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MANAGEMENT OF 1977 SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS EVENTS IN ROMANIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH

Author(s): Ovidiu Soare / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

The study analyses the social and religious events in the Romanian society of 1977, and the way in whichthe Romanian Orthodox Church (BOR) succeeded in managing them. The 70s in the Romanian societywere characterised by authoritarianism, which was felt in all social spheres. And the Romanian OrthodoxChurch was not exempted from this. In 1977 there were several events that marked the Romanian societyand the Romanian Orthodox Church. After the death of Patriarch Justinian Marina, the new Patriarch wasenthroned - Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church Iustin Moisescu. Alongside these two importantevents for the Romanian Orthodox Church, another event in 1977 was the celebration of a century ofRomania's independence, since 1877. In addition to al of these events, we should also recall theearthquake of the evening of 4 March 1977, which left deep traces in the souls of the Romanians, event inwhich the BOR was also involved.

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MANAGERIAL COMMUNICATION AND TEACHER’S INFORMATION SOURCES. CASE STUDY: ROMANIAN SCHOOLS

Author(s): Mariana DOGARU,Mirela-Cristina NEGREANU / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

The research was carried out using qualitative and quantitative methods (the opinion poll, respectively theinterview). The survey had as part of the characteristics of the school manager as a leader (internal andexternal communication, goal orientation, valorization of the subordinate staff, attitude towards work inthe learning ability, the ability to innovate, the ethos imprinted to the school, the decision-makingtransparency). It is much more important for school principal to communicate within the school, settingand targeting clear goals than the printed ethos and the transparency of the means used. We could say thatthere is a paradox of opinion because, in our view, the transparency of the means used by the schoolprincipal is directly related to internal communication. As far as managerial communication is concerned,it correlates only with the level of staff motivation and authoritarian style. In the case of less successfulschools, the authoritarian style, as well as the participative style, correlates strongly and very stronglywith the variables, the percentage of determination being higher. Thus, in schools with very good results,teamwork explains valorization and satisfaction, valuing correlated strongly with participatory style.What is very important, authoritarian style in schools in good schools explains 85% of the manager'scommunication. So, in successful schools, communication is determined by authoritarian style, which isalso reflected in the analysis of case studies. Covariance is higher for schools with poor results, whichmeans that the variables correlate more, unlike those in successful schools. The sources of information forthe teaching staff are diverse, but we can say that, in terms of the organization, "tradition" is to propagatefrom top to bottom. As such, the informational flow can comprise several internal elements of the school,but we considered that the role of the school principal in this plan is telling from the perspective ofinternal managerial communication, being a proof of its functioning, without claiming that we areexhausting this variable, managerial communication no can be achieved about "novelties".

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MARCUS AURELIUS – A POSSIBLE PARADIGM FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELLING

Author(s): Ion Cordoneanu / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

In “To Himself”, Marcus Aurelius prescribes a set of moral rules for his own use, a kind of "daily accountof life" for self-concern. Self-concern is the attitude by which the individual shapes his self and whichinvolves both a way of being characterized by reflection on the self and a series of practices by which theindividual takes care of himself, trying to change, purify, to turn to achieve the rectitude of his moralactions. In this paper, I will show how Stoic self-concern is, from the perspective of philosophicalcounselling, an important instrument used in philosophical practice, being conceptualized as aphilosophical meditation and re-grounding the premise of discovering philosophy as a way of life.

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MATHEMATICS, THE "BOOK OF NATURE" AND THEOLOGY - GALILEO GALILEI AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN SCIENCE

Author(s): Ion Cordoneanu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

Starting from the cycle of letters known as The Copernican Letters (1613-1615) and following through tothe 1632 Dialogue, I will attempt to outline the context in which Galileo Galilei’s work is constituted as averitable theory of nature research based on mathematics. Galilei rests on the principles of science toground his choice for the Copernican model, as well as the separation of natural research from theology,but his concern for a unified philosophy of the natural world is intertwined in his work with the dignity ofcreation understood as “the great book of the world” by which divinity talks to man in the language ofmathematics.

