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 Cernica Abstract In this research I am interested in the issue of the relationship between the religious and philosophical phenomenon. I think there is a unity of these two phenomena in the beginning of the history of Romanian philosophy; and also, I think, in any beginning of a particular philosophy, be it ancient or … [Read more…]
Zhasmina Donkova Abstract The question about dialogue and cooperation between different religious institution and communities in Bulgaria and the role of government in this process is discussed during multiple round tables and conferences. Not only organizations from the non-government sector, but also governmental structures are engaged in the accomplishment of the practically efficacious model of … [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…]