Илюстриктурата като некласически философски идиом: перспективи и проекции

Author(s): Kristian Enchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

In this text-experiment I will try to think in a new direction the proximity of illustricture with the figurology of Boyan Manchev. Illustricture is a dynamic mode of work of the introduced here concept figure-form (dynamized form), through which it becomes understandable why and how a figurative potentiality can evolve to a conceptual opportunity. Figurativеness can also be thought as one unlocking its own field of potentiality and self-actualizing forceful virtuality. The non-classical hypothesis of that experiment is: the being’s act of affirmation of linguistic meanings illustricturatively creates (unpredictable) essences, as long as it contains within itself repetitive structure charged with deviation.

Adevărul în perspectiva neurofiziologiei

Author(s): Dan PSATTA / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2018

The purely introspective philosophy, based on reasoning and that from centuries has analysed the mental activity of man needs the scientific research of brain, the only real method of objective investigation of the mental processes. I called this association ‘neurophilosophy’. In this paper, the cerebral processes involved in the knowledge of truth are described: he phenomenal analysis, the epistemic one, processes as thinking, judgement and consciousness.

Despre tetra-lemă. Însemnări fragmentare şi fugare

Author(s): Gorun MANOLESCU / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2018

Tetra-lemma with four truth values "true", "false", "true and false", "neither true nor false" appeared in Buddhist logic. Why is Tetra-lemma interesting forus? It is for its avatars, in some cases, in the context of Western epistemology. In these fugitive notes, without claiming completeness, we will focus on how Tetra-lemma slipped in some systems of Western philosophy.

Mihai Drăgănescu, o prioritate românească: cosmologia informaţională versus universul holografic

Author(s): Gorun MANOLESCU / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2017

Is there a hidden reality that governs our Universe ? Wheeler, Bekenstein, Susskind, and ‘t Hoft, all of them renowned physicists,the latter being a Nobel laureate, sustain this concept. It is about a theory, recently set out by the four physicists mentioned before, the so - called Theory of the Holographic Universe that puts the information in the first place. Today, this theory is accepted by a group of physicists that is growing steadily, and that studies the String Theories. First, Stephen Hawking predicted that the „black holes”, which seemed to be swallowing everything, were manifesting their presence by emitting radiation with an extremely low temperature. If a black hole can evaporate, a most portion of the information it contains is lost forever, said Hawking.Later on, it was the turn of Leonard Susskind, one of String Theories’ founder, and ‘t Hoft, both of them working under Wheeler’s guidance, to state that Hawking radiation emitted by a black hole represents the support, material substratum that delivers information related to what is happening in such a hole. This information remains on the surface of a universe that is created through a Big Bang by that black hole (Bekenstein, Susskin, ’t Hoft). And, as a laser beam that passes through bi-dimensional symbols on a transparent surface will generate a tri-dimensional hologram, in the same way the information on the surface of a universe such as ours will generate, in an adequate way, within it, all tri-dimensional entities inside the universe.Juan Maldacena formalized this theory with an audacious mathematical conjecture. Briefly, here is the story of the „Holographic Universe”. The most important fact for us is that Mihai Drăgănescu's Ontological-Informational Model -very similar but not identical with the Holographic Universe Model- was formalized before the last one. And according to Drăgănescu's approach, the Theory of the Holographic Universe may be considered a particular case of the Ontological-Informational Modelas you will see in this paper later on.

Architectural Gestalt and some aspects of architectural thinking

Author(s): Gorun MANOLESCU / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

We are largely surrounded by increasingly complex technical systems. These systems often border on the absurd even though they rely on logical and physical reality. This is because they move away from the “logical efficiency”of natural forms. This text approaches some specific aspects of entities which are achieved by human beings,i.e. those connected to their “formative structure”.I emphasize that the aesthetics and the functions of such products are determined by the consonance between the formative structure and a natural structure, and I called this “architectural thinking”. As an example, I consider the well-known “golden number” found both in the human body and in artistic and technical products such as Parthenon.Two questions which thistext addresses are: What is a “formative structure”? How can the consonance, or harmony, between such structure and that of a “natural” one be approached?

