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AbstractClaude Geffré is one of the most important theologians in the past decades for his work in hermeneutics and in theological methodology. In the present article, he proposes his own intellectual biography and looks back at the evolution of catholic theology over the last forty years. While remaining faithful to the theological posture of Thomas of Aquinas, Geffré seeks to define theology as a hermeneutical science. For him, the task of theology is the presentation of a critical correlation between the human experience and the texts of the Christian tradition.
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After a quick survey of what it might mean to “Teach Europe” today, in terms of knowledge, skills and attitudes, this paper shows how this teaching draws upon all subject areas, in their contents, methodologies and approaches. This exposé is contextualized within the framework the Istepec project: ‘Intercultural Studies in Teacher Education to Promote Citizenship'.
Keywords: enseignement, citoyenneté européen, Union éuropéenne, éducation, méthodologie, champs disciplinaire, teaching, european citizenship, European Union, education, methodology, sphere of science
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This article attempts to look at religious practices, specifically in Islam, as a response to social injustice. The article begins with a discussion of Nancy Fraser's conceptualization of social justice through the dimensions of recognition and redistribution. I am attempting to demonstrate that this feminist perspective is close to the Koran praxis of zakat. I am highlighting three characteristics of zakat as the foundation of faith : zakat commands a redistribution of property and wealth and it outlines the debt and the obligation of the wealthy to those of lower socio-economic standing. Thirdly, adherence to these guidelines enables the creation of ethical action based on Solidarity and Justice. Finally, this paper proposes one kind of religious way against austerity within Quebec.
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This article analyzes the constitutive elements of what Strasser calls a “dialogal phenomenology” (1969), which is based on a twofold attempt : first, to elaborate a phenomenology of interiority, after the Husserlian and Merleau-Pontian criticism of the Cartesian cogito ; secondly, to take into account the primordiality of affectivity in the constitution of ethics, by means of an archeology of the subject which places the encounter with the other, in the form of a “You”, at the foreground of the emergence of the common world. To carry out this endeavor, Strasser overhauled philosophical anthropology by reintroducing the notion of the “heart” (Gemüt ; thumos), conceived as an intermediate zone of metabolization and metaphorization of reality which makes the descriptive method of phenomenology compatible with the normative and universal aim of ethics.
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This article studies how three contemporary war fictions negotiate their relation to historical truth and question their own validity as memory of the past. Zone by Mathias Énard, Incendies by Wajdi Mouawad and Les événements by Jean Rolin testify about a time particularly sensitive to the issue of the borders between historical fact and representation, and suspicious of the claim to truth of a so-called “official” history. Collectively and individually traumatic, the wars evoked in these works provide the opportunity to deconstruct a manipulated memory or to figure out the non-transmissible part of such extreme experiences. The analysis brings out the ethical character of the self-reflective specificity of literature, as it deals with memory processes.
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La majorité des débats portant sur les préoccupations éthiques quant au traitement des personnes atteintes de désordres de la conscience est présentée en fonction d’une classification dichotomique : « droit de mourir/droit de vivre », en se concentrant principalement sur (1) une évaluation pour savoir si l’individu demeure « conscient », et sur (2) la « bonne » prise de décision concernant l’utilisation de traitements de survie. Toutefois, les expériences vécues par la famille, les amis et le personnel médical, qui entretiennent un lien étroit avec l’individu atteint de désordres de la conscience, indiquent que les questions éthiques que cela comporte ne peuvent être réduites au schéma « droit de mourir/droit de vivre », ni à des preuves d’un état de conscience, ni au droit …
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The status of legal construction may at first appear paradoxical. Although essential, matters of legal interpretation are seldom addressed, except by a few specialists often very close to the sociological jurisprudence or the American Realism movements. The result is a kind of general consensus (which equally serves as a political principle) of the academic community upon the subsidiary role of interpretation in the law-making process – whereby the law-making process is deemed to fall almost entirely into the realm of the legislative branch of government. Yet, this idea that the legislative branch is the sole source of law-making is somehow at odds with the facts. This idea is above all contradicted by a set of works drawn from the philosophy of translation which, in the wake of the “hermeneutic turn” dating from the second half of the twentieth century, has brought to light a different paradigm : the interpreter is not alien to the text, and the idea that he could never add to what the author or the first reader could have had in mind should be denounced ; the text is not a “pretext” or a secondary concern in the decision-making process and should be taken seriously by legal hermeneutics. Finally, the theory of translation firmly rejects the use of the author's intention for interpretative purposes.
Keywords: Interprétation, herméneutique juridique, théorie de la traduction, H.-G. Gadamer, P. Ricœur, G. Steiner, Interpretation, legal hermeneutics, theory of translation, H.-G. Gadamer, P. Ricœur, G. Steiner