John Farina Abstract Religion plays a vital role in civil society today that finds warrants in Plato and in the political theories of Guissepe Mazzini. The process by which religion enters a culture is not a simple one in which the sacred and the secular are opposed but a dynamic process, suggested by the … [Read more…]
CONSTANTIN VICĂ Abstract The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between ethics and politics as it was initially stated by Aristotle in the first two paragraphs (1094a-1094b10) of the Nicomachean Ethics first Book. In the beginning I looked at the anteriority relation as an explanatory pattern used by Aristotle to sketch the … [Read more…]
LORIN GHIMAN Abstract There is a peculiar figure of thought (and speech) that Kracauer, Adorno and Benjamin seemed to like and share. Working on related topics concerning the status of the arts, they all toyed with the idea of a “go-for-broke” game, a “va-banque Spiel”. The first occurrence of the expression can arguably be found … [Read more…]
Dumitru Dodul Abstract After tracing the aspects of globalization, a complex, dynamic and contradictory process, we would like to underline that its essential elements relate to a synchronic implication of unity and diversity. We will analyze the importance of communication in facilitating collaboration, understanding, and social harmony. The central claim is that regardless of … [Read more…]