A methodological analysis of the scientific research

Author(s): Kadzik OGANYAN / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

The article addresses the structure of scientific research in the context of the methodology of science. This goal is realized through the concrete material of physical theory, detailing the structure of scientific research and its elements; its process and the laws it obeys; its results, which leadthe process; its motives, e.g. the "driving forces" of research and the role of philosophy in the process.The paperexamines the theoretical phase of researches as a synthesis of the empirical and the speculative,in contrast to the existing literature that presents the opposition between theoretical and empirical research. The steps of knowledge of the objective laws in a particular area are analysed: the empirical research,the non-fundamental theoretical,the speculative, and the fundamental theoretical; this analysis allows the generalization of the patterns of scientific research. Particular attention is paid to the speculative research and its main elements. The“methodological mechanism” of formation of new fundamental conceptions in science is unravelled. The essence of this mechanism consists of some non-logical cognitive operations (idealization, choice of “Gestalt”, substitution, generalization). The knowledge of corresponding combinations of these operations made by the investigator facilitates the process of research, decreases the probability of errors in the scientific cognition.

Познавателна сила и не-способност за свобода – Кантови трихотомии

Author(s): Ivaylo Dimitrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

The paper sketches out an approach to an analysis of Kant’s specific notion of ‘Kraft’ based on the influxionist model of his Critical metaphysics. The point of reference of all provided sets of textual evidence is the triple division of the predicament ‘possibility’ outlined by Kant for his course on anthropology. My aim is to provide a sufficient reason to claim that this distinction between Fähigkeit, Vermögen, and Kraft exemplifies Kant’s ‘suspicious divisions in pure philosophy’and thus can be regarded as a synthetic partitioning of his Critical project. For this reason, I also contend that through the dynamic trichotomy in question we could recognize the ‘keystone of the whole edifice’of Kant’s philosophy.

Hegel and the Speculative Course of Freedom

Author(s): Ivo Minkov / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2018

The main accent in the article is to show the perspective to understand the idea of freedom as a process, rather than condition. The course of freedom is speculative and the deepest form of Hegel’s philosophy. Moreover, it is the solid ground of the mighty systematic thought of the German philosopher. In the light of the highest category of Hegel’s logic – The Absolute Idea – the speculative idea of freedom obtains an ontological aspect completely different and even diametrically opposed to spontaneity.

Какъв е залогът във „Време и разказ“ на Пол Рикьор?

Author(s): Chavdar Dimitrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

The article is a critique of the language-time relation, characterized by Paul Ricoeur as: return and distanciation in regard to pre-narrativity; opening the logic of story toward historicity; engagement with the fictional. To the forefront is the question of delineation between epistemological and ontological problematics. To this end, first, the mediating role of reflexivity, differentiated on the basis of distanciation and textuality, is examined. Second, in the context of the conception for triple mimesis are distinguished: the function of imagination and ambiguous moments in Ricoeur’s strategy – inconsistency in his plan for processual historical thinking and respectively – a problem with the notion of ‘representing’ the past. The analysis continues with the complementary theme of a “projected world,” where the act of reading brings forth the phenomenon of time through a productive intersection. Here, via the juxtaposition between an emplotment, which is already in a cultural world, and the autonomous literary work, is outlined Ricoeur’s idea about a transition from semantics of action, through a trans-temporal imaginary world, to refiguration. In the next part of the research, an overview of the limits before a positive articulation of narrated time parallels the last possibility, allowed by the specific status of the thesis in Time and Narrative. The perspective of a double hermeneutical key: circularity of triple interpretations, on the one hand, and dialectic of distensio animi (St. Augustin) and discordant concordance (Aristotle), on the other hand, is explained in the conclusion. In this way Ricoeur saves a chance for going beyond the aporetics of time, but leaves behind the frame of philosophical investigation.

Призванието във философията на Хосе Ортега-и-Гасет – героизъм за всеки

Author(s): Miglena Marinova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

Thе paper aims to explore the concept of “vocation” which is essential to the philosophy of Jose Ortega-y-Gasset, and lies at the heart of his perception of the authenticity of being. For this purpose, the study focuses on some of the most emblematic texts of the Spanish philosopher, as well as on some modern interpretations of the problem. The text attempts to answer a number of questions about the nature, origin and possibilities of realization of the vocation by binding the concept to the imagination, love and the idea of man as a being who chooses himself at any moment.

