We kindly inform you that, as long as the subject affiliation of our 300.000+ articles is in progress, you might get unsufficient or no results on your third level or second level search. In this case, please broaden your search criteria.

Download

Mileny Rudnickiej próba rekonstrukcji systemu estetyki... Leona Battisty Albertiego

Author(s): Stepan Ivanyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 12/2013

This paper is aimed to present and give a critical analysis of content of type- script The role of mathematics in the aesthetics of Alberti (Lvov, 1918) written by famous Ukrainian scientist and social activist Milena Rudnicka. The author reconstructs Alberti’s theory of beauty in a speci c way, based on an analysis of the major aesthetic concepts that Italian philosopher used in his main three tre- aties: Della pittura (1435), De re aedi catoria (1450–1452) and De statua (1464).

More...

Download

Filozofijski ulomci i zapamćenja

Author(s): Zdravko Kordić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 91/2016

Ovi tekstovi su predviđeni kao zapisi, zapamćenja i ulomci koji su predavani još 1979./80. godine, kao i tekstovi prisjećanja i elemenata koje sam zapamtio predajući niz godina filozofiju u srednjim školama te na sveučilištu Hercegovina (Fakultetu društvenih znanosti). Naravno, nije riječ o povijesti filozofije, već o tekstovima koji su zapisani, zacrtani u mnogim udžbenicima i hrestomatijama, pa je tako ovaj tekst – čitateljski, koji može poslužiti u pojedinim slučajevima kao podsjećanje na izvođenje nekih nastavnih jedinica.

More...

Download

Советы ученого об управлении государством в трактате Эразма Роттердамского «Воспитание христианского государя»

Author(s): Ekaterina A. Grigorieva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3/2015

The article analyzes the treatise of the Netherlands humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam «Education of the Christian sovereign» that has not yet been thoroughly studied in the Russian historiography. In the period of sharp political and religious tension in Europe in the beginning of the XVI century the scholar writes guidance for sovereigns about the best way of a state system, gives advice on the choice of mentors for future governors, offers ways of educating future governors based on evangelical moral imperatives. The humanist makes recommendations about the establishment of fair relations between authorities and societies. It is shown that political ethics of Erasmus did not correspond to power practices of that time.

More...

Download

Z dziejów synkretyzmu filozoficznego w epoce renesansu – Jana Grotowskiego

Author(s): Agnieszka Raubo / Language(s): Polish Issue: 18/2011

The article discusses the philosophical syncretism of the Renaissance time period in a lesser known sixteenth century text of Jan Grotowski Ai.e. Socrates, Diogenes and Themistocles. The description of the interlocutors refers both to their antique and Renaissance descriptions. In addition, the issue of nobleness that comes from birth and the one that comes from living a good life is discussed. The notion of virtue as it was presented in Grotowski’s work is outlined, as well as the relations between the body, soul and the spirit included in it that influence the interpretation of the notion “nobleness”.

More...

4.90 €

Preview

Лайбниц и машините на природата

Author(s): Michel Fichant / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 6/2016

The concept of the natural machine was introduced by Leibniz in 1695 in his Système nouveau de la nature et de la communication des substances. It provides the real definition of the organic body, and gives a criterion for distinguishing between bodies that are organic and those that are not: the decomposition, to infinity, of the machine into other machines, without end, is not in itself a machine. This nested structure corresponds to what gives form to the materia secunda, as Leibniz calls it. It can also be regarded as an aggregate resulting from an infinity of monads, as well as an aggregate that contains corporeal substances situated each within the other, to infinity. Thus, the natural machine allows supporting the positivity that the concept of corporeal substance always retains in Leibniz’s view, even in the latest developments of the monadological ontology, which cannot be reduced to an idealistic thesis.

More...

Download

О ПРИНЦИПАХ ПЕРЕВОДА ФИЛОСОФСКОЙ ПРОЗЫ ПЕТРАРКИ

Author(s): Larisa Mihailovna Luk’yanova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1 (162)/2017

The Francesco Petrarch’s philosophical prose written in Latin is practically unknown to the Russian reader. The Italian humanist wrote six philosophical treatises, several invectives, and a huge number of letters. The biggest in volume composition is a treatise“Means against the Vicissitude of Life”. The article deals with the problems of its translation from Latin into Russian. By its style the work is referred to a literary text; therefore, a translation should be carried out with deep consideration of its original flavor. Any translation of the foreign-language text has its certain limits of convertibility. It should be considered that one and the same word in different languages can have different emotional saturation and cause other associations. The author of the article pays special attention to the translation of synonymic ranks, word-plays, specific syntactic designs (gomeoteleutus), and to the problem of Latin realities’ transfer.

More...

