Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
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Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper argues that in The Statesman and Theaetetus Plato creates a unique and non-utopian political philosophy distinct from the rest of the Platonic corpus. By pairing the analogies of the weaver and the midwife in order to explain the birth, construction, and preservation of politics, we begin to see that the statesman and philosopher are not the same figure, but instead work together and complement one another's roles within the city. The implication of this symbiotic parallel is that when we map on the analogy of the midwife to that of the weaver, we not only see how the philosopher relates to the statesman, but we are presented with a structure that explicates the way in which the theory of the former is translated into the practical concerns of the latter. In other words, the parallel that (a) pairs the philosopher with the theoretical and (b) the city with the practical requires that (c) the statesman serve as the conduit between the two, thus representing the translation of theoretical concerns into practical embodiments. This allows us to posit that philosophy is the foundation of the city and that both the philosopher and the true politician are required for its maintenance.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This conceptual essay looks for a philosophical linkage between symmetrical worldview and um-yang paradigm. The symmetrical worldview provides a foundation in development of a normative model of public relations (e.g., two-way symmetrical approach). We found the symmetrical worldview shares some crucial common cores assumed in the um-yang paradigm that is embedded in many social values and morality in the Asian societies. Whereas many societies demand public relations expertise worldwide, practitioners worldwide also demand a metaphysical framework to judge what is ethical or morally acceptable in their practices. Our essay speculates on how societies that subscribe to different cultural heritages would reconcile in bringing other’s experience and knowledge into their practices. We show one way to make a metaphysical linkage between two different philosophical frameworks. Such a metaphysical linkage helps public relations practitioners in two different cultures recognize what they believed would be an illusory difference (cf. moral relativism). We search for a feasible reconciliation among public relations, ethical frameworks, and cultures.

Publication Type: Session Paper
Abstract: In the last decade 'media philosophy' (Medienphilosophie) has entered the philosophical arena. According to its leading proponents this development not only, and not even in the first place, refers to the exploration of yet another ontological domain, but rather designates a fundamental transformation of philosophy itself, which is characterized by a turn towards (the descent and history of) the mediatic foundations of philosophy. I will elucidate the connected concept ‘mediatic turn’ with reference to the Nachlass of Nietzsche on Wittgenstein. Their appeal to non-linguistic media such as music, film, pictures and diagrams, and even more so their continuous re-ordering of their ‘database’ of aphorisms and fragments, disclose a hypermedial discourse that more adequately (than the classical monomedial and monolinear book) reflects the never-ending flux and changeability of the post-metaphysical world they evoke in their work. My aim will be to further investigate some of the possibilities and problems that are connected with this envisioned hyper-philosophy.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: I explain the relation between postmodern homelessness and the (post)modern denial of the ancient account of the virtues of the tripartite soul, by examining George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda and the problem of the one and the many in Plato’s cave.