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AMO UT SCIAM: THE FUNCTION OF LOVE IN THE PROCESS OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE LIGHT OF ST. BONAVENTURE’S PHILOSOPHY

Author(s): Francisco Christopher DC. / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

Keywords: : Function of Love; Process of Knowledge; St. Bonaventure’s Philosophy;

This study aimed at probing the function of love in the process of knowledge in the light of St. Bonaventure’s philosophy. To achieve this aim, the researcher have focused the study to the following questions: (a) What is the concept of love according to St. Bonaventure? (b) What is the process of knowledge? This study will use the qualitative-historical method. This study is qualitative because it deals with the non-numerical data in the form of philosophical texts. Also, it is historical in the sense of Schleiermacher and Dilthey’s ideographical history which does not so much focused on ideas in themselves but also on the life experience that led to formulation of the idea. The results showed, on the one hand, that love refers to which seeks its genuineness to God. A man-to-God relationship. In the Itinerarium mentis in Deum, love is when a man has reached the contemplation with God. To love is to be united with the First and Supreme Principle through contemplation. Knowledge, on the other hand, knowledge is a judgment, therefore, is an action which causes the sensible species, received in a sensible way through the senses, to enter the intellective faculty by a process of purification and abstraction. Hence, love is the unitive factor of knowledge that it cognates, and knowledge is the cognitive factor of love that it unites

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THE CRITICAL ROLE OF ART FOR MEANINGFUL MORAL ACTION

Author(s): Anthony Wallace / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

Keywords: Friedrich Schiller; Art; Ethics; Moral Psychology; Neuroscience; Antonio Damasio;

In the late 18th century, Friedrich Schiller made a case for the importance of art in the individual and forsociety at large. His argument is made poetically, is devoid of scientific evidence, and is tailored for its18th century audience. Schiller shows how art has the power to unify society and balance the individual,inspiring action for the apathetic and encouraging rationality in the over-zealous ideologue. Today, ourfractured society suffers from both lazy cynicism and emotional fanaticism. In this paper, I attempt toupdate Schiller‟s project, showing its relevance today by supporting it with further philosophicalargument and contemporary science. Scientific developments in the fields of moral psychology andneuroscience made long after Schiller‟s life have added credibility to his ideas about the importance of artand how it interacts with human nature. Nearly everyone recognizes the need for unification in ourfractured society, and I hope to make the case that art may be the very thing that makes this possible.

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A SOCIOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTION OF GOSSIP IN MASS-MEDIA

Author(s): Felicia Cordoneanu / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: gossip; social typology; social identity;

What is the social significance of gossip? The answer to this question acquires multiple valences, derivedfrom the pattern of analysis that we intend to use here. Psychologically speaking, gossip is a behaviouralpattern, anthropologically, gossip may be a mentality model; philosophy of culture and history regardgossip as a source of knowledge. As an attitude and a behavioural pattern, gossip can be construed associalising, and the logical and relational scheme of human interaction has been analysed from theperspective of mathematical logic and of information sciences. The present paper aims to answer thequestion above from a sociological perspective. Starting from the social identity theory, role theory, andenlarging upon the concept of social typology, this study advances an original theoretical andmethodological model of interpretative and descriptive analysis, i.e., a conceptual construction of thesociological significance of gossip and of the human types involved in this manifestation of socialising. Inthis respect, reference will be made to all social actors involved in a manifest situation of gossip:gossipmongers, people being talked about, and consumers of entertainment news in which gossip is themost important source of information. As stated in the title, the research focus is the social environmentgenerically called mass-media. Specifically, we analyse the positive and negative effects of gossip on thepublic image of those involved in gossip. More precisely, we analyse the social significance of gossip inwhat we term gossip media/ gossip news on television (entertainment shows).

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HUMBLING THE RATIONAL: A HUMEAN CRITIQUE OF LEIBNIZ’S PRINCIPLE OF SUFFICIENT REASON

Author(s): Rocco Astore / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: Leibniz; Hume; Epistemology; Principle of Sufficient Reason; Causality; Induction;

“Why is there something rather than nothing?” asked 17th-century polymath and philosopher G.W.Leibniz. Indeed, it is this query which still looms over metaphysics today. To Leibniz, the fact that everyeffect has a cause led to his commitment to what philosophers refer to as the principle of sufficientreason. However, does every derivative genuinely derive from some derivation? If not, what ramificationswould this error have on the Leibnizian project? This piece will begin with an explication concerningsome main instances in the Leibnizian corpus, where Leibniz gives argumentative support for theprinciple of sufficient reason. Next, this article will enter the perspective of 18th-century philosopherDavid Hume, who by denying the sturdiness of causal relations, assisted in jeopardizing this backbone ofLeibnizian thought. Lastly, this essay will close with support for Hume’s account of causality overLeibniz’s, by drawing the reader to consider the problems uncovered by Hume, and their impact onLeibnizian metaphysics, via discrediting the principle of sufficient reason.

