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Концепцията на Гадамер за диалога и мястото на „Другия“
In day-to-day discourse, human beings engage in dialogue. Problems arise in the interpretation of language; according to Gadamer, these problems are the basis of hermeneutics (Gadamer 1989: 455). In Truth and Method, Gadamer seeks to provide a link between culture and the understanding of the interpretation of language. Most importantly, Gadamer is concerned with what understanding the “others” have of the information they receive or read and how they make sense of this information, taking into consideration the cultural implications.
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The article offers an analysis, in parallel, of the philosophies of responsibility of Emmanuel Levinas and Hans Jonas, based on an overview of their most representative theses. These include, in the case of Levinas, ethics as a “first philosophy”; the hypostasis of the Self and Being for the Other as a path to the transcendent; responsibility and ethical transcendence; the transition from responsibility to justice. In the case of Jonas, responsibility and metaphysics as guardians of justifications; the role of knowledge and imagination; the specificity of the subject of responsibility, who continues and ensures the work of the “silent God”.
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This article looks at the anthropological core of the ontology of the “second” Heidegger, after die Kehre, and in particular, the dual position of man within the Sein. It is argued that, even in his passive position as a “servant” (Knecht) in relation to the things constituting Being, man retains his role as master (Herr), albeit in a negative way. Heidegger’s ontology is set out in the classic Neo-Platonist scheme of “human dignity” (Mirandola): man as a medial figure between his animal-natural origin and a supreme transcendence, logical and creative, which he occupies. This triad is recognized in the article on Hölderlin and the essence of poetry (1936), which proposes a concept of “human dignity” that further develops and nuances another concept, proposed a little earlier in the lecture course Basic Concepts of Metaphysics (1929–1930). The article is part of a monographic study on Heidegger’s “second” philosophy.
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This publication is devoted to the specificity of translating philosophical texts. Important issues of philosophical translation are presented in the course of a conversation between three authoritative Bulgarian philosophers and translators of such texts; these issues include the translation of the texts into a modern version of the language, the use of philosophical concepts in accordance with the context, the difference between ordinary and philosophical translation, the connection between the translator and the text being translated, the purpose of different translations of the same classical philosophical work, etc. One of the important achievements of a philosophical translation is when the translator has grasped the meaning and ideas of the translated author ant text. The participants in the discussion are Prof. T. Boyadjiev, Prof. L. Koprinarov, and Assoc. Prof. K. Lozev.
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This article deals with the way art and media not only deny but also constantly integrate each other, thereby reaching a difficult to discern absolute unity. Thus, the two spheres – art and communication – lose their independence and solidity and turn into endless cultural streams. Their dual, hybrid form is constructed by the widespread perception of them and their constant presence, as well as by their incompleteness and fast transience. This is why in mass culture there is no eternal return to elite pieces of art, but rather an eternal movement of endless artistic-communicative streams, aimed at taking possession of an endless, linear time.
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This article focuses on the contribution of the First Bulgarian-German Grammar Book, written by Vasil Hadzhistoyanov-Beron, the Bulgarian scholar from the National Revival period, to the enlightment of Bulgarian youth in the pre-Liberation period, and to the education of the nation in foreign languages, seen as a means for its integration with the European intellectual level. Beron's work is approached both from a linguistic point of view and with regard to its patriotic and moral message.
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This article presents the educational activities of Ivan Gyuzelev during the 1870s and early 1880s. The article analyzes his pedagogical work at the Gabrovo School, including his preparing school programs and normative documents and creating school structures. His work as a school inspector in 1878 is traced. A main topic of the article is Gyuzelev's pedagogical reforms as Minister of Education in 1880. His legislative and administrative work is analyzed in detail. The conclusion is drawn that Gyuzelev's reforms succeeded in setting the course of formation of a post-Liberation school structure and defining the main problems of education.
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The paper focuses on an attempt to conceptualize the ambivalent relationship between art and politics in the framework of a certain aesthetic-political discourse based on the concept of regimes of visibility. The exposition goes through the idea of definite prescriptive principles lying in the basis of an axiomatically accepted idea of art’s transformative function regarding the political status quo. In this context, the notions of the aesthetic and the political undergo a process of re-conceptualization, following key ideas such as Rancière’s distribution of the sensible and Roland Bleiker’s aesthetic representation.
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The study focuses, first, on Heidegger’s understanding of the world as a closed interconnection of “relationally” defined elements and as a horizon of ecstatic situatedness, and second, on the different ways of “inhabiting” and sharing the world in both the authentic and the inauthentic existence. It is divided into four parts. In the first part basic concepts of Being and Time are expounded that are essential for performing the research and for the clarity of its exposition. The second part is a detailed interpretation of Heidegger’s analysis of the surrounding world. The third part thematizes some concepts crucial to differentiate between authentic and inauthentic way of being-in-the-world. In the fourth and main part, an attempt is made to show that, first, the surrounding world, which is shared with others in its “meaningful” explication, is an “organically” articulated horizon of a “typical” and enduring ecstatic situatedness, and second, that both the authentic and the inauthentic existence are simultaneously different modes of the complete structure of existence and moments of this structure which belong to each other and “invert” one another.
