mind

What is it for someone to have unconscious opinions?

GHEORGHE ȘTEFANOV Abstract My paper is an attempt to show that the best way in which we could distinguish between conscious and unconscious opinions in everyday cases is provided by a linguistic approach in the speech act theoretical framework. For this, I distinguish between ‘expressing an opinion’ and ‘attributing an opinion to oneself’, in order … [Read more…]

The Concept of Spirituality

Rolando Gripaldo   Abstract     This paper attempts to understand the relationships among the various elements of the human person: body, mind, spirit, soul, ego, consciousness, and self as viewed from the Western philosophical tradition. The paper argues that in order to know the soul, one should know the self because it is the … [Read more…]