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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

Keywords: God; Church; cult; faith; prayer; confession;

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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THE LIVING CHURCH OF BRĂILA DEANERY DURING THE GERMAN OCCUPATION DURING THE GREAT WAR, REFLECTED IN ARCHIVE DOCUMENTS

Author(s): Cristian Gagu / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: : Great Union; First World War; German Occupation; Church Life; Military Confessor; Braila;

Between 23rd December 1916 - 10th November 1918, Braila lived the terror and drama of life under theGerman occupation. Over the centuries that have passed since then, few have been bent on the events ofthat period, and when they did, they focused on the aspects of the military situation and of the social,economic, albeit ecclesiastical life, though in those times of bitter suffering and humiliation, the role ofpriests, on the front, or in the parishes, was an extremely important one, since they were called to relievesuffering, to encourage souls, to cultivate hope, in a word to raise morale to their faithful. In the fewpages where some historians have referred to Braila's situation during the German occupation,information on religious life is extremely low, and is presented tangentially, not for their intrinsic value,but to reinforce statements about other issues. The present study aims, on the basis of the archivedocuments of those years, kept in the custody of the Brăila Deanery, to address this shortcoming and topresent the involvement of priests and churchmen from this cause in the war effort of the Romanian army,the main lines of liturgical, missionary, spiritual and cultural activities they have carried out among theirparishioner, and last but not least, their social situation and their families during the Great War.

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FREEDOM, A GIFT OF THE GOD AND RESPONSIBILITY OF THE HUMAN BEING

Author(s): Marin Bugiulescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: Christian thinking; the concept of freedom; man; moral life; world;

This article presents the freedom concept in the Christian understanding. Freedom is a gift, a mission anda responsibility of the man towards himself, others and the world. As a person, the human is a being opento communion with God and his fellows. This community aspect of the human being has its foundation inthe communion and relationship with God. As God's Image, the human being cannot find his fullnessexcept in relation to the perfect model, after which he was created. Thus, freedom is manifested byreleasing evil and identifying with the good (with the model). The greatest gift God gives to man isfreedom and love. Freedom of will, together with reason, is the image of God in man. It is the foundationof our ability to achieve defining perfection in Christian terms through holiness. In this state of holinessman is truly free.

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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

Keywords: problem of evil; faith; natural;

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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THE POLITICAL CRYSTALLIZATION OF ZIONISM IN THE ROMANIAN DIASPORA: CONFIGURATIONS, PROGRAMMES, STANCES

Author(s): Arthur Tuluş / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: Jewish diaspora in Romania; political currents and ideas; Romanian interwar society; the formation of the State of Israel; interethnic relations;

Zionism or the national manner of solving the Jewish problem – a result of the failure of Jewishemancipation in Eastern Europe or of their integration in the West – essentially represents the movementfor restoring a Jewish State in Palestine, which was initiated at the First Zionist World Congress in Baselin 1897 and finalized through the proclamation of the State of Israel in 1948. Zionism, both in Palestineand in the Diaspora, begins its political crystallization in the interwar period, under the influence ofEuropean political currents and ideas. Our study aims at analyzing these types of Zionism – center, left orright –, at comparing their programmes and the influence that they had inside the Romanian JewishDiaspora

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AXIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Author(s): Alexandru-Corneliu Arion / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: axiology; phenomenology; religious education; scientific research; facts; values;

