zachary Willcutt, Philosophy Department We would also like to thank Dr. Ronald Tacelli, S.J., of the Boston College Philosophy Department, for his invaluable assistance as our advisor. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS keywords: philosophy cache: dianoia-11709.pdf plain text: dianoia-11709.txt item: #16 of 79 id: dianoia-11727 author: Beaudin Pearson, Natasha title: Merleau-Ponty and Barthes on Image Consciousness: Probing the (Im)possibility of Meaning date: 2019 words: 4011 flesch: 63 summary: Spectators might be wounded by different punctums, which are, as Barthes puts it, “outside of meaning. Richard Howard (New York: Hill and Wang, 1981), 26. 4 Barthes, Camera Lucida, 19-20. 9Issue VI ◆ Spring 2019 Merleau-Ponty and Barthes on Image Consciousness unity” of the world,5 Barthes contends that “since every photograph is contingent (and thereby outside of meaning), photography cannot signify (aim at a generality) except by assuming a mask. keywords: barthes; freud; ibid; meaning; merleau; ponty; punctum cache: dianoia-11727.pdf plain text: dianoia-11727.txt item: #17 of 79 id: dianoia-11729 author: Chambers, Brendan title: Phenomenological Reproduction in Thompson and Mailer's New Journalism date: 2019 words: 7198 flesch: 44 summary: The March, for Mailer, is an almost incommunicably chaotic event; however, by placing himself at the center of it in his retelling, he builds an image of Norman Mailer which, though at times confusing and complex, is nonetheless solid. (Penguin Books, 2018), 54 57 Mailer, 76. 40 Dianoia: The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Boston College Upon arrival at this climactic scene, the first detail that Mailer notes is the chaotic mix of cymbals, chanting, and spoken word played by the Fugs. keywords: eason; experience; ibid; image; journalism; mailer; new; novel; reader; reality; thompson; world cache: dianoia-11729.pdf plain text: dianoia-11729.txt item: #18 of 79 id: dianoia-11731 author: Gavaris, Peter title: The Horror of the Real: Filmic Form, The Century, and Fritz Lang's M date: 2019 words: 3681 flesch: 57 summary: Since the film’s form loudly announces its own ineptitude, we are pointed to this infinite opening more frequently than when engaging with other artistic forms. We see this surreptitious absolution in the sheer cruelty of the criminals and other residents of Berlin who put Beckert on trial, and who laugh and jeer at the killer as he begs for his life. keywords: art; badiou; beckert; century; film; real cache: dianoia-11731.pdf plain text: dianoia-11731.txt item: #19 of 79 id: dianoia-11733 author: Cardoza, Ryan title: Cognition, Domination and Complexity: A Speculative Outline of Intersections Between Cognitive Activity and Structures of Control, and their Relation to Dynamics of Complexity and Simplicity date: 2019 words: 7753 flesch: 47 summary: Stratification will be a useful concept, because we can use it to talk about the convergence of certain tendencies two different levels of matter without equivocating between levels. 47Issue VI ◆ Spring 2019 Cognition, Domination and Complexity the nature of stratification at the other level; there is no equivocation between levels, only an “isomorphism without correspondence”5 between the two. 3) Scientific Conceptualization; Physics In his Will to Power, Friedrich Nietzsche writes that “Thinking in primitive conditions (pre-organic) is the crystallization of forms, as in the case of a crystal.—In our thought, the essential feature is fitting new material into old schemas (=Procrustes’ bed), making equal what is new.”6 keywords: abstract; chaos; collapse; complex; control; level; new; simplicity; world; york cache: dianoia-11733.pdf plain text: dianoia-11733.txt item: #20 of 79 id: dianoia-11737 author: Wade, Maxwell title: Walter Benjamin's "Über den Begriff der Geschichte" and the Marxist Tradition date: 2019 words: 6237 flesch: 55 summary: Political Theory 12, no. 3 (1984): 423-434. 62 Dianoia: The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Boston College Perhaps one of the most basic difficulties in Benjamin scholarship with “On the Concept of History” is the plethora of interpretations around it, many of which contradict each other. A Companion to the Works of Walter Benjamin. keywords: benjamin; engels; history; ibid; marx; marxism; past; text; time; walter cache: dianoia-11737.pdf plain text: dianoia-11737.txt item: #21 of 79 id: dianoia-11739 author: Vidal, Gabriel title: Patočka's Critique of Husserl: The Possibility of A-Subjective Phenomenology date: 2019 words: 7060 flesch: 52 summary: 10 Walter Biemel, “Las Fases Decisivas En El Desarrollo de La Filosofía de Husserl,” in Husserl. This implies the task of debunking two theses: on one hand, the idea that the subject is the creator of the objects that appear to him and, on the other, the idea of the absolute independence of objects, or the thesis of the thing in itself.3 The path taken by Husserl in order to debunk both theses aims to restore the connection between the two dimensions at stake—subjectivity, and objectivity—by putting at the forefront their correlation. keywords: appearance; consciousness; husserl; ibid; object; patočka; phenomenology; subject; thing; way cache: dianoia-11739.pdf plain text: dianoia-11739.txt item: #22 of 79 id: dianoia-11741 author: Casey, Myles title: Book Review: Discomfort and Moral Impediment by Julio Cabrera (Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 2019) date: 2019 words: 3116 flesch: 32 summary: Cabrera then turns to more ontological considerations of human being, in chapters 2 and 3, to articulate his concept of “negative ethics,” the question of discomfort, and the status of “value” in human life. human being as having a non-exhaustive trifold structure—[a] human life, from birth has a “decaying” structure that can end at any point; [b] human life’s decaying-being is characterized by three kinds of “frictions’—physical pain, discouragement (i.e., the possibility of “lacking the will” to continue to be), and “exposure to the aggressions of other humans”; keywords: cabrera; creation; human; life; value cache: dianoia-11741.pdf plain text: dianoia-11741.txt item: #23 of 79 id: dianoia-11743 author: Klapes, Peter title: Author Biographies date: 2019 words: 731 flesch: 37 summary: GABRIEL VIDAL Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Gabriel Vidal Quinones is a student at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. 