Tekstualni aktivizam

Author(s): Martin McQuillan / Language(s): Serbian

Martin McQuillan brings Derrida's writing into the immediate vicinity of geo-politics today, from the Kosovo conflict to the Iraq war, following both Derrida's writing since Specters of Marx and the present political scene through the former Yogoslavia and Afghanistan to Palestine and Baghdad. His 'textual activism' is as impatient with the universal gestures of philosophy as it is with the complacency and reductionism of policy-makers and activists alike. This work records a response to the war on thinking that has marked western discourse since 9/11

Византийска философия. Четири центъра на синтеза

Author(s): Georgi Kapriev / Language(s): Bulgarian

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The Reason Why

Author(s): Edo Pivčević / Language(s): English

In his latest book Pivčević argues that the scope and limits of rational explanation are set by a number of fundamental categories and principles which are all mutually complementary and interdependent. This lattice of basic categories and principles not only helps make sense of what we experience but conveys how the world is actually made up. In developing this thesis Pivčević is at the same time outlining some of the key features that mark out specifically philosophical explanation as opposed to other types of explanation such as those commonly found in the natural sciences and in naturalistic theology. Reasons for belief can be all sorts, but when do such reasons amount to a rational explanation? The thesis advanced in this book is that the scope and the limits of rational explanation are fixed by a number of fundamental ideas and principles which are all mutually complementary and interdependent, and provide an insight into how the world is actually made up. It is a logical requirement of rational explanation that such ideas, and the principles that go with them, should form a self-supporting analytical system. One such idea and a vital component of the system is the idea of self. This runs counter to what might be described as a ‘naturalistic’ approach to explanation. A naturalistic explanation, essentially, is based on the assumption that the world is fashioned by factors that exist independently of the conditions under which they may feature as objects of belief, rational or otherwise. The ideas in terms of which we make sense of what we experience are treated, accordingly, as ‘emergent’ phenomena and products of human evolution. This feature of naturalistic explanations does not necessarily detract from their capacity to serve as useful prognostic tools. Nevertheless such pragmatic utility as they may have cannot hide their philosophical limitations.

Alice Returns From Wonderland

Author(s): Mladen Domazet,Mladen Domazet / Language(s): English

Alice returns from Wonderland discusses scientific explanation and its importance for scientific knowledge. The classical ideal of coherence and completeness of physics was shaken in the early 20th century with the appearance of quantum mechanics, and this opened the floodgates of skepticism about the explanatory potential of science. Through extensive examination of principle and constructive approaches to methodology and explanation in quantum theory, Domazet discusses realist and antirealist approaches to scientific enterprise as a whole. The need for modification of the everyday conceptual framework through modification of some foundational units of the realist material ontology arises. The book argues for the reintroduction of the metaphysical component of science; to base explanations of empirical phenomena on ontological commitments. Despite the unfamiliar phenomena like quantum teleportation, imaginary Alice finds a way to hold on to familiar macroscopic objects, as one of many instances of durable generalized objects subjected not only to spatio-temporal constrictions but also to ontologically primitive fundamental laws of temporal evolution.

Процесуално философски приключения на приложната онтология

Author(s): Vesselin Petrov / Language(s): Bulgarian

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Dobro małżonków. Identyfikacja elementu ad validitatem w orzecznictwie Roty Rzymskiej

