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Melintas An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion
Published by Universitas Katolik Parahyangan
ISSN : 08520089     EISSN : 24068098     DOI : https://doi.org/10.26593
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The aim of this Journal is to promote a righteous approach to exploration, analysis, and research on philosophy, humanities, culture and anthropology, phenomenology, ethics, religious studies, philosophy of religion, and theology. The scope of this journal allows for philosophy, humanities, philosophy of culture and anthropology, phenomenological philosophy, epistemology, ethics, business ethics, philosophy of religion, religious studies, theology, dogmatic theology, systematic theology, theology of sacrament, moral theology, biblical theology, and pastoral theology.
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Membaca Ulang 'Waiting for Godot' dengan Hermeneutika Paul Ricoeur Pranowo, Yogie
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 31 No. 2 (2015)
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v31i2.1623.154-173

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This paper presents an attempt of a philosophical exploration using Paul Ricoeur’s theory of text interpretation on Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. When viewed in a glance, Waiting for Godot does not appear much as a conceptual drama. It talks about so many things, ranging from things that sound trivial to things that smell theological. However, if one delves deeper through different interpretation, this drama is indeed intricate enough to provoke fresh insights. Its complexity is reinterpreted here insofar this drama is imagined within the genre of absurd drama. According to Ricoeur, one of the goals of interpretation is not only to understand the mind of the author behind the text, but the text itself with its circulating meanings around its interpretation, that is, within its interpretative world. The text gives rise to things for the understanding of the reader or interpreter. In the light of Ricoeur’s hermeneutics, this article attempts to reread some of the depths of Waiting for Godot. It is not so much of interpreting the intention of Samuel Beckett in writing the text as searching for different meanings in some parts of the dialogues in the text by way of engaging in its eventful discourse.
Gagasan Allah Kristianitas dalam Modernisme, Postmodernisme, dan 'Illative Sense' John Henry Newman Situmorang, Riston
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 31 No. 2 (2015)
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v31i2.1624.174-200

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Modern worldview tends to explore everything, including the idea of God, grounded on reason and rational evidences. Postmodernism on the other hand tends to consider that the basic of epistemology of modernism fails to explain the experience and the existence of God, because modernism relies too much on the cognitive and empiric powers. John Henry Newman might be viewed as a constructive postmodernist for he chooses a different power for judging the truth about the concept and experience of God. Newman appears not to think in ‘either-or’ way like in the rationalism and empiricism worldview, but attempts to fuse and bridge the ways of thinking using ‘both-and’. He suggests that this power, i.e., the illative sense, is a faculty that help the believers judge the truth in comprehending the existence of God. With illative sense, people may decide and make spontaneous inferences on concrete issues naturally. In this line, postmodernism might be seen not as a threat or enemy, but companion to religion, for the postmodern epistemology tends to be sensorial, intuitive, and experiential. Illative sense, as a power that each believer has, is converging the particularities towards the existence of God in the context of religious epistemology.
Fragmentasi Manusia dalam Kultur Makan Masa Kini Susilo, Ferdy
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 31 No. 2 (2015)
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v31i2.1625.201-219

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Food has been one of the most important foundations of human history. Food functions as a statement of the self, a classification system, a way of social interaction, and even a cultural identity that it can be interpreted holistically. Food has been one of the most important elements that shape life and the history of human civilization. It demonstrates a kind of culture that signifies the dynamic of humanity from one era to the other. The expansion of food industry has brought a great impact on the revolution of social interaction model. However, a reduction of the food value is happening nowadays throughout the food culture, seeing it as simply as nutrition and economical commodity. Hedonism triggers the view of food as a tool to conquer the human desire, which actually never ceased even after being satisfied. A sort of ‘McDonaldization’ system is considered as a grand system of living that might have significantly changed many aspects of human life in this globalisation era. The Branded Life propaganda of the food industry seems to mislead people to continue their luxurious life. The fragmentation of human’s views on food becomes one of its consequences and in turn changes human’s respect of food within its holistic picture. The discussion now covers the social and spiritual dimensions. Today, the fragmented views of food have turned into a threat to humanity, but also a great opportunity, notwithstanding uncomfortable, to highlight the missing aspects of food in the midst of contemporary culture.
Redefining Ethics and Culture in the Virtual World Piliang, Yasraf A.
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 31 No. 3 (2015)
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v31i3.1917.236-251

