Guillem Sales Vilalta Abstract Mendelssohn’s second work, the Briefe über die Empfindungen (Letters on Sentiments), has mainly to do with sentiments experimented by human subjects. Nevertheless, the generalist, broad scope of the title might bring about some confusion: the work is not devoted to sentiments in general, but to sentiments of pleasure in particular. … [Read more…]
Saja Parvizian Abstract In recent literature commentators have challenged the standard interpretation that the Cartesian Self is a res cogitans. Various modifications have been proposed: the will should be regarded as an essential feature of thought as well (not just the intellect), and even the body – in some sense – belongs to the Cartesian … [Read more…]
Gábor Boros Abstract This paper will tackle, first, the history of the “original stance” in the history of European philosophy, in which feelings had to be subordinated to reason-based knowledge. Afterwards I will have a first look at 20th century phenomenology and neuro-sciences in order to show the apparition and prevalence of the new stance … [Read more…]
Lynda Gaudemard Abstract This issue arises from the selection of the articles based on the presentations delivered at the international seminar “Feel to Know: Emotion and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy” I organised at the Institute of History of Philosophy (Aix-Marseille University), in Fall 2021. Participants included Gabor Boros (KRE, University of Budapest), Pablo Montosa … [Read more…]
Manuel Sumares Abstract In what follows, I offer a brief overview of some of the main themes of the Philokalia and Palamite corpus in relation to tradition and the Church. In so doing, I eventually bring Florovsky, Yannaras and Bulgakov into the picture. In my argument, I initially turn to intuitions regarding the rationality of … [Read more…]
Vasilica Mugurel Pavaluca Abstract I discuss here how the platonic and neoâ€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 Greek … [Read more…]
Tommaso Manzon Dmitry Mayorov 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, we shall … [Read more…]
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…]
Lilian Ciachir Abstract “A good conscience is found through prayer and pure prayer through the conscience. Each by nature needs the otherâ€, says St Mark the Ascetic (1977, 123). This interdependence between conscience and prayer shows the divine origin and source of Christian ethics or morality. Following this affirmation, we may say that a prayerful … [Read more…]
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 of … [Read more…]