SURVIVALS PHILOSOPHY

JOHN L. AUSTIN PERFORMATIVE ACT THEORY The word “performative” is derived from the word ‘perform’ which signifies an action. This implies that when an utterance is isuued is a way of perfoming an act. Though the performative act theory has been critiqued, it is accused of employing the speaker-centered model when the meaning of acts is conceptualized. [1] John Austin and identified Performatives as sentences but noted that they are not just mere sentences rather they are those sentences that denote an action. He stated that performative act occurs in two ways. First, that which contains a performative verb which is apparent to the other party known as explicit. Second, that which its intention behind that utterance that one understands it known as implicit. John Austin posited various conditions and guidelines an utterance could be governed as performative. The first condition is that; performatives should be based upon convention. Second, the speaker should have the author...

Introduction In the history of man, there have been difficulties to define the term “theology” and prefer a universal method in which this can be carry out. Many relate this term to the mythical stories of the gods or to the worship of an emperor and others to the eternal creator, God. This essay aims to attempt an exposition of the analysis of the nature, method and goal of theology as a discipline in the light of Edward Schillebeeckx. This notion of theology is found in his book: Revelation and Theology . What is theology? Edward Schillebeeckx begins with the historical account of theology. At the beginning, the word was used with reference to the mythical stories of the gods. The view gradually became accepted, however that these myths about the gods were simply a mythological form concealing true reference to God. [1] For Aristotle, theology is the first form of philosophical thought. The first philosophy was concerned with the highest causes of the visible divine astral ...