4.90 €

Preview

Контекстуални и теоретически аспекти на учението за естествената машина на Г. В. Лайбниц

Author(s): Lydia Kondova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2017

This article discusses the specific distinction Leibniz drew between natural and artificial machines and aims to clarify the contextual and theoretical particularities associated with this theory, thus serving as a kind of introduction to highly specialized research, particularly that conducted by Michel Fichant. The modern debate on the ideality vs. the reality of the body is typical of this problem field; the aim being to define the place of the body in this debate and to evaluated the role this doctrine plays in resolving the question. For this purpose, the study sets itself the following main tasks: (1) to serve as an introduction to the problem of the relation between body and substance, presenting the specifics of the ontological scheme and the metaphysical proofs of substances; (2) to clarify the historical and philosophical context in which Leibniz’s concept of the organic machine appeared; (3) to analyze the categories of aggregate and organism, of natural and artificial machine; (4) to demonstrate in what sense it may be said the natural machine meets the necessary and sufficient conditions that define a substance – namely, to be united and active; and (5) to define the dividing line between the natural machine and artificial ones. The study concludes with a brief recapitulation of past achievements and, registering the interest provoked among other scholars, defines the significance of Fichant’s contribution to the solving the problems related to Leibniz’s metaphysical system that are of key importance for our times.

More...

Download

Mediteranske utopije

Author(s): Mislav Kukoč / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 02/146/2017

Although the notion of utopia, entitling Thomas More’s representative work, was coined in the European West, and far from the Mediterranean, the first utopian dreams about the prefect human community were dreamt in the Mediterranean cultural environment. Plato’s construction of the ideal state, as well as the Atlantis myth vividly represented in dialogues Timaeus and Critia, served as inspiration and layout to the entirety of utopian constructions devised afterwards, including the paradigmatic vision of Thomas More’s perfect island state. Moreover, we can find the Mediterranean roots of utopian thought in Hellenistic utopias by Euhemerus and Iambuls, and these ideas partially contain elements from the Mediterranean Middle Age and Renaissance utopias as well. After critical examination of utopian thoughts and worldviews, at the end of this paper a dilemma will be discussed on whether Patricius’ The Happy Town belongs to the corpus of Mediterranean utopias or not.

More...

Download

O TEMĂ MAJORĂ A GÂNDIRII FILOSOFICE OCCIDENTALE: ELEMENTELE OPUSE ALE REALITĂŢII ŞI UNITATEA ACESTORA

Author(s): Claudiu Baciu / Language(s): Romanian,Moldavian Issue: 4/2019

This article outlines the efforts of the Western philosophers to find the hidden unity lying behind the world of the opposites. It starts by discussing the Pre-Socratic concept of an original matter. Here such unity was only posited and not yet fully understood. Next, the article addresses the more specific views of Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus, who endeavored to explain the persistence of the real forms within the decaying world. Finally, it presents the way in which Christianity elaborated a new concept of the divine Creator that marked both the Western medieval tradition and the European modernity radically.

More...

Download

Tragom poslednjeg paragrafa političkog traktata

Author(s): Milena Stefanović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 19/2013

The paper deals with the issue of Spinoza’s Political treatise referring especially to his understanding of political rights of citizens. This includes clarification of the meaning of the term citizen, in relation to the categories of people he considers non-citizens or derived citizens. The authoress focuses on feminist positioning of this problem in Spinoza’s philosophy, and attempts to develop a feminist interpretation through intersection of concepts such as gender, class and race. This implies a different epistemological and methodological approach to this issue and its extension to the groups of people that Spinoza denies citizenship status – therefore the feminist analysis includes the analysis of status of women, slaves and servants who work as slaves for a living. It will be explained that Spinoza’s views are the result of his concept of natural law as a power or force, as well as his apprehension of political substance regarding the factual situation and experience. Throughout the analysis of the historical situation in Netherlands at that time, which was among other things marked by the slave trade from Africa, the authoress tries to clarify the last paragraph of the Political treatise.

More...

6.00 €

Preview

The Pseudo-Dionysian Influence in Dante’s „Divine Comedy“.

Author(s): Boris Chupetlovky / Language(s): English Issue: 25/2019

This paper attempts to follow the impact of the Pseudo-Dionysian corpus in “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri. The aim of the text is to examine the theological aspects of the Comedy in order to put a spotlight on the equal understanding of the two authors about the mystical experience as an assimilation to the Divine likeness. For that reason, the attention is drawn not only to the directly perceived Dionysian angelology, but also to the conception of hierarchy in general, the presence of light and the approach of describing the indescribable.

More...

5.00 €

Preview

Heda Festini’s Contribution in the Research of Croatian Philosophical Heritage

Author(s): Ivana Skuhala Karasman,Luka Boršić / Language(s): English Issue: 57/2019

In this text we offer an overview of Festini’s works on history of Croatian philosophy. The article is divided in five parts in which we discuss Festini’s attitude towards Croatian Renaissance philosophers, eighteenth and nineteenth century Croatian philosophers, and two philosophers from the twentieth century (Vladimir Filipović and Marija Brida). Majority of Festini’s texts were published in the journal Prilozi za istraživanje hrvatske filozofske baštine.

More...