The problem of the nexus between the authentic Christian values and the day-by-day more desacralizedcontemporary world is one very delicate, almost unfathomable. In the realm of science we can hardly talkabout a general theory of values (axiology), because since the nineteenth century that seemed to elude (tosay the least) the relationship between facts (scientific ones) and values (social, cultural etc.), as hadpulled an alarm, at the beginning of the twentieth century, German phenomenologist Edmund Husserl. Onthe other hand, European education not only the contemporary one seems to ignore (directly or indirectly)Christian values, from the moment religion has turned from a discipline of objective interest to one ofparticular or subjective interest. Science and, consequently, scientific research are losing sight of what hastraditionally been the ultimate human goal: the authentic values that define man, constitute him in thespace of his very existence, as a being created “in the image of God”. Viewed at the level of the finalityand content, religious education reveals a set of values that are in congeniality with the teaching ofChristian faith. The Church, theandric institution that guarantees the condition of homo axiologicus freelyproposes values and does not impose them. Therefore we consider that it is imperative to reaffirm thegreat importance both to the Church, as basic institution of society and to religious education inaxiological-imbued formation of today young people equally from Romanian and European society.

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RELIGION LESSON- VECTOR FOR STUDYING ARTS. TRANSDISCIPLINARITY VIEW

Author(s): Monica Valentina Șerbănescu,Mariana DOGARU / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: transdiciplinarity; Religious education; arts; multidisciplinarity; nonformal education;

The astral time for Romania represented the time of celebrating the Great Union, on 1st December 1918,that attracts the attention of various media, but especially the subject of new projects at all levels ofeducation, promoters out of a sense of duty towards the ancestors who sacrificed themselves and theresponsibility they have in future perspective. The study would like, in this context, to value the vision ofteachers to link religious education to arts education in working with students at primary and secondaryschools, believing that the religion class is a true catalyst of knowledge in areas which meet naturallytherein. As a corollary, students are offered deciphering Romanian history as surprised by the GreatFresco from the Romanian Athenaeum, which values the entire journey from the perspective of worship,the Orthodox religion, in which the soul of the nation developed, from the first Christian century. The aimof the research is to demonstrate valences time religion, its value to facilitate the transfer of knowledgeand to provide students with a near fields of knowledge and the arts, particularly fine arts, in anexperiential manner, offering valuable knowledge and insight for training and personal development ofchildren aged 6 to 14. As research methods, we used the observation and teaching experiment in role playand analyse three-dimensional works, which were found constantly in exhibitions which were selectedand collected in an album that constitute the fruits of a study that lasted for almost ten years.

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DESECRALIZING OF MUSIC

Author(s): Mădălina Gabriela Ionescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: Sacredness; technology; education; values;

The evolution of science and technology during the contemporary period is an unprecedentedphenomenon in the history of mankind, generating at the level of the human psyche the impression of aneed for a minute organization of time, in the desire to do as many activities as possible. Thisagglomeration of everyday life is justified by various needs such as improving the standard of living orthe continuous development of conquests in these areas, neglecting almost entirely the consequences onthe psyche and the sensitive dimension of the human being. The fact that they have made tremendousprogress does not ensure, as we would have expected the welfare of society, but on the contrary, itcontributes to the robotization and annihilation of human sensibilities. In this context, the art of music andall other arts suffer from many malformations, constantly departing from their sacred origins, adaptingthemselves by sacrificing authentic values to an artificial environment lacking in consistency, empathyand emotion. This paper proposes going back to origins and highlight the initial artistic goal in antithesiswith the contemporary social and artistic organism.

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VISUAL SYMBOLISM IN THE POETIC DOCUMENTARY

Author(s): Alexandru Vlad / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

Keywords: symbolism; documentary; poetic; religion; innovation;

Even though many of the poetic documentaries do not follow a classical narrative structure, theirconstruction has a natural tendency to form certain patterns in order to convey a message. In theformation of these patterns the use of symbols is an important point because the innovative aspect of thepoetic documentaries is to make the connection between the experimental film, the visual essay and theclassic documentary. Therefore, the entire poetic documentary uses the symbolism from the visual essayand from the experimental film in order to transmit emotions or information to the public in an innovativeway, rarely encountered in the documentary film.

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THE LIMES THEORY. HISTORIOGRAPHICAL AND CONCEPTUAL DELIMITATIONS

Author(s): Mihaela Denisia Liușnea / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

Keywords: frontier strategy; Limesforschung; Pax Romana; invisible border;