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METAPHORICAL INCOHERENCE OR WHAT MAY’S LETTER MAY MEAN

Author(s): Marius Velică / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

The image we create about the surrounding reality is utterly subjective and that it is deeply andundoubtedly culturally dependant. There is a huge difference between the ‘real’ reality and our ownversion of it and this difference is generated by the multitude of filters that come into play when weprocess the ever growing amount of information that is constantly sent our way. The paper aims atanalysing the potential metaphorical incoherence of the letter sent by Theresa May, the Prime Minister ofthe UK, to Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council, invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.By means of specific analytical tools belonging to cognitive linguistics, we prove that not only the deepstructure of the letter does not support the apparent message but it contradicts it significantly. The lexicalinventory selected by the author of the text, such as the use of personal and possessive, along with thesource domains used to conceptualise the target domains of ‘UK’, ‘EU’, or ‘negotiations’ clearly displaya different perspective upon the relationship between the two protagonists of the UK’s withdrawal fromthe union than the one suggested by the obsessive phrase ‘a deep and special partnership’.

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MILTON AND ROSE FRIEDMAN – A STORY FOR FREEDOM

Author(s): Alexandra Lucia Teodorescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

This paper investigates the personal and professional story of two prominent American thinkers, Milton and Rose Friedman. Based on their memoirs, “Two Lucky People. Memoirs”, we will connect the biographical aspects with the theoretical and philosophical ideals promoted by the Friedmans’ during their lifetime. The direct connection between economic and political freedom, the importance of the individual in the creation of society, the free market as model for human activity, these are all ideas shared and presented by Milton and Rose Friedman and we will show how their personal stories, of immigrant’s children, have come to shape their professional profile..

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MOTIVATION AND PERFORMANCE IN SCHOOL ORGANISATION-STRATEGIES

Author(s): Gabriela Alina Anghel,Mariana DOGARU / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

School organisation is representative as a model of motivation because of its importance in developinghumans. It is not just an organisation with specific goals, but an organisation that teaches and buildshumans style of motivation. This is the reason of that building motivation in school is a process and alesson in the same time for next generation. This paper aims to analyse the types of human motives, formsof motivation, motivation theories and types of motivations that underlie behaviour in the organization. Inthis framework were presented models of optimization strategies of motivation in the workplace, mayapply to the organization of the school. As such, were considered and described the following models:VICTORY,, ",, situational leadership" and motivation through optimization strategy,, coaching ". Theproposed models are characterized not be considered as ideal models. This assertion is based on thefollowing argument: strategies for optimizing motivation in school organization, are conditioned by theclimate and organizational culture, management style, the expectations of staff in relation to theprofession.

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MOTIVATION AND PERFORMANCE IN THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

Author(s): Luminița Preda / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

This article focuses on the importance of motivation in the educational system. The aim is to achieve notonly a theoretical analysis of the management of motivation and performance in the educational system,but rather to capture the roles that motivation have in the educational activity and through which it cancontribute to the increase of pupils' school performances, to the success at school. The motivation in theeducational system was analyzed not only in relation to the concrete context of measurement andappreciation of pupils' school performance, but also as an activity that reveals the internal efficiency ofthe didactic process and its variables, as well as the relations between the educational system and thesocio-economic system

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MUSICAL-PERFORMING ELEMENTS IN THE SONG CREATION OF COMPOSER NICOLAE BRETAN

Author(s): Adelina Diaconu / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