Author(s): Andrzej Pastwa / Language(s): Polish

“The clarification of […] the bonum coniugum exclusion hypotheses must be carefully studied by the jurisprudence of the Roman Rota” said Benedict XVI in 2011, referring indirectly to the diagnosis of the dean of the Roman Rota, Mario Francesco Pompedda, who stated in 1998 that the legal content of the clause of “the good of the spouses” constitutes one of the most crucial hermeneutic issues, which calls for more in-depth research. Now more than ever, the Pope’s memento appears akin to a compass designed to guide the service of the Apostolic Tribunal, one which makes it possible to determine clear judicial standards in the identification of the said element ad validitatem. Service, it is worth to add, which requires integrity and professionalism since, when it comes to the fundamental issues included in the sphere designated by the 2013 Rota allocution “Marriage and the relationship between faith and the natural order” (which, predictably, is where Benedict XVI situates the issue of “clarifying the essential element of bonum coniugum”), the words of John Paul II, who said that “legal hermeneutics requires […] a vision which encompasses the whole body of the Church’s teachings,” appear to become even more significant. // In such an obvious way John Paul II and Benedict XVI — titans of spirit and intellect, caryphaeuses of humanism, measured with a simultaneous engagement in fides et ratio—refer to the potential of science. It is, thus, difficult to ignore the invitation expressed in those words—which also highlights the role of the creators of the Rota jurisprudence, “the exemplary juridical wisdom”—for the canon law experts searching for the truth de matrimonio in theoretical research. Indeed, the papal thought—bolstered by the severity of the problem, i.e. the risk of proliferation of erroneous interpretations of ordinato ad bonum coniugum (“the danger that threatens the correct application of the norms on incapacity [and exclusions], […] and to transform the simple shortcomings of the spouses in their conjugal existence into impediment”), particularly in the lower tribunals—calls for serious consideration. This, in turn, constitutes an important challenge for the scholars, as well as the judges of the Roman Rota, to transform (in the spirit of paradigmatic harmonization vetera et nova) personalistic ideas, grounded in tradition and conciliar magisterium, into legal praxis. Therefore, the following attempt of a scholarly approach to the title identification of the ad validitatem element in the Roman Rota jurisprudence is predominantly inscribed into the doctrinal and judicial context delineated above. // The methodical ordering of the variety of judicial stances, valorizing the bonum coniugum formula, has been facilitated by the process of distinguishing, within the broad research area, particular premises: genetic and historical as well as epistemological and methodological, which resulted in the formulation of research hypotheses, formulated in the conclusions of the first part of the monograph and then verified (it could be said: successfully) in the following parts. // Regarding the hypotheses, it should be noted that there exists a documented fact (included in hypothesis II-2), which proves that a special Papal magisterium, included in his speeches addressed to the Roman Rota, authorizes an optimal methodology of the judicial approach towards essentialia in matrimonio, which consists in leading the discourse along the axis: anthropological realism—judicial realism. Search query of all published (as well as unpublished) sentences pronounced by the Rota, which highlight the bonum coniugum formula to a greater or lesser extent, consciously directed toward the analysis of the two aforementioned surfaces: anthropological and stricte legal, confirmed the validity of that perspective. Thus, it demonstrated that a sine qua non condition for an appropriate selection (according to hypothesis II-3) of consistent jurisprudence with regard to bonum coniugum—both in “non-autonomous” as well as “autonomous” configurations—is the affirmation of the paradigm of the “realism” of the new matrimonial doctrine. // The conclusions, presented as a summarizing comparison between the paradigmatic depictions of bonum coniugum: (I) depictions which appear to have been an instrument of the past (the good of the spouses understood exclusively in nonautonomous configurations); (II) depictions which are open to further developments (the good of the spouses understood in autonomous configurations)—must remain open to discussion, for a lack of a better option. This particular scholarly approach: that of a constant search for the “signs of times,” is grounded in the teachings of Benedict XVI (see: hypothesis II-1) when he says, “Cases in which there is failure to recognize the other as spouse or in which the essential ordering of the community of conjugal life to the good of the other is excluded are [today – A.P.] quite exceptional. The clarification of these hypotheses of exclusion of the bonum coniugum must be attentively assessed by the jurisprudence of the Roman Rota.”

Srpska etnologija i marksizam

Author(s): Gordana Gorunović / Language(s): Serbian

ŽIVI SUFIZAM - Ogledi o sufizmu

Author(s): Seyyed Hossein Nasr / Language(s): Bosnian

Iz brojnih razloga - ponekih pozitivnih, a mnogih negativnih - ima dosta zanimanja za sufizam na Zapadu i među modernim, obrazovanim klasama islamskog svijeta. Raspad jednog manjeviše homogenog “vrijednosnog sistema” modernog svijeta; osjećaj nesigurnosti u odnosu na budućnost; nerazumijevanje poruka religija koje prevladavaju na Zapadu, posebno kršćanstva, čije su inherentne pouke sve nedostupnije; želja za vizijom duhovnog svijeta u okruženju kojem sve više nedostaje kvaliteta te mnogi drugi faktori - svi zajedno - doprinose toj potrazi za duhovnim učenjima orijentalnih religija. Ova potraga na Zapadu je započela već sa prethodnom generacijom, pojavom općeg interesa za hinduizam i budizam; međutim, pošto je mnogo toga napisanog, čak i prakticiranog u tom periodu bilo ili lažno ili, u najboljem slučaju, površno, zanimanje za te tradicije – posebno u proučavanju vedante i zena – uskoro postaje pomodnost koja je - za generaciju koja traži stalno nova i drugačija iskustva, bez dubljeg prodiranja u bilo koje od njih – brzo postala dosadna i zamorna.

