NDLI: Civic Meaningfulness ‘Revisited’: A Final Reply to Honohan and Dekker

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Author	Claes, Erik
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	This final reply responds to Honohan’s invitation to articulate the Arendtian tone of the key-note paper. It spells out the philosophical intuition that the political life of citizens, at least potentially, is capable of making visible what makes human life worthwhile and fully meaningful, and the philosophical curiosity to see whether traces of this deep political awareness can be retrieved in dialogues with volunteers. In response to Dekker’s critical doubts, this final reply clarifies the central stakes of Claes’s paper. The core argument was not to show that the biographical model of meaningfulness is the prevailing approach of meaning in/of volunteering, but to assess the potentials and limits of the model’s interpretive power. Moreover, the paper argues for an alternative, existential model of meaningfulness. This approach refers to deep experiences of meaning that emerge from the practice of volunteering and that shift into powerful political experiences of hope, and a lived sense of equality.
Starting Page	381
Ending Page	384
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISSN	12331821
Journal	Foundations of Science
Volume Number	21
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15728471
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2014-12-16
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Civic meaningfulness Existential model of meaningfulness Plurality Philosophy of Science Methodology of the Social Sciences Mathematical Logic and Foundations
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	History and Philosophy of Science

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