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Intercultural Modes of Philosophy, Volume One
Principles to Guide Philosophical Community
Series: - Philosophy as a Way of Life, Volume: 1
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Until rather recently, philosophy, when practiced as a way of life, was, for most, a communal enterprise of mutually reinforced personal cultivation. In these times of social isolation, including in academic philosophy itself, it is time, yet again, to revitalize this lost, but vital, intercultural mode of philosophy. This volume characterizes a neglected communal mode of philosophy â the philosophical community â by describing the constellation of metaethical principles (general, axiological, cultural, and dialectical) that cultivates its values. The book draws on examples from across the globe and history, including interviews of adherents of living philosophical communities.
Eli Kramer is an assistant professor at the Department of Ethics of the Institute of Philosophy, University WrocÅaw. He has a PhD in philosophy (5/12/2018) from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Intercultural Modes of Philosophy
Philo-Dynamic Images
Philosophical Community as an Intercultural Mode of Philosophy â Some Brief Historical Sketches
The Emergence of Professional Philosophy
Living Philosophical Communities
The Logic of the âPrinciplesâ for the Method of Radically Empirical Philosophy of Culture
1 The Peculiar General Principles of Philosophical Community
â1âThe Order of Exhibition
â2âOverview of the Peculiar General Principles of Philosophical Community
â3âPhilosophical Community Ought to Enrich Life through Praxis
â4âPhilosophical Community Ought to Have Ethics as First Philosophy
â5âPhilosophical Community Ought to Have as Its Purpose Dialectical Adherence to the Beloved Community
â6âPhilosophical Community Ought Actively to Include a Reflective Imperative of Loyalty to Its Way of Life
â7âPhilosophical Community Ought to Postulate the Ontological Distance between Experience and Existence
â8âPhilosophical Community Ought to Have a Tragicomic Sensibility
â9âPhilosophical Community Ought to Sankofa
â10âPhilosophical Community Ought to Be a Cosmopolitan Place
â11âOverview of Dialectics
â12âDialectics I (Sankofa and Place)
2 The Personal Axiological Principles of Philosophical Community
â1âOverview of the Personal Axiological Principles of Philosophical Community
â2âPhilosophical Community Ought to Develop Mutually Reinforced Enkrateia
â3âPhilosophical Community Ought to Strive to Be an Intelligible Symbol of Ethical Exemplarity
â4âPhilosophical Community Ought to Cultivate Value and Determine âBetterâ Persons
â5âPhilosophical Community Ought to Tend to the Care of Oneself
â6âPhilosophical Community Ought to Quest for a Good Existence
â7âPhilosophical Community Ought to the Cultivate the Leisure of Punakawan
â8âPhilosophical Community Ought to Incite Communal Errantry
â9âPhilosophical Community Ought to Democratically Enhouse
â10âDialectics II (Errantry and Enhousing)
3 The Concrete Cultural Principles of Philosophical Community
â1âOverview of the Concrete Cultural Principles of Philosophical Community
â2âPhilosophical Community Advances Eudaimonia
â3âPhilosophical Community Attends to Its Present Situation
â4âPhilosophical Community Is Small
â5âPhilosophical Community Produces Lingua Francas for Iconoclasm
â6âPhilosophical Community Has an Oikonomia
4 The Dialectically Propitiated Principles of Philosophical Community (the Nature of Rhizomatic Wandering)
â1âOverview of the Dialectically Propitiated Principles of Philosophical Community and the Nature of Rhizomatic Wandering
â2âPhilosophical Community Performs Polyrhythmic Philia
â3âPhilosophical Community Leads Culture by the Reconstruction of Experience
â4âPhilosophical Community Is Impoverished
â5âPhilosophical Community Ripens Cosmological Contemplation
â6âPhilosophical Community Engages in Eutopian Politics
Conclusion: The Constellation of Principles at a Turning Point in Culture and Nature
Appendices
Appendix 1: The Systemic Scheme and Glossary
Appendix 2: Research Plan, Methods for Site Visits, and Primary Source Research
âBibliography
âIndex
part 1: Method and Historical Precedent
Preface
Introduction
Intercultural Modes of Philosophy
Philo-Dynamic Images
Philosophical Community as an Intercultural Mode of Philosophy â Some Brief Historical Sketches
The Emergence of Professional Philosophy
Living Philosophical Communities
The Logic of the âPrinciplesâ for the Method of Radically Empirical Philosophy of Culture
part 2: The Principles
1 The Peculiar General Principles of Philosophical Community
â1âThe Order of Exhibition
â2âOverview of the Peculiar General Principles of Philosophical Community
â3âPhilosophical Community Ought to Enrich Life through Praxis
â4âPhilosophical Community Ought to Have Ethics as First Philosophy
â5âPhilosophical Community Ought to Have as Its Purpose Dialectical Adherence to the Beloved Community
â6âPhilosophical Community Ought Actively to Include a Reflective Imperative of Loyalty to Its Way of Life
â7âPhilosophical Community Ought to Postulate the Ontological Distance between Experience and Existence
â8âPhilosophical Community Ought to Have a Tragicomic Sensibility
â9âPhilosophical Community Ought to Sankofa
â10âPhilosophical Community Ought to Be a Cosmopolitan Place
â11âOverview of Dialectics
â12âDialectics I (Sankofa and Place)
2 The Personal Axiological Principles of Philosophical Community
â1âOverview of the Personal Axiological Principles of Philosophical Community
â2âPhilosophical Community Ought to Develop Mutually Reinforced Enkrateia
â3âPhilosophical Community Ought to Strive to Be an Intelligible Symbol of Ethical Exemplarity
â4âPhilosophical Community Ought to Cultivate Value and Determine âBetterâ Persons
â5âPhilosophical Community Ought to Tend to the Care of Oneself
â6âPhilosophical Community Ought to Quest for a Good Existence
â7âPhilosophical Community Ought to the Cultivate the Leisure of Punakawan
â8âPhilosophical Community Ought to Incite Communal Errantry
â9âPhilosophical Community Ought to Democratically Enhouse
â10âDialectics II (Errantry and Enhousing)
3 The Concrete Cultural Principles of Philosophical Community
â1âOverview of the Concrete Cultural Principles of Philosophical Community
â2âPhilosophical Community Advances Eudaimonia
â3âPhilosophical Community Attends to Its Present Situation
â4âPhilosophical Community Is Small
â5âPhilosophical Community Produces Lingua Francas for Iconoclasm
â6âPhilosophical Community Has an Oikonomia
4 The Dialectically Propitiated Principles of Philosophical Community (the Nature of Rhizomatic Wandering)
â1âOverview of the Dialectically Propitiated Principles of Philosophical Community and the Nature of Rhizomatic Wandering
â2âPhilosophical Community Performs Polyrhythmic Philia
â3âPhilosophical Community Leads Culture by the Reconstruction of Experience
â4âPhilosophical Community Is Impoverished
â5âPhilosophical Community Ripens Cosmological Contemplation
â6âPhilosophical Community Engages in Eutopian Politics
Conclusion: The Constellation of Principles at a Turning Point in Culture and Nature
Appendices
Appendix 1: The Systemic Scheme and Glossary
Appendix 2: Research Plan, Methods for Site Visits, and Primary Source Research
âBibliography
âIndex
Intercultural Philosophy as a Way of Life scholars interested in non-reductive systematic projects, historians of global history and philosophy of high education, and those in other disciplines interested in the role of philosophy within culture.