98 C O N TR IB U TO RS NATASHA BEAUDIN PEARSON McGill University Natasha Beaudin Pearson is a soon-to-be graduate of McGill University, where she completed a joint honours B.A. in philosophy and art history. keywords: boston; philosophy; university cache: dianoia-11743.pdf plain text: dianoia-11743.txt item: #24 of 79 id: dianoia-11745 author: Klapes, Peter title: A Letter from the Editor date: 2019 words: 689 flesch: 49 summary: The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Boston College represents, indeed, the world’s finest undergraduate work in philosophy. I am certain that such training will continue to influence our annual review and will continue to keep us firmly in our position as a top journal of undergraduate work in philosophy. keywords: boston; dianoia; philosophy cache: dianoia-11745.pdf plain text: dianoia-11745.txt item: #25 of 79 id: dianoia-11963 author: Klapes, Peter title: Full Text date: 2019 words: 40768 flesch: 50 summary: 53 Jan Patočka, “The Natural World and Phenomenology,” in Jan Patočka: Philosophy and Selected Writings (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989), 247. 86 Dianoia: The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Boston College attempts to add a thing-like essence (a thing that acts, thinks, and wants),54 in such a way that constitutes a special thing between other things that lack a self or ego. For example, the innovation of the photograph is “the first truly revolutionary means of reproduction […which] for the first time in world history, technological reproducibility emancipates the work of art from its parasitic subservience to ritual.” keywords: appearance; barthes; benjamin; boston; cabrera; century; college; complex; consciousness; dianoia; experience; fact; history; human; husserl; ibid; image; journal; level; life; mailer; marx; meaning; merleau; new; object; order; patočka; phenomenology; philosophy; ponty; press; reader; reality; self; spring; subject; thing; thompson; thought; time; undergraduate; university; way; work; world cache: dianoia-11963.pdf plain text: dianoia-11963.txt item: #26 of 79 id: dianoia-11967 author: Klapes, Peter title: Masthead date: 2019 words: 182 flesch: 23 summary: Editor-in-Chief: Peter Klapes Senior Managing Editor: Noah Valdez Managing Editors: Weitao Liu, Ethan Yates General Editors: Benjamin Dewhurst, Christopher Fahey, Jennifer Howard, Gregory Kacergis, Brian Kominick, Ana Luque, Elizabeth LoPreiato, Jacob Schick, Alexander Turney, Lauren White, Madeline Wolfe, Xinyu Zhou External Reviewers: Jeremy Freudberg (Boston University), Justin Messmer (Boston University), Tristan St. Germain (Brown University), Alexander Stooshinoff (Concordia University) Communications Editor: Jessica Flores Graduate Advisor: Myles Casey Faculty Advisor: Ronald Tacelli, S.J. Cover designs courtesy of Gregory Kacergis. The materials herein represent the personal opinions of the individual authors and do not necessarily represent the views of Dianoia or Boston College. keywords: boston; university cache: dianoia-11967.pdf plain text: dianoia-11967.txt item: #27 of 79 id: dianoia-12719 author: Valdez, Noah title: Full Text date: 2020 words: 27816 flesch: 51 summary: [T]he relevant [ethical] reasons for acting, on occasions when they co- exist with considerations that on their own would be reasons for acting otherwise, as, not overriding, but silencing those other considerations—as bringing it about that, in the circumstances, they are not reasons at all.25 I interpret these lines to mean that when a virtuous person is faced with the choice between different moral considerations, there are two possible ways in which he can perceive a situation: a) the non-virtuous considerations are silenced such that they stop being reasons for acting at all; therefore, such non-virtuous considerations stop being considerations (morally speaking, that is) at all and b) the competing non- virtuous considerations are moral considerations, as far as the agent is concerned; nonetheless, they are so implausible, in that they go against the virtuous nature of the agent, that his will silences them and he never takes such considerations seriously— let alone chooses them. 15Issue VII ◆ Spring 2020 δι αν οι α VIRTUE, SILENCING, AND PERCEPTION1 ABHI RUPARELIA Over the course of several influential articles, philosopher John McDowell describes the practical reasoning of the virtuous agent using an appeal to his distinctive perceptual abilities.2 McDowell argues that when such an agent deliberates about a course of action, he never sees any conflict between the demands of virtue and other competing non-virtuous considerations, because for him, the requirements of virtue silence the other competing reasons for action. keywords: act; agent; arendt; boston; cage; college; dianoia; earth; heidegger; human; ibid; injustice; john; journal; logic; man; mcdowell; nature; new; non; nothingness; person; philosophy; relation; silence; silencing; sound; technology; undergraduate; vii; virtue; virtuous; work; world cache: dianoia-12719.pdf plain text: dianoia-12719.txt item: #28 of 79 id: dianoia-12721 author: Valdez, Noah title: Author Biographies date: 2020 words: 485 flesch: 46 summary: On the side, he also likes to dabble in political philosophy and has recently started to become interested in mathematical logic. Her academic interests include political philosophy, particularly the philosophy of law and legal authority. keywords: philosophy; university cache: dianoia-12721.pdf plain text: dianoia-12721.txt item: #29 of 79 id: dianoia-12723 author: Valdez, Noah title: Acknowledgements date: 2020 words: 112 flesch: 2 summary: 5 The Editorial Staff of Dianoia: The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Boston College would like to extend our sincerest thanks to the following individuals for their assistance in making this issue of Dianoia possible: Mary Crane, Institute for the Liberal Arts Jacqueline Delgado, Center for Centers Susan Dunn, Center for Centers Gabriel Feldstein, BC Libraries Stephen Jarjoura, Information Technology Services Peter Marino, Center for Centers Cherie McGill, Philosophy Department Sarah Melton, BC Libraries Dermot Moran, Philosophy Department John O'Connor, BC Libraries Paula Perry, Philosophy Department Sarah Smith, Philosophy Department We would also like to thank Dr. Ronald Tacelli, S.J., of the Boston College Philosophy Department, for his