In the present paper, we set out to determine the historographical landmarks of the approaches tounderstanding the concept of limes, in order to understand its great semantic complexity, which is thebasis for the construction of limes theory. The theory of limes emerged in the nineteenth century, and themeaning of the term was a fortified defensive barrier surrounding the Empire's territory, defending it fromthe external danger that the Romans identified with the barbarian world. Moreover, Theodore Mommsendefined limes as the space between the wall and the line of defense in the field on the other. The researchspaces for which these meanings were then established were the ancient territories of Germany andRaetia. Overall, the theory emerged amid the analysis of the boundaries of the vast Roman Empire, in thecontext of attempts to redefine the relations between the center (Rome and the Italian Peninsula) and theperiphery (the provincial territories and the barbarians at the edge). One can speak of a cosmology inwhich the territory is not limited, but the power of Rome establishes the reporting space. Paul Chaval,speaking of space and power, notes that the Empire is stopping its expansion on the edge of the civilized /cultivated universe. Charles R. Whittaker notes that the Roman attitude towards the border combines thepractice of divination with the delimitation of the enclosure. It is Rome that creates order in chaos, andthe sacred space, organized is delimited by profane, unorganized space.

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A QUESTION OF METHOD: READING WAR POETRY AT UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL

Author(s): Isabela Merilă / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

Keywords: teaching; poetry; war; philology; higher education;

In the several years of leading a practice class on poetry at undergraduate level, I have noticed that, moreoften than not, students doubt their ability to understand and relate to a poem, even more than they do inregard to any other type of literary text. It goes beyond the natural reserve of someone who has not hadsufficient practice in the field of critical analysis and the resulting reaction is equivalent to disqualifyingoneself from the race before it has even started. The following pages are dedicated to one of the strategieswhich helped overcome this obstacle and which promotes close reading in a manner that the students mayfind engaging. It was employed in the discussion of war poetry with second-year students enrolled in theBA English Program at the Faculty of Letters, “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, Romania. Fourtexts were selected: Grodek, by Georg Trakl (in English by Michael Hamburger), Anthem for DoomedYouth, by Wilfred Owen, Leaving for the Front, by Alfred Lichtenstein (translated by Patrick Bridgwater)and Gala, by Guillaume Apollinaire (in Oliver Bernard‟s translation). These texts, as well as a short,relevant biographical note for each of the poets were the only aids employed in an exercise that constantlymanaged to result in constructive exchanges of ideas and a deeper understanding of how critical analysiscan be employed without becoming tedious or overly stressful.

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THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE ALIENATION CONCEPT

Author(s): Mihail Rarita / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

Keywords: Contractual alienation; estrangement; externalization; objectivity; alienated labour;

This article touches the notion of alienation from Rousseau’s, Hegel’s and young Marx’s perspective,Althusser’s critique being its offset, which, according to, this concept stems from an abstract,metaphysical view of history and human agents’ activities. According to Althusser, alienation is indeedthe humanistic expression of a back-to-origins philosophy and of lost human essence retrieval. Hence, thephilosophy of contractual alienation (as a foundation of political community as per Rousseau), theinterrogation of historical positivity from young Hegel’s writings and, last but not least, the alienatedwork critique elaborated by young Marx in Manuscripts of 1844 can be interpreted as variations aroundthe same essential concepts of human history. In the attempt of overcoming such an undifferentiatedapproach, the study tries to highlight the original and particular reflection that each of these authorsdevelop on the subject and highlights, at the same time, what they have in common, despite theirdifferences on this theme. When we talk about alienation we always relate to a mutilated loss in therelationship with the self, with others and with the social world. Moreover, we also talk about thepossibility of overcoming some of the conditions that are considered degrading for humans. In otherwords, this study aims to prove that not only it is not possible to reduce the alienation to an abstract andnaïve humanistic notion, but that it also represents an essential landmark for understanding theimpossibility of some social groups of classes to develop on the merits of long-lasting deprivation of thebenefits the relationship with the self, the others and the social world can bring.

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SOME ASPECTS OF THE CONTROVERSIAL NEXUS BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION

Author(s): Alexandru-Corneliu Arion / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

Keywords: science; religion; philosophy; knowledge; nature; doctrine of creation; Logos;