The cult lied appeared at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century inthe musical environment of Viennese Classicism, in the creation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) and Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), then continued at a high level of understanding of theexpressive possibilities of the genre, by Franz Schubert (1797-1828), followed by Robert Schumann(1810-1856), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), or Hugo Wolf (1860-1903). The Romanian lied reaches itsheights of perfection in the twentieth century, and the specific feature of our soul that is reflected in itsstructure is the nostalgic sense of longing. This feeling represents the synthesis of the Romanian ethos.The composer Nicolae Bretan (1887-1968) occupies a special place in the history of European music. Inhis operas and his numerous songs, Bretan sought the essential nature of the song and the expressivepotential of the human voice. His plurivalent artistic personality impresses the researchers of his life andcreation and makes them want to enter more into the secrets of his work, because, besides his work as acomposer, Nicolae Bretan was a conductor, director and opera soloist. The creation of lied belonging tothe composer Nicolae Bretan is large, comprising over 200 works on various lyrics by Romanian,Austrian, Hungarian and German poets, but also on his own lyrics.

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ON CRITICAL THINKING AND MODERN LIMITS TO HUMAN KNOWLEDGE

Author(s): Daniela Şorcaru / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

We are currently living in a world literally flooded with all types of information, and people have ended up dealing with various kinds of limitations to how much they can or choose to know. We can, thus, identify modern limits to human knowledge falling under (at least) two large categories: either limitations imposed by others (such as authorities, mass media, bosses or leaders, etc), or what we may call self-imposed limitations, i.e. choosing to disregard some information or another, refusing to keep up to date with a state of facts, rejecting scientifically proved data, etc. We are actually talking about outer manipulation (in option A above), or inner manipulation, if we may call it as such, namely the protection of personal comfort even over irrefutable evidence (in option B above). “Ignorance is bliss” (The Matrix,1999), right? At least for some people. Yet, in this intricate matrix of human knowledge some of us are plagued with an incurable disease: critical thinking. A genuine bogeyman of any authoritarian system or regime, critical thinking is responsible for many glitches in this matrix, always at war against any sort of limitations imposed on human knowledge and rationale. We need to keep critical thinking alive and encourage it, and, in this process, identify the decisive vectors capable of disseminating the concept and its value, as well as its applications in everyday life.

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ON THE HARMONIZATION OF IDIOMATIC LANGUAGE WITH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Author(s): Iulian Mardar / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Is there such thing as harmony between science, technology and language? This could be an interestingquestion if it were not naïve. Languages evolve almost simultaneously with science and technologybecause, with new technology, new words are needed. Languages constantly adapt to the new realities,whether scientific, social or cultural. New words replace old ones when the surrounding realities ask forit, when it is necessary to name realities which have never been seen before. The same holds valid in thecase of idioms. The newer generations have already forgotten many of the idioms which are still familiarto the older generation. In English, for example, to rain cats and dogs or to paint the town red areconsidered old and are even laughed at by very young people. In Romanian, «a fi într-o bujie» or «a-i filao lampă» (he/she works with only one spark plug and one of his/her lamp flickers, both of them meaningto be a little crazy) no longer have a meaning to people in their early twenties or younger. New realitiesmodify old idioms, make them disappear, or give birth to brand new ones, such as the engine is running,but there is nobody behind the wheel or he/she drives uphill with the clutch slipping. The present paperaims at showing how this happens and at giving an answer to the real question: is there a certain type ofidioms which does not keep pace with science and technology?

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ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THE EMPIRICAL IDIOSYNCRASY IN EFFICIENT COMMUNICATION OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND E-BUSINESS TERMINOLOGY

Author(s): Veronica Cocu,Carmen Opriț-Maftei / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

The domain of computer science is extremely versatile and dynamic, its complexity leading to thecoinage of numerous new terms in a relatively short period of time. Their origin is, more often than not,empirical and these new terms have practical value. Moreover, they are customary and easy to remember,thus making the “science” behind the domain under scrutiny more appealing and easier to understand bynon-specialists. The present paper aims at investigating the computer science terminology from adifferent perspective; it intends to devote special attention to the words which have acquired a newmeaning, transgressing boundaries from general vocabulary to the active vocabulary of the non-specialistcomputer user. The novelty of this research lies in its focus on devising a new classification of thesewords which have their origin in the general English, thus helping non-specialist computer users to easilyunderstand and use them. Consequently, the everyday English words assimilated by the informationtechnology domain will be divided into six broad categories, i.e. standalone words, open compounds,closed or transparent compounds, compounds written as hyphenated words or that have a preposition or aconjunction as a linking element, words derived with the suffix –er, each of these encompassing aplethora of explained examples, which are very common in the aforementioned sphere.

