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The present text discusses the balance between the spirit of Modernity and that of Tradition, analyzing the rejecting of Tradition in the Century of criticism. The author makes an attempt to explain the reasons of the thinkers with a traditionalistic orientation towards all aspects of life, including the religious sphere.
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The article briefly investigates new approaches in epistemology, focusing on their benefits and deficiencies. These approaches include naturalized epistemology, virtue epistemology, evolutionary epistemology, and memetics. Their reconstructions include a brief introduction to an approach and an assessment part in which the benefits and the deficiencies of the approach are discussed. The conclusion is that, notwithstanding the introduction of innovative components, the new approaches in epistemology cannot resolve radically the problem posed by skepticism.
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The text reviews the connection between Eros, beautiful and sublime. It creates a parallel between the ancient ideas of Plato for the Common and Heavenly Eros and the ideas for Beautiful and Sublime, developed in the German classic aesthetics.
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This article aims to show the dressing in philosophical and anthropological perspective. The author defends the idea that dressing is above all an opportunity to adapt the body to a desired image. The dressing and the fashion are interpreted as part of the human experience.
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This article considers a problem of the body and its ambivalence as a subject and as a fiction. Different views on culture are observed and attempt to propose a new reading of the relationships between the body and the culture is made. The point of the article is that the body is ambivalent and has symbolic along with its physical characteristics. The body is usually concerned as an opposition to a soul. An exception to this view is Kantorowicz’s perspective on the political body of the ruler, which is linked to the Lesly White’s idea of the prohibition of incest.
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This article reveals the essence and specificities of social influences and some of its manifestations – agreement, identification and internalization. A special attention is paid to the persuasion as a mean of social influence. The ways of the social influences and persuasion are represented as well as how they affect people.
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This article is an attempt to describe Socrates’ views on education. Sought are contemporary dimensions of his teachings in the context of education.
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Memetics is one of contemporary, posthumanist theories of culture. It postulates that the fundamental mechanism of replicating non-genetic information is imitation (Dawkins) and thus social life and culture exist as a result of our minds’ susceptibility to the units of imitation, known as memes. This article presents a critical synthesis of the stance memeticians take on human mimetism, and through exploration of other concepts (philosophical, sociological, anthropological, psychological and neurobiological) reinforces memetics’ basic premise that human beings are mimetic animals.
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The year 2018 marks the quinquagenary of Thomas Merton’s death. A wealth of international events has been organized to commemorate this monk, writer, peace and social justice activist, renewer of monastic life, and significant contributor to interreligious dialogue. This issue of the biennial journal "Świat i Słowo” is a Polish contribution to those events. Consisting of two original articles written specifically for this occasion, as well as translations of several important articles that were first published in "The Merton Annual” - a flagship journal of international Merton scholarschip – Thomas Merton – Living with Wisdom pays homage to the versatility and intellectual and artistic accuity of the famous Trappist monk. Foregrounding the trope of wisdom, the articles gathered here present crucial aspects of Thomas Merton’s life and writing.
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The article draws the reader’s attention to one of the most complex phenomena of psychological science – the activity of the individual and his/her relationship with the phenomenon “timeˮ and, in particular, the phenomenon of “free timeˮ.
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In the report is presented and developed the idea of the role of the reflection of the mastery of self-affirmation; reflexive self-asessment allows it to be placed under personal control. Trough reflexive self-knowledge, personal self-affirmation is released from the psychological defenses, compensatory delusions and inadequate ways of its implementation. The mature degree of self-affirmation is characterized by the release of inefficient mechanisms of self-assessment and self assertion and targeted use of personal reflexive procedures.
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The research is implemented by fourth year students in European studies at Sofia University as part of the subject ‘Media analysis’ (2017/18 academic year, prof. Snezhana Popova). Research by a team of students in European Studies, Faculty of Philosophy: Anna Angelova, Borislava Uzunova, Deliya Stoilova, Dessislava Filipova, Dobromira Yotovska, Iva Teneva, Konstatin-Kiril Yosifov, Madlen Nikolova, Plamena Grozeva, Plamena Ivanova, Ralena Gerasimova, Svetlana Yordanova, Siana Velkova, Siyana Ulyanova, Tsveta Paunova
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The text highlights two main ways in which the television discourse in Bulgaria has unfolded in recent years. The first one is connected with postmodernism, but now it looks retro. The second is the result of the influence of social media and networks on television (digital modern-ism). The interweaving and complementarity between these two main types of television discourse produces effects of nostalgia, thus contributing to the maintenance of conservative myths and status quo.
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A review of the book “Media narrative” by Prof. Snezhana Popova, Dr of Soc Sci. Without a doubt, the introduction of the book “Media narrative” is an intellectual achievement of utmost importance for media research. Bulgarian research has long been in need of a resumptive wok. In the context of the enormous changes caused by the digital revolution, media narratives maintain their central role when forming messages to the audience. Therefore, it is still fundamental to understand the structure of narratives, the opinions and attitudes of storytellers, as well as the way stories are perceived by the audience. This book offers a key to such knowledge.
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The author makes synopsis of some basic investigations, devoted to the reflection and synergetics, and presents experience on their combination by construction of the reflective-synergetic approach in the education. The relations between the organization, self-organization and reflexion are examined. The experimental work shows the positive effect of the combined use of the activities of creating and transforming mathematical problems on the formation and development, in reflective-synergetic plan of complex knowledge and skills in students to perform the basic activity - problem solving, which confirms the thesis: reflective-synergetic effect of the combined use of the triad is expressed in self-completion, completion of the various subsystems of the system of opportunities that forms both the learner and the teacher as self-organizing personalities.