The present paper takes into consideration a few aspects related to the relation between the two disputeddomains of knowledge: science and religion. After having pointed out the main eight warfare andnonwarfare models of interaction between science and religion, the study focuses on the motives ofEastern and Western Christianity breach, which resides on the very different attitude to Science andNature. The main part of depicting the nexus between the two fields of research is focusing on thedoctrine of creation, the one Christian theology truly revolutionized. The Christian Weltanschauung wasso new in comparison with Greek cosmology that it had to raise new questions and make radicalmodifications, especially regarding the understanding of space and time. The Fathers of the OrthodoxChurch were happy to use the science and philosophy of their time in their theological thinking. However,they did not pursue a natural theology in the sense the term is often now understood based on scholastictheology. According to the Orthodox understanding, the intellect provides not knowledge about thecreation but rather a direct apprehension or spiritual perception of the divine Logos (Word) incarnate inChrist, and of the inner essences or principles (logoi) of the cosmos components created by that Logos.The arguments of Orthodox Christian theology proof that the quantum universe was created out ofnothing and that it is kept in existence only by God's relationship with creation through Jesus Christ andthe Holy Spirit. In relation to itself, the universe is reduced to nothing, because God is in Himself, whileany other created thing is dependent upon Him, into an indissoluble connection with Him. According tocreation theology, God gives the world its rational, intelligible structure as described by the laws of naturethrough the transcendent and eternal act of bringing the world into existence ex nihilo. As immanentcreator, God also continues to create (creatio continua) and providentially direct processes and eventstowards their consummation in the eschaton. Overall, there is a poignant reason for keeping science andreligion together once “science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind” (Einstein).

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THE FACT OF CREATION AND THE LIMITS OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE

Author(s): Ion Marian Croitoru / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

Keywords: : God; the creation ex nihilo; creationism; theism; evolutionism; Darwinism; panentheism; rational knowledge; divine knowledge; Orthodoxy; divine Revelation; Holy Scripture; Holy Tradition; Church;

Although scientific research is in full bloom regarding, for instance, the environment, the fact of creationcannot be ignored either, even if some scientists deny it, while others ascertain it, albeit fromperspectives, however, foreign to the patristic vision specific of the Orthodoxy. Consequently, the limitsof cosmology are structured as well by Christian theology, which shows that the study of the world,guided by laws of physics in a limited framework, is carried out inside the creation affected by theconsequences of the primordial sin, so that the reality of the world before sin is known only to those whoreach spiritual perfection and holiness, therefore, from an eschatological perspective, since they, too, gothrough the moment of separation of the soul from the body, waiting for the general resurrection.Therefore, a new way of being is affirmed in the Orthodox Church, by the personal experience of eachbeliever, which is a transformation on the personal and cosmic level, according to Jesus Christ’sresurrected body, which means the reality of a new physics, which concerns both the beginning of theuniverse, but also its new dimension, at the Lord’s Second Coming, when heaven and earth will berenewed by transfiguration. Regarding the existence of the universe, the differences are given by theperceptions of two cosmologies. Thus, the theonomous cosmology highlights man’s purpose on earth, thenecessity of moral and spiritual life, and the transfiguration of creation, explaining God’s presence in Hiscreation, but also His work in it, namely the transcendence and the immanence in relation to the creation.The autonomous cosmology engenders the evolutionist theory, which leads to secularism and,consequently, to the gap between the contemporary man’s technological progress, and his spiritual andmoral regress. Today, more scientists are turning their attention also to the data of the divine Revelation,the way it makes itself known by its organs, the Holy Scripture and the Holy Tradition, in the one Church,which will mean a deepening of the dialogue between science and theology in favour of the man fromeverywhere and from the times to come

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TWO RESEARCH PARADIGMS, WITH OR WITHOUT „GOD HYPOTHESIS”: C.S. LEWIS AND RICHARD DAWKINS

Author(s): Alexandru-Corneliu Arion / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

Keywords: investigation of reality; Richard Dawkins; C.S. Lewis; God hypothesis;

In this present paper we try to learn something about how to cope with analytical investigation of reality, by comparing the ideas of two iconic Oxford figures. On the one hand, the renowned atheist Richard Dawkins, and the Christian apologist C.S. Lewis, on the other. It is more than interesting to know how to great thinkers of the 20th century can raise and answer to questions of life, such as Reasoned belief, the so-called „God hypothesis” or concerning our place and purpose in this world. Both Dawkins and Lewis see intellectual reflection on the big questions as natural and significant. Both insist that their beliefs – atheism and Christianity respectively – demand and deserve intellectual seriousness and are capable of being developed into larger systems. Lewis’s apologetic approach generally takes the form of identifying a common human observation or experience, and then showing how it fits, naturally and plausibly, within a Christian way of looking at things. For Dawkins, there is no room for faith in science, precisely because the evidence compels us to draw certain valid conclusions. He proposes an absolute dichotomy between ‘blind faith’ and the ‘overwhelming scientific evidence. Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator, God, almost certainly does not exist, and that belief in a personal god qualifies as a delusion, which he defines as a persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence. An inevitable conclusion is that both Dawkins and Lewis are men of faith, in that both hold committed positions that cannot be proved right, but which they clearly regard as justified and reasonable. We must learn to live with a degree of rational uncertainty about our deepest beliefs and values.