The Centrality of the Regime for Political Science

Author(s): Clifford Angell Bates Jr / Language(s): English

The book concentrates on the crucial Aristotelian concept of politeia, trying to show how its understanding has evolved for years, often towards fallacious interpretations. The text also points out how reconstruction of the original meaning of the concept can help in creating the frames for modern political science to avoid the traps of ethnocentrism and methodological reductionism that appear in most of today’s models used by the political science and by the theories of the political systems.In the last 20 years interest in Aristotle’s works has increased, resulting in reconsideration of their problems, especially of Aristotelian political thought. Many researchers offered redefinitions of politeia, but it is worth noticing that most of the previous analysis did not take into consideration central role of the concept and its constant liveliness, suggesting rather its archaic character and usefulness only from the historical point of view. Clifford Agnell Bates Jr proves the opposite: for him politeia is the universal concept that helps to understand the internal structure of modern political systems, their dynamics and mutual relationships.

Filozofija prava

Author(s): Spahija Kozlić / Language(s): Bosnian

Knjiga Filozofija prava rezultat je, s jedne strane, mog višegodišnjeg filozofskog istraživanja i promišljanja fenomenâ koje pokriva ova disciplina praktičke filozofije, te, s druge, predavanja istoimenog predmeta i interaktivnog rada sa studentima završnih godina dodiplomskog studija Pravnog fakulteta Univerziteta u Zenici. Naravno, upućena je najviše njima – studentima Pravnog fakulteta Univerziteta u Zenici, kao i svim drugim studentima koji slušaju ovaj ili sličan predmet na pravnim fakultetima u Bosni i Hercegovini i široj regiji, te onim čitaocima koje zanima filozofska refleksija prava. U svakom slučaju, tokom pisanja ove knjige nastojao sam stil i metodologiju izlaganja tako prilagoditi kako bi ona uistinu bila udžbenik iz filozofije prava koji će pomoći studentima u savladavanju gradiva predviđenog nastavnim planom i programom. Takva orijentacija, bez obzira na brojne teškoće, podrazumijevala je zauzimanje jedne, uvjetno govoreći, nezavisne pozicije spram vlastitih vrijednosnih i svakih drugih stavova u i oko filozofije, posebice filozofije i aksiologije prava.

Problem psychologii w filozofii pokantowskiej

Author(s): Andrzej J. Noras / Language(s): Polish

The subject of analyses undertaken in the book are concepts of the post-Kantian philosophers who, in their inquiries, referred to psychology, namely: Jakob Friedrich Fries, Friedrich Eduard Beneke, Johann Friedrich Herbart, Jürgen Bona Meyer, and Leonard Nelson. What is revealed in the course of the author’s investigations is the following. First of all, attempts to establish relationship between psychology and philosophy are not identicalwith the subsequent endeavours to found philosophy on a bedrock of psychology. Such an understanding of relations between the two has come to be known as psychologism, and does not refer to the concepts in question. Second of all, one cannot propose a single model of understanding the relation occurring between philosophy and psychology. As a source of the problem here one can indicate the interpretation of Kant’s thought put forward by Fries. The latter – to a lesser or greater degree – is referred to by the remaining thinkers. Thirdly, the author’s analyses demonstrate such a plethora of standpoints regarding the titular issue that the only common denominator may be broadly understood psychology.

