S rukom na srcu, gledajući te pravo u oči, obećavam ti se... Opaske o Derridinoj interpretaciji Husserla

Author(s): Leonard Lawlor / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 01+02/2012

The most fundamental principle of Derrida’s thought is the phenomenological principle of Fremderfahrung, from Husserl’s Fifth Cartesian Meditation: I can never have a presentation (a Gegenwärtigung) of the interior life, the inside, of another; I can only ever have a representation of it (a Vergegenwärtigung). Derrida conceives the profound spatiality, the distance, the écart through Vergegenwärtigung. In Voice and Phenomenon, Derrida uses this phenomenological principle of intersubjectivity to contest the implicit „metaphysics of presence“ in Husserl’s phenomenology. Here I intend to examine the new „deconstruction of phenomenology“ found in Le Toucher, in the chapter called „Tangent II.“ I hope to show the continuity between this recent text and Voice and Phenomenon. As in chapter 6 of Voice and Phenomenon, in „Tangent II“ of Le Toucher there is a critique of the idea that one can have „a pure experience of one’s own body“. Thus,+ more generally, I want to come to understand the philosophy of the heart that animates this entire book. This „cardiology“ is connected to the movement in Derrida’s thinking from a thought of the question (as in the question of being) to the promise (as in the promise of justice), from, in other words, ontology (or phenomenological ontology) to eschatology.

Filozofia życia religijnego, czyli Kierkegaard o relacji nauczyciel-uczeń

Author(s): Jacek Aleksander Prokopski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 12/2018

Philosophy and Life Sciences in Dialogue

Author(s): Vassil Vidinsky / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The volume Philosophy and Life Sciences in Dialogue is a result of the IV. International Summer School Bioethics in Context, organized by Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and FernUniversität in Hagen. The book is exemplary in many ways. It contains 11 high-quality articles on fundamental themes and concepts with real philosophical depth – nature, autonomy, the future of trans- and post-humanism, the meta-topic of bioethics and its relations with life sciences. The authors present illuminating historical backgrounds as a context to these theoretical discussions and a source of interesting or forgotten arguments. Most of the articles analyze recent and avantgarde scientific research with its social implications: CRISPR-Cas9 technology, digitalization of health care, justification of animal experiments, questions of human cloning, moral enhancement and the artificial synthesis of life. The main idea of the book is that bioethics is necessarily connected to human practice: it is not just knowledge but a living culture.

Новата монография на Веселин Петров върху Уайтхед

Author(s): Serghey Gherdjikov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

Vesselin Petrov's new book on Whitehead is an analysis of “some specific features of his teachings, such as his views concerning rationality, dynamic holism, things and objects, events, anticipation, creativity, nature, organism, and life” (Petrov, 2019: 7). The book is a real achievement for the genre: a monographic thematical study of a comprehensive author's philosophy as “a philosophy of organism”. Alfred Whitehead is a unique, difficult to understand thinker who introduces new concepts and new meanings of traditional and modern concepts. Prof. Vesselin Petrov is an author of a series of works on Whitehead and processual philosophy and editor of collections of articles on processual philosophy and Whitehead. The author is one of the leaders in modern Whiteheadianism. Professor Petrov has been the Executive Director (2015 – 2017) of the International Process Network. Whitehead is a unique thinker who creates a philosophy entirely of a non-classical type. Whitehead's philosophy is postmodern in the meaning introduced twenty years before French postmodernism as a constructive outcome of Modernism. For Whitehead, unique, modernism proves to be anti-rational. His philosophy is different from both the continental and the analytic.

Civility and Fear in European Political Discourse: Political Thought of Guglielmo Ferrero

Author(s): Lorella Cedroni / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2015

Kilka uwag o logice przekonań religijnych

Author(s): Marek Lechniak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2020

An article is an introductory analysis of concept of religious belief in the language of logic. In its first part, there is a comparison of the concept of religious belief with the concept of scientific belief, next part is a presentation and analysis of Bocheński’s conception of rationality of religious beliefs (and their justification), and the third part of article is an attempt of analysis of Aquinas conception of faith (in Sth II-II) in the light of contemporary logic.

