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Chronicles - Agustus 2018
Tedjoworo, Hadrianus
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 34 No. 2 (2018)
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung
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DOI: 10.26593/mel.v34i2.3392.212-217
'Chronicles' is a journal column of "MELINTAS" which contains information about the various events, congresses, conferences, symposia, necrologies, publications, and periodicals in the fields of philosophy and theology.
Carlo Martini’s New World Order in Indonesian Context
Mathando Hinganaday, Rafael
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 34 No. 2 (2018)
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DOI: 10.26593/mel.v34i2.3388.129-144
Diversity has been an unavoidable reality. People live with other people of different religions, tribes, or races. The falling of old ideological and political structures in the world has played a great role in making this happen. To replace the old ideological and political structures, populism tends to be widely accepted by people who want to erect great wall in order to avoid immigrants. In Indonesia, populism manifests in the ideas and attitudes that alienate others based on religions and ethnic groups. The author introduces the views of Carlo Maria Martini, who, as a Catholic bishop, has promoted the idea of creating a society that supports diversity to be a new world order. Martini based his ideas on a biblical analysis, mainly on the Old Testament books such as Genesis, Exodus, and Deuteronomy. In order to find inspiration of Martini’s views for the context of Indonesia, the author relates them to Anthony Giddens and Raimon Panikkar, and finds how Martini’s ideas can be practised not only by inclusivists and pluralists, but also by exclusivists.
Demokrasi di Indonesia: Pancasila sebagai Kontekstualisasi Demokrasi
Bolo, Andreas Doweng
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 34 No. 2 (2018)
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DOI: 10.26593/mel.v34i2.3389.145-167
A critical outlook on democracy in general and Pancasila Democracy in particular is a necessary reflection through the course of times. This paper examines Pancasila democracy in descriptive ways as well as prescriptive way. These approaches are an attempt to explore Pancasila democracy as an open ideology in its essence. In Indonesia’s history, Pancasila democracy was once used as a tool to legitimize power. However, discourses on the subject matter in its nature must be done in the diversity of rational arguments and cannot depend on the interpretations of the ruler alone. When democracy is isolated from rational discourses, it can get caught up in various problems such as “money politics” and “identity politics” which eventually destroy democracy itself. This article portrays the dynamics of democracy in Indonesia, both in its formal settings and as a building that allows humanity reach its dignity. Pancasila Democracy can be a space for a change towards Indonesia that is more animating to the spirit of divinity, humanity, and nationalism and towards a society with solid physical and spiritual well-being.
Problem Dunia Ilmiah dan Krisis Spiritual
Hia, Hubertus
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 34 No. 2 (2018)
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DOI: 10.26593/mel.v34i2.3390.168-192
Spiritual awareness is one’s experience the living mind and body as a whole. It goes beyond mind and body, but also expands between the self and the world. At the center of human consciousness through the spiritual moments there is a sense of being deeply related with everything, the sense of being together with the whole universe. This kind of spiritual awareness has been threatened by the modern scientific world. The spirit of modernism to question and to break down nature, religion, and tradition under the pretext of pragmatic utopia of growth has brought humanity into an alarming and frightening phase of world civilization. Fritjof Capra says that the main problem of the existential crisis of modern humans is caused by the crisis of perception, mainly with the influence and errors from science as well as from Cartesian and Newtonian thoughts in perceiving the reality mechanically. Mysticism can be seen as an alternative to liberate modern humans to become authentic persons.
Karya Seni dalam Pandangan Jean-Paul Sartre
Pranowo, Yogie
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 34 No. 2 (2018)
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DOI: 10.26593/mel.v34i2.3391.193-211
Jean-Paul Sartre offers a different way of looking at artworks. He offers psychological as well as phenomenological perspectives. The artworks referred to by Sartre include music, painting, literature, and theater. In his thoughts related to works of art, Sartre offers a notion of analogon, that has a key role to explain his concept of imagination. With this notion, he goes further to explain the concept of irreality in artworks, of which analogon is a medium or a material vehicle. When enjoying an artwork, one is enjoying the analogon. Music can be seen as an excess of reality, literature finds its role within its social environment, a painting provokes a viewer to rise certain images in his or her cosciousness, and an actor in theater not simply portrays the characters of a personage because he becomes ‘not real’ in playing his role on the stage. All this brings to the understanding of artwork as irreality.