invaluable assistance as our advisor. keywords: philosophy cache: dianoia-12723.pdf plain text: dianoia-12723.txt item: #30 of 79 id: dianoia-12727 author: Valdez, Noah title: A Letter From the Editor date: 2020 words: 750 flesch: 38 summary: 6 Dianoia: The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Boston College Spring 2020 Dear Reader, It is with great honor and pride that I present to you Issue VII of Dianoia: In the interest of philosophically engaging with COVID-19—a feat still quite rare in the early days of the virus—Dianoia is pleased to present an interview with the Joseph Chair in Catholic Philosophy and current Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Boston College, Dermot Moran, speaking on the pandemic and its assorted effects on everyday life. keywords: dianoia; journal; philosophy cache: dianoia-12727.pdf plain text: dianoia-12727.txt item: #31 of 79 id: dianoia-12729 author: Ruparelia, Abhi title: Virtue, Silencing and Perception date: 2020 words: 5171 flesch: 52 summary: That is, owing to the fact that there are no genuine losses on the part of the virtuous agent in failing to choose the non-virtuous reasons under rational silencing, none of the agent’s motivational energies are enticed in favor of non-virtuous considerations under motivational silencing. Analogously, the virtuous agent may perhaps acknowledge the existence of non-virtuous considerations – he might know that they exist – but he surely does not know what they are. keywords: agent; mcdowell; person; silencing; virtue; virtuous cache: dianoia-12729.pdf plain text: dianoia-12729.txt item: #32 of 79 id: dianoia-12731 author: Tseng, Sherry title: The Epistemic Injustice of Ex Contradictione Quodlibet date: 2020 words: 4121 flesch: 41 summary: As the future of AI is intrinsically bound to formal logic, the consequences of epistemic injustice will only become more evident and tangible lest we adopt some form of paraconsistent logic and adhere to logical pluralism. The assumption of triviality from contradiction in formal logic makes it such that the contradictions found within natural language on our social identities equally trivializes those contradictory aspects, and thereby, inflicts an epistemic injustice. keywords: alex; contradictione; injustice; logic; quodlibet; social; triviality cache: dianoia-12731.pdf plain text: dianoia-12731.txt item: #33 of 79 id: dianoia-12733 author: Bu, Chenyu title: Sound as Silence: Nothingness in the Music of Anton Webern and John Cage date: 2020 words: 4602 flesch: 55 summary: As a result, every heard sound becomes based on a subjective situation constructed essentially by the relationship between sound and another sound (i.e. the sound of relative silence, rather than an objective situation where sounds are the negative of silence or vice versa20). 2 Charles B. Guignon, and Derk Pereboom, Existentialism: Basic Writings, (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2001), 325. 37Issue VII ◆ Spring 2020 Sound as Silence The notion of the silence of the infinite space invoked by Pascal, however, sheds light upon a broader interpretation of Sartrean nothingness beyond the paradigm of being; namely, to the world of sound. keywords: cage; john; non; nothingness; relation; silence; sound cache: dianoia-12733.pdf plain text: dianoia-12733.txt item: #34 of 79 id: dianoia-12735 author: Gillette, Caroline title: Human (and) Nature: Using Arendt to Reconcile Models of Environmental Ethics date: 2020 words: 4130 flesch: 54 summary: That is, science has the same problem as math: it ceased to be a tool to understand what we learn about nature sensually, and has instead become more authoritative about reality than actual nature. Using Arendt to Reconcile Models of Environmental Ethics CAROLINE GILLETTE INTRODUCTION In The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt implicitly oscillates between two paradigms that relate the human to nature. keywords: arendt; earth; human; ibid; man; model; nature cache: dianoia-12735.pdf plain text: dianoia-12735.txt item: #35 of 79 id: dianoia-12737 author: Montero, Felipe Daniel title: Art, Technology and Truth in the Thought of Martin Heidegger date: 2020 words: 4668 flesch: 51 summary: a translation of Gelassenheit, (New York, Harper & Row, 1959) 4 Iain D. Thomson, Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 110 5 Martin Heidegger, “Vom Ursprung des Kunstwerks: Erste Ausarbeitung” Heidegger Studies Vol. 5 (1989): 5-22. We must take into account that even if the ancient Greeks could be said to have damaged nature just as much as the English did in the times of Francis Bacon, the difference between the two of them— and of unique interest to Heidegger—is how from a certain historical horizon nature can be seen as something to be dominated, which is clearly incompatible with the Greek conception of physis.10 9 Martin Heidegger, Vorträge und Aufsätze, (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2000), 17. keywords: art; earth; heidegger; ihde; new; technology; work; world; york cache: dianoia-12737.pdf plain text: dianoia-12737.txt item: #36 of 79 id: dianoia-12739 author: Moran, Dermot title: Interview with Dermot Moran date: 2020 words: 3372 flesch: 58 summary: Analytic philosophy then grew out from that breed of German scientific thought of the 20th century whereas Husserl and Heidegger influenced people like Gadamer, Arendt, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir, Kristeva and the more European thinkers that you tend to associate with continental philosophy. And that’s interesting too, continental people tend to be more interested in the arts and literature, and analytic philosophers often want to be piggybacking on science, mathematics, logic and so on. keywords: heidegger; moran; people; phenomenology; philosophy cache: dianoia-12739.pdf plain text: dianoia-12739.txt item: #37 of 79 id: dianoia-12741 author: Valdez, Noah title: Masthead date: 2020 words: 218 flesch: 25 summary: διανοιαDIANOIA The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Boston College Spring 2020 ISSUE VII διανοια Editor-in-Chief: Noah Valdez Senior Managing Editor: Ethan Yates Managing Editors: Nicholas Arozarena, Weitao Liu, Lauren White General Editors: Nicholas Avallone, Kathryn Bryson, Jacob Browning, Carolyn Chang, Yang Cheng, Benjamin Dewhurst, Lucy Hanson, Emily Haverstick, Wenyu Huang, Qihui Liu, Yue Liu, Elizabeth LoPreiato, Alexandria Mullen, Jacob Schick, Drew