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Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture

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To Know Is To Be – Wisdom in Philosophy as a Way of Life and Its Implications for our Understanding of Knowledge

Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture January 28, 2025 Lucas Nascimento Machado

In my paper, I attempt to show how the Hadotian metaphilosophical perspective of philosophy as a way of life (PWL for short) implies another conception of what true, philosophical knowledge is: a conception that one should understand through Hadot’s reading of what is Sophia for ancient philosophy. To do so, I present my account of PWL according to Hadot as a way of understanding philosophy in...

Trauma and Phenomenology

Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture February 4, 2020 Natalie Depraz 4 citations

The phenomenology of trauma is a historical, epistemological, and methodic inquiry that wishes to test the validity of an already settled dynamic model of surprise as shock-rupture based on its correlated inner structures of attention (as an open awaiting) and emotion (as a perduring resonance). Thanks to an integrative approach, crossing (micro)phenomenological subjective experiences and...

Consciousness, Culture, and the Brain

Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture February 4, 2020 Roger Bartra

Human consciousness is a phenomenon that occurs not only in the brain but also in an external network, a symbolic system. This symbolic system is defined as an exocerebrum. The exocerebrum is a system of artificial cultural prostheses that substitute functions the brain cannot carry out through exclusively biological means. The exocerebrum is a symbolic system that substitutes the cerebral...