Апология на наивността

Author(s): Hristo Todorov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

Some Notes on Cicero’s Plea on behalf of Caecina. Conclusions and Ways Out

Author(s): Jiří Bílý / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

Pro Caecina is a speech delivered by M. T. Cicero on behalf of A. Caecina in a civil case concerning the ownership of a farm near Tarquinii. Caecina had inherited this farm from his wife Caesennia, but her former agent, Sextius Aebutius, attempted to claim ownership. This speech was made (usually dated to 69 BC) at the end of a series of actions between Caecina and Aebutius concerning the farm. Cicero explains the history of the situation in the opening of his address in order to demonstrate the reasonableness of Caecina's actions.

La nature historique de la construction sociale.

Author(s): Ádám Takács / Language(s): French Issue: 45-46/2018

The morality of naturalism

Author(s): Stiliyan Yotov / Language(s): English Issue: 45-46/2018

De L'individualisme moral relationnel vers un universalisme de l'ideologie de l'humanisme. Deux reflexions sur Tzvetan Todorov

Author(s): Ivaylo Znepolski / Language(s): French Issue: 45-46/2018

Charakterystyka stosunku prawnego łączącego kapelana z podmiotem leczniczym w świetle przepisów prawa polskiego i wybranych regulacji prawa wewnętrznego Kościoła katolickiego

Author(s): Michał Ożóg / Language(s): Polish Issue: 21/2018

The aim of this article is to present the legal forms of establishing cooperation between medical facilities and chaplains with a view to guaranteeing patients’ right to pastoral care. The main research problem concerns defining the legal relationship between the chaplain and the medical facility in which he provides pastoral care. More specifically, the study aims to characterize the legal relationship between the chaplain and the medical facility taking into account the following types of employment: employment contracts, civil law contracts and voluntary work. The analysis is based on the dogmatic and, to a lesser extent, historical method. The results indicate that employment contracts are especially important in shaping the legal relationship between the chaplain and medical facility. The legal relationship between the chaplain and medical facility is general in character under Polish law owing to the fact that it is necessary to respect the institutional relations between the state and churches and other religious organizations. The specific duties of chaplains are defined by the law of their religious community, which, however, does not automatically apply in Polish law.

The Little Pole and the Phantasy of Impotence

Author(s): Adam Lipszyc / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

Lipszyc analyses Polish collective memory from a psychoanalytical perspective. Building on the work of Melanie Klein and its application to international relations as proposed by Hanna Segal, he tries to show that the Polish collective subject and the memory that defines it exist in a particular form of the paranoid-schizoid position. The defining characteristic of this position is a fantasy of one’s own impotence, which allows the subject to disregard his or her own agency and to eschew responsibility for his or her own actions. Lipszyc enhances his analysis by drawing on Walter Benjamin’s notions on myth and the demonic.

Peep Show: The Lamentations of Justyna Bargielska

Author(s): Adam Lipszyc / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

The author analyses poems of Justyna Bargielska from her first three volumes of poetry as well as her prose debut. Discussing then theories of Melanie Klein and Hanna Segal, the work of Nicole Loraux on the place of the feminine mourning voice in the ancient Athens. political system, as well as Galit Hasan-Rokem.s book on the Midrashim to the Book of Lamentations, the author builds a conceptual framework which might be helpful in understanding the feminine forms of expressions of mourning. Against this background he tries to describe the ironic dirges found in Bargielska’s work, paying special attention to the dominant figure of ‘container’ which among other things seems to refer to the very poem itself, conceived as the space which is to contain loss.

Sentimental Education

Author(s): Grzegorz Grochowski / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

Author of this text is trying to examine several examples of interaction between literature, other fields of discourse and social imagination. This review is focused mainly on French classicism and rationalism, nineteenth Century fiction and Darwinism, modern literature and so-called antihumanism and finally - some contemporary tendencies.

The Role of the Jew in Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont’s Adumbratio kabbalae christianae

Author(s): Sheila Spector / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

While the use of the Jews as scapegoats is well documented, less noted is how they have provided a pretext for exploring and writing about heterodoxical ideas that otherwise might cause problems for the author. A case in point is the Adumbratio kabbalae christianae, by seventeenth-century esoteric thinker Franciscus Mercusius van Helmont. Although ostensibly designed to convert the Jews, a close examination reveals that the text was intended to inform like-minded Christians about an esoteric mode of thought that, at the time, was repudiated by Church authorities.