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Subject and Object
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[German Version] Today the terms
subject and
object usually denote the person who knows (the epistemic subject) as distinct from what is known (the object of cognition). Most of the common meanings of
subjective derive from this definition of
subject (Subjectivity). In everyday usage, though,
objective usually describes something that is not subjective, the thing as it truly is. This everyday usage was preceded by a complex history of
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Religion Past and Present
Reflection
(469 words)
[German Version] In everyday language,
reflection is synonymous with
contemplation or
critical consideration. In this usage, it loses the specific element of reflexivity (self-reference) that it has by etymology (Lat.
reflectere, “bend back”) and has been central to its philosophical use.
Reflectio was used in this sense in the High Middle Ages (e.g. by Thomas Aquinas) as an alternative to
reditio in seipsum to translate Greek
epistrophḗ, which Neoplatonists like Proclus used for the return of the mind to itself. Later thinkers like Nicholas of Cusa could make
reflectio …
Source:
Religion Past and Present
Speculation
(1,498 words)
[German Version]
I. Religious Studies
1. The use of the term
speculation in religious studies is not divorced from its use in philosophy…
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Religion Past and Present
