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Review of: Edin Pobrić, Roman i manirizmi moderne - znak i znanje, Centar Samouprava, Sarajevo, 2018.
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Review of: Edin Pobrić, Roman i manirizmi moderne - znak i znanje, Centar Samouprava, Sarajevo, 2018.
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The text unfolds a fascinating narrative through four paintings: 1/ Adam de Coster, “Man Singing by Candlelight”, 2/ “Master of Candlelight”, before 1650, “Singing Boy” and 3/ “Master of Candlelight”, 1650, “Singing Boy”. Using candle-singing as a guiding principle, important pictorial concepts such as Caravaggism, “Flying Birds”, Bambochanti, Kiaroscuro and Tenebrism, are introduced and differentiated.
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The brief commentary on the essay "Česká naděje na duchovní vlast" [The Czech Hopes for a Spiritual Homeland] by the philosopher Jan Patočka shows the importance of this article in the context of Patočka’s philosophical works, and analyses and interprets the text.
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The American analytic philosopher of religion Alvin Plantinga developed the epistemological warrant theory and the Aquinas/Calvin epistemological model. Here we want to present his theory, model, and selected critical reviews.
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The article is devoted to issues related to the education of man to the relationship with God. The aim of the article is to present the education of man to believe in God and God on the basis of the analysis of available sources in the pedagogical and theological perspective. The issues raised in the article concern shaping relations with God, establishing ties with Him and maintaining them. In the further part of the article, we can read about freedom, listening and prayer as forms shaping man's education and faith in God and God.
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Prigodno ili ne, uvijek je teško sažeti ono najvažnije nečijeg djela pa i lika, a pogotovo je teško kada je autorica toliko nesklona osobnom izlaganju i trivijalnostima. Prije nekoliko sam godina izazvala negodovanje ili barem nerazumijevanje kada sam autoricu svrstala u tradiciju velikih moralista. Umjesto kao pohvala, to je shvaćeno kao da Ljiljani Filipović podmećem rigidno nametanje principa i pravila a ne nasljeđe, primjerice, francuskih prosvjetiteljskih aforizama koji osporavaju autoritete, prokazuju hipokriziju. Oštar i elegantan pogled La Rochefoucaulda, De la Bruyèrea i njihovih drugova već ući kako izaći iz Kantove »samo skrivljene nepunoljetnosti« i nastavlja se na rano preminulog Montaigneova prijatelja, Etiennea de La Boétiea, koji je, premda još ne punoljetan, pozvao na izlazak iz dobrovoljne porobljenosti.
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Nowadays we can find a wide plethora of philosophical practices ranging from the classic philosophical counselling to educational programs for children or even prevention and rehabilitation programs. How should a client know what is suited for him? What is the philosophical practitioner promising to their clients? Is it wisdom and truth as some would associate with philosophy? Is it healing and therapy? This paper tries to shed some light over the field of philosophical practices. I present the emergence of philosophical counselling, it’s historical evolution and the situation nowadays. I talk about the worldview concept and about its importance in the healing paradigm. I will analyze different critiques brought to fields of philosophical and psychological counselling and common aspects that concern both fields, trying to find both similarities and differences that would help me conclude on what is the relationship between psychotherapy and philosophical counselling and how can each benefit the other in their common purpose of alleviating human noetic distress.
