Andreea Gae Abstract Could the paradigm of the quantum physics instrument a metaphysical reconstruction of the natural world? What connections exist between actuality, potentiality and the contradictory complementarity? What are the uncertainty relations and how do they meet the Hegelian Concept or the Aristotelian energeia? How does the metaphysics retrieve the negativity of becoming and … [Read more…]
Adrian-Paul Iliescu Abstract The aim of this paper is to examine the premise that society is a stable system of cooperation, a premise that constitutes one of the pillars of John Rawls’s theory of justice. The working hypothesis is that, by resort to this premise, Rawls has committed a typical philosophical error, that of ‘encapsulating’ … [Read more…]
Irina Toma Abstract Most perspectives on the postmodern subject revolve around the issue of sexuality and its relevance in the constitution of the subject. Irrespective of the definition we give to sexuality and its related representations on the human body, the critical genealogy of the political practices shows that, in gendering, the body needs to … [Read more…]
VIOREL VIZUREANU Abstract The following study is intended to be the first part of what could be called a “triptych” dedicated to the Foucauldian heterotopias and it is designed to organically capture the following levels of the French thinker’s interpretation of the original concept: 1) an “internal” hermeneutics (a critical commentary) of the text where … [Read more…]
VALENTIN STOIAN Abstract The article argues that Ronald Dworkin’s account of political obligation as a form of associative obligation fails to ground a duty to obey the law. The article shows how Dworkin does not succeed in establishing what A.J. Simmons calls the particularity condition. First, Dworkin’s 1986 account of associative obligations is contrasted to … [Read more…]
SAVU TOTU Abstract The iconoclastic controversy has been covered extensively and from many perspectives. The multitude of theoretical perspectives and of views expressed in relation to the highly complex subject of holy imagery is well known to the experts from this field (whose multiple approaches, of a theological, philosophical, historical or aesthetical nature, support a … [Read more…]
MIHAI-DAN CHIŢOIU Abstract There are some instances when the ways to the reality could be described as ultimate. These kinds of experiences seek to reach a non-mediate and an effective access to reality (no matter how reality is understood are described). They are attempts to overpass the mediation provided by the normal human functions in … [Read more…]
MIHAELA POP Abstract Medical knowledge is one of the most interesting domains of intellectual history. In Europe its development and evolution is based mostly on the Greek contribution, especially on Hippocrates’ and Galen’s works. Our intention is to get a synthetic image of medical thought during the Middle Ages and to show how Galen’s contribution … [Read more…]
GHEORGHE ŞTEFANOV Abstract The paper represents an attempt to understand Kant’s view on the concept of reflexion (Überlegung) in the Critique of Pure Reason. After pointing out the difficulties faced by the existing readings, I try to give some support to the claim that if we regard Überlegung as a metatheoretical faculty, its concepts are … [Read more…]
DANA JALOBEANU Abstract Francis Bacon founded his grand-scale project of a Great Instauration on what he has claimed to be a new and reformed natural history. This claim has been often taken for granted by Baconian scholars. This paper investigates some possible roots of Baconian natural history and discusses a number of features common to … [Read more…]