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ALADDIN AS AN IMMORAL ETHICIST IN ALADDIN AND THE MAGIC LAMP Jan Gresil de los Santos Kahambing; Anne Dominique Duque
International Journal of Humanity Studies (IJHS) Vol 3, No 1 (2019): September 2019
Publisher : Sanata Dharma University

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This study delves into the tale Aladdin and the Magic Lamp as the excerpt of the Middle Eastern folk tales collection One Thousand and One Nights rather than the popular Disney version. It problematizes the figure of Aladdin and rebrands him as an immoral ethicist as opposed to Disney hero who seeks strength within himself and the other text versions of him as a changed man. This problematizing essentially entails a critique of the Westernized moral figure and its basic universal lesson in the text to argue his being immoral. To do this, the methodology of the paper follows from a philosophical reading that subjectivizes the protagonist into the question of ethics. Specifically, it takes from ieks elaboration of the Nietzschean version of an immoral ethics that remains consistent with the fidelity to ones desire. The paper shows how the plot reveals Aladdins immoral ethics that is founded on strength and constant activity but presupposing the voluntary knowledge and cleverness of his existential choice. To back this, the study finds three distinct features, namely: 1) disregard to authority, 2) love beyond good and evil, and 3) negative will to power.
Validating the Crisis, Or the “Technology contra Humanities” argument during COVID-19 through Formal Proofs of Language Anne Dominique Duque; Fatima Grace Fabillar; Jan Gresil Kahambing
ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 4 No. 3 (2021): SEPTEMBER
Publisher : Hasanuddin University

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The context of the so-called “crisis of the humanities” is further tested against the backdrop of the COVID-9 pandemic crisis. Compounding variations or nuances of this premise infer that the crisis is true, which means that there is a lessening emphasis on the humanities. There is, however, a need to justify how this argument can stand on itself through an inquiry of its validity. The descriptive nature of its claim further begs the presupposition that a crisis is such because of an apparent disparity of the humanities and the sciences stemming from various charges. This paper thus takes over from this problem and utilizes the logical formal proofs of language to assess the underlying assertions being made. It carries on its tasks through a steady establishment of valid proofs that ground the very nature of the crisis.