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By Ronald Bruzina, Bruce Wilshire (auth.), Ronald Bruzina, Bruce Wilshire (eds.)
One of the best and oldest of pictures for expressing dwelling swap is that of the flow of waters. Rivers quite, of their relentless movement, within the consistent looking out path in their trip, within the confluence of tributaries and the department into channels during which id is constituted and dispersed and once again reestablished, have stood as metaphors for events in a number of realms-politics, faith, literature, suggestion. between philosophic hobbies, phenomenology and existential ism are discernible as one such stream of rules analogous in configuration to the circulate of a river in its channel or community of channels. The direction taken via the circulation of phenomenology and existential philosophy in North the US is definitely visible from the contents of the six volumes of gathered papers from the yearly conferences of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philo sophy that experience preceded the current choice. What quickly turns into transparent quite often, and is obvious besides within the current quantity, is that phenomenological and existential philosophies are faraway from being homogeneous, are faraway from exhibiting an identification as to the assets from which they derive their strength, or the topics that they convey ahead towards explanation. And but there's a con fluence, a convergence of orientation, sympathy, and conceptuality, creation four in order that problematics harmonize and supplement and together enrich.
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But politics is concerned with power, which rests on opinion. 3 One simply cannot have certitude concerning what his political action will bring about. , Creon and Antigone. At issue, of course, from the outset is the question of the legitimacy of the exercise of political power. What entitles one man to command and requires another to obey? Plato's resolution of this issue consisted in locating the source of legitimate authority beyond the sphere of power, beyond men. Plato has the philosopher turn away from the polis and then return to impose upon 2.
28. I think that the germ of this element can be found in Merleau-Ponty. But it is more evident in Heidegger. RENOVATING THE PROBLEM OF POLITICS 45 4) Political conduct has as its authentic task not the redemption of man from the exigencies of his historicity, but rather the management of the opportunities of the moment in such a way that future opportunities for human achievements of all sorts (not merely political achievements) can continue to arise. 5) Political conduct and the virtuosity involved therein must hence forth be judged in global terms.
10 Let me recall three related parts of his political thought. In Adventures of the Dialectic, he writes: If history does not have a direction, like a river, but a meaning, if it teaches us, not a truth, but errors to avoid, if its practice is not deduced from a dogmatic philosophy of history, then it is not superficial to base a politics on the analysis of political man. After all, once the official legends have been put aside, what makes a politics important is ... the human quality that causes the leaders truly to animate the political apparatus and makes their most personal acts everyone's affair ....