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ON THE WONDER OF LIFE AND THE FREEDOM OF WILL

Author(s): Steven Yue Heng Yang / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

In this paper, I shall discuss the problem of evil and argue that our account of good and evil is at its core adeeply romantic narrative – it reflects our idealization of a perfect world. I will present the corearguments and responses from David Hume, Gottfried Leibniz, J.L. Mackie and Alvin Plantinga. Irecognize that there are two types of evil – moral and natural, and that the problem of evil exists in twoforms – logical and evidential. However, I shall limit my discussion to moral evil and focus on how thefree will defense is an attempted logical but not evidential solution to the problem of evil. I aim tostrengthen the free will defense with reference to William James’s religious hypothesis and argue that ouractive faith reconciles the notion of our free will with God’s divine attributes. Our active faith is a deeplypersonal commitment that transcends objective uncertainty. Our subjective, inward reflections elucidateour deepest meaning of life and our most passionate relation to God.

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PAISIAN MONASTICISM IN NICHIFOR CRAINIC’S WORK

Author(s): Corneliu Orlando Dogaru / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

This paper represents an analysis of Nichifor Crainic’s work in terms of influence of paisian monasticism.As it is reflected in his work, St. Paisie Velichkovsky sits a top the pyramid or, rather, among thosepeople who contributed through their works and their personality to influence intellectual and religiousformation of this author. About St. Paisie, Crainic speaks not only with admiration, but also withreverence, giving to understand that the abbot is more than a man - a saint, so a man deified.Abbot holiness places it in Nichifor Crainic’s conscience above other valuable personalities, becauseholiness is evidence of a destiny fulfilled, as he himself is entitled courses mystical holiness - humanfulfillment. Based on the experience of the Church, he knew that prayer, that the connection with God orHis grace uninterrupted stay, should come from it. Moreover, he also knew that the congregationnumerous St. Paisie worked perfectly if within them have been listening, prayer and struggle againsthuman passions, but fell apart when passions and not the spirit of holiness took over monks, divided onlybecause quarrels due abbots. In Crainic's view, Orthodoxy respects the variety of nature because it is thework of God.

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PASSING THROUGH STORY. POLIMORPHISM AND DISCOURSIVE STARTEGIES

Author(s): Eugenia Buzea(Bulancea) / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

The story, a product tributary to both inner and outer reality, communicates a world due to a crisis of theinner object by restructuring its own reality and putting in place a significance generating matrix, a spacethat cannot be reduced to its narrative voice, text or reader. The purpose of the story is not an intrinsicattribute of the object, it is a sum of attitudes towards the new reality that is communicated and areinstatement of some structures which practically generates a return to the creationist act. The narrativeis built, synchronically and diachronically, upon the event and its actualization, recognizing a modelwhich is validated within the system of literariness. The story as tale refers to the category of fantasyanalysed as a fascination with the image, constituted on the model of accessing a superior status, whilethe story as parable builds significances taking into account the consciousness level. The stake of thesetwo attitudes towards the act of telling is, in the story, the reinstatement of the fictional as contextualreality and, in the parable, the programmatic development of the texts with sapiential role.

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PHILOSOPHICAL PATHOS IN MARÍA ZAMBRANO AND ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Author(s): Encarnación Ruiz Callejón / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

This work first analyses María Zambrano's reflections on the limits of philosophy, based on the suspicion of its vanity and the ambivalence of its origins. Zambrano explores the genealogy of the traditional conception of the origin of philosophy as wonder, a wonder that she would share with poetry. She postulates a horizon of the conjunction of philosophy and poetry, to respond to the wonder at reality, but she also refers to the possibility of rescuing a more venerable form of philosophy. Secondly the work examines whether Schopenhauer's philosophy, with its proverbial pessimism and its conception of philosophical admiration as dismay, could be regarded as an example of this venerable form of philosophy and, finally, whether aspiring to create this conjunction with poetry is still philosophy.