4.50 €

Preview

Конструиране на фантастичния образ. Кант и Шелинг

Author(s): Silviya Kristeva / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

The paper offers a discourse and approach to Kant’s and Schelling’s vision of imagination and fantasy and attempts to illuminate the construction of the fantastic image. Kant separates fantasy as a spontaneous play of productive imagination, even though he admits its ability to create objects that “are not given in the experience”. According to Schelling, the total human activity in art is already a separate research object. This activity unfolds in the universe as a form of the absolute, in which the first images of ideas form the ideal world and determine each specific artistic image. The deduced conditions of the construction of the fantastic image (the pure continuum of intuition and a possible apperception of the image) establish the framework of a new thematic field – the philosophy of the fantastic.

More...

4.50 €

Preview

Vůle Boží ve františkánské spiritualitě

Author(s): Willibrord-Christian van Dijk / Language(s): Czech Issue: 1/2020

Quoiqu’il en soit des jeux d’influence et de dépendance doctrinale, l’ordre franciscain dans son ensemble, et les Capucins en particulier, tendant à une harmonisation entre l’action (ascétique ou apostolique) et la contemplation, qui est sand doute une façon de mettre la volonté de l’homme au service de la plénitude de la volonté de Dieu. Mais il ne s’agit pas simplement et uniquement, dans cette réflexion de la volonté de Dieu, d’un plan moral ou strictement ascétique: c’est toute la vie spirituelle, jusqu’aux plus hauts sommets de l’union mystique, qui est en cause, pasticulièrement lorsqu’il s’agit de l’expérience et de l’enseignement de religieux tels que ce Benoît de Canfield ou Laurent de Paris.

More...

Download

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.

More...

4.90 €

Preview

„Поетическа теология“: херменевтиката и завръщането на древните богове в платонически контекст

Author(s): Bogdana Paskaleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2020

Renaissance Platonism is linked to the revival of the interest in the deities of the Ancient pantheon. The present text traces back some of the origins of this process (the tradition of the Dolce stilnovo in Tuscan language and Dante Alighieri’s commentaries on his own works), arguing that the genre of the allegorical commentary on poetic texts is one of the main instruments facilitating the return of Ancient gods in the Christian context of 15th-century Florence. The key moments of the analysis regard Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s commentary practice.

More...

5.90 €

Preview

За възможността-битие

Author(s): Nicolaus Cusanus / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 26/2020

Translation from the original Latin of the treatise by Nikolaus von Kues, Trialogus de possest.

More...

Download

Cuneus prophetarum (1685), një vepër madhore në shërbim të dijes dhe atdhetarisë

Author(s): Evalda Paci / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 38.1/2019

This article looks at the personality of Pjetër Bogdani in the light of the documentation of the respective time. Firstly, it investigates the contribution of archive and historical research about the precursor of the renaissance of culture and thought. Secondly, Pjetër Bogdani is viewed in the tradition of Albanian linguistics, literary and textology studies. A special attention is paid to the contribution of antic philosophy and classical literature in a cultural perspective. Furthermore, this study treats issues of test reception in a multidisciplinary optic concerning Pjetër Bogdani as a bibliophile and exegete in a bilingual work (Cuneus prophetarum, Patavii, 1685). Finally, I emphasize the work of Pjetër Bogdani in support to the study of European literature, but even to the consolidation of Albanian philobiblical writing tradition.

More...

Download

Machiavelli: borbe potlačenih i podrivanje “režimā normalnosti”

Author(s): Davorin Žagar / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 03/2020

In this paper the author highlights the contemporary relevance of Machiavelli’s teaching as contained in The Prince and Discourses. In a dialogue with Claude Lefort and his groundbreaking interpretation of the Florentine (1972), this paper offers an alternative, subversive reading of Machiavelli’s theory of political conflict. At the same time, the author highlights the elements of a specific Machiavellian theory of recognition through a critical engagement with Honneth (1995). The author argues that the fundamentally democratic character of Machiavelli’s project is directly related to the ability of the plebs to recognize their novel function in the social field and to audaciously adopt queer “identity”. This is made possible only with the help and the support of the prince. In the text, the plebs represent a dynamic collation of diverse groups (of Others) which are being oppressed in the society. The plebs are invited to transform their desire not to be oppressed into a positive desire “to be” and become in such a way that enables them to maintain their difference in contrast to the greats. By discovering the “self” as a place of radical alterity, the plebs ceaselessly invent new modes of being which are opposed to the “regimes of the normal”. In this way the plebs become an inexhaustible source of innovations which are available for the entire citizenry. Queering of the plebs enables a higher degree of (our) common being in the society. The strength of a democratic society directly depends on the vitality of the plebs’ desire and their ability to imagine, produce and sustain new modes of life.

More...

5.00 €

Preview

За понятието ‘циркумстанция’ в Латинското средновековие. Циркумстанция и иновация

Author(s): Oleg Georgiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 27/2021

This article is dedicated to the topic of the circumstantiae. In my point of view, they are a specific rhetorical category, not just a physical ‘circumstance’. By analogy with Aristotle’s categories, the circumstantiae can be distinguished as ‘genera for the infinite meanings’ and are therefore more than a tool helping a particular rhetorical situation to be shaped. Thus, if we allow ourselves to consider them in the spirit of the philosophical categorical systematics, then the circumstantiae become independent signifiers in relation to the infinite number of specific times, places or agents, which set the framework for examining the particular rhetorical „case“.

More...