Cosmic Union of Communities: a New Concept and Technologies of Creating Cosmic Humanity

Author(s): Sergey Krichevsky / Language(s): English Issue: 22/2019

The article deals with the philosophical foundations of the theory and practice of creating Cosmic Humanity. It suggests a new idea, concept and technology of organizing cosmic communities, i.e. communities of people aspiring to space, striving to explore space, to fly and live beyond the Earth: the Cosmic Union of communities for the implementation of the superglobal project to create Cosmic Humanity. The methodological, social and technological aspects of the evolution of cosmic communities are described. The options, ways, models and projects of the institutionalization of such communities in the process of space exploration, as well as the creation of Cosmic Humanity, are systematized. A brief analysis of the history and experience gained during the Space Age and the Space Revolution is made using the examples of the two types of Cosmic Humanity: (1) the global astronaut community (1959-2018) and (2) the Asgardian community — a megaproject of the first space state created in the cosmopolitan paradigm form of constitutional monarchy based on digital technology (2016-2018). A new powerful stream of people aspiring into space (more than 1 million people) has arisen and is growing. The problems and features of the transition process during the creation of Cosmic Humanity are shown. A general assessment of the potential and problems of applying new technologies is given. The features and risks associated with changes in the position and status of man in new cosmic communities and Cosmic Humanity, taking into account technical development and transformations in the process of space exploration, are highlighted. An “ultimate” hypothesis of the evolution of man, mankind and Cosmic Humanity was suggested. The main conclusions and recommendations are formulated.

Doskonałość dzięki innym

Author(s): Artur Madaliński,Marek Krajewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 764/2019

Dystans i sito

Author(s): Arek Gruszczyński,Tomasz Mazur / Language(s): Polish Issue: 764/2019

Cephalization of the Noosphere: Socio-Philosophical Aspects

Author(s): Grigory Stanislavovich Smirnov,Dmitry Smirnov / Language(s): English Issue: 22/2019

The article investigates a phenomenon of cephalization of the noosphere. Cephalization is presented as a process of the brain development unfolding on numerous forms of living matter; as an adaptation way of the cosmic organism of the Universe. Modern global cephalization is determined by the coevolution of natural and artificial intelligence in the context of the complementarity principle and the correspondence principle. The idea of artificial intelligence as a continuation of the geological cephalization process is stated. The authors stress its not just biological or biospheric, but also noospheric and cosmic essence. Cephalization of noosphere is depicted as a special supra-social (meta-social, socio-natural) form of civilization development ruled by the cosmic teleology.

Mindenki a maga munkáját végezte, s ne ártsa magát sokféle dologba

Author(s): Rowenna Rusu / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 03/2016

Marxism fără marxism

Author(s): Terry Eagleton / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 09+10/2017

This essay highlights the connections between Derrida's philosophy and Marxism.

Idealul panromânesc şi desvoltarea economică a ţării

Author(s): Paul Sterian / Language(s): Romanian,Moldavian Issue: 4/2016

ZNANSTVENO ODGONETANJE ŽIVOTA: AUTOPOIESIS I POVRATNE PETLJE

Author(s): Zdenko Zeman / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 65+66/2003

In the article some arguments for an affirmative answer to the question whether science can come close to understanding the nature of life are analysed. Commencing from the fact that life in late modernity (and not only there) occurs in the shadow of different threats, the author finds that in the centre of all this uneasiness stands the fear for life itself (in the individual but also in a derived, more general sense). Considering the philosophical (and theological) precepts on this "issue", the author also establishes a simple truth – that fear can truly be overcome only as the awakening of love for life. Activating biophilia could no doubt provide significant support to the well-known concept of "sustainable development". However, the love of life could also become – although in a utopian perspective – a "gravitational centre" of an "improved", axiologically and ethically sensitised (post)modernity.

