A Comparative Study of Tai Ji Quan and Qigong

Author(s): Borislava Lecheva / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The paper analyses Tai Ji Quan and Qigong, two of the traditional Chinese types of exercising, from four different perspectives: philosophical concept; history; training principles; health benefits. After an extensive review of literature, the study shows that despite of differences in origin and choreography Tai Ji Quan and Qigong share similar theoretical roots, their training methods are overlapping so are the health benefits relatedto their practice. The purpose of the paper is to serve as an accurate source of information for people involved in the practice of Tai Ji Quan and Qigong as well as to contribute to their overall popularization.

What can one receive from philosophy and pedagogy? (Reflections on the courage of the spirit and eminence of the soul)

Author(s): Sándor Karikó / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

It is evident that the separate examination of the two concepts mentioned in the title offers one many approaches, thus scrutinising them together would widen further the possibilities. The scope of analysis must necessarily be narrowed; in the followings, I shall touch upon some bits and pieces of these two categories: one of the characteristics of philosophy and pedagogy, one of their decisive particularities in accordance with my own views. I think that both philosophy and pedagogy bear such a final content, positive inner “voice”, one could say “buzzword” that can be an orientation point in the whole of the pedagogical and educational work. (Furthermore, it can also be related to politics, science and everyday interactio). Critical reflexivity and the virtue of goodness shall be discussed.It is evident that the separate examination of the two concepts mentioned in the title offers one many approaches, thus scrutinising them together would widen further the possibilities. The scope of analysis must necessarily be narrowed; in the followings, I shall touch upon some bits and pieces of these two categories: one of the characteristics of philosophy and pedagogy, one of their decisive particularities in accordance with my own views. I think that both philosophy and pedagogy bear such a final content, positive inner “voice”, one could say “buzzword” that can be an orientation point in the whole of the pedagogical and educational work. (Furthermore, it can also be related to politics, science and everyday interactio). Critical reflexivity and the virtue of goodness shall be discussed.

Developing an Online Platform for Promoting Wushu and Qigong Classes in the Confucius Institute, University of Veliko Tarnovo

Author(s): Borislava Lecheva / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

The following paper explores the opportunities for developing an online platform for promoting Wushu and Qigong classes in the Confucius Institute at the University of Veliko Tarnovo. It focuses on Facebook as the most suitable online platform to be used for sharing materials and discusses the main principles upon which the materials in hand were based. The study is useful due to the ever-growing significance of online teaching materials and the need for developing new strategies for Wushu and Qigong promotion in times of great social changes.

Енергийни практики в китайското изкуство на войната и мира

Author(s): Valeri Ivanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2022

The Chinese cultural tradition connects the origin and existence of the world, the human being and society with the presence of a unified and all-pervading energy substance. This substance creates both the formal structures and their comparability and interrelationship. This universal substance is shared on all levels and aspects of existence, regardless of their manifestation. In this mutual sharing, the substance undergoes its fluctuations and transformations which are expressed in constructive or destructive ways of stimulating or repressing influence. This substance can be perceived, studied, understood, guided, and used, consciously or not. This view delineates the unified cosmos in which the subjective and the objective are only a matter of reference in determining existence.

Ралф Кадуърт и неговата роля в историята на моралната философия през ранната модерна епоха

Author(s): Hristo Hristov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2023

Sarah Hutton, renowned scholar of Ralph Cudworth’s philosophy in the present day, notes that Cudworth himself has constructed a conception of the human mind that lies at the root of most fully developed philosophical psychology that a representative of Seventeenth-Century Cambridge Platonists has ever endowed in the terms of his own intellectual heritage. Cudworth had turned his attention to the philosophical tradition of Platonism, especially to the Plotinus’ Enneads, to have developed the same philosophical psychology distinguished by its notion of the soul like self-determining entity having many faculties: intellectual, vital, and moral. On account of this state of affairs Hutton presumes that it is rightfully to think Cudworth undoubtedly to have carried out real theory of mind that has yielded explanations about discernible experience in relation to the human mental states. Hutton rightly thinks on account of that statement that the definitions of the essence of the soul Plotinus has presented in his Enneads, IV, are substantial part of Cudworth’s philosophical psychology that places emphasis on the notion of the soul like self-determining and ruling entity in the realm of mental processes in human vital experience. That soul according to Cudworth can in the same time sympathize with the phenomena of this experience. Here I propose discussion on these issues. I posit that Cudworth had relied on his notion of the soul when he had developed his own epistemology in relation to the conception of morality and freewill that he had been working out. Accordingly I maintain that the moral philosophy of Cudworth within this frame of reference has had its influence on the further development of the moral philosophy in Britain.

