Tag: Paul Ricœur
Framework of reference
There is an idea that knowledge and/or wisdom can be simplified into particular cognitive ‘building blocks’ put together to form (or re-form) a machine-like organ (the brain/mind or the human being itself); through this machine-like thing comes output and that the quality (or quantity) of this output is what determines the value (success/effectiveness/goodness/etc.) of the…
Image and Imagination: International Conference on Paul Ricoeur and Philosophy for Our Time (Soochow University, Taiwan 2025)
Last May, I joined the Image and Imagination Conference in Soochow University in Taiwan. I presented my paper titled “Productive Imagination as an Educational Theory of Knowledge”. The abstract is as follows: What is the role of imagination in the learning process? To answer this question, one might primarily consider imagination as a marginal concept…
Sundays
On Sundays, I think about finitude. As I look at all the things that I need to do, want to do, have to do, should have done, etc., I come face to face with the humanity I could easily ignore some other days. Some other days much busier, it makes sense to not be able…
Nature/nurture
Just a few minutes ago, I felt like I was about to crash into concrete—the feeling was that of free-falling, but slower, almost as if I would have only enough time for being fully conscious of the inevitable crash and that I do not seem to have it in me to find a way out.…