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In recent years, the subject of creative thinking has taken a central place in the various areas of life promoting these important areas by proposing innovative ideas and solutions. In a special way, the issue of creative thinking in the field of education has recently been found as a central issue, putting it in the central of many curriculums and calling for its cultivation among students. A major reason for that is that the world that has become dynamic and is changing rapidly in recent years, especially thanks to the rapidly advancing technology that affects all areas of our lives, educational, economic, social, political and others. So much so, in many educational systems, they started talking about preparing the learner for the unknown future. Since creative thinking is thinking that breaks rules and norms, it allows seeing or creating unknown connections between different components, thus enabling the creation of new and unknown ideas and solutions that will help the learner to successfully deal with everyday problems and promote himself successfully in all areas of life. As a result of what was said about the importance of creative thinking and the importance of cultivating it, a comprehensive study was carried out that examined the perception of science and technology teachers in Arab elementary schools in Israel on seven key dimensions in the context of creative thinking. The number of teachers who participated is 313 which cover the variables: age, seniority in teaching, academic degree, and geographical distribution of residences. A central dimension was the teachers' perception of the factors that foster creative thinking. A central reason for examining the teachers' perception is that the teachers and not others are the ones who carry out the teaching, learning and assessment processes in the school, they are the actual mediators between theory and application, so that the cultivation of creative thinking depends to a large extent on their way of activity. In addition, the teachers' perception was examined among science and technology teachers since the field of science and technology is found according to much research literature as a field with a high capacity for cultivating creative thinking. This article presents findings, conclusions and recommendations that arise in terms of the dimension of the teachers' perception of the factors that foster creative thinking. The article presents a picture in which the teachers' perception of the factors that foster creative thinking is in high agreement with what is said about these factors in the research literature, even if there is no research based on the teachers' perception, this is when the summary of this perception is that significant changes are required in most factors of school activity in order to cultivate creative thinking of the students, in methods, tools and environments of teaching, learning and assessment, the willingness of teachers to teach creative thinking and readiness for taking risks on the part of the teachers and students.
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There is a set of problems that emerges before the contemporary organization of the doctoral studies in economic sciences and their resolution is determined by the factors of employing the systemic, cybernetic and synergy approach. Evolution and catastrophic leap are the two paths of contemporary development that are based on the richness of scientific insight. Its grounds are laid in the field of doctoral studies as the starting phase of each science. The object of this piece of research is the doctoral process, while its research topic is the latter’s synergy panorama. A basic assumption held is that the synergistic reflection should be interpreted as the dictatorship of the integrity of the examined process. In its standard form, the interrelated behaviour of self-organization is interpreted in terms of hierarchization (obedience), parameters of order (order and chaos), cyclical reason (obligatory feedback) that are all targeted at establishing a natural order in doctoral studies – self-sufficiency with the presumption of growth.
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The text analyzes Levski’s personality and ideas from a historical and contemporary viewpoint. The focus is on the Apostle’s special place and indisputable role in the national liberation movement. It can firmly be stated that the most important contemporaries recognized him as the main actor in the Bulgarian revolution, a great personality with undeniable qualities, in the space of the Bulgarian Revival. The pillars in Levski’s ideology reveal him as a non-standard, Renaissance personality, for whom the individual and societal success are possible only on the basis of adequate innovation and the creative practical approach, taking into consideration the specifics of the native being. Therefore, studying the Apostle’s deed, comparing it to the other peoples’ achievements, the Bulgarian has always had the chance and today can proudly and with dignity compare themselves with the other peoples – moreover on equal footing! As any respected member of the civilizational world can. After all, what the Apostle said and did is richness not only for the Bulgarian but for the European political civilization.
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egel’s Philosophy of Right openly proclaims itself to be a work without a political agenda, an interpretation of politics rather than a political project. This essay contends that Hegel’s decision to locate the universality of the state as the culminating point of the political structure represents itself a political intervention that occurs through the act of interpretation. Hegel’s analysis of the relationship between capitalism (or civil society) and the state reveals that we must adopt the perspective of the state when looking at capitalist society. By doing so, we can recognize the political exigency of moving from capitalist particularism to the uni-versality of the state form.
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This article examines the three bills on older persons that were introduced in the 44th National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria (2017–2020). A detailed comparison is made between the different approaches taken in the bills in regulating the legal status of older persons. Also examined are the objections that led to the rejection of the bills by the parliamentary majority in Bulgaria. Special emphasis is placed on the importance of the issue of the elderly’s special needs and situation in the context of growing intergenerational tensions.
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The paper is the introduction to my book on the Bulgarian-Serbian and Bulgarian Macedonian controversies since their beginning to the present day, conducted mostly in professional historiography. I situate the book within the state of the art by presenting a number of authors and approaches to these problems. I also present the key concepts used, such as “historiography wars”, propaganda, public diplomacy, master narratives, politics of history, etc. Finally, something is said on the approach to the controversies chosen in the book that will appear soon.