„Otworzyć drzwi do świata”. Edukacyjna filozofia podstaw programowych w wybranych krajach Europy Zachodniej

Author(s): Witold Bobiński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 15/2022

The article presents several contemporary European solutions to the problem of mass, state-organized schooling and education, in terms of educational aims and general philosophy of teaching. A brief overview of the Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, Irish and Scottish curricula shows that one can distinguish three fundamental tendencies in contemporary education, as far as highly developed, democratic countries are concerned. These tendencies are: supporting the core democratic values; crossing the borders of subject teaching in favor of holistic developing of competencies, attitudes and dispositions, and encouraging to activity and creativity in various fields of life. Gert Biesta defines this model as world-centered, we can also call it life centered – in contrast to the content-centered paradigm of polish curriculum. World-centered education creates the space of developing the key existential competencies like cognition, interpreting of different phenomena, building the self-identity and relations with others, active approach to the world. This is also the process of initiating and revealing the subjectivity of a human being.

Medea: Greek Myth and Peculiar Identity

Author(s): Tamara Plećaš,Ana Đorđević / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

This paper will primarily focus on the philosophical depictions of Medea’s character and actions. The following identities will be examined: gender (which roles defined a woman in antiquity and are these definitions still relevant today), political (what does it mean to be a foreigner and not belong to a particular political community), and psychological (do passions inevitably lead to a split in the psyche or, on the contrary, constitute it). These will serve as frames that outline Medea’s exceptional (in)humanness in the Greco¬Roman society.

HENOTHEISM, MONOTHEISM AND SYNCRETISM IN THE ROMANIAN CULTURE

Author(s): Cristinel Virgilius Degeratu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 16/2019

The incipient mythologies have mostly a solar structure, because the primitive man chooses the symbolic heroes of those who can be likened to the sun in the struggle with the darkness, the descent into the death and the resurrection, just as the zoolatria descends a man in death and returns it as a predator. The myths, these forms of pre-religion, influence and organize the spiritual life from the cultural beginnings of the population from the Carpathian-Danubian-Pontic space to the henotism of the faith in the Zamolxis god-god to the monotheism introduced by Christianity. The ancestrals beliefs inherited or borrowed from those who came to contribute to the completion of the transformation of the inhabitants of the Carpatho-Danubian-Pontic space into Romanian people have accompanied Christianity all the way to today. The incipient man's dualism, the lunar symbolism and the solar structure of an ancestral mythology, continues under the cult of Zamolxis, while maintaining Bendis as a feminine side of religious culture, maintains its line of continuity after the Romanization of Dacia and then the Christianization of the DacianRoman population. One can observe an overlap of monotheistic religion over the henotism and the polytheism that survived in Dacia, an overlap that in its incipient forms can not eliminate the existing mythical background, so the customs, beliefs and pre-Christian traditions coexist with the monotheistic ones, filtered over time by the mythological visions of primitive Christianity.

Философът–басилевс

Author(s): Zhivko Zhekov / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2017

The government of Antigonus II Gonatas in Macedonia was a turning point in its historical development in the era of Hellenism. He was able to lead the country out of the decades-long internal crisis and to recover its international prestige. It reverted back to hegemony in the Balkans and restored its status of one of the most powerful states in the Eastern Mediterranean. This process was not an easy one and lasted nearly four decades in which he actively used his undoubted talent of a statesman and politician, but also managed to win love and respect for Macedonia due to his moderate and responsible government. His moderation and loyalty towards his countrymen was largely the result of the philosophical education he had received in his youth. Antigonus II Gonatas was the true founder of the Antigonid dynasty, not his father or his grandfather. His government was characterized by great success and terrible failures, but in spite of the suffered defeats and setbacks he never gave up the fulfilment of his main goal – the stabilization and consolidation of the Macedonian state, which was his greatest contribution to Macedonia. It was basileus who despite the distrust of his compatriots managed to pull his country out of the permanent crisis and to turn it into one of the leading Hellenistic states. The last twenty years of his rule despite a number of setbacks in the foreign policy were extremely successful in domestic policy. During these years, he was able to stabilize the military-administrative organization of his homeland. His successors received a strong and stable country, which at the end of the 3rd – the beginning of the 2nd c. BC was even perceived by some contemporaries as the most powerful Hellenistic state. This rise of Ancient Macedonia would have been impossible without the consistent and purposeful policy of Antigonus II Gonatas, which led to inner consolidation and might.

