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L'A. propose une relecture de trois essais : le premier de Derrida, Differance, le deuxieme de Culler, Decon-struction as a Method of Reading and of Interpretation et enfin de Lyotard, Being Pagan and Being Just. Cet article est en... more
L'A. propose une relecture de trois essais : le premier de Derrida, Differance, le deuxieme de Culler, Decon-struction as a Method of Reading and of Interpretation et enfin de Lyotard, Being Pagan and Being Just. Cet article est en quelque sorte une critique chretienne d'un certain deconstructionnisme philosophique
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By way of introduction t is not uncommon for a treatment of rights to be treatment against power with some concession to the responsibilities that a tutelary of rights enjoys. We owe it to legal philosophers of the Scholastic persuasion... more
By way of introduction t is not uncommon for a treatment of rights to be treatment against power with some concession to the responsibilities that a tutelary of rights enjoys. We owe it to legal philosophers of the Scholastic persuasion who recognized rights as the entitlements that allow a person to fulfill duties— whether these arise from nature or from contract. In this sense rights were subordinate to and enjoyed for the sake of duties that one had. One may debate this way of putting things, but it had the marked advantage of clarity and showed the internal connection between rights and duties. Also in the scholastic anatomy of rights, there was such a thing as the “term ” of the right—he against whom the right could be claimed, and therefore he or she upon whom a duty was incumbent to desist from transgressing the right of the tutelary. In this sense a “right to ” was concomitantly “power against, ” but power, in the sense of claim or entitlement. For the power to enforce, one ...
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Heidegger is so well known that another introduction might seem to be superfluous. The author has dared it nonetheless because approaching Heidegger from his work on language offers us a different perspective – and, what the writer... more
Heidegger is so well known that another introduction might seem to be superfluous. The author has dared it nonetheless because approaching Heidegger from his work on language offers us a different perspective – and, what the writer believes, is a more nuanced appreciation of this landmark in contemporary philosophy. The kehre has been exaggerated, to the author’s mind, and while the author does acknowledge that there is room for distinguishing between an earlier and a later Heidegger, he has been more keen about the continuity in Heidegger’s thought. References Martin Heidegger, On the Way to Language, Peter D. Hertz, trans HarperSan Francisco, 1982 ________________, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, Albert Hofstadter, trans. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982 _________________, The Essence of Reasons, Terrence Malick, trans. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1969 __________________, Being and Time, Macquarrie and Robinson, trans. New York: Harper and Row, 1962 _...