Games as Windows and Remedies to Modern Society: A Qualified Defense of Agonistic Encounters by Francisco Javier López Frías

“…Subsequently, I explore both philosophical victory-centric and mutualistic views of sporting competition. …”
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Wybrane koncepcje filozoficzne a działania medyczne dla poprawy jakości życia i urzeczywistniania rozwoju by Sławomir Letkiewicz

“…The analyzed ethical proposals, those of Friedrich Nietzsche and Józef Bańka, place the importance of philosophical reflection and speculation on this issue. …”
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A Most Eminent Victorian: Thomas Henry Huxley by Sherrie Lyons

“…Huxley coined the word agnostic to describe his own philosophical framework in part to distinguish himself from materialists, atheists, and positivists. …”
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Creating the Situation of Success as Implementation of the Optimism Idea: Pedagogic Interpretation of M. Seligman’s Theory by Y. V. Andreyeva

“…The author shares the idea of the contemporary American psychologist and philosopher regarding the optimism as the acquired skill affecting the students’ academic progress, and recommends developing students’ self-assurance by addressing a situation of success. …”
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Some-where over the rainbow by Lucia Saks

“… "Nowadays, a far graver mistake is made: race is confused with nation and a sovereignty analogous to that of really existing peoples is attributed to ethnographic or. rather linguistic groups. " Ernest Renan.18821 Although Jacques Derrida is not usually thought of in terms of the problematics of nations and nationalism, the term "endless deferral" cannot help but evoke his philosophical project, and it is to his picture of logo centrism that I initially tum in elaborating ,South Africa's "preeminent" status as a nation whose identity always seems to reside in some "elsewhere" space. …”
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Que pensent et disent des adolescents sur la pratique de la philosophie et ses apports? by Anda Fournel, Mathieu Gagnon, Olivier Michaud, Jean-Pascal Simon

“…The analysis shows that some challenges remain to optimize the benefits of philosophical practices for students.…”
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NEGARA DAN KEPEMIMPINAN DALAM PEMIKIRAN ALFARABI by Imam Sukardi

“…The ideal state for Alfarabi is the state which is having the goals for its citizen welfare, and who become the prime leader is a philosopher, who is having the prophetic character, having the wider knowledge, and able to communicate with al 'aql al fa’al trough al ‘aql mustafad.…”
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“That Sottish and Selfish principle”: Cugoano on Self-Interest, Imagination, and Moral Wrongdoing by Aminah Hasan-Birdwell

“…The paper will conclude by focusing on the philosophical and ethical dimensions of Cugoano’s descriptions of imagination and moral wrongdoing. …”
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Video Assemblages: ‘Machinic Animism’ and ‘Asignifying Semiotics’ in the Work of Melitopoulos and Lazzarato by Jay Hetrick

“…Assemblages (2010) is a three channel audio-visual documentary about the French philosopher and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. I will argue that, in order to fully understand this work, we must interrogate the incredibly dense theoretical context it inhabits. …”
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The Differences in Understanding Hominized Being in the Art Philosophy of Šliogeris and Heidegger by Tomas Kavaliauskas

“… Two different philosophical attitudes towards the hominized Being are analyzed: the one of Arvydas Šliogeris and the other of Martin Heidegger. …”
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Human Rights: is the concept truly coherent with the Christian moral teaching? by Aleksander Stępkowski

“…The author expresses scepticism about reconciling the concept of human rights with Christian anthropology, asserting that the rights-focused ethics is rooted in a non-Christian philosophical framework. The conclusion acknowledges the contemporary dominance of the rights-focused ethics but warns against the temptation to create a new "Christianity" compatible with this framework, urging a recognition of the anti-Christian nature of the ethical foundations of the modern Western society. …”
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AMERİKAN FELSEFESİNİN YENİDEN CANLANIŞI: JOHN J. MCDERMOTT by Celal Türer

“…John McDermott has played a primary role in the great renascence of interest in the history of American philosophical thought since 1958 and he has contributed and continues to contribute to advancement of that tradition in numerous areas. …”
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Technological a priori and Communicative Action in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano by Mete Han Arıtürk, Mehmet Büyüktuncay

“…This article examines the state of extreme mechanization in modern industrial societies, which leads to a strict separation of the various spheres of life and ultimately to the exclusion of the human element. The philosophers of the Frankfurt School, Herbert Marcuse and Jürgen Habermas in particular, have rigorously analyzed the inherently ideological function of technology in late capitalist societies. …”
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Territories of Equivalence by Clare Louise Lyster

“…I refer to previous object-based theories of space in architecture as well as to Object-Orientated Ontology, a philosophical movement that elevates the meaning of objects as independent conscious entities beyond human agency. …”
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L’agonie de Raimundo, fils d’Unamuno, et le sentiment comique de la vie by Yves Roullière

“…In contrast, this study will attempt to show that Raimundo's traumatic and hard existence had a decisive influence on the main aspects of Unamuno's work: philosophical, mystical, poetic and fictional, particularly in his approach to tragedy and comedy, sentiment and love.…”
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Czy zasada „sola Scriptura”pomaga czy przeszkadza w zjednoczeniu chrześcijaństwa? by Dariusz Kazimierz Bartoszewicz

“…Contemporary hermeneutics was initiated by Protestant philosophers and theologians. But nowadays it has been accepted and is also being developed by the Catholic theologian. …”
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Wpływ nowożytnego antropocentryzmu na relację człowieka do przyrody. Część 2 by Anita Ganowicz-Bączyk

“…Descartes) but also by philosophical views which on the one hand excluded man from nature (I. …”
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O nosso presente: a condição humana em alguns espelhos da modernidade e da pós-modernidade by Brenda Teresa Porto de Matos

“…This article text aims at taking up some ideas proposed by social analysts and philosophers that may illumine the scenario of our present world and the itineraries in which we are involved. …”
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COMPLEX SYMBOL "MIND" AND THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL RELATIVISM by Gintautas Mažeikis

“…The history of rational epistemology is considered from anthropology point of view of cultural and philosophical anthropology. There are short interpretations of various types of symbol "Mind": "the first cause of movement", "basis of being", "force of salvation", "strenght of harmonizing of cosmos", "creative power of form of thinking", "basis of structure of Ego", "product of connections of neurones", "expression of social and natural relations". …”
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