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We consider semantic and syntactic transformations of the concept of "the logical" in the ancient philosophy in the form of crypto-logos, para-logismos, dia-logos, and syl-logismos. We interpret Heraclitus' concept of Logos as a cryptologos through which intuitive insight (epístasthai gnóomen) reveals hidden or implicit harmony (harmoníe aphanés) in nature (phýsis) as a conceptual unity of ontic opposites (tà enantía). In Pramenides' paraconsistent concept of the identity of Being and thought, we point to para-logical hypotheses about the One that are carried out through antithetical deductions of thought and which maintain the dynamics of the ontic determinations of being (ón) in the statics of the conceptual determinations of Being (tò eînai). As the beginning of the explicative granulation of ''the logical'' we consider Plato's concept of the dialectical skill (dialektikè tékhne) of dividing concepts of genus into species and sub-species that logically represent ontic opposites in problem-formulated questions. Finally Aristotle's concept of lógos as a statement-making sentence / proposition (lógos apophantikós) made explicit the Being (tò eînai), or the Being as Being (tò ón hê ón), in semantic and syntactic figures and modes of syllogistic inferences in which ontological (eînai), ontic (ón), conceptual (logikôos) and linguistic (légomenon) correspondence is shown. We conclude that with these changes in the concept of lógos, the path has been taken from the hidden or implicit Truth of the phenomena of nature and the world (pân) to explicit truthfulness of propositions as the unhiddeness (alétheia) of Being trough the semantical and syntactical visibility of the logical structures of being, thought and language in scientific knowledge based on demonstration (apoódeiksis).
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From the concept of what a border is and how central a multicultural border country is to the creation of a stronger European identity, the article explores how Sibiu International Theatre Festival, being a temporary liminal artistic space at the border between who belongs to the European Union and who does not, occurring in a region composed by multiple cultural, religious and ethnic identities, takes up the roles of a heterotopia and a worksite for democracy, creating a community of people of diverse backgrounds dealing with common transversal socio-political issues by establishing debates through the performances presented in their editions.
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Fyodor M. Dostoevsky is a writer. He wrote novels. He did not write a single work, which from today's perspective can be classified as philosophical. Nevertheless, many authors, both Russian and Western, often include him in the history of Russian philosophy. Even some historians of philosophy include Dostoevsky in their books of Russian philosophy. Some of the most important histories of Russian philosophy recognize Dostoevsky as one of the philosophers, side by side with Berdyaev, Fyodorov, Solovyov and other Russian thinkers. On the other hand, several other authors do not recognize him as a philosopher and enlist him in their monographs on the history of Russian philosophy. Author’s position is that Dostoevsky can be recognized as a philosopher and this paper presents an attempt to locate the arguments for that. Therefore, in that sense, the paper is dealing with the arguments, i.e., motives Dostoevsky to be recognized not only as a writer, but as a philosopher as well. So, the author analyzes both, his work, and the historical context of his work, as well, in order to try in this dual sense - problematic (content) and historical (formal) - to justify the epithet "philosopher" for F. М. Dostoevsky. The hypothesis defended in this paper is that Dostoevsky can be considered a philosopher, even in a classical sense of the meaning of that term. Especially in the postmodern age, when the genres and disciplinary boundaries are loosened, and multidisciplinary and pluriperspectivity are preferred in theoretical research.
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Islamic philosophers showed a great interest in the metaphysical heritage, and especially in the understanding of being and its poles. This includes, for example, analogical being, simple being, graded being, synonymous being, reflected or manifested being, necessary and possible being, impossible being, discontinuous being... Furthermore, they devoted themselves deeply to the distinction between essence and existence, potentiality and reality, general and individual. The analysis of the different treatment of these questions in Islamic philosophy shows that roots of the modern understanding of being and existence do not only reach back to scholastic philosophy in its middle phase (Thomas Aquinas or later to Francisco Suarez and Christian Wolff), as many researchers tend to claim, but to a much earlier period. However, we will focus here on some indications of Ibn Sina and Mulla Sadra Shirazi about the univocal and equivocal meaning of the concept of existence precisely in order to confirm the aforementioned thesis.
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