MIHAI POPA Abstract Cioran, Noica, Eliade or Vulcănescu relate their discourse on history to the categories of some social ontology existing before the history itself. As well as Noica and Eliade (though both will concede to the historic reality a possible meaning retaken in philosophical knowledge), Cioran „avoids” history, not trusting its categories of dynamic, … [Read more…]
VIOREL CERNICA Abstract In this paper, the author tries to investigate the origin of Cioranian thinking, in order to understand the paradoxical structure of the fragment, which is to be considered the stylistic unity of his thinking. Two senses express sufficiently this origin: the pure resistance or lucidity of the consciousness that denies God and … [Read more…]
Ștefan Bârzu Abstract: This paper focuses on highlighting the way in which the spirit of Protestantism, ultimately expressed through the conceptual spectrum of anxiety and despair is the essence of modernity. Within this line of thought there will be explored and challenged the very tension that the Protestant discourse has brought into the public life … [Read more…]
Mihaela Pop Abstract: This work intends to discuss about the first generation of Romanian women-painters within the wider context of the condition of woman within the Romanian society during the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th . We will develop the following path: a) the movement of women’s emancipation in … [Read more…]
Sandra Bihlmaier Abstract: In my paper I will focus on Melanchthon’s concept of poetry as a legitimate means of philosophizing. I will show that he regards poetry as philosophy “arranged in verses and narratives” and that this view is grounded on his notion of perennial philosophy. I will explain this notion and emphasize Melanchthon’s specific … [Read more…]
Georgiana Moise Abstract: The aim of this article is to present the vision that Merleau-Ponty has on the human body (seen from the perspective of a work of art, not completely object nor subject) approached in a way that could be called the phenomenology of corporeality – in which what is actually important is the … [Read more…]
Laura Stifter Abstract: Among the rational arguments for God’s existence there is the ontological argument, originally put forth – in its classical form – by the scholastic theologian and philosopher Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) and subsequently reiterated, in slightly altered versions, by some of the modern thinkers. The present paper aims to outline a comparative … [Read more…]
Alexandru Liciu Abstract: The present article represents an attempt to argue in the favor of the thesis that, in the First Meditation, in the fragment where the problem of madness is spoken of, Descartes’ view aims to exclude the possibility that the knowing subject, the Cogito, could be insane, and not only to avoid the … [Read more…]
Dragoș Vădana Abstract: The theological aspect of the dispute between the modern philosopher René Descartes, and the Calvinist theologian, Gisbertus Voetius, remains a chapter insufficiently explored in Cartesian studies. This paper highlights a set of objections on natural theology addressed by Descartes and Voetius to each other. It shows and expands the common ground Descartes … [Read more…]
Hristina Abrameva Abstract: Writing this article was motivated by the wave of protests in 2013 in Bulgaria. The long and massive protest in the summer of 2013 combined three important features: 1) young people and middle class as the main driver of the events, 2) political action for non-economic value and 3) denial of partisanship … [Read more…]