Idee determinizmu i indeterminizmu w twórczości Iannisa Xenakisa i Györgyego Ligetiego na przykładzie Pithoprakty oraz Clocks and Clouds

Author(s): Karolina Dąbek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01 (40)/2019

The issue of determinism and indeterminism became essential in the music of the second half of the 20th century. It occupied a special place in artistic output of two avant-garde composers: Iannis Xenakis and György Ligeti. In both cases, the ideas of determinism and indeterminism are connected with their music: with Pithoprakta (written by Xenakis in 1955–1956) and with Clocks and Clouds (written by Ligeti in 1972). The following article presents some aspects of their artistic approach as well as an analysis and interpretation of the compositions. Xenakis proposed his own way of thinking about indeterminism in music linked to the “stochastic music”, and Pithoprakta is the first example of this compositional technique. Meanwhile, Ligeti’s main inspiration when composing Clocks and Clouds was the essay Of Clouds and Clocks written in 1965 by Karl Popper and published in 1972 (in his book Objective Knowledge). The Austrian-British philosopher used this metaphor to describe different physical phenomena which are more or less predictable. Pithoprakta as well as Clocks and Clouds represent specific kind of music called “sound-mass music”. In both of them some distinctive textural and timbral structures may be pointed out: in the first work, they can be described as figures (“galaxy” and “beam”), and in the second one – as bands (“clocks” and “clouds”)

Zarys problematyki determinizmu i indeterminizmu w muzyce drugiej połowy XX wieku w kontekście przemian myśli naukowej i filozoficznej

Author(s): Karolina Dąbek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 03 (42)/2019

In the second half of the 20th century, integral serialism and rational way of thinking were considered as an indicate of determinism in music. At the same time, indeterminism was associated with the music composed with the use of chance operations, classified like that by Henri Pousseur in his reading entitled Theorie und Praxis in der neusten Musik, delivered in Darmstadt in 1958. However, certain music pieces show that the demarcation between determinism and indeterminism in music remains unclear. The author attempts to outline the problem of determinism and indeterminism in avant-garde music of the second half of the 20th century, taking into consideration selected crucial compositions and the context of development in science and philosophy of that time.

Sloboda na rubu novih medija

Author(s): Fulvio Šuran / Language(s): English,Croatian Issue: 16/2020

New technologies are taking us into an artificial dimension in which everyday reality is translated into immaterial entities, into digital information. Media hypnosis favors the torpor of critical and ethical conscience, while model images contribute to structuring the so - called “pathology of normality”, which, precisely because it is widely diffused, goes unnoticed. To clarify that it is not just about new technologies, but a new model of society, which is being established and that involves different aspects of thinking, feeling and acting human, transformed by the action of the new media. We will therefore try to examine some particularly significant areas for their existential, social and political value, treated here as many links of a single topic: man.

TEMATYKA PRAC „ARS INTER CULTURAS” – RÓŻNORODNE OBLICZA ARTYSTYCZNEJ WIELOKULTUROWOŚCI

Author(s): Jarosław Chaciński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2019

KULTURA I EDUKACJA MUZYCZNA. KIERUNKI ZMIAN – WYBRANE PROBLEMY

Author(s): Beata Bonna / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2019

The purpose of this article is to present issues focused on transformations taking place in the recognition of culture, including music culture, which justify the need for the intro- duction of significant changes to universal music education. Currently, we are moving away from the traditional and narrow approach to culture and the participation associated with it, which is incompatible with today’s socio-economic conditions. There is a visible transformation of the understanding culture from considering it in terms of consumption of cultural goods to defining culture as an activity that is a form of socialization through ac- tive participation. Today, culture is treated as a specific human living environment and at the same time a union of subcultures in which is predominant in popular culture, while other types and forms of it become kinds of niches. Given these transformations, there is a need to revise the shape of universal, still very traditional music education, which should aim to take greater account of new information technologies, referring to the potential of various ranges of music culture - artistic music, popular music and music of different cul- tures. It is also important to seek new teaching methods due to the low efficacy of those cur- rently used . All these changes are associated with the need to raise teachers’ qualifications.