Jordan B. Peterson, czyli jak zarobić na kontrrewolucji

Author(s): Michał Zabdyr-Jamróz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 765/2019

ECONI & UMANI. MITUL RAŢIONALITĂŢII ÎN TEORIILE ECONOMICE STANDARD

Author(s): Dan Crăciun / Language(s): Romanian,Moldavian Issue: 3/2016

The main purpose of this study is to make a case for behavioral economics, regarded not as a rejection and a replacement of standard, scholastic economics, but as a way to enlarge and increase our insight of real economic processes. The first part argues against one very persistent, and yet inconsistent fiction: homo economicus. Starting from the famous distinction made by Thaler and Sunstein between Econs and Humans, the second part attempts to dismantle this fiction analyzing different logical games and lab experiments, all indicating that real people often behave more or less irrationally, far from the perfect rational decision making of homo economicus. The final part is searching for arguments in favor of behavioral economics in real life decision making.

O PERSPECTIVĂ CRITICĂ ASUPRA IDEII DE RAŢIONALITATE A AGENTULUI ECONOMIC

Author(s): Sergiu Bălan / Language(s): Romanian,Moldavian Issue: 3/2016

According to the mainstream neo-classical economics, the economic model based on the idea of homo oeconomicus, understood as a perfectly rational agent, acting always in order to maximize his utility was a useful and effective way to explain everything that happens in the economy. But since the middle of the last century, scholars began to generalize this model, believing that the model of the economic man does not only describe what happens in the market, but can be also used to explain and predict all kinds of social phenomena, and therefore should be used by all human and social sciences. But is the human being really a perfectly rational agent? Recent discoveries in the field of behavioural sciences seem to suggest that the theory of homo oeconomicus is rather an ideal model, and the myth of perfect rationality should be either abandoned or, at least, radically amended.

POATE FI UTILIZATĂ MAXIMIZAREA UTILITĂŢII AŞTEPTATE CA UN CRITERIU AL RAŢIONALITĂŢII?

Author(s): Dragoş Bîgu / Language(s): Romanian,Moldavian Issue: 3/2016

In this article, I analyze whether expected utility theory can be used as a criterion of rational choice. More precisely, I examine whether the conclusion that a certain behavior is irrational can be drawn based on the fact that it conflicts with expected utility maximization rule. My answer is negative. First, many actions that seem incompatible with expected utility theory can be accommodated in this framework. Secondly, agents that do not follow, in their choices, the utility maximization rule are not necessarily irrational.

CRITICA RAŢIUNII ISTORICE: UN PROIECT NEFINALIZAT ÎN FILOSOFIA ŞTIINŢELOR SOCIALE

Author(s): Valentin Cojanu / Language(s): Romanian,Moldavian Issue: 3/2016

This study is an attempt at conceptualizing the various frame ofthought of philosophers working in the historical reason tradition. On its applicativeside, it brings to light Bernard Williams’ “idea of liberty” to illustrate how historypermeates our reasoning as an analytically critical method. We follow a two-stepexamination consisting of an introduction to the framework of thinking about a socialvalue, the idea of liberty, and a discussion of the implication of adopting it ineconomics and social sciences, in general. The discussion opens up novel vistas forrethinking social science on an epistemological platform grounded on historical reason.

MANAGEMENTUL SUB AUSPICIILE MORALITĂŢII. CONSIDERAŢII PRIVIND RELAŢIA DINTRE ETICĂ ŞI AFACERI

Author(s): Ștefan-Dominic Georgescu / Language(s): Romanian,Moldavian Issue: 3/2016

The paper refers to adistinction between limitative and generative ethics. The main idea is that, if ethics is tobe of any help for managers, it has to provide applicable principles that can morallyorient managerial decisions, and avoid abstract principles that are usually used not tohelp managers, but to sanction their decisions.

SPAȚIUL ȘI TIMPUL ÎN LUMEA DIGITALĂ ÎN REȚEA. UN EXAMEN CRITIC KANTIAN

Author(s): Constantin Vică / Language(s): Romanian,Moldavian Issue: 2/2016

My aim in this paper is, by porting the Kantian view on time and space into the analysis of the digital world, to show that the pre-reflective and constitutive frames of possibility and reference of reality cannot be changed by digitally mediated experiences. Space and time are not changed or reshaped by digital experiences. In fact, new digital experiences are bound to the same conditions of possibility. The newness of the digital world is expressed by the plurality, diversity and complexity of representational content which excites the human perception within the same aprioristic framework, i.e. our sensibility is not formally reshaped by digital tools we use but definitely extended. At the end, I criticize some misleading propositions and judgments about the digital world and I investigate if we can talk about algorithms as noumena.