Thorburn, Maxwell Vogliano External Reviewers: Arabella Adams (Wellesley College), Nathan Evans (University of Northern Colorado), Tyler Hruby (Carleton College), Tristan St. Germain (Brown University) The materials herein represent the personal opinions of the individual authors and do not necessarily represent the views of Dianoia or Boston College. keywords: boston; college cache: dianoia-12741.pdf plain text: dianoia-12741.txt item: #38 of 79 id: dianoia-13409 author: Valdez, Noah title: Full Text date: 2021 words: 49381 flesch: 55 summary: We are assuming that Plutarch shares the commitment of his predecessors to moral virtue and its cultivation as necessary for human flourishing. It is worth noting that Lycurgus and Numa cultivate moral virtue in the Spartans and Romans not only as lawgivers, but also as examples. keywords: absolute; actions; admiration; argument; aristotle; art; book; boston; college; dianoia; education; ethical; ethics; good; hegel; hägglund; ibid; journal; kierkegaard; knowledge; law; life; lives; moral; people; philosophy; plato; plutarch; poetry; politics; press; qualia; socrates; spring; subjectivity; theory; time; torture; tradition; undergraduate; university; value; viii; virtues; way; work cache: dianoia-13409.pdf plain text: dianoia-13409.txt item: #39 of 79 id: dianoia-13701 author: Valdez, Noah title: Letter From The Editor date: 2021 words: 671 flesch: 55 summary: The union of these two pieces—from Bacon’s isolation to Yakovlev’s horizon of community—is a fitting image for our gradual return to a pre-COVID-19 lifestyle, and we enthusiastically look forward to holding future publication symposia in-person, to meetings on campus, and to seeing journal friends again, both old and new. Spring 2021 To the Reader, Welcome to Issue VIII of Dianoia: The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Boston College! keywords: dianoia; journal cache: dianoia-13701.pdf plain text: dianoia-13701.txt item: #40 of 79 id: dianoia-15479 author: Arıcı, Burak title: The Nature of Human Knowledge in Light of Empiricism After a Critique of Kantian Epistemology date: 2022 words: 7548 flesch: 52 summary: At this point, it becomes possible to address a conceptual scheme which consists of the concepts “a priori, a posteriori, analytic, and synthetic” by their combination in the expression of human knowledge. Before Kant, David Hume, in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, claimed that human knowledge consists of “relations of ideas” and “matters of fact.” keywords: analytic; analyticity; experience; knowledge; priori; synthetic; world cache: dianoia-15479.pdf plain text: dianoia-15479.txt item: #41 of 79 id: dianoia-15481 author: Wu, Megan title: The Justification-Application Spectrum: Exploring Seyla Benhabib’s Reconciliation of the Generalized and Concrete Others date: 2021 words: 4581 flesch: 35 summary: it is therefore essential, Young argues, that dialogue participants consider temporality in their comprehension of asymmetries between participants. As a way of reconciling or navigating an interplay between the Generalized and Concrete others, Benhabib proposes the idea of communicative ethics, which consists of the following four principles:7 1. keywords: benhabib; communicative; concrete; dialogue; ethics; participants; reciprocity cache: dianoia-15481.pdf plain text: dianoia-15481.txt item: #42 of 79 id: dianoia-15483 author: Agarwal, Yash title: Don't Get Hung Up in the Middle date: 2022 words: 5186 flesch: 64 summary: Bernstein argues that middle level entities like iPhones, toasters, and amoebae have an (prima facie) advantage over the fundamental entity(ies) posited by top- ists (the cosmos) and bottom-ists (mereological atoms). ! I object by saying that the list of middle level entities is indeterminate. ! keywords: atoms; entities; ism; ist; level; middle cache: dianoia-15483.pdf plain text: dianoia-15483.txt item: #43 of 79 id: dianoia-15485 author: Locke, Rebekah title: Heroes or Villains? A Lockean Approach to Justifying Vigilantism date: 2022 words: 6447 flesch: 61 summary: Harel’s integrationist justi#cation of state sanctions does have force in the situations in which it applies, but this theory of punishment justi#cation simply does not pertain to actions in a pseudo-state of nature. And because the vigilante, under the speci#c paradigm laid out in section one, strives to uphold the morality of his community, he is likely to mimic state sanctions as best he can. keywords: executive; nature; pseudo; punishment; right; state; vigilante; vigilantism cache: dianoia-15485.pdf plain text: dianoia-15485.txt item: #44 of 79 id: dianoia-16457 author: Loper, Tanner title: Letter From the Editor date: 2023 words: 419 flesch: 61 summary: e painting depicts a scene from the myth of Pygmalian when Pygmalian prays to Venus to animate his statue with which he had fallen in love. e essays presented in this issue were selected by the editorial board after four rounds of reading, discussion, and selection. keywords: issue; philosophy cache: dianoia-16457.pdf plain text: dianoia-16457.txt item: #45 of 79 id: dianoia-16463 author: Fried, Gregory; Kelly, Patrick title: Interview with Professor Gregory Fried: Towards a Polemical Ethics: Between Heidegger and Plato date: 2023 words: 3825 flesch: 65 summary: Heidegger traces that weakness back to Greek thinking, starting with Plato, which sees the world as divided between historical reality—the shadows of the cave that we live in—and the realm of philosophical truth, the realm of the Ideas, which philosophy can bring us to as the true world beyond our historical experience in which there are everlasting truths that transcend us. 6 Dianoia: The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Boston College δι άν οι α AN INTERVIEW WITH GREGORY FRIED, PH.D., PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AT BOSTON COLLEGE Towards a Polemical Ethics: Between Heidegger and Plato I think for Plato and for Socrates, the philosophical life is a constant striving to seek that enlightenment: to try our utmost to transcend our historical circumstances, even knowing that we will ultimately fail. Patrick Kelly, Managing Editor ! keywords: cave; heidegger; philosophy; plato cache: dianoia-16463.pdf plain text: dianoia-16463.txt item: #46 of 79 id: dianoia-16465 author: Beesley, Brandon title: An Analysis of the Overlooked Value of Greatness date: 2023 words: 5750 flesch: 48 summary: Binghamton (NY: Vail-Ballou Press, 1924): 21. 