ΓΕΝΟΣ ΤΙΤΑΝΙΚΟΝ (On the Interpretation of Sophocles’Tereus, FR. 591R)

Author(s): / Language(s): English Issue: 18/2009

Intelektualista jako upadły prorok. Dyskretny, retoryczny urok Syrakuz

Author(s): Artur Żywiołek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 10/2019

The article makes an attempt at describing the socio-symbolic field in which the contemporary intellectual has to act. The intellectual has undergone the processes of his/her position and his/her role in academic (intellectual) life, which is one of the reasons of the failure of thinking (reason). The article also encompasses an attempt at answering the following questions: what is the role of the three basic components of classical rhetoric: logos, ethos and pathos, in thinking? Why has the contemporary homo academicus ceased to be a guide and a translator? What is the influence of affections on thinking and where did all the intellectuals go? (Frank Furedi). What is the relation between knowledge, affections, and power, and stupidity?

The Three Faces of the Cogito: Descartes (and Aristotle) on Knowledge of First Principles

Author(s): Murray Miles / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

With the systematic aim of clarifying the phenomenon sometimes described as “the intellectual apprehension of first principles,” Descartes’ first principle par excellence is interpreted before the historical backcloth of Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics. To begin with, three “faces” of the cogito are distinguished: (1) the proto-cogito (“I think”), (2) the cogito proper (“I think, therefore I am”), and (3) the cogito principle (“Whatever thinks, is”). There follows a detailed (though inevitably somewhat conjectural) reconstruction of the transition of the mind from (1) via (3) to (2) and back again to (3). What emerges is, surprisingly, a non-circular, non-logical, and ultimately non-mysterious process by which first principles implicitly contained in a complex intuition are gradually rendered explicit (and, if abstract, grasped in their abstract universality). This process bears a striking family resemblance to that intuitive induction (“grasping the universal in the particular”) which Aristotle scholars have distinguished from empirical forms of induction.

Dialogical and Mediatory Potential of an Integral Ecology

Author(s): Stanisław Jaromi / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The encyclical Laudato si’ is a Catholic document synthesizing the reflection on the main issues related to ecology as well as to nature and climate protection. It provides a new perspective for ecological activity in the light of integral ecology principles. In many countries, this encyclical has become a point of reference for Catholics in the context of the ecological crisis, especially by the fact of its highlighting the religious and spiritual perspective and giving concrete examples of both ecological and Christian lifestyles. Chapter 5 of the encyclical outlines, moreover, the concept of dialogue that brings hope for abandoning the spiral of self-destruction in which humanity is now sinking. The concept of communicative humanism and its mechanisms i.e. actions restoring values and creating a community have been proposed to establish the platform for this dialogue. The program is based on personalism and Christian hermeneutics, and its goal is a Church interested in the world and its problems, a one which on a par with others wants to say STOP to the destruction of the earth and its irresponsible exploitation.

