TAKUYA NIIKAWA Abstract There are three views on the relation between moral status and consciousness: the sentientist, the existentialist, and the fundamentalist views. The sentientist view focuses on the fact that an entity becomes sentient by virtue of being conscious. The existentialist view emphasizes the sense in which an entity becomes irreplaceable by having consciousness. … [Read more…]
Alexandru Lupușor Abstract It would not be an exaggeration to say that Georg Lukács entered the history of philosophy mostly due to his work History and Class Consciousness. According to Merleau-Ponty, Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness “was for a while the bible of what was called Western communism” (Merleau-Ponty 1973, 7). The special place … [Read more…]
Rolando Gripaldo Abstract This paper attempts to understand the relationships among the various elements of the human person: body, mind, spirit, soul, ego, consciousness, and self as viewed from the Western philosophical tradition. The paper argues that in order to know the soul, one should know the self because it is the … [Read more…]