4 Amy Allen, “Feminist Perspectives on Power,” e Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2022 Edition): 1. 5 Johanna Oksala, “Feminism and Power,” e Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy, (2017): 680. 6 Oksala, “Feminism and Power,” 681. 59Issue X ◆ Spring 2023 An Analysis of the Overlooked Value of Greatness GREATNESS AND ITS VALUE AS POWER: A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE e feminist perspective, with a de!nition of power vastly di%erent than Nietzsche’s, still supports the idea that greatness is reliant upon the expression of power. Or is greatness simply an expression of human power, with no tie to morality? keywords: act; care; expression; feminist; greatness; in#uence; nietzsche; power; value; virtue cache: dianoia-16465.pdf plain text: dianoia-16465.txt item: #47 of 79 id: dianoia-16595 author: Bickerstaff, Gabriel title: Hermeneutics of Heraclitus: Allowing Concept Flux date: 2023 words: 5532 flesch: 52 summary: “Flux-Gibberish: For and Against Heraclitus.” 14 Dianoia: The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Boston College δι άν οι α HERMENEUTICS OF HERACLITUS Allowing Concept Flux GABRIEL BICKERSTAFF Conjoinings: wholes and not wholes, converging and diverging, harmonious dissonant; and out of all things one, and out of one all things.1 –Heraclitus A thought exercise by which to consider the meaning of the above fragment might leave one feeling that there is more unsaid than said, or wondering what Heraclitus is speaking in reference to. keywords: companioning; desmond; hadot; halapsis; heraclitus; kahn; philosophy; thought cache: dianoia-16595.pdf plain text: dianoia-16595.txt item: #48 of 79 id: dianoia-16597 author: Lee, Minjun title: How Can We Reach the True Definition of Something? Essence, Definition, and Teleology in Aristole's Metaphysics date: 2023 words: 8286 flesch: 70 summary: e denition of something is the account of its essence. e denition is the account of the essence. keywords: animal; aristotle; de"nition; di#erentia; end; essence; genus; human cache: dianoia-16597.pdf plain text: dianoia-16597.txt item: #49 of 79 id: dianoia-16599 author: Vaughan, Alison title: A Superior Natural Law Theory in the Works of Johannes Althusius date: 2023 words: 7530 flesch: 59 summary: Perhaps he would claim the Roman law he cites for duties to self is su%ciently in alignment with common law to be considered natural law. Behavioral guidelines and the tenets of associational happiness cement both public and private life in his polity, and Althusius underpins these discussions with a theory of natural law. keywords: althusius; duties; god; johannes; justice; law; politica; right; rst; self; system; theory cache: dianoia-16599.pdf plain text: dianoia-16599.txt item: #50 of 79 id: dianoia-16601 author: Toensing, Lauren title: Kant's Racial and Moral Theories: The Importance of a Teleological Perspective date: 2023 words: 7615 flesch: 46 summary: The Importance of a Teleological Perspective LAUREN TOENSING INTRODUCTION It is often observed that the works of Immanuel Kant contain many propagations of racist and prejudiced beliefs, which seem to have been sincerely held by Kant himself. ! 1 Immanuel Kant, “Toward Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch,” Essay, in Toward Perpetual Peace and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History, edited by Pauline Kleingeld, translated by Jeremy Waldron, Michael W. Doyle, Allen W. Wood, and David L. Colclasure, 67–109, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, 82. 2 Pauline Kleingeld, “Kant’s Second !oughts on Colonialism,” essay, in Kant and Colonialism: Historical and Critical Perspectives, edited by Katrin Flikschuh and Lea Ypi, 43–67, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, 573. 3 Lucy Allais, “Kant’s Racism,” Philosophical Papers 45, no. 1-2 (2016): 1–36, https://doi.org/10.1080/05568641.2 016.1199170, 30. 72 Dianoia: The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Boston College IDEA FOR A UNIVERSAL HISTORY WITH A COSMOPOLITAN AIM AND KANT'S TELEOLOGY Some of Kant’s most explicitly teleological thinking can be found in his philosophy of history. keywords: ethics; history; human; kant; kleingeld; nature; peace; racism; reason cache: dianoia-16601.pdf plain text: dianoia-16601.txt item: #51 of 79 id: dianoia-17821 author: Sky Lyu; Elliott Jones title: Interview with Gadamer Chair Professor Jean-Luc Marion date: 2024 words: 3753 flesch: 75 summary: There- fore the idea that science is objective means only that within science ere is n gree en e een su e s u in er e s e is er other different agreements between subjects which lead to other kinds of intersubjectivity: in art, in morals, in politics, and in religion. n is e ern e ni keywords: god; philosophy cache: dianoia-17821.pdf plain text: dianoia-17821.txt item: #52 of 79 id: dianoia-17825 author: Elliott Jones title: Issue XI (Spring 2024) date: 2024 words: 36583 flesch: 67 summary: ess u rs e e s es i e ise r ug ur reness eing ni e re e e n ei e s e ing is n ni e e in ni e “Spirit”: Kierkegaard refers to spirit as a sort of glue that 30 Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety, 57. keywords: aristotle; boston; college; consciousness; e e; e es; e g; e ien; e ing; e ns; e p; e s; ere e; ethics; human; love; n e; n s; nature; ni e; p r; philosophy; power; r e; r n; r r; r s; ris e; s u; se e; self; ssi e; su e; teleology; u e; u n; u r; un e cache: dianoia-17825.pdf plain text: dianoia-17825.txt item: #53 of 79 id: dianoia-17827 author: Daniel Andrews title: The Human Synthesis: An Exploration of Anxiety, Love, and Selfhood under the Domain of the Will to Power date: 2024 words: 9358 flesch: 71 summary: ess u rs e e s es i e ise r ug ur reness eing ni e re e e n ei e s e ing is n ni e e in ni e “Spirit”: Kierkegaard refers to spirit as a sort of glue that makes this synthesis possible. keywords: e e; e s; love; n e; ni e; power; self cache: dianoia-17827.pdf plain text: dianoia-17827.txt item: #54 of 79 id: dianoia-17829 author: Arthur deCarle title: A Symetrical Argument for Personhood and Abortion date: 2024 words: 4814 flesch: 65 summary: ns i us e perien e in ie is e rs n s ru i i r rs ns i us e perien e is s e ri keywords: experience; human; personhood cache: dianoia-17829.pdf plain text: dianoia-17829.txt item: #55 of 79 id: dianoia-17831 author: Roberto Ureña title: Against Evolutionary Ethics date: 2024 words: 7722 flesch: 61 summary: For the present purposes, this paper will not consider the ques- tion of evolutionary metaethics, and will deal solely with the descrip- tive and prescriptive aspects of evolutionary moral theory. i n r s s ien i rather than philosophically, evolutionary moral theorists avoid abstract speculation regarding the mechanics of how morality ‘works.’ keywords: beings; e e; ethics; genes; human; individual; ought; r e cache: dianoia-17831.pdf plain text: dianoia-17831.txt item: #56 of 79 id: dianoia-17833 author: Jordan Smith title: A Natural Interpretation of Aristotelian Teleology date: 2024 words: 9611 flesch: 68 summary: That is to say, wherever a formal cause is present, so too i n use 30 r urren purp ses e re e n e is This being said, Aristot- le’s preference for explaining teleology in terms of biological processes s u n e en e e usi n er e s n uses s is done by those who support the restrictive interpretation of teleology. keywords: aristotle; e e; e r; e s; n e; nature; r n; r s; ris e; teleology cache: dianoia-17833.pdf plain text: dianoia-17833.txt item: #57 of 79 id: dianoia-19273 author: Elliott Jones title: Letter From the Editor date: 2025 words: 544 flesch: 53 summary: 5Issue XII Spring 2025 A LE TT ER F RO M T H E ED IT O R Dear Reader, April 7, 2025 It is my great pleasure to present to you Issue XII of Dianoia: the Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Boston College. One tests the compatibility of John Locke’s and Jacques Maritain’s vi- sion for church-state relations. keywords: journal; philosophy cache: dianoia-19273.pdf plain text: dianoia-19273.txt item: #58 of 79 id: dianoia-19275 author: Paloma Figueroa title: To Live Free or To Make Excuses: In Defense of Sartre’s (Revised) Concept of Radical Freedom date: 2025 words: 10505 flesch: 51 summary: 11Issue XII Spring 2025 To Live Free or To Make Excuses § I: NO MATTER THE CIRCUMSTANCE, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE: SARTRE'S INITIAL CONCEPT OF FREEDOM6 Though Sartre did revise his version of existentialism later in his philosophical career, the main ideas for which he is remembered––and caricatured––stem from his initial concept of human freedom. At this point, it is important to insist that Beauvoir’s analysis does not conclude that sedimentation and oppression negate freedom: she offers a more nuanced, realistic account of freedom than Sartre, but with no less emphasis on the moral value of embracing one’s freedom––for example, through participation in collective revolt against a shared condition.41 § 2: OBJECTIONS FROM NEUROSCIENCE  So far, we have posited human freedom as a central inescapable necessity: without freedom, there can be no existentialism and both Beauvoir’s and Sartre’s entire philosophies would be rendered obsolete. keywords: beauvoir; concept; existentialism; faith; freedom; philosophy; project; sapolsky; sartre; sedimentation; webber cache: dianoia-19275.pdf plain text: dianoia-19275.txt item: #59 of 79 id: dianoia-19277 author: Shea Divoll title: Of Experience and Being: Apropos of This and That - An Analysis from Daoism to Heidegger date: 2025 words: 10284 flesch: 58 summary: All in all, there is significant evidence de- veloping the connection between Martin Heidegger and Daoism, espe- cially classical Daoism (to the extent that the Laozi and Zhuangzi 莊子11 are pillars of classical Daoism).12 § 1.3: THE SCREAM OF NATURE With an understanding of Martin Heidegger’s academic back- ground, I will now give a selection of passages from Being and Time that are useful in later understanding how he may have had “hidden” sources.13 Heidegger believed that the question of Being was central to philosophy. Thus, both Heidegger and Zhuangzi address the origins of certain determinis- tic mechanisms in life by illuminating the existence of said mechanisms 56 Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, 410. keywords: action; dao; daoist; dasein; experience; hand; heidegger; martin; ontology; philosophy; time; way; world; wuwei; zhuangzi cache: dianoia-19277.pdf plain text: dianoia-19277.txt item: #60 of 79 id: dianoia-19279 author: Sean Scully title: Perfect Society or Voluntary Association?: Locke, Maritain, and the Autonomy of Church and State date: 2025 words: 7168 flesch: 56 summary: In the process, he provides an extensive account of how a separation between Church and state could actually work for the benefit of the Church. In doing so, I hope to show that only Locke’s theory is structured to fulfill its stated ambitions, while Maritain’s envisioned society fails to achieve its desired relationship between Church and State. keywords: authority; chapter; church; ibid; locke; maritain; society; state cache: dianoia-19279.pdf plain text: dianoia-19279.txt item: #61 of 79 id: dianoia-19281 author: Ellison, Michael title: “There is No Such Finis Ultimus”: Liberal Anthropology and Church-State Relations Considered date: 2025 words: 6034 flesch: 59 summary: 80 Dianoia: The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Boston College THERE IS NO SUCH FINIS ULTIMUS LIBERAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND CHURCH- STATE RELATIONS CONSIDERED MICHAEL ELLISON In this paper, I will describe the philosophical anthropology presupposed by the liberal tradition and demonstrate how that anthropology influences liberal conceptions of the relationship between Church and state. Having explored the liberal anthropology, its effects on liberal conceptions of church-state relations can now be analyzed. keywords: church; good; hobbes; ibid; locke; man; rawls; state cache: dianoia-19281.pdf plain text: dianoia-19281.txt item: #62 of 79 id: dianoia-19283 author: Elliott Jones title: Issue XII (Spring 2025) date: 2025 words: 35542 flesch: 55 summary: 89Issue XII ◊ Spring 2025 There is No Such Finis Ultimus such groups ought to be “curbed,” which, though sounding mundane, leaves the door open for any variety of state actions against such groups in a Rawlsian polity.41 Thus, the liberal anthropology, with its view that there is no objective good for man and that he is free to define and pursue the good as he sees fit, directly affects the relationship between the Church and state that each of the liberal thinkers envisions. Existentialism is a philosophy centered around human freedom and responsibility within a universe considered devoid of inherent meaning. keywords: authority; beauvoir; boston; chapter; church; college; conception; daoist; dianoia; existentialism; faith; freedom; good; heidegger; human; ibid; idea; john; journal; life; locke; maritain; nature; people; philosophy; rawls; sartre; society; spring; state; theory; time; university; way; webber; wuwei; xii cache: dianoia-19283.pdf plain text: dianoia-19283.txt item: #63 of 79 id: dianoia-19929 author: Fried, Gregory title: Interview with Gregory Fried: Professor of Philosophy date: 2021 words: 7132 flesch: 64 summary: He also works in the philosophy of law, especially law and hermeneutics; philosophy and race; practical ethics, including just war theory; public philosophy; the history of ethics; Ancient philosophy; and 20th century Continental philosophy, especially Heidegger. And, so, what that brought together were my interests in figures like Locke and Aristotle on questions of prerogative and law at the limit and my father’s interests in what he had seen in the govern- ment in terms of the abuse of presidential power and constitutional issues around privacy. keywords: book; fried; good; government; law; philosophy; privacy; torture; trump cache: dianoia-19929.pdf plain text: dianoia-19929.txt item: #64 of 79 id: dianoia-19931 author: Oakley, Alec title: Unified Foundations for Normative Education date: 2021 words: 7873 flesch: 51 summary: As we will see, perceptive virtues are important for the cultivation of productive virtues, but one might object that this is not really a virtue if this is their only value. And in aesthetics, the virtues of artistic appreciation are perceptive virtues. keywords: aesthetics; cultivation; education; ethics; knowledge; progress; theory; tradition; virtues cache: dianoia-19931.pdf plain text: dianoia-19931.txt item: #65 of 79 id: dianoia-19933 author: Ainsa, Gabriel title: On Admiration and Wonder: Should We Accept Plutarch's Lives in the Platonic City? date: 2021 words: 10687 flesch: 57 summary: As I will argue, although Plutarch's description of poetry (and other activities and arts, including political ones) follows Plato in his analysis of their psychological risks, he does not exclude them from human life. In this essay, I read Plutarch and his Lives as a text of moral and political philosophy responding to the Platonic tradition to which Plutarch feels in debt yet free to challenge and improve2. keywords: admiration; art; city; good; life; lives; lycurgus; numa; plato; plutarch; poetry; politics; soul; virtue cache: dianoia-19933.pdf plain text: dianoia-19933.txt item: #66 of 79 id: dianoia-19935 author: de Donato, Matteo title: The Shadow of Hegel: in Kierkegaard's Notion of Subjectivity date: 2021 words: 6924 flesch: 55 summary: Kierkegaard was the first in a long tradition of critics to reject Hegel’s absolute idealism as a philosophy of identity that effectively 1 Jon Stewart, “The Crisis of the Danish Golden Age as the Problem of Nihilism,” in The Crisis of the Danish Golden Age and Its Modern Resonance, eds. The beginning of Sickness Unto Death, in which Kierkegaard posits that the “self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation’s relating itself to itself in the relation,” has been interpreted as parodying Hegel’s obtuse writing style. keywords: absolute; edition; hegel; irony; kierkegaard; objective; philosophy; socrates; subjectivity; truth cache: dianoia-19935.pdf plain text: dianoia-19935.txt item: #67 of 79 id: dianoia-19937 author: Ivie, Nikki title: The Positive Illusion of Qualia date: 2021 words: 4560 flesch: 63 summary: ENJOYMENT I run because it makes me feel good—it provides me with positive qualia. There are many things that provide me with positive qualia, but there are, of course, qualia that are quite the opposite effect: falling on a trail, having to take a cold shower, or experiencing the death of a loved one. keywords: child; dennett; experience; illusions; life; positive; qualia cache: dianoia-19937.pdf plain text: dianoia-19937.txt item: #68 of 79 id: dianoia-19939 author: Nilsson, Alicia title: Virtue Ethics and Caring: The Ethical Presuppositions of Taking Mortality Seriously date: 2021 words: 6031 flesch: 51 summary: The essay is divided into three parts: first, I will give a brief overview of Hägglund’s philosophical position; second, I will present the virtue ethical framework that lays the groundwork for my arguments; 1 Martin Hägglund, This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free, (London: Profile Books, 2019). Hägglund, Martin, “Utblick: Martin Hägglund och det ändliga livet.” keywords: caring; ethical; hägglund; ibid; life; value; virtue cache: dianoia-19939.pdf plain text: dianoia-19939.txt item: #69 of 79 id: dianoia-9866 author: Klapes, Peter title: Masthead date: 2017 words: 203 flesch: 46 summary: Editor in Chief: Thomas Lombardo, ‘17 Managing Editors: Peter Klapes ‘19, Jordan Pino ‘17 Senior Editors: Myles Casey ‘17, Laura McLaughlin ‘17, Jianing Wu ‘17 General Editors: Bernadette Darcy ‘19, Jen Howard ‘19, Gregory Kacergis ‘19, Alex Kerker ‘18 Layout Design Editor: Courtney Timmins ‘17 Faculty Advisor: Ronald Tacelli, S.J. The editors of Dianoia would like to express their gratitude to the following individuals for their generous support: Eileen Sweeney, Department of Philosophy Ronald Tacelli, S.J., Department of Philosophy Cover designs courtesy of Courtney Timmins. The materials herein represent the personal opinions of the individual authors and do not necessarily represent the views of Dianoia or Boston College. keywords: editors cache: dianoia-9866.pdf plain text: dianoia-9866.txt item: #70 of 79 id: dianoia-9867 author: Lombardo, Thomas J.; Klapes, Peter; Pino, Jordan title: A Letter from the Editors date: 2017 words: 438 flesch: 55 summary: Much like those aforementioned, the philosophers referenced in this collection of essays have made their own unique contribution to the pursuit of wisdom. We hope that you enjoy reading the essays that follow, and, in the hope of creating continued discourse, encourage the submission of essays in response to those here contained for future issues of Dianoia. keywords: essays; philosophy cache: dianoia-9867.pdf plain text: dianoia-9867.txt item: #71 of 79 id: dianoia-9868 author: Klapes, Peter title: Acknowledgements date: 2017 words: 146 flesch: 18 summary: 104 The Editorial Staff of Dianoia: The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Boston College would like to extend our sincerest thanks to