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A Bulgarian translation from the Latin original.
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This article is an attempt to present the problem of color vision. Are objects colored? What is the nature of color properities? There is wide variety of answers presented in different theories. This article discusses some of them – from ancient to nowadays. The problem of color vision is one of the actual topics in contemporary philosophical issues. The article introduces two problems on the field of philosophical analysis of color vision: color spectrogram and opponent process (Yong-Helmholtz and Hardin model); the so-called „metamers“.
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The reviewed book includes studies representative of the author’s area of research interests, which have been published in Bulgarian academic journals over the last decade. In terms of their contents, three groups of issues are discernible: the first one, which is also the main, is on the twentieth-century New Music. This issue is treated in: On truth and method in the twentieth-century New Music; Ideologemes at the turning point of the twentieth-century New Music; The twentieth-century New Music on the horizon of two leading thematic projects of Modernity: Fragments; Dichotomies and polarizations in Schoenberg’s holistic autonomous and terminological system and The concept Musical Idea (musikalischer Gedanke) in Schoenberg: an attempt for interpretative reading. The second group of issues is outlined through the construction by the author of a new area in musicology: the study The paramusical sphere as a subject field of semiotics. The third group is related to those of the phenomena generated by the post-modern culture that fit into the general term World Music: the study The World Music concept and the ethnocentric model. Being various and even establishing relations of opposing to each other, the phenomena subject to description and exploration in the three categories, are united by Yordanova’s general view and the approach related to it. This view is beyond doubt musicological, in a fundamental sense though. In it, musicology expands its philosophic horizons in order to bring up not only theoretical issues of musicology, but also those of the men of music. Within such horizons, the author goes beyond the boundaries of the aesthetical subject of music, referring to beauty, to study it as a language capable to speak of the truth of existence.
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Review of Hristo Stoev's book, From the Non-posibility of One Transcendental Anthropology, 2015
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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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The article is devoted to description of dominated value ostentation in the East Ukraine in the 19 century. Philosophical history research of spiritual problems. The consecvence is proposition about historical changeability of fundamental values.
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The subject of the article is valuable vacuum in the global civilization. Concept “valuable vacuum” doesn’t mean lack of values. There is a lot of values, which fix interests and aims of different social groups, but there isn’t one general value. The culture of global civilization is a chaos of the groups and individual values. This situation has been explained by the deontology value in bourgeois outlook, when value is connected with interests and aims of social subject. Different social subjects (e.g. world elites, national elites, middle class) have different interests and therefore different values.
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This text aims to tell something very simple, namely that the beginning of ontology is the proximity to the truth of being, and that this truth is valuable for us. By presenting this conception in theoretical terms, I want in the same time to suggest its theoretical consequences.
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In this work, first, I reexamine the pyrocentric universe of the Pythagorean, Philolaus, who emphatically propounded that the center of the cosmos is neither the earth nor the sun, but a central fiery hearth that stands in the middle of the spherical universe. Second, I attempt to demonstrate the value and significance of this pyrocentric cosmic model by elaborating its novel revolutionary elements and its contribution to astronomy. Third, by underlining the diachroneity and timeliness of this cosmic model, I try to establish as to how the model served as a precursor to not only the ancient and modern heliocentric models, as widely believed, but also as much to the contemporary cosmic models and theories of astrophysics.
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The article outlines a philosophical foundation of the civilizational approach in history and in the philosophy of history that acquired popularity with Toynbee and Huntington. The problem is that there is a working approach, however surprising. The nation state continues to be the basic unit of almost all historical research. Even the true notion of „civilizational“ or „civilizational approach“ remains vague and undefined. A few of its features could be: religion, the long run (la longue durée) as the specific time of civilizational history, a special kind of historical time that is absolutely different from the physical one, the mentality typical of any civilization, a common historical path, the parallel course of various civilizations, a specific historical development. The philosophical fundament sought for in „fundamental history” is obtained by an interpretation of Heidegger’s „fundamental ontology“. The new term „Dazeit“ is coined in order to use „Dasein“ to describe the center and source of „fundamental history“, which is thought in temporal terms rather than existentially. Choice becomes a fundamental philosophical and historical concept. It is naturally linked to Paul Tillich’s „kairos“, which is interpreted as a special and basic modus of historical time. Heidegger’s „Schicksal“ and „Geschick“, „Es gibt“ and „Ereignis“, as well as Hegel’s „reason in history“, find their natural place in the same context. What is involved here is a new human capability, temporal or historical. It permits human beings to have and follow a civilizational history founded on fundamental history. The philosophical foundation includes three successive levels: 1) the deepest one is fundamental and philosophical; 2) the next one, which mediates, is philosophical and historical; 3) the third level, which guides historical research, is methodological.
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The article analyzes certain aspects of the “shadow” that the Zimmerwald conference casts on our times. On this basis, the author traces analogies between disturbing processes and trends in the ideological-political and organizational crises of social democracy in these two historical times. The betrayal of the left elites proves to be characteristic not only of the past but of the present as well. The author studies the trends of immorality and corruption of political elites, leading to the birth of radical left-wing moods and move-ments in political time-space.The article explains the causes and technique of the schism at the “tops” of the left and its effects for the fragmentation and weakening of the left’s role in states and societies. The author shows how in both historical ages under comparison, Reason, Peace and Progress are brutally and perfidiously substituted with Greed, War, and Regress.
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