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Ethics, and its articulation in moral conducts, is not existed in a vacuum, sterile or fixed human world, but a subject of ‘reformulation’ or even ‘redefinition’, as the result of a certain socio-cultural transformation. The development of a global information-digital culture has in a certain intensity affected the perception, understanding and practice of ethics itself as a moral standard. One of the main character of this culture is its ‘artificiality’, through which human communication and interaction is no longer performed on a ‘face-to-face basis, but on a technological mediated one. The consequence is a ‘cultural distanciation’, in which perception is separated from experience, body is separated from message. Another consequence is the ‘transparency’ at an ethical level, in which several ethical boundaries are deconstructed: good/bad, proper/improper. A community ethics is one of today’s ethical problem, in which a ‘commonality’ is no longer constructed based on conventional social bonds, but on more artificial bonds: solitude, rejection, helplessness. Friendship in the digital world is another ‘strange’ development of moral conduct, in which a great numbers of friends is just an affirmation of one’s solitude. As the result, connection—as main pilar in the architecture of our contemporary life—has taken us along a cultural contradiction: it mediates, but at the same time dissociates our cultural experience.
Sembilan Matahari’s Vmaps: Retelling Geographical Memories and Narratives in Digital Culture Allo, Katherina
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 31 No. 3 (2015)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v31i3.1918.262-275

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Images and representations have long been used to tell the history of a place, to crystalize local memories, myths and beliefs, and to share meaningful values in a collective life. Sembilan Matahari, one of the nationally renown film-makers and video artists in Indonesia, has produced works of video-mapping (vmap) from 2010 to 2014 in public spaces as part of the local events to celebrate and re-activate the life of a people. Through Sembilan Matahari’s works the city of Jakarta, Pekalongan and Bandung have animated their iconic buildings to tell their stories and renew the memories of the place and the people. This article is based on a research examining the spatial construction of the event and the video-mapping, and how these spatial constructions relate to the geographical memories and narratives of the place. By using phenomenological approaches, this writing will explain how the three spatial constructions relate to one another, and how the reading/ interpretation of the video-mapping occur in experiencing Sembilan Matahari’s works.
The Quick Growth of the Catholic Church in Manggarai: A Phenomenology of Conversion and Some Explanations Borgias M., Fransiskus
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 31 No. 3 (2015)
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v31i3.1919.276-302

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Since the arrival of Christianity together with the colonial rulers, Manggarai, Flores, Indonesia, undergoes physical and spiritual changes. These changes can be explained with theory of intellectual voluntarism (the free will of the repentant) and theory of structural determinism (enforcement by external factor). It appears that the changes in Manggarai happen because of the mixture of both factors in their diverse variants, such as the political-economical, educational, social-services related, and religious-theological factors. There are two horizons in the whole process of encounter and transformation in this area. On the one hand, there is the horizon of European Christian missionaries (supported by government), and on the other hand, the horizon of the Manggarain, with their cultural life in the broadest sense of the word. The two horizons fuse to each other in one drama of cultural encounter throughout the growth of the Church. Following the hermeneutical discourse of Gadamer, it might be said that the fusion of the two horizons results in the emergence of a new face of unique local and contextual Christianity. In its uniqueness and locality, it has also something to be contributed to the universal Church.
Makan sebagai Aktivitas Produktif: Tinjauan Filosofis tentang Makan dari Perspektif Foucaultian Setiawan, F. X. Rudi
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 31 No. 3 (2015)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v31i3.1920.303-335