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The article is devoted to an important cluster of scientific and pedagogical activity - methodological work in a higher educational institution. The relevance of the topic is associated with the urgent need to improve the organization of the educational process, using the existing methodological arsenal. The purpose of the study is to systematize and structure the educational and methodological achievements of this study subject on the Department of Social Sciences and Ukrainian Studies and to demonstrate effective methods of teaching philosophy in special program for medical education in use. Educational and methodological philosophy teaching development in BSMU allows us to analyze the best methodological teaching practice among not so effective study principles, which were used in past of the educational process organization periods. It could be predicted, that conclusions of such study will be helpful to determine the priority tasks for improving the methodology of teaching issues of philosophy. The article reveals the main methodological ideas to highlight in teaching aids and publications. The period of the beginning of this century is characterized by the revitalization of the methodological work at the department. This fact allows us to highlight a set of methodological aspects in the presented study about organization of teaching the discipline “Philosophy”. Research methods are based on general scientific and special philosophical paradigms. In particular, it is worth noting the methods of induction and deduction, synergetics, dialectics and hermeneutics, which are actively used in the preparation of educational materials. Scientific novelty lies in the coverage of qualitatively new approaches to the organization of the educational process in the university as a whole and in the teaching of philosophy in particular. The use of distance learning forms only emphasizes the prospects for the development of the methodological cluster. Conclusions. The educational and methodical work of the philosophy section was carried out in the context of the requirements and allows for a holistic concept of the effectiveness of scientific and pedagogical activity.
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The article attempts to define the role of dance in cognition. Nabokina considers neurocognitive and cultural studies perspectives in the study of dance. Choosing as a starting point the metaphor of dance as used by Nietzsche, she proposes to look at dance as dynamic cognition, allowing the subject to harmonise with the world, other actors in it, and the recognition of social processes.
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Momro outlines the key themes currently bearing on the humanities with regard to the challenges that humanity faces as a species that destroys the planet. His main thesis is that the humanities must reformulate their ways of legitimising and creating knowledge and truth procedures. Momro highlights the essential elements of the biological, technological, environmental and climate crisis in the context of the discursive and political crisis that emerges with the revival of the apocalyptic imagination.
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This article discusses male and female authorities in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology. It explores the dominance and expansion of existentialism over the soft power of phenomenology and feminism, the habits of life and metaphysical notions about life, mothers and sons, lonely philosophers, Christianity and atheism, repression and the free soul, the ubiquitous authority of Jean Paul Sartre, and the imperative that you must be free. It also discusses the strength of the „second“ sex and the weaknesses of the male, the pseudo-authorities of gender in general, as defined by Simone de Beauvoir, and, finally, examines alcohol intoxication and the authority of women‘s drinks – the ubiquitous apricot cocktails, which have become a basis for phenomenology.
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The square of modalities in Aristotle has four logical positions. Among them, the category of „reality” is missing, which Kant and Hegel included in their systems. This choice of theirs was probably provoked by Leibniz, for whom the content of the „possible” is not a set of positions between which there is indifference. The possible contains potentials with varying degrees of feasibility, which is in connection with the real, of transformation into it. In addition, the solutions of Kant and Hegel are options for overcoming pure formalism in logic and for creating meaningful logic. The reflections offered here are a reconstruction of their experiments, considered in a peculiar sequence.
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The text focuses on the philosophy of language of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben and compares it with another trend in the theory of language, where a Bulgarian case of original theory is also examined. Agamben tries to create a modal ontology, in which ethics and ontology would be different and interchangeable modes of speech. He builds on the scholastic concept of mode and develops the modes of speech as an alternative to the linguistic modalities. On the other hand, the text views the French linguist Gustave Guillaume who works extensively with modalities and infers the philosophical concepts from the linguistic ones. Guillaume starts from a primal state where subject and object are undifferentiated in language and subsequently draws an operative field from the differentiation between the two. This is the path to the linguistic creation of time, the chronogenesis, and to the modalities. The Bulgarian guillaumist Krassimir Manchev works in this field. Yet the main purpose of the text is the juxtaposition of the philosophy of Agamben with the contemporary Bulgarian followers of the French theory of modalities, namely with the attempt of Darin Tenev to propose a modal theory that is appropriate for both philosophy and socioanalysis. The slightly elitist modal ontology of Agamben or the linguistic and sociological theories of modalities – this is the question of the article.
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