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Review of Trent Dougherty, The Problem of Animal Pain: a Theodicy for All Creatures Great and Small (New York & Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014)
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Some observations concerning a book by Émile Bréhier, The Philosophy of Plotinus (trans. Into Russian and intro. by A. S. Gagonin. St. Petersburg: Vladimir Dahl , 2012. 392 pp.). The article offers a critical analysis of the famous studies by Émile Bréhier of the philosophy of Plotinus. His book, published in French in 1928 and a series of later articles, along with two Wayne Hankey’s studies on Bréhier are now translated into Russian for the first time. I present an overview of A. S. Gagonin’s preface to the book and outline the content of the book chapter after chapter. I find it important to indicate the target audience of the book and the aspects in which it can still be useful to modern readers. Then I try to provide a critical analysis of Bréhier’s interpretation of Plotinus’ doctrine of Nous. Based on some modern Anglo-American studies of Plotinus’ philosophy I demonstrate that Bréhier’s evaluation of Plotinus’ doctrine of Nous, as “lifeless” and “heterogeneous” is too hasty. Similarly his still influential statement that the doctrine of Nous in Plotinus is confused with the doctrine of the One, and consequently not rooted in the genuine context of the Greek philosophy, can also be evaluated as a hasty judgment.
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A Review of Polina Gadzhikurbanova, Ethics of the Early Stoa: The Doctrine of the Appropriate. Moscow: IPhRAS Publishers, 2012. 219 pp. The monograph under review is a completed independent study of urgent and complicated historical and philosophical problem: the correlation of the two Stoic ethical concepts: kathēkon (appropriate action) and katorthōma (perfect moral action). As the author highlights, specific features of Stoa ethical theory are focused in these concepts and the character of their relations, and at the same time its key challenges are associated with them: the correlation of the highest good and the relative values, and the correlation of natural and virtuous. The author presents readers a history of the investigated problem in the introduction. The first chapter is devoted to the study of the main provisions of the ethics of early Stoics, aretology and axiology of Stoics, doctrine of oikeiōsis etc. The second chapter deals with the problem of influence of Cynic and Peripatetic philosophy on ethics of Stoa. The third chapter is devoted to the solution of the main objective of this work. In order to achieve this goal the author uses the rich heritage of research, which includes names such as M. Forschner, G. Nebel, J. Rist, D. Tsekourakis, A. Huseynov, A. Stolyarov and others. The following position can be assumed as the basic setting of the author: kathēkon and katorthōma are related as matter (hylē) and principle (arkhē) of the act. On the one hand, this thesis captures the qualitative difference between the two spheres of Stoic ethics. On the other hand, the author fairly insists that the two areas are closely connected to each other. To sum up, the principle is independent from the matter, but the first can not be completely isolated from the second.
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A review on a series of Jaakko Hintikka’s Aristotelian studies, esp. his Analysis of Aristotle: Selected Papers. Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2004.
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Review of: Mikahil Y. Timofeev - : Russian Arctic in search of the integral identity: the collective monograph / Ed O.B. Podvintzev - M .: The new chronograph, 2016. - 208 p.
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Автор романа «Зулейха открывает глаза» Гузель Яхина, наверное, могла бы по праву претен- довать на звание «Мисс/миссис литературный успех 2015», если бы таковое существовало. Молодая, малоизвестная писательница пишет роман о судьбе женщины, попавшей в тяжелые исторические обстоятельства, «просыпается знаменитой»: получает сразу множество престижных литератур- ных премий. После выхода своего дебютного произведения в 2015 году Гузель Яхина стала лауреа- том премии «Книга года», премии «Ясная поляна» и премии «Большая книга», призовой фонд кото- рой составляет 6 миллионов рублей [3]. Кроме того, её роман вошел в число финалистов «Русского Букера» и в лонг-лист премии «НОС (Новая словесность)».
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