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…]
Dorina Pătrunsu In this paper I intend to analyze the possibility of social justice as fair maximal utility starting from two different perspectives about justice – justice as fairness (J. Rawls) and justice as social choice or mutual advantage (D. Gauthier). The thesis I defend and reconstruct here is that a co-operative solution can be … [Read more…]
Alexandru-Mircea Fioșoiu Abstract: When discussing the issue of torture, we usually focus on two aspects, the moral status and the legal status of such acts. In this paper I will argue, using a deontological approach, that torture is never moral. We know that some countries practice this type of act even though it is prohibited … [Read more…]
Assen I. Dimitrov Abstract: It is not solid physical structures and interactions that lie in the basis of objective reality, but merely probabilities and superposition among them. The solid structures of our sensorial and practical experience are an outcome of the collapse of probability functions as a result of physical measurement and even – sensory … [Read more…]