Filozofia dziejów filozofii. Silne i słabe modele

Author(s): Vladimír Leško / Language(s): Polish

This work has resulted from a long‑term thinking, about the relation betweenthe history of philosophy and its reflection in more or less systematic and asystematic forms of philosophizing within the most significant philosophical doctrines of the 19th and the 20th centuries. It should be noted that the main theoretical (and other) impulses for the examination of the problems in question primarily came from M. Sobotka’s works. His analysis of modern philosophy, the classical German philosophy, and Hegel’s historical‑philosophical concept in particular, has been the theoretical point of departure. In addition, this book presents research results achieved within the projects Philosophy of the History of Philosophy – basic models and results, VEGA, A, 1/4441/97 and Philosophy of the History of Philosophy – weak models, VEGA, A, 1/9238/02. The theoretical efforts of the research team enabled us to arrive at in‑depth and specific understanding of the individual models of the philosophical reception of the history of philosophy. By implication, I wish to appreciate the theoretical contribution of the other members of the research team, notably Ľ. Belás, S. Hubík, O. Sisáková, P. Tholt a M. Ješič. The main goal of this work is to philosophically introduce the most significant historical‑philosophical concepts of the 19th an the 20th centuries that established the necessary conditions for the strong and weak models ofphilosophy of the history of philosophy in the concepts of Hegel, Schelling, Marx, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Fink, Patočka and Gadamer. Some achievements of the philosophy of the history of philosophy are presented as metatheoretical motion within the historical‑philosophical thought, the purpose of which is both the empirical description of the historical‑philosophical process and understanding and accounting for it as an integral part of the most significant philosophical problems.I. Strong modelsThe history of philosophy has been an important philosophical issue ever since the origins of the philosophy of the history of philosophy. It was founded by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a prominent representative of German classical philosophy, in his legendary lectures on the history of philosophy. Hegel’s theoretical model of the relation between the history of philosophy and system‑centered philosophy contains certain characteristic features whichcan be used to identify various models of the philosophy of the history of philosophy. The fundamental distinctive feature for any philosophical conception of the history of philosophy is the principle of the unity of philosophy and the history of philosophy. Hegel emphasizes that the history of philosophy is an indispensable inherent component of any theoretical considerations. This idea has become an indisputable foundation accepted and developed‑critically and with various modifications though – by other great philosophers, including Schelling, Marx, Nietzsche, Husserl, and Heidegger. Hegel’s conception of the history of philosophy as the first strong model of the philosophy of the history of philosophy postulates that it itself is a philosophy; more particularly, that it forms a part of the philosophy of history, whose aim is to demonstrate that reason is also present in the history of philosophy. Therefore, if the history of philosophy is conceived of as the innermost in world history its role in current philosophical activities is crucial. Hegel’s philosophy of the history of philosophy as philosophizing about philosophy became a meta‑theoretical motion within historical‑philosophical thought whose purpose was not to describe the istorical‑philosophical process in an external‑empirical way; rather, it was aimed at comprehending and explaining this process as an integral part of the treatment of the most important philosophical problems. Hegel takes a speculative unity of the abstract and the concrete as his point of departure. Schelling concentrates on the relation between essence and existence. The young Marx focuses his historical‑philosophical effort on the conception of self‑consciousness and freedom. Nietzsche seeks true culture through a Greek cultural phenomenon (tragedy) and stresses that our spiritual traditions – Platonism, metaphysics, morality and Christianity – are the main obstacles to a true understanding of the world and man. For this reason, he prefers the Pre‑Socratic philosophy in which he finds the justification for philosophizing in general. Husserl is attracted by the transcendental impulse in the history of philosophy, and Heidegger critically discusses the Nietzschean motive of re‑consideringthe Pre‑Socratic message in order to radicalize the most complex philosophical question, i.e., what is philosophy (metaphysics)?II. Weak modelsPhilosophical research into strong models of the philosophy of the history of philosophy indicates in a compelling way that both Hegel’s and Heidegger’s models have been the dominant doctrines determining the basic method of establishing a philosophical link to the history of philosophy. In a sense, they represent extreme opposing philosophical approaches to the historical‑philosophical heritage and to the current forms of philosophizing. Hegel’sphilosophical conception of history is built on the principle of development – progress from the ancient times to the present. In general, his philosophy is conceived of as the culmination of the whole historical evolution. Heidegger takes the opposite position. Thought, itself of historical nature and determining world history, does not grow from the present. It is older than what is simply the past. It has been borne towards us in its most ancient ideas, butwe are unable to discover any trace of it because we believe reality to be what mainly pertains to us in our being. Consequently, Heidegger insists on our return to the period of the Pre‑Socratic philosophy of Parmenides and Heraclitus when asking the original philosophical question about being because it was they who preserved the harmony with logos. The subsequent development of the philosophical conception of the history of philosophy is connected with the names of the most significant followers of Husserl’s and Heidegger’s philosophies, including Eugen Fink, Jan Patočka and Hans‑Georg Gadamer. Gadamer put it clearly when he said that Fink, Patočka and he himself all tried to avoid repeating the ideas oftheir teachers. Instead they sought out ways of developing these ideas further.An important point of departure for each of these critical followers of Husserl and Heidegger became the issue of the philosophy of the history of philosophy in the form of weak models. The struggle for a new approach to philosophy was inconceivable without a new original conception of the historical‑philosophical heritage. In addition, it was time to bring to an endthe era of strong models of the philosophy of the history of philosophy, and to start developing weak models. From this point of view, the philosophical message of Fink, Patočka and Gadamer is unique historical‑philosophical material; it is the most valuable of what is offered to us by the philosophical investigation of the second half of the twentieth century.

Pravila i kontekst upotrebe

Author(s): Michal Sládeček / Language(s): Serbian

This book consists of eight chapters, which encompass various themes, such as the nature of philosophical thinking, methodology of social sciences, problems in political philosophy, character of the human nature and rationality, problems of philosophy of mind and question of rule-following in philosophy of language, all conjoined by Wittgenstein’s late philosophy.

