Transparency (Philosophy)

found: Work cat.: 2016057865: Geroulanos, S. Transparency in postwar France, 2017:data view (This book offers a panorama of postwar French thought through the lens of the concept of transparency. They argued that ethics begins with a recognition that others are not transparent to us, nor, in fact, are we to ourselves. As this book demonstrates, while the concept and figure of transparency was rarely the subject of sustained discussion, it played a major role in the development of new philosophical movements such as structuralism and French democratic thought, and it considerably influenced other ideas and social practices, including the understanding of norms and the normal, the pursuit of social transformation, and the role of information in modernity)

found: Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy, viewed Dec. 15, 2016(Self-knowledge: 1.2.2 Looking outward: Transparency: While the term "introspection" connotes a looking within, a view that has recently gained prominence envisions the method unique to self-knowledge as requiring precisely the opposite. On this view, we ascertain our own thoughts by looking outward, to the states of the world they represent. This is known as the transparency view, in that it takes self-knowledge to involve looking "through" the (transparent) mental state, directly to the state of the world it represents. The idea that the special method by which we achieve self-knowledge involves transparency is central to empiricist transparency accounts, as well as to some rationalist and agentialist accounts)

found: Transparency website, viewed Dec. 15, 2016(What Is Transparency: All of us contain within ourselves an inherent knowledge that we are in a fallen state and a state of exile. We know intuitively that humanity is lost in a maze of forgetting, trapped in neurotic selves, societies of violence and power, cultures of manipulation, and a realm of nature that is experienced as something alien to us... But all creations of fiction and nonfiction, including this one, are composed of both memory and forgetting, and all involve forms of manipulation that need to be made transparent. The role of criticism is to advance the cause of memory -- to side with humanity's millennia-long effort-long effort to recover the truths of human experience so we can move to a new level of civilization)