Le Sabre et la plume à écrire: Espaces politiques, spirituels, angéliques dans le système philosophique d’Ibn Khaldūn

Author(s): Silviu Lupaşcu / Language(s): French Issue: 30/2016

The realism of Ibn Khaldūn’s thinking founded his work on the methodology of a historiographic, philosophical and sociological empirism which enabled him to make the distinction between the rule of the prophet-legislator, established by the divine revelation (siyāsa dīnīya), the Platonic ideal city (politeía, siyāsa madanīya) and the Muslim imperial autocracy (siyāsa ‘aqlīya). During the historical intervals defined by political apogee and the historical intervals defined by the decadence of the imperial power, the khilāfa constitutes the essence of mulk and continually recalls the omnipresent power of the revealed religion, the theocratical principle of the Muslim historical time. In this context, the endeavor to envisage history as the science destined to study the life of the human beings as social beings illustrates the pragmatism of the convergence of pólis (the community of the Hellenistic city) and umma (the religious community of islam), while historiography is vested with the power to express, in the same time, the realm of the sacred and the realm of the profane. The immanence of universal reason in the reality of individual existences is thus expressed by the polyphony of reciprocal rhetorical crossings of prophetology, politology, sociology, social psychology, angelology.

« Apprenez l’allemand…! » En quelle mesure la langue détermine-t-elle nos pensées – et inversement ?

Author(s): Sándor Albert / Language(s): French Issue: 31/2016

In his article, the author poses several questions concerning Being and Time, Martin Heidegger’s most important work, which is also considered to be untranslatable. How strong are its ties to the German language? Can its translations into other languages express the thoughts of the German philosopher in an equivalent manner? To what extent does language define our thinking, and do these thoughts depend on the language in which they are expressed? In his article, the author mentions and poses (but never answers) philosophical questions, such as those of the relationship between language and thinking, translatability/untranslatability, reading, understanding, interpretation, etc.

De la Dante și poeții arabi la Ion Barbu/ Cioran și suflul revoltei

Author(s): Ciprian Vălcan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3/2020

Vita a végtelenről

Author(s): Tamás Pavlovits / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 05/2021

In the 17th century the most lively philosophical debate concerned the origin of ideas in the mind. In this study we analyze this debate in a specific aspect, in the context of the origin of the idea of infinity. We present the opposing arguments. The empiricists claim that the idea of infinity is formed in the mind from quantities finite by their increase. Descartes, Leibniz and Malebranche claim, on the other hand, that the mind possesses the idea of infinity originally and say that this idea, as it is in the mind, cannot be formed from finite ideas.

Pomažući pri rađanju i smrti filozofskog viđenja

Author(s): Andrea Nye / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 7/1997

(Iz : Modernity and the Hegemony of Vision, prir. David Michael Levin, University of California press, Los Angeles 1993, str. 361-378)

Calvin şi filosofia creştină. Câteva consideraţii

Author(s): Mihai Androne / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2009

Jean Calvin is the greatest religious reformer of the second generation. For him, Christian philosophy represents the systematic exposition and the faithful interpretation of Scripture. And even though he talks about Christian philosophy, Calvin remains the Reformation Theologian, a Word-listening theologian.

Lucian Blaga als Wegweiser des philosophischen Bewusstseins

Author(s): Rainer Schubert / Language(s): German Issue: 28/2021

Lucian Blaga is one of the most important Romanian philosophers. In addition to his literary works, he also left a great philosophical work. Since he did not emigrate, he is not very well known abroad. However, his philosophy is of international standing and is also very topical. The German language, which he mastered perfectly, played a special role in his life. He presented his doctoral thesis at the University of Vienna in 1920. This article makes special reference to his work “On Philosophical Consciousness”. Since Blaga rightly sees the core area of philosophy in metaphysics, the article bears the title:“Lucian Blaga as guide of the philosophical consciousness”. In five chapters the author of the article first explains the meaning of this work by Blaga, then he continues with the spatiality of the metaphysical thinking, Blagaʼs relationship with the unconscious, the ability of his philosophy to connect to international philosophy, especially Heideggerʼs ontology and Blumenbergʼs metaphorology and future perspectives of Blaga's philosophy are discussed in a final chapter.

Cadrul general al filosofiei sistematice românești. Concepte și categorii fundamentale

Author(s): Ștefan-Dominic Georgescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 5/2021

The paper sketches a general framework of Romanian systematic philosophy, focusing on the existing types of philosophizing in a systematic manner. The main point is that a contextual philosophy (restricted to a certain historical evolution, to a certain geographical area, and to a language) must rely upon a starting point, provided by a certain philosophical perspective. As for the identity of such a philosophy, with respect to Romanian philosophy, one needs to adapt the systematic-categorial way and to apply it to the historical evolution of philosophy (in this case, to Romanian philosophy).

Lukács György és Polányi Károly barátsága

Author(s): Gábor Kelemen / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2021

A megújító alapvetés közösségében

Author(s): Gergely Bakos / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 09/2022

Boros Gábor: Módszer, metafizika, emóciók. Megújuló alapvetés, affektív közösségalkotás a 17. századi filozófiában. Akadémiai Kiadó, Bp., 2021.

Platon, vaianta hard

Author(s): Cristian Pătrăşconiu,Andrei Cornea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 12/2022

Intreview with Andrei Cornea by Cristian Pătrășconiu.

Az iskolai filozófiától a nyilvános filozófia felé (Greguss Mihály vitacikkei)

Author(s): András Mészáros / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 4/2021

This paper discusses the marginalized status of Michael Greguss in the historiography of Hungarian philosophy and looks for the answers to two questions. First, whether it is possible to reconstruct the relationship between Greguss and Hegel’s philosophy. Second, what was the role of Greguss in Hungarian philosophy during the first third of the 19th century. Additionally, Greguss’ criticism of Nyiry’s understanding of dreams, and Greguss’ reservations about Hegel’s religious philosophy is examined. The conclusion is that Greguss directly reacted to changes in German philosophy and his articles constitute the core of current Hungarian philosophy.

Bergson, Beuys és a krumplihámozás művészete

Author(s): Gizella Horváth / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 4/2021

Joseph Beuys is one of the most significant and, at the same time, one of the most debated artists of the second half of the twentieth century. To understand his work, I consider it essential to analyze Beuys’ way of thinking. His worldview was strongly influenced by Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy, which was a filiation also highlighted and studied by Beuys’ interpreters. In my view, there appears to be a strong resemblance between some of Beuys’ and Bergson’s thoughts, which the literature does not examine at all. In what follows, I would like to highlight these similarities without claiming that Beuys knew Bergson and drew from his philosophy. I will focus on the following aspects: the vitalist worldview, the debate related to intellect and intuition, creativity as a fundamental feature of life and as a means of saving humanity. With this background in mind, it may shed more light on how we can understand Beuys’ scandalous statement that “everyone is an artist.”

Filozófiatörténet – politika – életrajz. Heidegger életművének paradigmatikus értelmezési módjai

Author(s): Tibor Schwendtner / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 4/2021

The paper is a response to the situation brought about in Heidegger studies by the publication of the philosopher’s thought diaries. The first part of the paper offers an alternative to some of the established ways of writing a history of philosophy; this alternative approach considers a given philosophical oeuvre as a response to an existential-political situation as conceived by the philosopher and reconstructs it on such a basis. In the final part of the article, the approach is applied in the analysis of Heidegger’s post-World War I philosophy.