Etika

Author(s): Asim Mujkić,Jasminka Babić-Avdispahić / Language(s): Bosnian

Nakana nam je u Etici na pristupačan način predstaviti probleme i pravce etike, te ukazati na neke aspekte primijenjene etike i bioetike. Nadamo se da će knjiga biti od interesa za širu čitalačku javnost, jer se se tičkim pitanjima susreću svakodnevno svi u svojim privatnim i profesionalnim životima. Pored sfere međuljudskih odnosa između prijatelja, u porodici ili naradnom mjestu, ni sferu političkog ne možemo zamisliti bez sporova koji se vode u moralnim kategorijama. Spor o društvenoj pravdi je moralni spor, a ljudska prava i demokracija imaju i moralnu vrijednost. Moralni sporovi su i pitanja prava manjinskih grupa, zakona o useljavanju i azilu. Moralni sporovi se tiču i našeg odnosa prema životinjama, budućim generacijama i prirodi, a razvoj genskih tehnologija na zaoštren način postavlja etički izazov samorazumijevanju ljudskogroda. I upravo nas je pomisao na širu čitalačku publiku navela da u knjizi posljednji dio svakog poglavlja posvetimo nekim pitanjima primijenjene etike i bioetike. Smatraćemo našim velikim uspjehom ako čitateljki i čitaocu tokom čitanja knjige pomognemo u ekspliciranjui činjenju koherentnijim intuicija koje već imaju.

Ateistyczna apologetyka religii we współczesnej filozofii polskiej

Author(s): Mateusz Pencuła / Language(s): Polish

The Atheistic Apology of Religion in Contemporary Polish Philosophy The author describes the view, particular to Polish philosophical thought in the 20th century, known as atheistic apology of religion. He presents its historical background, embodied in B. Constant and A. Schopenhauer’s views and discusses terms and ideas necessary to understand the main theses advanced in the book. He presents the profiles and views of five 20th-century Polish philosophers: H. Elzenberg, S. Lem, M. Przełęcki, L. Kołakowski and B. Wolniewicz. He also attempts to synthesize their views, which show the essence of the atheistic apology of religion.

The End of Truth. Five Essays on The Demise of Neoliberalism

Author(s): Bülent Somay / Language(s): English

What seems to be happening throughout the last decade is the gradual invalidation and dissolution of what we used to call ‘Truth’, and hence the disruption and gradual dissolution of what Foucault had called the existing hierarchical “Regime of Truth”. What remains is not what Marx had hoped to be a more egalitarian regime in which “the educator{s themselves are also] educated”, but rather a ‘Humpty Dumpty Regime’, where ‘Truth’ is whatever the Humpty-Dumpty in power wants it to be. This book argues that this is an unmediated outcome of the profound social, cultural and economic crisis of neoliberal capitalism, and its political corollary, the meteoric rise of populism and authoritarianism, not only in the so-called ‘developing’ countries, but throughout the entire globe.

Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Hegelianismus in Russland

Author(s): Boris Yakovenko / Language(s): German

Published in Prague in 1934, the year X of the serial «Přiloha k „Ruchu filosofickému" (The Russian Thought), roč. X. No 4-5.».

Biografia człowieka

Author(s): Jan Kieniewicz,Stanisław Jan Rabiej / Language(s): Polish

The publication of scientific and essay character records a conversation between two university lecturers: a historian and a theologian. An inspiring, intimate, and deeply humanistic book, in which the reader will find not only biographical facts and existential reflections on human fate, but also original presentations of intertwined stories of man, civilization and religion. The authors ask questions and try to answer them together, encouraging the reader to do the same.

Iść i zarazem dojść. Cztery eseje z krytyki polityki terapeutycznej

Author(s): Ivan Dimitrijević / Language(s): Polish

Modern political semantics is based, among others, on re-semantics of Aristotelian kinesis. All “-isms”, all parties, all ideologies are, following Koselleck, the notions of movement: they assume the mobilization of citizens towards goals that can be achieved in time, which results in the constant dialectics between stagnation and social mobility. How does kinetic politics influence a democratic system? How does the widespread activation of bodies and minds affect the mental state of individuals? Is there, following Lasch, a relation between mobility and narcissism? Has politics become a form of disease therapy? Is politics not one of the sources of disease? Or, perhaps, politics is about a certain praxis and not a movement?

Solidarność i egoizm we współczesnym dyskursie akademickim

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

This multi-author monograph is a collection of eleven articles about current discourse on solidarity and egoism. The authors, representing different specialties, analyse the title phenomena from the ethical, social, economic and political perspective, focusing on the analysis of deep social changes in the modern world as well as modern and post-modern discourses which accompany them.