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Laudation speech delivered at the ceremony in honour of acad. Antonio Fernandez de Bujan y Fernandez as Doctor Honoris Causa of New Bulgarian University
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Marginalization and the combination of political extremism with ethno-social conflicts can easily lead to extremism questioning rule of law and the basis of our liberal thinking parliamentary democracy. Hungary was facing many of these challenges after the political-economic transformation of 1989 and 1990. The risk of marginalization in a market economy is quite high and widening the gap among people is a still existing problem which will remain with us in the near future for sure. The last decade showed examples of dissatisfaction among certain social groups where extreme thoughts could be transformed into aggressive movements what we have experienced in Hungary following both a political crisis in 2006 and an economic depression in 2008.
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Because of the increased health risk, psychosocial factors and their assessment methods are among the top research priorities for the health and safety at work. The purpose is to present a complex questionnaire with several sections (author’s work) for wide use by practitioners in the field of HSW. A questionnaire was developed to assess the psychosocial health risk at work, adapted and validated in many studies in different professional groups over the course of 20 years. The main modules are: independent factors – general load characteristics, psychosocial characteristics and stressors, and dependent outcomes (health complaints, job satisfaction) as well as suggestions for improvements to an employer. Illustrated are some research results and data processing by modules. The method has proven to be an economical and reliable tool to differentiate between different professions and jobs
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Our contribution aims at highlighting the main issues of metaphorical neology, as well as the semantic and discursive dynamics that occur in the use of technical terminologies stemming from a shared conceptual metaphor. Most notably, through the analysis of a terminological corpus, we will analyse the evolution of these conceptual metaphors and the underlying ideologies in the translation process from English to French in a highly metaphorical domain, such as financial language, in relation to the language policies of the DGLFLF.
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La mise en perspective des écrits d'Althusser et de la récente biographie par Y. Moulier-Boutang interroge les rapports complexes, voire contradictoires, de l'homme et de son inscription dans la psychanalyse, la politique, et la sexualité. On y repère la structure du fantasme, lié à la nature de sa psychose, qui fait effet dans ses engagements toujours marqués d'une position d'antagonisme et d'isolement
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I will try to address here several questions about issues such as pleasure, (the) good, reality, and (feminine) jouissance, guided in that endeavor by the psychoanalytical discourse and practice. If the main purpose of human life, as Freud argues, is the search for some sort of happiness, clinical experience shows that for any particular individual, the question of the good and that of pleasure are quite distinct. « … The pleasure principle … is nothing else than the dominance of the signifier », writes J. Lacan. Jouissance is that supplement to pleasure which is also transgressive of it. The best description for what jouissance is can be called the void, the chaos which render pleasure and the signifier inconsistent and incomplete. There are several types of jouissance, most of them called phallic. The Other jouissance or feminine jouissance, “not-all phallic” (Lacan), is related to that void. It is synonymous to a particular ethics of the void, a “chaosmotic” ethics (in Joyce’s term), distinct from a “cosmic” ethics which would be that of pleasure and of the signifier
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In this paper I would like to develop the idea that there is a very clear distinction to be made between hysteria, on the one hand, and what psychoanalysis calls the feminine position, on the other hand. It is to the logic of the not whole that this feminine position corresponds, a logic that the hysteric subject contests at his/her turn. In this regard, hysteria is more close to a position attributed to men. What remains to be shown, in what follows, is what position the woman is in. If she does not exist, as the title of my paper suggests, then where is she?
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In establishing the guidelines for an ethical existence, Spinoza offers a theory of the eternity of the mind and differentiates between an intellectual order and the order of the imagination. The analysis and understanding of these notions involves two different approaches regarding the notion of mind and that of existence. A further analysis of the mind’s eternity, together with several key notions of Spinoza’s philosophy as they appear in various contexts - conatus, infinity, essence, the nature of knowledge – leads to a specific contour of this particular philosopher’s view on the notion of consciousness
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This paper presents the results and their analysis of a recent attitude questionnaire, intended to measure the attitude of 13 – 14-year-old students towards science in non-formal educational framework. The questionnaire was filled out by students, participating in the Summer academies (July – August 2018) of University for Kids Foundation in Drenta, Elena Municipality, Veliko Tarnovo District of Bulgaria. The main tool of the research is a specially constructed atitude questionnaire, which includes 8 questions with open – and close-ended questions. The participating 40 students are from all over Bulgaria.This paper presents the results and their analysis of a recent attitude questionnaire, intended to measure the attitude of 13 – 14-year-old students towards science in non-formal educational framework. The questionnaire was filled out by students, participating in the Summer academies (July – August 2018) of University for Kids Foundation in Drenta, Elena Municipality, Veliko Tarnovo District of Bulgaria. The main tool of the research is a specially constructed attitude questionnaire, which includes 8 questions with open – and close-ended questions. The participating 40 students are from all over Bulgaria.This paper presents the results and their analysis of a recent attitude questionnaire, intended to measure the attitude of 13 – 14-year-old students towards science in non-formal educational framework. The questionnaire was filled out by students, participating in the Summer academies (July – August 2018) of University for Kids Foundation in Drenta, Elena Municipality, Veliko Tarnovo District of Bulgaria. The main tool of the research is a specially constructed attitude questionnaire, which includes 8 questions with open – and close-ended questions. The participating 40 students are from all over Bulgaria.
