Heideggers concepts of Being -in-the-World, Dasein, the ready-to-hand, and present-at-hand are discussed in relation to Analytic Philosophy. Aristotle is wrongly accused of an "analytic" view of logos. Aletheia is connected by Hedegger with the...

Linguistic Structuralism and Sociology  is evoked by Ricoeur in order to analyse the essence of narrative. This, we argue, fails to recognise the extent to which narratives are imperative-driven activities , trans-scientific in their natur...

Modern Art is subjected to a phenomenological investigation and Ricoeur claims that the narrative form has changed significantly during the modern era, manifesting a loss of the organising characteristic of a "plot". Aristotle saw the plot as a...

Rucoeur seeks to show the differences between narrative and historical phenomena in order to resist the application of rational models such as the nomological deductive model to narrative and historical texts. The Globalisation process has an i...

The nomological-deductive model certainly suffices to characterise the judicial legal processes of a court event. Law, evidence and judgement are tied logically together. The difference is that we are encountering here practical reasoning in th...

Historical versus poetic narratives. Contrast between the linear causes for "events" and the more conceptually mediated explanations which occur in the form of "reasons for actions". Hempels positivistic covering law model as applied to histori...

Aesthetic activity is embedded in a matrix of Greek ideas which include arché, areté, epistemé, diké, psuché, logos, and phronesis. Ricoeur refers to the arc of operation spanning over the creator, performer and appreciator of aesthetic objects...

Muthos and Logos obviously relate in Aristotles Philosophy to the "Many Meanings of Being". Ricoeur, however does not approach mythology in an Aristotelian spirit, preferring dialectical logic to the principles of noncontradiction and sufficien...

Augustines conception of Time may well be solipsistic whereas Kant's account appears to be in accordance with the Aristotelian definition of time in terms of being a "measurement of motion in terms of before and after." Sensibility is a recepti...

Fear is a local response of the body to objects of fear whereas anxiety is more of a threat to ones whole being, to one's freedom. Wittgenstein distinguishes between the object of ones fear and the cause and characterises the response in terms ...

Ricoeur discusses the possibility of a universal culture from a largely Hegelian perspective which denies  the relevance of Aristotelian-Kantian rationality. Scientific/Technological universalisation is regarded as one of the forces of glo...

Ricoeur argues paradoxically that the greatest evil originates from the illusion of rationality and attempts to defend a phenomenological account of power and responsibility on this relativistic basis. Rousseau, the Romantic Philosopher, is ide...

Grammatical moods or modes are connected to the ontological categories of judgement which in turn are connected to categories of existence. The work and the word are characterised phenomenologically by Ricoeur with reference to Marxism and Chri...

The eschatological hope for unity under the idea of God is the only abstract unity Ricoeur believes can be justified. He claims that both Aristotle and Kants rationalism is a search for unity whch is illusory. Marxism, one of the sources of tot...

Ricoeur subscries to a cynical view of our social institutions which he argues suffer from a bureaucratic disease which prevents the spreading of the Christian imperative "Love thy neighbour". He criticises the fact that there can sometimes be ...

Hegelian Phenomenological  Philosophy  and Marxist sociology , focussing on "facts" such as the workers do not own the means of production have replaced the Aristotelian concentration on "First Principles and Kantian A Priori Truths. ...

The phenomenological pursuit of singularity verus Aristotelian and Kantian "Principles" and "First Philosophy". The mystery of the Body and Hegels Aboslute Spirit and methodology of "Negation". 

The legend of Icarus is a transcendental analogy with a message for humanity relating to the inherent hubris of man. Knowing oneself involves knowing ones limitations and  valuing ones mortality. Deus Absconditis , the "new men" and their ...

The History of World Mythology and Europes legacy of Ancient Greece, The Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Pelagius and the Free Will versus Original Sin. Loss of belief in the clergy, brutal burnings at the stake and the legacy of Romanticism...

Europe and the Levant.  Aristotle influential in both but Arabic commentaries narrowed the focus of Aristotles Metaphysical and Political/Ethical writings. The rise of Islam on the basis of  the revelations and visions of one illitera...

The Celtic Culture of slaves, Druids, Knights and romantic tales of the afterlife.Gnostic Immantism and "The Kingdom of God is not coming it is here, now and within you" Aristotles Influence counteracting supernaturalism. The cross of light and...

Alexander the Great installed a new European spirit in regions of the World beyond. He used  Aristotelian Golden Mean principles and oracular proclamations to do this. Relationship between religious and Literary Texts. Freudian analysis of...

The tumultous upheavals of the Persian Period: internationalisation, interracialisation. Cyrus the King of Kings and the  period of restoration. Eros is not a divinity but a means for man to live in friendly relations in a polis

Oriental religion versus Ancient Greek Philosophy. The age of the new hero: Socrates, Plato and Aristote and the life of contremplation. The road of Zoraster and the corruption of the world. The Will and its decisions.

The Displacement of the goddess tradition by the warrior gods and the elevation of the patriarchal society. The mission of Philosophy to stay neutral and transcend all forms of dialectical opposites through firstly hylomorphic theory and second...