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Anomie’s Eastern origins The Buddha’s indirect influence on Durkheim’s understanding of desire and suffering

Ryan Gunderson1
01 Aug 2016-European Journal of Social Theory (SAGE Publications)-Vol. 19, Iss: 3, pp 355-373
TL;DR: Durkheim's claim in Suicide that will-to-live causes suffering was adopted from Arthur Schopenhauer's argument that the will to live is unquenchable.
Abstract: Durkheim’s claim in Suicide that humanity’s ‘inextinguishable thirst’ (soif inextinguible) causes suffering was adopted from Arthur Schopenhauer’s argument that the will-to-live’s ‘unquenchable thi...
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31 Mar 2016

221 citations

01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine Schopenhauer's theory of vision as it appears in section 21 of The fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason which header reads “Apriority of the concept of causality; intellectuality of empirical knowledge; the intellect”.
Abstract: In this paper I examine Schopenhauer’s Theory of Vision as it appears in section 21 of The fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason which header reads “Apriority of the concept of causality; intellectuality of empirical knowledge; the intellect”. The function of this theory in the context of section 21 is to support the intellectual features of empirical knowledge, i.e. perception of the external world. Schopenhauer arguments tries to show the wrongness of the standard theories of his contemporaries who take into account only sensibility, excluding any analysis on intelligence’s spontaneity and its operations that construe empirical and aware vision. Nevertheless, our analysis centers in Schopenhauer’s thesis rather than in its critics towards non-intellectual theories of vision. In order to comprehend Schopenhauer’s theory of vision one must first take into account it’s transcendental physiology of perception for vision is indeed a concrete instance of perception. Consequently I present also a brief exposition of Schopenhauer’s physiologic-transcendental theory of perception.

39 citations

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02 Dec 2018
TL;DR: In this paper, a document analysis based on this content was carried out and it was concluded that even in Durkheim's work anomie can be considered a polysemic concept which entails the need to explicitly discuss its meaning in each empirical research with its clear definition so as to take advantage of all its potential and its scientific limitations.
Abstract: This concept paper seeks to be a contribution to the reflection on the classic concept of anomie trying to expose the complex meaning from Eacute mile Durkheim For this purpose a document analysis based on this content was carried out It is concluded that even in Durkheim rsquo s work anomie can be considered a polysemic concept which entails the need to explicitly discuss its meaning in each empirical research with its clear definition so as to take advantage of all its potential as well as its scientific limitations

10 citations

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30 Jun 2013

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TL;DR: The Cambridge edition of Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation as discussed by the authors is the most complete German edition of the entire work, including a glossary of names and bibliography, and succinct editorial notes.
Abstract: The purpose of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer is to offer translations of the best modern German editions of Schopenhauer’s work in a uniform format suitable for Schopenhauer scholars, together with philosophical introductions and full editorial apparatus. First published in 1818, The World as Will and Representation contains Schopenhauer’s entire philosophy, ranging through epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind and action, aesthetics and philosophy of art, to ethics, the meaning of life and the philosophy of religion, in an attempt to account for the world in all its significant aspects. It gives a unique and influential account of what is and is not of value in existence, the striving and pain of the human condition and the possibility of deliverance from it. This new translation of the first volume of what later became a two-volume work reflects the eloquence and power of Schopenhauer’s prose and renders philosophical terms accurately and consistently. It offers an introduction, glossary of names and bibliography, and succinct editorial notes, including notes on the revisions of the text which Schopenhauer made in 1844 and 1859.

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01 Jan 1940-Ethics
TL;DR: A notable attempt to make a substantial contribution to this problem appears in the volume under consideration as mentioned in this paper, where one of the central objects of Professor Parsons' study is to demonstrate the validity epistemologically of a general theoretical system-a science.
Abstract: S OCIAL science has suffered from certain major deficiencies. Chief among them has been the lack of a general systematic theory by which to comprehend the generality of social facts and through which some intelligible division of the field could be made-a division the separate theoretical entities of which would still be integral parts of the general structure of social theory. A second major deficiency has been the fact that the indefinite and conflicting congeries of social-science theories have had no systematic empirical testing. Some portions of social theory, classical economics, for example, have been absorbed in a system of generalizations o abstract at times as to be inhibited from a genuine attempt at empirical demonstration. A notable attempt to make a substantial contribution to this problem appears in the volume under consideration. I One of the central objects of Professor Parsons' study is to demonstrate the validity epistemologically of a general theoretical system-a science. His position is partly polemical in that he is, on the one hand, attacking those who hold that \"the progress of scientific knowledge consists essentially in the cumulative piling up of 'discoveries' of 'fact,' \" that \"theory would consist only in generalization from known facts\" and would

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