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PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THEORIES OF DEVELOPMENT FOR AFRICAN ECONOMIES

Author(s): Socrates Ebo / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Nature is ontologically in motion. It neither admits of a state of inaction nor a vacuum. Therefore, allnature is perpetually in internal and external motion known as development. Progress is the manifestationof this motion in the positive direction. All theories of development among humans as social speciespresuppose some philosophy. Development in the social plane is values-oriented. It is always teleologicalto a certain philosophy or set of values. Therefore, philosophy is at the basis of theories of nationaldevelopment. But not all philosophies are suitable to all peoples. Some are actually harmful. Althoughdevelopment can be economical, social, cultural or political, it takes place within a certain conception ofthe world, and the place of man in that world. Western framed theories of development for Africaneconomies have not always taken this into consideration. This research critiques the application of thesetheories to African economies and their resultant tumultuous impacts. The work is based on libraryresearch subjected to critical philosophical analysis .Western framed theories of development intended toWestern tackle situation or serve Western interests, cannot bring about the much needed development onthe African continent. Africa must chart the way forward by coming up with home-grown theories ofdevelopment. An African existentialist theory of development which is factored on local existentialrealities will bring the much needed turnaround.

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POLITICAL TOLERANCE VERSUS MORAL TOLERANCE

Author(s): Mihail Rarita / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

In this article, we would like to show that tolerance as a political ideal tends to disappear, disappearancewhich is undeniably linked to a crisis of politics both in terms of nature and its importance. First of all, itis about a crisis of its nature, since politics, often conceived as being related to moral concerns, seemsincreasingly guided by logic of war, which makes use of force to become more and more banal,legitimizing it by a reasonably rational speech, which is not without problems. Secondly, we are talkingabout a crisis of the importance of politics, since its legitimacy is increasingly provoked by the marketdue to economic globalization, which weakens the politics, by replacing the concern for the public wealthor good with the rush of private goods. Starting from this discussion of the nature and importance ofpolitics, we advocate in this article both for rehabilitation of politics as well as for an ethicalaccountability of political action, so that politics prevails over the economy and upon the violence thatoften accompanies it

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POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY IN SCHOOL – A BRIEF OVERVIEW

Author(s): Cristina -Corina Benţea / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

The present article aims to present the progress of the study and application of positive psychology in theschool context. It is described how the interest of applied positive psychology in educational contexts hasemerged and how develop the research related to the models of application of the positive education.Then there are presented the concept of positive school and the characteristics of positive schoolenvironment and is discussed the focus on school satisfaction and well-being in positive school. Positiveschools support, enhance and promote positive mental health and well-being that are considered as moreimportant as academic outcomes. Assessing students’ emotions and attitudes and well-being providesuseful information that can be used in positive health strategies of promotion and intervention in childrenand youth. School-based targeted programs and interventions are more often required in many schools fortheir benefits for positive mental health, social and emotional skills, and well-being.

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PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD IN THE CULT OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH

Author(s): Marian Vîlciu / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

The memorial services that are made for the dead represent an important part of the Orthodox divinepublic cult, the divine cult representing the center and the specific and fundamental expression of thereligious life, the Orthodox Church’s life itself. We must, nevertheless, stress that between the teachingsof faith and the cult of the Church there is an indissoluble connection. The prayers for the dead are basedon the Christian faith that soul continues to exist after death, at which adds the teaching about the closeconnection or love communion between the live and the dead. The memorial services for the deadrepresent an act of cult, in the same time being a confession through which is asserted our belief in theimmortality of the soul, in our resurrection, in the existence of the eternal life and in the God’s kingdom,being in the same time the expression of love which makes possible the communion between the live andthe dead as members of the Church..

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