Evolution is a perennial challenge before Nature, self, society and the world. This article engages with the discourse of evolutionity offered by W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz to characterize our contemporary condition. Korab-Karpowicz argues that our contemporary condition is not so much characterized by tradition, modernity and postmodernity but evoultionity which refers to processes of evolution on the part of self and society. This article engages with this perspective and argues how evoultionity is characterized by evolutionary suffering which then leads to evolutionary flourishing. Evolutionary suffering refers to pain and suffering undertaken for realizing evolutionary transformations of self, society and the world. Evolutionary flourishing refers to realization of beauty, dignity and dialogues in self and society as evolutionary process. The article also argues how the present moment is not only characterized by clash among epochs but by dialogue among epochs. The theme of clash of epochs which draws on the discourse of clash of civilizations needs to engage with discourses and practices of dialogues among civilizaitons. Here the article offers the perspectives of multi-topial and multi-temporal hermeneutics to understand dialogues among epochs. In multi-topial hermeneutics one moves across multiple terrains of self, society, culture and the world and in multi-temporal hermeneutics one moves across multiple temporality. The article thus argues how dialogues among epochs need to be understood in the context of dialogues among cultures, civilizations and temporality. The article argues how in our contemporary moment we need to realize that we all are children of Mother Earth which is called planetary realizations in this essay.
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Evolutionary Flourishing, Evolutionary Suffering, Dialogues Among Epochs, Multi-topial Hermeneutics, Multi-temporal Hermeneutics, Transmodernity, Lokasamgraha, Tian-Xia
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| [55] | Here what Fred Dallmayr writes deserves our careful consideration: As an antidote to the spread of “worldlessness” in our time, Hannah Arendt recommended the restoration of a “public realm” in which people would actively participate and be mutually connected. Digging beneath this public forum, Heidegger unearthed the deeper source of connectedness in the experience of “care” (Sorge, c ura) in its different dimensions. From the angle of human “being-in-the world,” care penetrates into all dimensions of this correlation—in the sense that existence is called upon to care about “world” and its constituent features (fellow-beings, nature, cosmos). Differently put: There cannot be, for Heidegger, an isolated “self-care” (c ura sui) without care for the world—that includes care for world maintenance (without which Dasein cannot exist). In this latter concern, is work does not stand alone. In the Indian tradition, especially the Bhagavad Gita, we find an emphasis on a basic ethical and ontological obligation: the caring attention to “world maintenance” or loka-samgraha. According to the Gita, such attention needs to be cultivated, nurtured and practiced in order for human life to be sustainable and meaningful. See, Fred Dallmayr. (2015), Against the Apocalypse: Recovering Humanity’s Wholeness. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, pp. 51-52. |
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