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CLASSICISM AND NEO-CLASSICISMS IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC

Author(s): Gabriel Bulancea / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

Keywords: classicism; neo-classicism; nomos; canon; artistic perfection;

In one of his articles, Octavian Paler draws attention in a metaphorical-mythologizing manner upon one of the risks taken by those who chose tradition as their source of inspiration. The epigonic spirit, because this is what he refers to, cannot escape idolatrising tradition, phenomenon that happens within an alterity of the creative identity, within the pettiness of controlling the artistic means, within the infatuation of his own image which is placed under the protection of the great creative figures. The epigone masters in anembryonic form some techniques which, for various reasons, he cannot manipulate creatively. He is somehow suspended between two sensibilities, hence his failure. On the one hand, he is not aware of the risk of assuming past sensibilities, and on the other, he does not assume his contemporariness. Giving into the temptation of looking too much into the past, the epigonic artist loses his identifying sensibility. "The mistake of neo-classicism, with its statues painted or sculpted based and antique models, is Orpheus’ mistake. As we no longer have the soul of the ancient Greeks, imitating their art is useless because in art too, looking back kills if there is no conscience of the irreversibility. From this point of view, there is no turning back unless in order to desolate everything” (Paler, 2016, pp. 189-190).This quote refers to neo-classicism perceived in its most rudimentary form, in which it would identify itself with the epigonic phenomenon. Of course, no relation of equality can be claimed between an epigone and a neo-classicist. If we are to give a brief definition in which to establish a relationship between these two terms, the epigone is a neo-classicist that lacks fantasy. Neo-classicism means to creatively take over technical means, past sensibilities in order to anchor them in the tumultuousness of contemporary times. Neo-classicism represents the happiest mixture between past and present, that form of artistic reverberation in which modernity still makes room for the seal of the past. Not servility, not obedience, not anachronism which denote the incapacity to assimilate new composing techniques or the lack of vigour of creative energies, but the power to adapt to new sensibilities through restorative interventions. Starting from here, we will trace a re-echeloning line of various types of neo-classic sensibilities specific to the end of the 19th century and to the entire 20th century.

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AMO UT SCIAM: THE FUNCTION OF LOVE IN THE PROCESS OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE LIGHT OF ST. BONAVENTURE’S PHILOSOPHY

THE CRITICAL ROLE OF ART FOR MEANINGFUL MORAL ACTION

A SOCIOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTION OF GOSSIP IN MASS-MEDIA

HUMBLING THE RATIONAL: A HUMEAN CRITIQUE OF LEIBNIZ’S PRINCIPLE OF SUFFICIENT REASON

PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD IN THE CULT OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH

THE LIVING CHURCH OF BRĂILA DEANERY DURING THE GERMAN OCCUPATION DURING THE GREAT WAR, REFLECTED IN ARCHIVE DOCUMENTS

FREEDOM, A GIFT OF THE GOD AND RESPONSIBILITY OF THE HUMAN BEING

ON THE WONDER OF LIFE AND THE FREEDOM OF WILL

THE POLITICAL CRYSTALLIZATION OF ZIONISM IN THE ROMANIAN DIASPORA: CONFIGURATIONS, PROGRAMMES, STANCES

AXIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

RELIGION LESSON- VECTOR FOR STUDYING ARTS. TRANSDISCIPLINARITY VIEW

DESECRALIZING OF MUSIC

VISUAL SYMBOLISM IN THE POETIC DOCUMENTARY

THE LIMES THEORY. HISTORIOGRAPHICAL AND CONCEPTUAL DELIMITATIONS

A QUESTION OF METHOD: READING WAR POETRY AT UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL

THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE ALIENATION CONCEPT

SOME ASPECTS OF THE CONTROVERSIAL NEXUS BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION

THE FACT OF CREATION AND THE LIMITS OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE

TWO RESEARCH PARADIGMS, WITH OR WITHOUT „GOD HYPOTHESIS”: C.S. LEWIS AND RICHARD DAWKINS

CLASSICISM AND NEO-CLASSICISMS IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC