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Познанието на религията в началото на новия век: подходи и дебати

Author(s): Nonka Bogomilova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2016

The paper analyses some new contemporary approaches, notions and discussions in the study of religion within the “phenomenology – scientific “reductionism” dilemma. The “comprehension” and the “religious experience” approaches were the direction taken by the phenomenology of religion, which proceeded from the idea of the “absolute autonomy” of religion (Otto, Eliade). Religion was perceived as being an autonomous, unique sphere, which cannot be explained and defined through factors lying outside it. As an expression of the opposite trend, the analysis gives attention to some new scientific and explicatory “reductionist”, “functionalist” approaches, and especially to the research program called Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) – a trend of naturalization of religion as a result of the development of contemporary evolutional biology and psychology.

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Николай Бердяев и рицарската алтернатива на буржоазния свят

Author(s): Dobromir Dobrev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2016

Though the ideas and practices of chivalry never evolved in Russia, Nikolai Berdyaev wrote inspiring lines in order to protect it. The very personality of Berdyaev reminds us of knightly virtues and times long gone. The fight against the spiritual bourgeois and the retreat from the religious values deeply disturbed the Russian philosopher. He offers us a return to the values of the creative Christian ethics.

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Априорното във философия на религията: Ранният Рудолф Ото

Author(s): Miroslav Bachev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2016

The quest for a priori principle in religion is especially active in the German Enlightenment. Immanuel Kant is one of the first, who makes effort to justify religion as a natural religion (religia naturalis). After Kant the issue about the aprioristic status of the religious is discussed by Jakob Fries, Ernst Troeltsch, Rudolf Otto and others. Our main thesis is that the idea of the religious a priori in early Otto is formed on the basis of Jakob Fries and Wilhelm De Vette’ philosophies, while in the “The Idea of The Holy“ (Das Heilige, 1917) Otto relies almost fully on Kant, particularly on its epistemological and aesthetic ideas.

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Aнтропология на престъплението

Author(s): Jacinto Choza / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2016

The present paper investigates the following topics: 1 – Sources of crime’s Anthropology; 2 – Killing to survive; 3 – Essence of the Crime; 4 – The criminal Mind; 5 – Absolution of the homicide and the abolition of the death penalty.

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„Дон Kихот“ като трактат за реалността

Author(s): Javier San Martín / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2016

Referring to some of the basic ideas of “Reflections on Don Quixote”, Javier San Martin analyzes the philosophical approach of Ortega to the book “Don Quixote” by Cervantes. The article presents the intertextuality of the “Reflections” and explicates three different notions of reality deriving from various cultural and historical periods. According to the article’s author Ortega appreciates “Don Quixote" as metanarrative of Modernity, because the mind is presented in the novel as a problem in itself.

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Третичният мисловен процес на кръстопътя между метапсихологията, когнитивната наука и невронауката

Author(s): Petar Radoev Dimkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2016

The strict differentiation between the abstract-verbal-logical thought (the Freudian secondary thought process) and the primitive, fantastic thought (primary thought process) is conditional and the border between the two is not clear-cut. This fact allows one to postulate the existence of a third thought process, which would fill the empty space. The third process, essentially, can be defined as concrete, imaginative representation of abstract notions, which is subjected to modifications of volition or as a regress in the name of the ego. Due to this position, the question about the third process touches upon some ancient philosophical questions, e. g. the origin of notions, in particular, the so-called conceptual empiricism, and the transcendental schematism of Kant. Also involved are the contemporary psychological research on representations as concrete and nonetheless generalizing image as well as fantastic imagination and reproductive imagination. The third process reveals itself as invaluable means to creative thought, which, in comparison with the secondary process, is elastic and plastic, and exactly due to this fact it can be subjected to modification (constructivism). Subjectivism and constructivism allow one to view this thought process from a philosophico-practical point of view.

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Връзката с „Другия“ – приемане или отхвърляне, релация между „Аз“ и „Ти“

Author(s): Luchyan Milkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

The paper discusses issues related to the development of society in our time and the place of “the Оther“ in interpersonal relationships. M. Buber’s views on the relationship with “the Оther“ and the relation between „I“ and „You“ are followed.

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Деветдесет години след Фреге. Готлоб Фреге – живот и дейност

Author(s): Kamen Lozev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

The paper surveys the main events of Frege’s life and explains why he is considered to be the father of Modern logic and Philosophy of language. Special emphasis is put on Frege’s first work Begriffsschrift and its importance for logical thinking. Frege’s failed attempt to ground Arithmetic entirely on Logic is considered in the light of Russell’s efforts to develop and eventually complete the logicist programme. The most famous concepts of Frege’s philosophy of language – Sinn and Bedeutung – are sketched in the end of the article.

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Топика на априорното

Author(s): Silviya Kristeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

By introducing the a priori-investigation of the reason, Kant poses the possibility of one separate area, or method, or thematic in the transcendental analysis of the pure forms of reason. Do the a priori then have its own field which could distinct the derivation of those pure forms and so the a priori alone to differentiate itself among the three, delineated inside the boundaries of reason, areas of the basic faculties of pure reason – sensibility, understanding and reason. We raise the question – whether the a priori is connected with a meta-posing of the transcendental procedure as a reflection upon the activity and possibilities of the reason itself. And from this point on to differentiate the a priori with its own elements and progress of realization and so the a priori could find its own topics in the hole constitution of pure consciousness.

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Ценностите – универсалии между нормата и емпирията

Author(s): Lyubomir Christov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

In its genesis this work of writing is “nest-like” and particular. It was born in the inevitable for any explorer solitary communion with the books (those most unselfish friends of ours), in conversations, in the spiritual confrontation of concepts, in degrading societal and intellectual relations … Do not ask where! In the overcrowded lap of solitude, of course…. Some of the “nests” date back from those odious totalitarian times. Others shaped up after the “democratic” catastrophe in Eurasia, whose levelling mediocrity and amoral demagogy set out to sweep up certain invaluable and idiosyncratic cultural and ethnic traditions… Verbally, though, they became possible as a result of concentrated philosophical speculation…

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Владимир Соловьов – човешката социалност, пречупена през призмата на нравствеността (национализъм, престъпност, икономика, война и право)

Author(s): Dobromir Dobrev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

The paper discusses Vladimir Solovyov’s views of objective ethics and the need for its implementation in our lives. It also monitors the impact he had on the next Russian thinkers and in particular on Nikolai Berdyaev.

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Шотландската философия и Шопенхауер. Интерпретации на каузалността

Author(s): Atanaska Cholakova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2015

The analysis of causality in Schopenhauer’s conceptualization of the representative model of knowledge presupposes the mentioning of two significant representatives of the Scottish reaction against Hume’s skepticism, namely Thomas Reid and Thomas Brown. The goal of this paper is to explicate some concrete ideas from both of their theoretical systems in relation to the critique of Hume’s notion of causality and later their interpretation in Schopenhauer’s philosophy.

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Eкзистенциалната философия на Eмануел Mуние

Author(s): Deyan Penchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2015

The philosophy of Emmanuel Mounier, as part of the stream of personalism, incorporates the basics of existentialism, discussed in his book “Existentialist Philosophies: An Introduction”. Mounier divides the existential philosophy into two – Christian and atheist, and agrees with first. In this text we will examine the topics of human subject as a real participant in existence, the secret into being and relationship you and I, which have become the center of existential understandings of Mounier.

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Отвъд идея и материя в нравствената философия на Владимир Соловьов

Author(s): Ivo Minkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2015

The research shows only the formation of these crucial thoughts, not the entire philosophy of Vladimir Solovyov. The fundamentals of this paper are the master and doctoral dissertations of the Russian philosopher and the development aims to present the possibilities and abilities of moral philosophy on the way to great ideas and the unity of mankind.

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Личността във философско-антропологически аспект

Author(s): Luchyan Milkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2015

The concept “person” has been drawing the attention of scientists from different fields, leading to more than 70 definitions given by philosophers, anthropologists, biologists, geneticists, psychologists, pedagogues. The issues related to the development of a person are occupying a leading position in all natural and social sciences dealing with man. In this act of development the personality goes through a complex process of metamorphosis. It is necessary to seek how, and through what forces do this development goes through as well as what defines and guides it.

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Изборът в контекста на проблема „език – тяло“

Author(s): Stoyan Vezenkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2015

The advances in neurosciences provoked the classical concept of both psychology and philosophy. The mind-body problem was redefined again after a number of mental processes have been proven to be functions of the brain. The choice as an action selection operation among many competitive representations of actions, for instance, is executed by the brain as a solution of optimization problem and decision making process. Furthermore, even moral rules and values such as monogamy and altruism have correlates in brain activity and learned local group behavioral practices. The brain-body has become a causal essence, which presupposes moral dilemmas solving. In this theoretical paper is suggested another problem “language-body problem” instead “mind-body problem” as the language is presented as a genius for creation of virtual realities of increasingly higher order to enable the growing human to separate from the others, to individualize himself and to lose his innate ability of empathy. Language is not a communication tool, on the contrary – individualization environment. Only in language virtualities and therefore born pure thinking the human is free and has free choices. Language virtual development is in its infancy and is called to repeat and walk through the whole evolution of the human body and its Rubicons – from the first cell division through the fish stage to the well-known human biology. Reviving the language, literally, we will put in their places all paradoxes and problems in human cultural development – from “lethal competition” and violence to full dedication and altruism – these are all in perfect balance in the human body. To develop this idea, the author offers a completely new scientific research area – biosophy – “biology of language” to study the future life in language genius.

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Християнски идеи за свободата на човека и нравствения избор според представителите на руската религиозна философия (Ф. Достоевски, Н. Бердяев и Б. Вишеславцев)

Author(s): Kostadin Nushev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2015

Within the framework of this article is made an attempt to mark some important Christian ideas about human freedom and their importance for the formation of some basic positions of Christian ethics on moral self-determination and moral choice. Secondly, the article brings some important philosophical ideas and interpretations of freedom and moral choice of three of the prominent representatives of Russian religious philosophy (F. Dostoevsky, N. Berdyaev and B. Visheslavtsev) who are crucial for the Russian intellectual tradition and philosophical approach to the subject of freedom.

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Visual and Language Codes of Basic Existentials in Heidegger’s Being and Time

Author(s): Aneta Tumbeva / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The article will present Heidegger’s philosophical concept in Being and Time, which disclosed the human existence through the problem of time. Heidegger creates his own conceptual language through which the visibility of the environmentality directs to Dasein and to the ready-to-hand world. Existentials outline the dimensions of Dasein in the basic constitution of the Being. Their presenting leads to the division of zones of the existence, the human world and its existential constitution – Dasein reveals its possibilities to be and its existential basic state. To present the scope of Heidegger’s existential analytic, the following Existentials can be structured: World, Everydayness, Care, Death, and Conscience. Each and every Existential will be considered through its visual and language codes.

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Тезата на Хамлет, или за научната познаваемост на света

Author(s): Anguel S. Stefanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The aim of the paper is epistemological resemblances and differences to be outlined between the views of the Bulgarian philosopher in the near past Ivan Sarailiev, and the specialist in quantum physics and popularizer of science, the Italian Carlo Rovelli. Both thinkers are interested in the principal knowability of the “ocean of the unknown”, in front of which human knowledge is standing. Both of them start from the premise that I call “Hamlet’s thesis”: “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy”.

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Tentatives in the Theory of Cinema Communication – Ideas, Grounds, Contextual Paradigms

Author(s): Irina Kitova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

Art, as well as the theoretic approach to art, is doubtlessly undergoing changes or at least a rethinking in the context of the new ‘digital’ reality. With regard to cinema art, to reveal the mechanisms that mediate interactions in the system, already more complex and liberated from mediation, of relations between author (authors, creators), film (films) and viewer (public, mass audience) is essentially to uncover the paradigm of cinematic communication in the general cultural field, and particularly in the field of cinema, as well as to explore the degree in which they are able to influence the processes of establishing of certain aesthetical, cultural, social etc., ideas, attitudes, norms and models as dominating not solely in the context of film art.

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