National University of «Kyiv-Mohyla academy» MEETING THE OTHER AS A CHALLENGE 15th International Conference “Philosophy: the New Generation” Summaries of Reports Kyiv, NaUKMA, April 21–22, 2023 .

It has often been said that the Zhuangzi 莊子 advocates political abstention, and that its putative skepticism prevents it from contributing in any meaningful way to political thinking: at best the Zhuangzi espouses a sort of anarchism, at worst it is “the night in which all cows are black,” a stance that one scholar has charged is ultimately immoral. This article tracks possible political allusions within the text, and, by reading these against details of social, political, and historical context, sheds (...) light on another strand of the Zhuangzi—one that questions prevailing normative values because it is fiercely critical of scholarly complicity with violent imperial territorial consolidation. (shrink)

O artigo apresenta a discussão acerca da filosofia comparada através das dificuldades de se considerar como parte da disciplina da filosofia pensamentos não-ocidentais. Analisando argumentos contra a aceitação de filosofias não-ocidentais como filosóficas e os desafios da disciplina chamada filosofia comparada, propomos uma redefinição de filosofia comparada; não como comparação de filosofias ou filosofia da comparação, mas como como aquele modo de filosofar que permitiria a ocidentais lidarem com filosofias não-ocidentais de modo inclusivo. Seguindo este programa de filosofia comparada, apontamos (...) dois elementos da hermenêutica filosófica de Hans-Georg Gadamer que poderiam contribuir para esta empreitada: distância e diálogo. A distância vista positivamente, daria origem à experiência hermenêutica da compreensão que inicia-se com o encontro com outro, a alteridade. Colocando-nos em diálogo com o outro, abrimos a possibilidade de termos nossa compreensão transformada ao aceitar a verdade que o outro nos diz. (shrink)

Abstract Daniel H. H. Ingalls referred to Gaudap?da's M?nd?kya K?rik?, a very early Advaita text, as ? ... the most puzzling perhaps, of all Sanskrit philosophical texts?. This article shows that some of the philosophical quandaries associated with this text are the result of inappropriately imposing a graphic and prose model of textuality upon a text composed in the k?rik? (memorial verse) genre and in an oral cultural context. Developing a model of textuality consistent with the literary genre and cultural (...) context, the article is not only able to resolve some of the philosophical problems associated with the text, but also raises the possibility that this inappropriate hermeneutical process has contributed to mislabelling Gaudap?da as an idealist. (shrink)

A much-needed consideration of methodology in comparative philosophy.