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Teachers need to develop and improve their knowledge to be in favor of the newest methods and ways of teaching. They also need to share their practices both in personal and professional way. This opportunity was given by a new educational forum – a National Conference “Thematic and Value models in Education and Philosophy Teaching”. The event was held in South West University “Neofit Rilski”, Blagoevgrad on May, 10th – 11th, 2019. The organizers of the event were the Faculty of Philosophy from the South-West University and Regional Department of Education in Blagoevgrad. The conference aimed at enriching knowledge of teachers in both schools and universities, as well as giving opportunities for sharing good practices and finding innovative and common solutions of current issues in teaching and learning Philosophy. This was the second conference of the kind and it attracted more participants. There were different sessions in two days based on the humanity in Philosophy, new educational standards, civic education as a new school subject, innovative and modern methods of teaching and how to put films and video materials into practice in teaching. The second day of the conference aimed at new understanding about reason. There were valuable discussion about Religion as a school subject and an interesting article on Axiotopics. The final discussion pointed at the importance of such events finding common ways to deal with problems and presenting innovative methods and achievements which is a challenge for the new forum next year.
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The aim of this paper is to analyse femininity as a cinematic depiction of uniqueness in three of Abbas Kiarostami’s films, Certified Copy, Like Someone in Love and a short film included in the anthology film Tickets, investigating the problem of universality and individuality in close connection with Jacques Lacan’s formula “The Woman does not exist”. Following the psychoanalytical approach that leads us to the problem of feminine jouissance and the way women escape from the phallocentric generalisation, we will emphasize the philosophical relevance of three recurring themes in Kiarostami’s films: woman’s identity, past-present continuity and artwork originality. This approach will allow us to grasp the problem of time, uniqueness, continuity and perception in Husserlian phenomenology and Gadamer’s philosophy of art, alongside the critique of truth in Heidegger’s ontology as well as in Austin&Searle’s “speech act theory”. The nodal point of these theories will be a concept of reality involving the consciousness and the interpretive acts of a subject and the woman’s role in expressing originality
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The mass media is a powerful and important instrument in the process of combating such a serious problem of the 21st century, as human trafficking. Covering this topic demands from representatives of journalism profession on having special experience and approaches, because it is connected with the process of difficult conversation with victims and accomplices of trafficking. It is on the one hand, but on the other hand – it is relative with intercourse with the representatives of law enforcement and power structures. Additionally, there is a row of characteristics and specifies of work with the sources of information, about which every journalist must be aware who is specializing on this topic, that was considered here. The article demonstrates the content analysis of these factors at the example of the materials of such newspapers and magazines of Russia as “Ogonyok” (“Light”), “Argumenti i fakti” (“Arguments and facts”), “Mir novostey” (“World of news”), “Migraciya XXI vek” (“Migration XXI century”) for 2009-2017 which were selected by the author.
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This paper focuses on the specificity of interactions in a group of mourning created within a community of amateurs in a sociodigital network. it allows to observe that on the creation of a post-mortem digital identity of thedeceased constituting at the discretion of tributes is articulated with emphasis ofmemories, thoughts and affects also participating to the presentation of themselves and the bereaved. The comparison of the main results of analysis of this group with those of 4 other groups without community link, highlights that, in spite of the fame of the deceased, the collective dimension of the identity is more at stake than the individual dimension when the mourning is made within a community. *** Cet article s’intéresse à la spécificité des interactions ayant lieu dans le cadre d’un groupe de deuil créé au sein d’une communauté d’amateurs sur un réseausocionumérique. Il permet d’observer que la création d’une identité numérique postmortemdu défunt se constituant au gré des hommages s’articule avec la mise enavant de souvenirs, pensées et affects participant également de la présentation quefont d’eux-mêmes les endeuillés. La comparaison des principaux résultats d’analysede ce groupe avec ceux de 4 autres groupes sans lien communautaire fait ressortirque, en dépit de la notoriété du défunt, la dimension collective de l’identité est davantage en jeu que la dimension individuelle lorsque le deuil s’effectue au sein d’une communauté.
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This article focuses on the complex communication constructed betweenthe Belgian Federal Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (Fedasil)and asylum seekers: what do they say to asylum seekers? Why and how? Beyond themessage, it is the relation of communication (Wolton, 2018) between receptionauthorities and asylum seekers that is explored through the analysis of communicationduring the reception phase. As a consequence of the communication to asylumseekers’ being hardly visible (Van Neste-Gottignies & Mistiaen, 2018), they arefound to experience “information precarity” (Wall, Otis Campbell & Janbek, 2015).Although the “invisibility” of reception discourses seems to prevail, there is an exception:communication regarding voluntary return programmes. This article aimsspecifically to deeply understand this communicational practice to asylum seekers:what does it contain? Beyond the content: what different forms does it take? Why isFedasil communication on voluntary return to asylums seekers predominant? Theanalysis takes into account the complexity and variety of mediums of communication,from mediated forms of communication to face-to-face interactions. To studypractices, a corpus linguistics analysis is combined with field survey methods in aBelgian asylum seekers reception centre.
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