Encyclical Laudato si’ on the Question of Progress

Author(s): Witold Kania / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

Progress is one of the most recognizable characteristics of modern times. The present paper addresses the question of progress as the underlying theme of the encyclical Laudato si’. Progress has both good and bad sides. The latter are expressed in terms that have a fundamental significance to the encyclical, such as, “irrational faith in progress” and “the myth of unlimited material progress”. In order to gain a clearer understanding of those terms, the author begins with outlining the history of the idea of progress and the philosophical criterion for its assessment. Then, he provides a critical analysis of the technocratic paradigm embodying the false face of progress. Within this framework, progress is presented as imperative and unlimited. However, by placing man in the centre and reducing his purpose in life to a relativistic principle “use and throw away”, it leads to a global ecological, spiritual and cultural crisis. The following part of the paper is devoted to a new model of progress proposed by Pope Francis. This type of progress has both a vertical and horizontal dimension. Embedded in the Holy Trinity, it reaches its peak in Jesus Christ and it promotes human life and protects the work of creation. Its fruit is to be individual concern for the poor and greater justice between nations. It cannot be achieved without changing the mentality (conversion) and specific individual and political decisions. The last part of the article answers the question about the novelty of the model of progress proposed by Pope Francis.

DEMOCRACY AS A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN DIGNITY, THE VALUABLE LIFE PROJECT AND SOCIAL HAPPINESS

Author(s): Jesús Caldera Ynfante / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

Democracy is a fundamental right linked to the realization of a person’s worthy life project regarding its corresponding fulfillment of Human Rights. Along with the procedures to form political majorities, it is mandatory to incorporate the substantial part as a means and end for the normative content of Human Dignity to be carried out allowing it to: i) freely choose a project of valued life with purpose and autonomy ii) to have material and intangible means to function in society; and iii) to live free from harm and fear in order to achieve human flourishing. The integral democracy is a means and an end to materialize individual happiness and the common good as long as everyone has concrete opportunities to unfold its inherent human dignity capacities within the trademark of the democratic constitutional State. Assuming this, integral democracy is the fundamental right of Fundamental Rights.

The Relationship between Performance of the Administrative System and National Authority of Governments: An Islamic Point Of View

Author(s): Jafari Mahtab / Language(s): English Issue: 10/2018

Each government consists of two dimensions: 1) a sructural dimension that involves policy- and decision-making bodies and, 2) a functional dimension that is a set of government institutions and administrations. Also, national authority in a country is an outcome of three components, including legitimacy, acceptance, and efficiency of its government. The authority of governments is not merely limited to their structural legitimacy and acceptance; but, their functional dimension and the performance of their administrations also play a crucial role in building and strengthening their legitimacy. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to investigate how the administrative system of a government affects its national authority, with an emphasis on the Islamic point of view. To do so, this research has been carried out within the framework of theoretical research with practical purpose. The research method of the current study was descriptive-analytical. In the present study, the relationship between two variables—namely, “administrative system” and “national authority”--has been investigated within the framework of causal research. Due to the theoretical nature of this study, the resources used mostly include documents and library resources. The results of this study indicate that there is a direct and causal relationship between the national authority of governments (effect) and the performance of their administrative system (cause). Also, this relationship reveals how the administrative system affects national authority.

WASILY KANDINSKY’NİN DOĞAÇLAMALARI VE MANEVİ DUYGU

Author(s): Yasemin Tümer Çelik / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 15/2019

This research is based on Kandinsky’s improvisation and his philosophy. In this study; the concept of of stimming and its similar sides with islamic philosophy is tried to be revealed. Kandinsky’s life and artistic stages have been mentioned throughout the research.

Papierowa elitarność

Author(s): Tomasz Bielak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 28/2019

In the article I focus on six numbers of the Polish edition of "Vogue" magazine. The analysis concerns the opening issue and September issue. I link interpretations of selected fragments of the magazine, covers, the most popular models, influencers and so-called "interesting people" quite experimentally. Thinking of the hermeneutical way of reading texts of culture, I use a method from qualitative sociology: auto-ethnography. I read the texts (articles, interviews, photos, signatures of advertisements) without scientific distance, connecting conclusions with the beginnings of Polish capitalism and the lack of a clear, self-aware, educated middle class. The story of "Vogue" is a story about the generation of today's forty-year-olds. The magazine enabled them to think about a sentimental journey to the beginnings of the free market economy and democracy after 1989.