Education, Neurotechnologies, and Ethics. An overview

Author(s): Maria Sinaci,Gabriel Hasmatuchi / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The progress made in recent decades in neuroscience and new technologies have also influenced the educational environment from the perspective of the didactic methods used and the integration of modern methods. Educational neurotechnologies increasingly present in educational systems are also more challenging for both students, teachers, and parents. In the present article we provide an overview of educational neurotechnologies, with an analysis of the benefits and ethical-legal issues raised by their use. We bring to attention the need to train teachers, in the sense of developing specific skills for using neurotechnologies in the classroom, through training courses. Only in this way is it possible to prevent errors and possible unwanted effects. We sustain the need to integrate the use of educational neurotechnologies in an ethical-legal framework for ensuring personal neurobiological data and respecting confidentiality. The methods used are the analysis of the data provided by specialized works, especially recent ones, the extraction of relevant information for the researched topic and then their synthesis for a better understanding of the problems and the identification of possible solutions.

Doświadczenie sztuki w fenomenologii kontr-intencjonalnej i nie-intencjonalnej

Author(s): Andrzej Krawiec / Language(s): Polish Issue: 61/2023

The article raises the subject of intentionality of art in the light of transformations that counter-intentional phenomenology and non-intentional phenomenology have undergone. The changes to the way intentionality was understood substantially influenced aesthetic reflection and for that reason the starting point for the article is the analysis of Edmund Husserl’s intentional phenomenology followed by counter-intentional phenomenology of Jean-Luc Marion and non-intentional phenomenology of Michel Henry. Next, we will analyse how the ideas were absorbed by the developing phenomenological reflection on art, which paradoxically resulted in counter-reduction of the world and existential opening to experiencing its contents thanks to art. At the same time, the changes in understanding intentionality opened new directions for research into the intentionality of art itself. Therefore, the article aims at pointing towards contemporary research areas for phenomenological aesthetics and also indicates major methodological problems related to counter-intentional and non-intentional research perspective.

Selected Representations of the Phenomenological Orientation of Polish Pedagogical Thought

Author(s): Jarosław Gara / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

This article indicates the basic premises and differentiating contexts that underlie the conceptual specificity of phenomenological pedagogy. In this context, three original positions of phenomenological orientation in Polish pedagogical thought have been presented. In accordance with their specific features, the first position refers to the phenomenological problematization of issues related to pedagogical axiology in a particular way, the second position refers to issues associated with pedagogical teleology, while the third relates to matters connected to pedagogical anthropology. Each of these positions is based on original theoretical solutions that have raised interest and initiated discussion on phenomenological pedagogy in Polish literature, beginning in the 1980s.

Teaching of Medical Students within the Provision of Medical Care in the Itibo Mission Hospital in Kenya

Author(s): Lukáš Malý / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The aim of this article is to describe the preparation of students who go to the Itibo development co-operation project. This includes how clinical practice and medical ethics are taught as part of participating in this project in Kenya. We will try to explain the possible benefits for students and the importance of understanding multiculturalism in the provision of medical care.

Problematika utjelovljenja u online gleda(c)torstvu

Author(s): Mihai Băcăran / Language(s): English Issue: 22/2023

Digital media, and especially the widespread use of the internet, challenge our experience of embodied presence and consequently force us to rethink the definition of the ‘human’ body that informs our social practices. Starting from the online documentations of Guy Ben-Ary’s bio-artwork cellF (2015), Alvin Lucier’s seminal experimental music piece Music for Solo Performer (1965), and Stelarc’s performance RE-WIRED / RE-MIXED (2015) the present article participates in this debate by asking: what type of embodied identity is contoured in online specta(c)torship? From a methodological point of view, the article resonates with Mieke Bal’s insistence on the importance of the case study in art theory and in the philosophy of art. It aims at performing a philosophical intervention with respect to the contemporary understanding of embodiment starting from the experience proposed by the encounter with specific artworks. Drawing on the case studies mentioned above and on theories of embodiment formulated in a diversity of contexts — such as affect theory (Seigworth and Greg, Clough), feminist critique (Grosz, Butler), performance studies (Salazar Sutil) and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze —, the article contends that the problematic of the embodied subject, such as it appears in online specta(c)torship, is that of an ongoing misrecognition: an ongoing decentring of the thinking subject (of the cartesian cogito) in a continuous renegotiation of the bio-techno-logical ‘self’ that grounds the ‘I’ and is in turn grounded by it.

