Vasile Hațegan Abstract: The paper presents some specific elements of counseling, taken or derived from philosophy, which become the main working tools of new professions that are now emerging in Romania as well, namely philosophical counseling and ethics counseling, with their application in various areas of business, from individuals and groups, to organizations and companies, … [Read more…]
Toni Svetejl Abstract: Transhumanism, with its wish to transform the essence of human being, challenges anew the perennial discussion regarding the essence of human beings. If this transformation touches only the biological level of human existence, can we still talk about transformation? The idea of bringing humans to a higher level is also well-known in … [Read more…]
Sandru Frunza Abstract: In order to understand the specifics of philosophical therapy and counseling as applied philosophy practices, Lou Marinoff proposes an analysis of practical philosophy relations with theoretical philosophy, psychology, psychiatry and ideology. Each of these relations is used as an argument to assert philosophical therapy and counseling as a distinct field of couseling, … [Read more…]
Manuel Sumareș Abstract: The essay represents an attempt to recuperate the notion of Christian magnanimity in the so-called Post-Christian age. In the secularised contemporary environment, magnanimity has acquired a naturalised character and expresses itself in the language of inclusiveness and rights. Yet the reality that it can claim is self-constructed and a version of modern … [Read more…]
Laurențiu Staicu Abstract: Philosophical counseling is a growing and maturing field and it covers more and more areas of our everyday life. But how can we investigate, in a counseling setting, more intricate problems such as those associated with personal identity? How can we discuss with a non-philosopher about metaphysical issues, specifically about metaphysical perspectives … [Read more…]
Emanuel Copilaș Abstract: Ovidiu Anemțoaicei proposes in this book a very complex, coherent and provocative intellectual project. The central premise from which this endeavor starts is that within gender studies, the valorization of man’s corporal experience appears less or not at all in comparison to the valorization of women’s corporal experience. Thus, hegemonic masculinity, and … [Read more…]
Dan Chițoiu Abstract: This paper proposes an investigation of intercultural encounters as a phenomenology of faces, surfaces and appearances. The moment of encounter with the cultural other can be considered as an “open” moment, as one in which one transgresses own ways of representing the other as well as of self. This open instance is … [Read more…]
Claudiu Mesaroș Perhaps one of the most used terms in the recent philosophy is that of philosophical practice. It has attracted philosophers some years ago but eventually it has been accepted as such. But there are many problems still to be discussed, like the nature of a philosophical practice in general. Is the philosophical practice … [Read more…]
Andrea Menna Abstract: Under the post-war liberal-democratic regimes, the majority principle rules over all, tosuch a degree that not only the idea of democracy matches that of the rule of majority,but most of all, the rule of majority has succeeded in being considered the sole democratic rule by definition. It is useful to look at … [Read more…]
André Bueno Abstract The formation of Brazilian culture is relatively new in the world history. With just over five hundred years of existence, Brazil was created from several different cultural sources: indigenous, European, African and Asian. This situation created a rich and complex situation, which makes many believe a genuine Brazilian civilization, with its own … [Read more…]