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The meaning of eating is often reduced to concern objects or properties. Food is quite often understood as merely nutritive materials to fulfill the biological needs in order to survive or to satisfy human psychological desire. From this perspective, eating is tragically seen as killing for living. Eating thus becomes a consumptive and exploitative action. Nevertheless, eating can be a more productive act if food is not only construed as object or property, but as human strategy or means to construct relationships in social life. Inspired by Foucault, this paper shows that the meaning of food ought to be extended from the nutritive intrinsic aspects toward the political or cultural aspects; that is, food as a means to construct subject. In a sense, food governs or normalizes people in their social life. Therefore, food and eating give rise to knowledge, value order, behavioral patterns, lifestyles, or beliefs: they become the creative and transformative energy of the civilization.
Jalan Bakti dalam Upaya Inkulturasi Injil Kristus di tengah Masyarakat Tionghoa Kristen di Indonesia Suryadi, Yohanes
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 31 No. 3 (2015)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v31i3.1921.336-352

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The ethics of ‘homage’ and its practice in the Chinese tradition is centered around the ethics of the family, but in Indonesia it might have been tainted by the ideological and political interests of the exploitating rulers. As a consequence, the various ethical-familial dimensions of a noble homage-ethics could have been manipulated as well and become a means for subtle ideological-religious oppresion. The political-ideological content of homage-ethics that has been deviated into ideological homage needs to be shown to the Chinese people in Indonesia, so that they may respond critically to the homage-tyranny that creates the slave mentality, which sometimes is tucked into the collective unconsciousness. The exploitating homage ideology in the Chinese culture might be replaced with Jesus Christ’s ‘homage theology’, which is liberating and transforming. The perfect homage act of Christ on the cross is theocentric, but it brings the grace of redemption with its total and transcendental implication, and it has the power to give birth to a ‘new human being’ free from interhuman exploitation, idolatry, immorality, and injustice.
Power and Good Governance: Observations from Nigeria Columbus, Ogbujah
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 32 No. 1 (2016)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v32i1.1923.1-22

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In recent times, the terms ‘power’, ‘governance’ and ‘good governance’ are bandied around conferences, symposia and literary works that seek for solution to the multifaceted problems of modern life. This has become necessary, and perhaps expedient because while in some climes people legitimately struggle for power to rule, others in different regions usurp it through undemocratic means (by military coups); and others still, while hiding under democracy, unleash terror on the citizenry and/or political opponents in order to accomplish their personalized agenda unhindered. Today, Nigeria is ranked low in the committee of democratic nations because of lack of good governance: there is massive corruption, political turbulence, decline in economic productivity, and overall social discontent sometimes orchestrated by the activities of ethnic militia. The spate of violence and crimes has created an alarming sense of insecurity, such that people no longer trust on the powers of their government for protection. This paper has looked at the use of power by Nigerian political actors, especially during the democratic dispensation, and found that the flagrant disregard for the rule of law (abuse of power) has been the bane to good governance. It discovered that bad governance which is increasingly linked to corrupt ‘use of power’ is the root cause of social glitches within the nation.
Klaim-Klaim Kebudayaan dalam Pemikiran Seyla Benhabib Mudzakkir, Amin
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 32 No. 1 (2016)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v32i1.1924.23-45

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Whether the model of citizenship based on the national nation-state can stand in the increasingly pluralistic contemporary society might be one of the important questions at the beginning of the 21st century. Liberal thinkers are quite pessimistic on the prospect of a democratic rule of government among the states torn by ethnic, religious, identity-related differences. Issues concerning culture and religiosity are often understood within the framework of security and order. In the recent cultural contexts, Seyla Benhabib develops three normative conditions to be a model of deliberative cosmopolitan democracy, i. e., egalitarian reciprocity, voluntary self-ascription, and freedom of exit and association. With her anti-essentialism view, she defends the opinion that culture is a social construct that is mixed and plural. The term social construct is not meant to be a conjecture, but a term that has certain normative dimension to be the guideline to live through the interaction process among the autonomous human beings, including their relations with different groups. For Benhabib, the individual remains at the central position whether morally or politically, so that the groups, including the state, do not have strong justification to impose their own regulations in ways that limit the rights of a human being.

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