International Journal of Philosophy

Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2018

  • An Introduction to Foucault's Nietzschean Genealogy

    José Nicolao Julião

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2018
    Pages: 19-22
    Received: Apr. 29, 2018
    Accepted: May 25, 2018
    Published: Jun. 11, 2018
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    Abstract: This paper intend to demonstrate, as in Foucault, from the 1970s onwards, the archaeological question of how knowledge emerged and transformed, strongly marked by discursiveness, gave rise to the theme of why knowledge? Foucault began to worry about historical investigations about the question of power as an instrument of analysis capable of explai... Show More
  • Nietzschian Considerations About Obstacles to Action in Face of Consciousness –Bewusstsein – and Conscience –Gewissen

    Adilson Felicio Feiler

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2018
    Pages: 23-31
    Received: May 04, 2018
    Accepted: Jun. 01, 2018
    Published: Jun. 25, 2018
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    Abstract: Consciousness, both in its physiological meaning and in its moral meaning, is a feeling of powerlessness, passivity and starvation. With that, destiny appears as an obstacle, in face of which there are resignation, prostration but no jubilant and affirmative coping. Its origins are linked to a movement of internalization of instincts, instead of ma... Show More
  • The ‘Truth’ Between Realism and Anti-Realism

    Samal H R. Manee

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2018
    Pages: 32-39
    Received: May 04, 2018
    Accepted: May 30, 2018
    Published: Jun. 25, 2018
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    Abstract: This article examines what realists and anti-realist debates are all about. Through presenting the core of the main arguments in these debates, these are significant arguments and they are the kind of arguments that can clarify what it meant by ‘truth’ between Realist and anti-realist in general. The concluding remark is that though the main anti- ... Show More
  • The Permanent Condition of War-And-Peace: From the Total Mobilization to the Absolute Construction of the Event

    Žarko Paić

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2018
    Pages: 40-54
    Received: Jun. 02, 2018
    Accepted: Jun. 19, 2018
    Published: Jul. 10, 2018
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    Abstract: In the present consideration the author tries to explain on three levels a fundamental shift which occurred and changed the dynamics of the binary opposition of war and peace and the globally defined area, the post-national sovereignty. Those levels are: (1) transition from the metaphysics of modern history to the production of bio-political power ... Show More
  • Feasibility Analysis and “Alienated” Expression of Qu Qiubai’s View of Happiness

    Yang Weirong

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2018
    Pages: 55-60
    Received: Jun. 21, 2018
    Accepted: Jul. 06, 2018
    Published: Aug. 02, 2018
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    Abstract: It has both theoretical and practical significance on the study of Qu Qiubai’s heart path from the perspective of happiness. So the key points of this thesis are the existence of Qu Qiubai’s view of happiness, the necessity of the research and the foresight of its development. On the basis of previous research, the study eventually forms a prospect... Show More