E-LOGOS, 2023 (vol. 30), issue 1

History of Philosophy

Philosophical Discourse on Image and Text (A Historical Analysis of Image and Text Relationship)

Anastasia Jessica Adinda Susanti

E-LOGOS 2023, 30(1):14-20 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.497  

The relationship between image and text has been a topic of debate since the Ancient Greek era. Plato considered image as more natural than text, therefore the image is readily understood. Simónides de Ceos has begun the sister arts tradition between image and text, by his phrase ut pictura poesis (as is painting, so is poetry). In contrast to the Ancient Greek, Modern thinkers tend to sharply distinguish between image and text. We can trace modern philosophical discourse on image and text from Leonardo da Vinci’s superiority of painting over poetry, Lessing’s distinction of painting and poetry, Burke’s words as the sublime...

Philosophy of Science

Fundamental Uncertainty in Model Predictions: Analysis of Modern Macroeconomic Models from the Perspective of Friedman's Instrumentalism

Jáchym Novotný

E-LOGOS 2023, 30(1):15-36 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.498  

In 1966, M. Friedman published an essay on the methodology of positive economics, in which he emphasized the role of predictions as a decisive criterion for accepting macroeconomic models. This paper analyzes to what extent modern macroeconomics in 2023 is guided by these ideas. The first part of this paper deals with the role of predictions in macroeconomic models and shows that a large part of the models currently used do not contain any predictions at all. The next part of the paper explains the problem of Lucas' critique and the resulting complications in making predictions. The following section shows how modern dynamic stochastic general equilibrium...

Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

Byung-Chul Han’s Burnout Society

Adam Šimčík

E-LOGOS 2023, 30(1):4-13 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.496  

This article deals with a critical summary of the main ideas and reflections expressed in the book The Burnedout Society. The author of the five essays that make up this book is Byung-Chul Han, a German-writing philosopher from Seoul, Korea. The ideas of this author are elaborated in detail in the essay Society of Fatigue, which was logically included in the first place in the book. The central idea of this treatise, and indeed of the author's entire set of reflections, is the current decrease in negativity that surrounds contemporary man and that leads to an excess of positivity and the emergence of a society of performance. According to Han, it results...