the following individuals for their assistance in making this issue of Dianoia possible: Nancy Adams, BC Libraries Margaret Bakalo, Philosophy/Lonergan Center Mary Crane, Institute for the Liberal Arts RoseMarie DeLeo, Philosophy Susan Dunn, Center for Centers Rev. Gary Gurtler, S.J., Philosophy Stephen Jarjoura, Information Technology Services Peter Marnino, Center for Centers Jane Morris, BC Libraries Michelle Muccini, Center for Centers Paula Perry, Philosophy Catherine Wechsler, Media Technology Services We would like to extend a very special thank you to Eileen Sweeney of B.C.’s Philosophy Department for her continued support and her encouragement to restart Dianoia after having gone out of print for several years and to Rev. Ronald Tacelli, S.J., also of B.C. Philosophy, for his invaluable assistance as our faculty advisor. keywords: philosophy cache: dianoia-9868.pdf plain text: dianoia-9868.txt item: #72 of 79 id: dianoia-9869 author: Andrade, Bernardo Portilho title: Looks, Gestures, and Words: Skepticism and the Ethical in Cavell and Levinas date: 2017 words: 9638 flesch: 57 summary: In other words, these are the criteria that establish what it means to be a goldfinch. In other words, it stands as a permanent possibility that the hammer could have caused a wholly distinct pain in your finger, and my inability to have your pain stops me from either confirming or denying it. keywords: cavell; criteria; knowledge; language; lear; levinas; love; pain; philosophy; skepticism; words cache: dianoia-9869.pdf plain text: dianoia-9869.txt item: #73 of 79 id: dianoia-9870 author: Fitzgerald, Martin title: The Fructifying Ray: Considering Kandinskian Artistic Creation Through the Hegelian Alienated Consciousness date: 2017 words: 9467 flesch: 60 summary: Instead, it is the unique role of the artist to make spiritual values available to non-artists. Consciously or unconsciously, from this moment man seeks a material form for this new spiritual value that lives in spiritual form within him. keywords: artist; composition; consciousness; form; kandinsky; spiritual; value; work cache: dianoia-9870.pdf plain text: dianoia-9870.txt item: #74 of 79 id: dianoia-9871 author: Chiodini, Clare title: G.K. Chesterton and the Quest for Heideggerian Authenticity date: 2017 words: 6477 flesch: 56 summary: Heidegger seeks to ground his study of existential Dasein in its existentiel understanding. 13 Idle Talk can be understood as the existential of discourse as a character of fallen Dasein; it is discourse submitted to the control of the ‘they’. keywords: dasein; death; heidegger; ibid; possibilities; possibility cache: dianoia-9871.pdf plain text: dianoia-9871.txt item: #75 of 79 id: dianoia-9872 author: Janakiefski, Kelly title: Preserving Human Freedom: Aquinas on Divine Transcendence and Creaturely Contingency date: 2017 words: 4487 flesch: 57 summary: CONCLUSION With respect to the question of the relationship between divine knowledge, divine causation, and creaturely contingency, Goris nicely sums up the heart of Aquinas’ position: “God’s incomprehensible, eternal mode of being allows us to say that events which are future and contingent, and hence indeterminate in themselves and in relation to us, are present and determinate in relation to God. In conclusion, therefore, through his appeal to the transcendence of the nature of God, Aquinas defends the compatibility of divine knowledge, divine causation, and creaturely contingency. keywords: aquinas; cause; god; goris; knowledge cache: dianoia-9872.pdf plain text: dianoia-9872.txt item: #76 of 79 id: dianoia-9873 author: Mwakima, Mghanga David title: Is Geometry Analytic? date: 2017 words: 6494 flesch: 51 summary: In classical mechanics, for example, Euclidean geometry was used in kinematics by “building bridge equations”20 from pure Euclidean geometry to physics. So, the axioms of coordination could, in principle, be revised as a result of scientific advances, e.g., physical Euclidean geometry is a priori in classical mechanics but is not a priori in General Relativity, where “topology (sufficient to admit a Riemannian structure)” is instead a priori.45 This is the relativized a priori – the idea that relative to a scientific theory, a geometry, for example, is a priori. keywords: analytic; ayer; geometry; kant; priori; putnam cache: dianoia-9873.pdf plain text: dianoia-9873.txt item: #77 of 79 id: dianoia-9874 author: Pressman, Fisher title: Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Alex Garland: Human Consciousness in Ex Machina date: 2017 words: 5050 flesch: 61 summary: 87Issue IV F Spring 2017 Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Alex Garland Finally, another important scene focuses on art, but does not directly involve Ava. Ponty discusses the importance of the body for lived experience as our point of intentionality in the world in his work Prospectus (A Report to the Collège de France). keywords: ava; body; garland; ibid; merleau; ponty; world cache: dianoia-9874.pdf plain text: dianoia-9874.txt item: #78 of 79 id: dianoia-9875 author: Engelman, Robert title: Jimi Hendrix: Creolization and the Re-Imagined Black Authentic date: 2017 words: 5859 flesch: 40 summary: To apply Waksman’s notion to Hendrix, we see that Hendrix began his musical development with the blues tradition, which is entangled with African- 27 Waksman, “Black Sound, Black Body: Jimi Hendrix, the Electric Guitar, and the Meanings of Blackness,” p. 88. 29 Waksman, “Black Sound, Black Body: Jimi Hendrix, the Electric Guitar, and the Meanings of Blackness,” p. 88. 99Issue IV F Spring 2017 Jimi Hendrix American culture, but throughout his career, he engaged with a number of other musical styles and cultural movements, which, in turn, expanded his imaginative horizon while entangling him in further commitments and contingencies. keywords: american; authenticity; black; blackness; cultures; glissant; hendrix; jimi; race cache: dianoia-9875.pdf plain text: dianoia-9875.txt item: #79 of 79 id: dianoia-9876 author: Klapes, Peter title: Contributors date: 2017 words: 740 flesch: 51 summary: She is currently a junior at Boston University, double majoring in Philosophy and Ancient Greek & Latin. ROBERT ENGELMAN Boston University ‘17 Robert Engelman is a senior at Boston University where he is completing a double major in Philosophy and Psychology. keywords: college; philosophy; university cache: dianoia-9876.pdf plain text: dianoia-9876.txt