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Information on new books: 1. Ivo H. Daalder and Michael E. O’Hanlon, WINNING UGLY: NATO’S WAR TO SAVE KOSOVO, (Ružna pobeda: NATO-ov rat za spas Kosova) Brookings Institution Press 2000, Washington, str. 224 2. Ivo H. Daalder, THE MAKING OF AMERICA’S BOSNIA POLICY, (Stvaranje američke politike u Bosni) Brookings Institution Press 2000, Washington, str. 204 3. Deliberated force: A CASE STUDY IN EFFECTIVE AIR CAMPAINING, (Oslobođena snaga: Studija slučaja u efikasnom vazdušnom ratovanju) edited by Robert C. Owen, Maxwell Air Force Base, Air University Press 2000, str. 541 4. Misha Glenny, THE BALKANS: NATIONALISM, WAR, AND THE GREAT POWERS 1804-1999, (Balkan: Nacionalizam, rat i velike sile 1804-1999) Viking Penguin, New York 2000, str. 726 5. Tim Judah, KOSOVO: WAR AND REVENGE, (Kosovo: Rat i osveta) Yale University Press, New Heaven 2000, str. 336 6. Michael Ignatieff, VIRTUAL WAR: KOSOVO AND BEYOND, (Virtuelni rat: Kosovo i iza) Henry Holt New York 2000, str. 249
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Nevertheless, he never considered himself a philosopher, inmy vision Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi – as regards his oeuvre – canbe considered one of the most important Indian thinkers of the 20thcentury. Being a symbol of non-violent resistance and an iconic figure of India’s independence struggle, we tend to look on him as a hero of the anticolonial struggle, as father of the modern India, forgetting that all these appellations are deeply rooted in his special way of thinking and acting, which could be characterized through words like simplicity,truth (satya), non-violence (ahimsa), love etc.In my paper, I will try to synthetize the philosophical thought of Gandhi, so that from the three core concepts of the Gandhian philosophy (satya, ahimsa and satyagraha) at this time the accent to be put on the truth (satya), which constitute in fact the corner stone of the Gandhian philosophy. Analyzing these concepts is very important because of two reasons: first of all because these concepts either are rooted in the Indian religious traditions (Jainism, Hinduism or Buddhism), and semantically redesigned by Gandhi, or concepts created by himself, but being based on categories provided by India’s philosophical-religious traditions. On the other hand, the concept of truth – by the other two core concepts – had a very important role both in awakening nationalist sentiment and shaping the Indian nation in the early decades of the twentieth century, and in the anti-colonial fight characterized by nonviolent resistance.Therefore, it will be analysed in brief the etymology of satya (truth),highlighting the changes made by Gandhi in the semantic content of the concept. It is worth noting that in the Gandhian thought and discourse the old notions taken from the Hindu religious tradition acquires new semantic layers that make possible their interpretation in a new, sociopolitical context and not a religious one.
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In world cultures, the individual’s transition from one stage of existence to the other is marked by specific ceremonies.When a youth is on the verge of entering adulthood, this milestone is touched upon through rites – more or less challenging from aphysical, mental and emotional point of view – meant to prepare him for the active participation in the community’s life, of which he is a member, and take on the specific responsibilities of his new identity.I have used the term identity since, we shall see, the transition from one stage to the other involves the casting off of one’s old garb and bedecking one’s self anew, a fundamental reconfiguration of the individual. Starting from the philosophical framing of the rites, in order to understand the concept of initiatory death we shall, first,reveal the origins of Upanayana, the context of its birth, its development stages, goal, and lastly, stop at some relevant passages for this rite from the sacred texts.
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The history of Central Asia is full of situations where the leadership of the territory was in the hands of a woman.Sometimes she served as a regent, sometimes she held the ultimate power. One of these women was Raziya (1236-1240), who ruled a northern India kingdom that fell into the hands of Muslim invaders.One of the most ambitious historical characters of the Indian subcontinent, an echo of the struggle for gender equality, Raziyaloved and respected the people chosen to govern it regardless of religion, belief, and habits.Raziya was a surprising personality leader with a big ambition, an inherited intelligence in the family, and an overwhelming energy.These qualities have been combined with tolerance to other people,the hardness and the power to continue that made her immortal and memorable in the people’s consciousness.
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