EXPERIENŢA FACEBOOK: EXPRESIVISMUL DIGITAL ŞI CYBER-BIOPUTEREA

Author(s): Cristian Iftode / Language(s): Romanian,Moldavian Issue: 2/2016

The core idea of this study is to make use of Foucault’s three “axes” – veridiction / governmentality / subjectivation – in order to investigate Facebook as a contemporary field of experience. I focus my analysis on FB key function as digital self-writing ‘apparatus’, briefly going through previous historical stages of this technique of the self and trying to outline what is really new in self-writing 2.0, but also what doesn’t amount to anything but an interesting cross-fertilization of older elements. My conclusions are rather skeptical in respect to the possibility of transferring the FB digital self-fashioning into the real life. In the end, I even try to warn about the pitfalls and dangers that digital expressivism entails (narcissism, self-absorption, splitting up genuine community life), up to the point where it risks becoming a true digital instrument of biopolitical normalization.

SCHIȚĂ PENTRU O POSIBILĂ FILOSOFIE A DIGITALULUI

Author(s): Lavinia Marin / Language(s): Romanian,Moldavian Issue: 2/2016

This article aims to develop the outline of a possible philosophy of the digital, as a proper philosophy with its own domain, questions, methods and theories. The article starts by describing the crisis of linear thinking understood, following Vilém Flusser, as a crisis of historical-causal thinking. Then the digital thinking is described as a new way of thinking which aims to become the dominant way of scientific explanation of our times, by replacing historical-causal explanations with numerical models. The proper domain of a philosophy of the digital is then defined as the digital life-form. The article ends by showing an example of a specific problem for the philosophy of the digital, namely the automatisation of human life.

PIRATERIA ONLINE: UN TIP DE INFRACȚIUNE FĂRĂ VICTIME

Author(s): Radu Uszkai / Language(s): Romanian,Moldavian Issue: 2/2016

The purpose of my study is that of exploring whether the online piracy of music, movies and books should be regarded, from a moral and legal standpoint, as a victimless crime. First and foremost I will begin by presenting the general context of the debate, highlighting the relevance of the subject in the contemporary world. The next sections of the paper will focus on exploring the notions of victimless crimes and online piracy (or file sharing) as opposed to traditional forms of music or movie piracy. The bulk of my study will revolve around arguing that online file sharing is not harmful towards artists or the creative industry. Last but not least, my paper will conclude with a normative proposal: if online piracy is a victimless crime, then we should actively pursue its decriminalization.

Bioetyka konfucjańska jako odpowiedź na wyzwania współczesnej biomedycyny

Author(s): Karol Gregorczuk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 14/2018

The dynamic development of biology, medicine and technology is one of the main reasons behind ethical reflection on interference in the natural processes of life, which has led to the emergence of a new interdisciplinary field – bioethics. This approach combines scientific knowledge and ethical values, and indicates the need to reconcile the achievements of science and humanistic values, as determinants for mutual relations between science and ethics. The originality of Chinese culture inspires us to appreciate Confucian philosophy, which is a cultural repository of knowledge about human life, personal relations and connections between human beings and nature. In this text, I describe some basic problems of bioethics, e.g. euthanasia, suicide, abortion, and the death penalty, from the perspective of Confucian and Western bioethics. Confucius’s ethical thought is based on five regulations: humaneness (ren), righteousness (yi), ritual (li), wisdom (zhi), and faithfulness (xin), which determine the boundaries of human activity. These ideas underlie the cultural richness of modern Chinese bioethics and they can successfully inspire European bioethics; therefore they promote mutual understanding between East and West

FERICIREA - O ALEGERE? (Perspective neuropsihologice)

Author(s): Georgiana Lorena Nistor / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 38/2019

To whom does the happiness belong? Who gives us this right? Is this a choice? Happiness is in our hands! It’s an exclusive choice of ours.At the psychological and emotional level, happiness is just a state we choose according to our gratitude. Happiness it is not just a psychological notion. The pragmatism of some areas such as biochemistry or neurophysiology has been proven. When we ask ourselves what makes us happy we think about the circumstances, the possessions or the people we love. In fact, happiness is a chemical experience.Neurophysiological, four major neurochemicals, hormones and neurotransmitters generated in the brain are fundamentally responsible for creating the sensations and emotions we associate with happiness.