Începuturile neoaristotelismului românesc. Teofil Corydaleu

Author(s): Șerban N. Nicolau / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3/2022

The paper briefly presents the important stages of Greek thinking and of the Aristotelian one within the area of Eastern Europe, starting with the Greek antiquity until the 17th century A. D., when we witness a renaissance of the philosophical teaching under Theophilus Corydaleus as Rector of the Patriarchal Academy of Constantinople – all along the Balkan and Eastern regions that were under the Ottoman rule or influence. Inspired by this renaissance, in Bucharest and Jassy at the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th century, one founds the two Princely Academies with a syllabus inspired by the Corydaleus’ neo-Aristotelian perspective.

Żyć mądrze i przyjemnie

Author(s): Marek Maraszek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 811/2022

Ćwiczenia duchowe Epikura

Author(s): Michał Jędrzejek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 811/2022

Lukács: Philosoph eines Jahrhunderts

Author(s): Wolfgang Müller-Funk / Language(s): German Issue: 1-2/2022

György Lukács is an intellectual ‘heavyweight’ of that century which, since Eric Hobsbawm, we have called a short one, although the years from 1900 to 1914 and from 1989 to 2000 do not fit into the picture of a century that was defined by war and civil war, by ideological trench warfare, by the Shoah and the Gulag, by the Cold War and decolonisation, by new art forms and media. With his early books The Soul and the Forms and his Theory of the Novel, he made an enduring contribution to aesthetic modernity; with History and Class Consciousness, his first work in the footsteps of Hegel and Marx, he made a pioneering attempt to place Marxism on philosophical feet and, like Antonio Gramsci or Karl Korsch, to correct the theoretically non-ambitious, Darwinian-influenced Marxism of the last quarter of the 19th century. It is seen in this essay as a work of discontinuity in continuity.

Raymond Aron és a „politikai” fogalmának morális és realista értelmezési paradigmája

Author(s): Ferenc Horkay-Hörcher / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 09/2023

Raymond Aron was one of the Western intellectuals who stood up for the revolution after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. In fact, he was one of the French intellectuals who, even during the Cold War, were clearly anti-communist and critical of the Soviet totalitarian dictatorship. This clarity of his political vision was the “virtue” of a political thinker who considered it essential to base his thinking always on a sound analysis of the political situation. In reconstructing this way of thought, the paper identifies three paradigms of beliefs about the nature of politics: one associated with Machiavelli and Schmitt, a moralising Kantian position, and a middle ground between the two paradigms, which can be traced back to Aristotle. Drawing on a late lecture by Aron, the paper shows that, according to the French thinker, practical reason can guide us in dealing with things subject to changing circumstances, and politics is of this nature. In this context, practical reason is identified by him as practical wisdom, what Aristotle called phronesis and the Romans identified as the virtue of prudence. In this interpretation of Aron, the paper follows Pierre Manent. In the final part of the thesis, Aron’s analysis of the nature of “the political” is applied to two episodes in Hungarian history, the reign of Gabriel Bethlen in Transylvania and the circumstances of the birth of the Settlement with Austria. This is to show how Aron’s political thought might be used to provide the methodological framework to interpret notions of “the political” in modern Hungarian political thought, the aim of the research K 143251 at RIPG, UPS, funded by the National Scientific Research Fund.

Szerokie gościńce i zapomniane szlaki historii filozofii w badaniach filozoficznych Andrzeja J. Norasa

Author(s): Iwona Alechnowicz-Skrzypek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 47/2022

Iwona Alechnowicz-Skrzypek’s aim in this article is to present Andrzej J. Noras’s approach to the history of philosophy, which he regarded as a meta-philosophical discipline. In his publications, Noras repeatedly addressed the importance and value of historical- philosophical research. Noras’s specific understanding of history of philosophy was based on a critical attitude, according to which the researcher must make an effort not omit anything and to examine his subject from different perspectives. In his research, he followed paths rarely taken by historians of philosophy, which allowed him to make noteworthy findings in neo-Kantianism, his main area of interest. He also devoted ample attention to lives and achievements of philosophers who are either little known or even entirely forgotten. Professor Andrzej J. Noras takes credit for allowing them to speak to us again.