Strategijske dileme kulturne politike sustava audiovizualne djelatnosti u Republici Hrvatskoj

Author(s): Edib Ahmetašević / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 22/2023

The cultural policy of the Republic of Croatia in the field of audio-visual activities, as the nation has passed through transition, has left an indelible mark on the overall area of audio-visual activities in a number of ways. Following the fall of Socialism, which implied the systematic transition of the former countries within the Socialist system towards various models of Capitalism, structural transitions also occurred as a result of global changes. With these changes, the national cultural policy pertaining to audio-visual activities was also affected. The disorientation of cultural policy decelerated, or completely halted, the development of audio-visual activities towards the creative industry. The disorientation of cultural policy arose as the result of irresponsible social conduct, the lack of respect for cultural diversity, underdeveloped ties between the public, private and civil sectors, and an absence of strategic cultural policy. In order to develop the creative industry, it is necessary to implement audio-visual activities both efficiently and effectively. To do so, it is necessary to redefine, developcand implement a set of strategies and instruments in the cultural policy of the Republic of Croatia in the field of audio-visual activities.An interdisciplinary approach that ties together the integral theories of social contractsvand dilemmas of contemporary cultural policy in the field of audio-visual activities indicates the importance of social responsibility, particularly for the private sector, which plays an important role in the development of the film industry as a profit-oriented cultural industry. Proposal: the development of the creative industry in the field of audio-visual activities in the Republic of Croatia is not possible without balanced activities of a strategic cultural policy, which will aim to create a balance between the aesthetic and market values of the audio-visual activities.

ОДНОС СПОРТА И ПР-А У САВРЕМЕНОМ ДРУШТВУ: ЦИЉЕВИ И ПОСЛЕДИЦЕ

Author(s): Slobodan Penezić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2021

This article briefly seeks to shed some light on the position of sport in contemporary society, considering it in the context of the relationship between this sphere of society (sport) and the field of Public Relations. With that intention, we investigate key features of modern sports events and the aspects on which they connect with the so-called PR industry,which are, at the same time, based on the origins of that relationship. The analysis of key trends and consequences of the processes that are realized within that relation (sport-PR), indicates the basic mechanisms that drive them, but also thenumerous negativities that occur along the way, due to the reversal of the original logic of both areas. In this regard, the role of professional ethics is considered, as a barrier to these, negatively oriented processes, but also as a basis for returning that logic to the original meaning of sports, PR, and their relationship; and thus, the prevention of social anomalies that arise today from that relationship, which we all witness every day.

Maurice Godelier: МАРКСИЗАМ И АНТРОПОЛОГИЈА, Загреб, Школска књига, 1982., стр. 402

Author(s): Zorica Mršević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 6/1983

Intermedialita kaligrafických inspirací v poválečném umění a filosofickém diskursu

Author(s): Petra Polláková / Language(s): Czech Issue: 1/2021

In this study, based on my dissertation thesis, I focus on the issues of circulation and various methods of appropriating calligraphic practices within the framework of transnational art history, predominantly in the context of the post-war European and North American art scenes. Due to the multi-layered and intermedia nature of the topic of calligraphic inspirations, I have chosen the motif of the circle as a certain unifying element, through which I attempt to reflect the given issue within two distinct circles. The first topic is the examination of the possibilities of artistic or philosophical expression of the ontological meaning of corporeality and the circularity of the body in the process of creation. The circle also reflects the issue of periodic renewal and regeneration of mythical and historical time. I examine the issue of the cyclical nature of time in the context of post-war art, when the necessity of a new beginning arose, which would not only enable a deeper intercultural dialogue, but also strengthen the need to re-examine the original artistic roots and sources.

Ekowidmontologia jako strategia lektury. Studium przypadku „Kości, które nosisz w kieszeni” Łukasza Barysa

Author(s): Mateusz Adam Michalski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 15/2022

The article is an attempt to reflect on the relationship between the subject and the environment in a state of crisis on example of the novel by Łukasz Barys entitled The Bones You Carry in Your Pocket. The author proposes a psychoanalytic reading strategy, the main theme of which are ‘spectres’ (Derrida) associated with the traumogenic relationship between the ‘I’ and nature. Be text analyses climate catastrophe in the context of hyperobject theory (Morton) and their entanglement in local structure.

O kryzysie klimatycznym z perspektywy nieetnocentrycznej (na przykładzie filmu anime „Nausicaä z Doliny Wiatru” Hayao Miyazakiego)

Author(s): Anna Filipowicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 15/2022

The article raises the problem of non-Eurocentric approaches to natural disasters – treating them as ordinary rather than traumatic events. For some archaic (indigenous) types of thinking, fundamental changes taking place in the environment do not cause the cessation of relations with nature and involve the need to constantly adapt to its conditions, even at the expense of one’s own welfare or living. Hayao Miyazaki’s anime film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind also discusses this issue. The animistic thinking about the environment (Japanese Shintoism) shown in it opens a reflection on the possibility of considering old worldviews in the reflection on the ethical future of man on the eve of the climate collapse.