Articles

From Egypt to France: On the Reception of Saint Antony the Great, Comparing the Orthodox Heritage with Gustave Flaubert’s The Temptation of Saint Antony

Dmitry Mayorov & Thommaso Manzon   Abstract This work consists in a comparative analysis of St Athanasius’ Life of Anthony and Gustave Flaubert’s The Temptation of St Anthony. We find that these two works present two different Weltanschauungen, each providing important cultural and philosophical input on the philosophical ideas and perspectives of their authors. Accordingly, … [Read more…]

Aesthetics of the Human Image in Christian Philokalia: Orthodox Good‐Beauty‐Image of Monks and Russian Elders

Daniil Yu. Dorofeev   Abstract In this article, the author wishes to consider the aesthetics of the human image as regards the Christian (especially Eastern) archetype of what will be termed the “good–beauty–image” (exemplifying goodness), manifested most fully in the Orthodox Philokalia as the experience of the beautiful appearance of monks and, particularly, Russian elders. … [Read more…]

The Philosophy of Philokalia: The Culture and Life of Beauty in the East

Constantinos Athanasopoulos   Abstract In what follows, I will explore the philosophical foundations of the patristic writings contained in the collection of texts with the name “Philokalia”. I will link this collection to the cultural and philosophical‐theological context of the Kollyvades Fathers (two of whom were the editors of the collection) and St Gregory Palamas. … [Read more…]

Natural and Theological Knowledge in Saint Maximus the Confessor and Saint Gregory Palamas

Alexandru Atanase Barna   Abstract This paper contains textual analyses of the concepts of natural knowledge and theological knowledge, as used in two texts which are included in the first Greek edition of the Philokalia, edited by Saint Nikodimos the Athonite and Saint Makarios of Corinth, in Venice, 1782, and in all subsequently available translations … [Read more…]

The Philokalic View on Humility, as Illustrated by Mark the Ascetic, John Cassian, Hesychios the Priest, Peter of Damascus and Maximus the Confessor, with Preliminary Considerations on the Platonic and Neoplatonic Virtue of Modesty

Vasilică Mugurel Păvălucă   Abstract I discuss here how the platonic and neo‐platonic virtue of modesty is transformed into the virtue of humility in Mark the Ascetic, John Cassian, Hesychios the Priest, Peter of Damascus and Maximus the Confessor. The comparative analyses offer a wide view over the main similarities and differences between the ancient … [Read more…]

Metacognition in Medicine. An Interdisciplinary Approach

Gabriela Paula Florea   Abstract The focus of this paper is on the multiple facets that metacognition can have in clinical medicine. Firstly, I present the philosophical perspective on metacognition and I outline the role metacognition can play for a patient’s biological response while facing a chronic illness. Secondly, I propose a model for physicians … [Read more…]

Social Substructures in the Context of Contemporary Culture

Tatiana Margarint   Abstract As research fields, philosophy and anthropology operate with the notions of culture, subculture, and counterculture, quite differently, even ambiguously, defined by some authors. This article analyzes trending approaches regarding subculture, subculture typologies, the functions of the subculture, elements of the subculture. The main question addressed by the current research is about … [Read more…]

Few Critiques on the Classical Truth Theories

Paula Tomi   Abstract There are different truth theories. Each of those aims to provide a general answer to the question: what is truth? The most common and well-known truth theories are: the correspondence and the coherence one. In this article, I aim to provide some critiques for the two mentioned substantive theories of truth. … [Read more…]

Necessary Transgressions and a Possible Limitation of the Human Condition. A Plea for a Critical, Posthumanist Approach to Transhumanist Issues

Lorin Ghiman   Abstract The rapid institutionalization of “transhumanism”, promoted from the status of subculture to ‘intellectual movement’, to the point in which its interests have gained academic traction becoming a research and reflection field cannot conceal the many methodological and epistemic shortcomings it still suffers today. I intend to go through the most striking … [Read more…]