Counter-Community as Moral Community: The Church’s Contribution to Public Civility
Bismoko Mahamboro, Dionius
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 34 No. 2 (2018)
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DOI: 10.26593/mel.v34i2.3387.117-128
Indonesia is a home of various religions and traditional beliefs. However, from the time before the fall of the New Order in 1998 up to now the coexistence of followers of different religions cannot be said to be without problems. The 2004 Indonesian Bishops’ Conference’s pastoral notes reflect the worry that the peaceful coexistence among different religious followers is failing. Nevertheless, the document’s dominant node is expressed in positive attitude and hope. The Indonesian Bishops’ Conference encourages all Christian communities to develop themselves into ‘counter-communities’. This article is aimed at discovering the relevance of the idea ‘counter-communities’ to the problems of coexistence of different religious followers in the Post-New-Order era, which now has been marked with prejudice and mistrust.
Counter-Community as Moral Community: The Church’s Contribution to Public Civility
Bismoko Mahamboro, Dionius
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 34 No. 2 (2018)
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Indonesia is a home of various religions and traditional beliefs. However, from the time before the fall of the New Order in 1998 up to now the coexistence of followers of different religions cannot be said to be without problems. The 2004 Indonesian Bishops’ Conference’s pastoral notes reflect the worry that the peaceful coexistence among different religious followers is failing. Nevertheless, the document’s dominant node is expressed in positive attitude and hope. The Indonesian Bishops’ Conference encourages all Christian communities to develop themselves into ‘counter-communities’. This article is aimed at discovering the relevance of the idea ‘counter-communities’ to the problems of coexistence of different religious followers in the Post-New-Order era, which now has been marked with prejudice and mistrust.
Carlo Martini’s New World Order in Indonesian Context
Mathando Hinganaday, Rafael
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 34 No. 2 (2018)
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DOI: 10.26593/mel.v34i2.3388.129-144
Diversity has been an unavoidable reality. People live with other people of different religions, tribes, or races. The falling of old ideological and political structures in the world has played a great role in making this happen. To replace the old ideological and political structures, populism tends to be widely accepted by people who want to erect great wall in order to avoid immigrants. In Indonesia, populism manifests in the ideas and attitudes that alienate others based on religions and ethnic groups. The author introduces the views of Carlo Maria Martini, who, as a Catholic bishop, has promoted the idea of creating a society that supports diversity to be a new world order. Martini based his ideas on a biblical analysis, mainly on the Old Testament books such as Genesis, Exodus, and Deuteronomy. In order to find inspiration of Martini’s views for the context of Indonesia, the author relates them to Anthony Giddens and Raimon Panikkar, and finds how Martini’s ideas can be practised not only by inclusivists and pluralists, but also by exclusivists.
Demokrasi di Indonesia: Pancasila sebagai Kontekstualisasi Demokrasi
Bolo, Andreas Doweng
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 34 No. 2 (2018)
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DOI: 10.26593/mel.v34i2.3389.145-167
A critical outlook on democracy in general and Pancasila Democracy in particular is a necessary reflection through the course of times. This paper examines Pancasila democracy in descriptive ways as well as prescriptive way. These approaches are an attempt to explore Pancasila democracy as an open ideology in its essence. In Indonesia’s history, Pancasila democracy was once used as a tool to legitimize power. However, discourses on the subject matter in its nature must be done in the diversity of rational arguments and cannot depend on the interpretations of the ruler alone. When democracy is isolated from rational discourses, it can get caught up in various problems such as “money politics” and “identity politics” which eventually destroy democracy itself. This article portrays the dynamics of democracy in Indonesia, both in its formal settings and as a building that allows humanity reach its dignity. Pancasila Democracy can be a space for a change towards Indonesia that is more animating to the spirit of divinity, humanity, and nationalism and towards a society with solid physical and spiritual well-being.
Problem Dunia Ilmiah dan Krisis Spiritual
Hia, Hubertus
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 34 No. 2 (2018)
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DOI: 10.26593/mel.v34i2.3390.168-192
Spiritual awareness is one’s experience the living mind and body as a whole. It goes beyond mind and body, but also expands between the self and the world. At the center of human consciousness through the spiritual moments there is a sense of being deeply related with everything, the sense of being together with the whole universe. This kind of spiritual awareness has been threatened by the modern scientific world. The spirit of modernism to question and to break down nature, religion, and tradition under the pretext of pragmatic utopia of growth has brought humanity into an alarming and frightening phase of world civilization. Fritjof Capra says that the main problem of the existential crisis of modern humans is caused by the crisis of perception, mainly with the influence and errors from science as well as from Cartesian and Newtonian thoughts in perceiving the reality mechanically. Mysticism can be seen as an alternative to liberate modern humans to become authentic persons.