Philosophical Readings for "Protestant-Ethicals," by M D Stafleu

readings in "Protestant Ethics"

Marinus Dirk Stafleu
Relations and Characters in Protestant Philosophy
electronic text 2006

outline

√ Introduction

Part I. Culture: What makes people different?

√ Labour  - completed
√ Playing - completed Nov23,2k9 -- see my notes below
Speaking and listening
Reasoning
Believing

Part II. Civilization: How should people deal with their differences?

Companionship
Mutual service
Leadership
Justice
Loving care

Part III. History: Experimental philosophy, a case study

Isolation of a field of science
Searching for objectivity
Technical progress
Searching for universal laws
The hidden structure of matter
Philosophy of experiment

Part IV. Evolution: Relations and characters in 20th-century science

Theory of characters
Sets
Symmetry
Periodic motion
Physical characters
Biotic characters
Inventory of behaviour characters

Cited Literature

Name index

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Stafleu:  Relations and Character in Protestant Ethics (2k6)

Part I: section 2
√ Playing -- completed Nov23

keywords

play,

aesthetics, ....from natural origins in the throat, the pleasurable gurgling of the human infant (Julia Kristeva) before and while she or he begins learning the mother-tongue thru formaic activity/experience in child's play, to traditioned craft discipline/s, eventually perhaps mastery

sports ... training, competition, rules, teams, clubs, fans, followings

cult --- rites

On aesthetics, Stafleu references Seerveld, Rookmaker, Dooyeweerd, Zuidervaart, Goodman, Cassirer, Huizinga, Borgdorff.

p 201

Protestantism has exerted a large influence on Western culture and
Protestant philosophy dealt with the arts extensively.


Kuyper, Dooyeweerd, Rookmaker, Seerveld, Birstwistle
to whom shoud be added Luitikhuizen, Zuidervaart, Adrienne Dengerink-Chaplin,
Rebekah Smick-McIntire


p 203
Huizinga's Homo ludens Man the Player, the playing man

And takes aesthetics into arts, disciplines, etc., institutions.


p 240
In Catholic churches, a priest acts as a mediator between God and
the people. In Protestant churches, synagogues and mosques this is not the
case. Now the pastor is not a priest, although he often cannot resist the
temptation of behaving as such. {This snippet jumped out at me because
of other readings, quite elliptical to  Stafleu's purposes in the preceding.)


p  246
Stafleu has already situated himself as a perichoretic trinitarian.  Thus:
Each human being shows himself as a person, as an image of God, who
reveals himself as a person. Maybe that is the deepest meaning of the
aesthetic relation frame.