Reviewing and Criticizing the Book “Europe since Napoleon” by Hossein Pendar

“…The book "Europe since Napoleon" is a thorough book regarding liberal European history (not European liberal history) written by David Thomson, an English liberal-political philosopher, whose negligence of a significant point challenges his historical attitude on European history despite his insistence on a liberalist stance in explaining, criticizing and reviewing an integrated history of Europe, which takes its historical heritage from unifying elements. …”
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A Review of Philosophy, Theology, and Politics: A Reading of Benedict Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus by Seyyed Mustafa Shahraeeni, Mohammad Sina Mirzaei

“…However, Bagley holds that it is a book about theology and politics that is written by a philosopher. More precisely, it is a treatise written by someone whose allegiance is to philosophy rather than either to theology or to politics. …”
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A Peircean transcendental framework for conceiving human and non-human culture by Hünefeldt Thomas

“…The semiotic realism of the American philosopher and scientist Charles S. Peirce (1839–1914) originally emerged out of a systematic critique of Kant’s transcendental philosophy. …”
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Między widzialnością a autentycznością w demokracji by Piotr Łukomski, Filip Pierzchalski

“…The theoretical basis for presenting democratic practice as a theatre game – more precisely, a strictly enacted and inauthentic staging based on diverse visual communication – will be Hannah Arendt’s phenomenological perspective. According to the philosopher, the space of politics is mainly a public area of exchange and confrontation in the dimension of visibility and audibility, where we are dealing with revealing ourselves (political actors) in the space of appearance (the articulation process as a result of subjective activity). …”
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Partager l’action paysagère avec des enfants pour interpeller le projet de paysage by Roxane Wormser

“…Drawing on the work of the philosopher Jean-Marc Besse, we look at two examples of projects implemented with children in Lille and we seek to make assumptions regarding possible movements or developments able to challenge urban planning practices and modify our relation to landscape planning.…”
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Moral Economy by Asonzeh Ukah

“…These include the contemporary analysis of religious morality and regulation in Northern Nigeria, the entanglements of Muslim-owned restaurants and Islam-ic morality in Mumbai (India), Zulu ethnic nationality and morality in the Nazareth Baptist Church in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), and finally, the pre-modern theoretical and philosophical reflections of the 14th-century Tunisian Muslim philosopher, Abd al-Rahman Ibn Khaldun. …”
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Aude Thuries, L’apparition de la danse : construction et émergence du sens dans le mouvement. À partir de la philosophie de Susanne Langer by Aude Thuries

“…Sense is a complex notion, which has been variously conceptualized in the course of dance history but merely investigated.In order to do so, we use the the works of Susanne Langer, a 20th century American philosopher whose writings explore the concept of “symbol”. …”
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A Review of Kant’s Pragmatic Anthropology: Its Origin, Meaning and Critical Significance by Somayyeh Rafigi, Muhammad Asghari

“…In the late years of his life, Kant added the question "What is Human Being?" to his basic philosophical questions and regarded its answer the answers other questions. …”
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Essay on Bernard Stiegler’s history of mnemotechnics by B. V. Podoroga

“…The purpose of this article is to present history of memory techniques as it described by French philosopher Bernard Stiegler. It is shown that Stiegler speaks from the point of view of humanistic marxism arguing that the positive development of mnemotechnics is determined by their integration into symbolic relations, outside of which they becomes a means of consumer capitalism. …”
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Kelsen H. Causality and Retribution / trans. from Engl. А. B. Didikin by А. B. Didikin

“…A translation of a paper by the Austrian philosopher and lawyer Hans Kelsen devoted to the conceptual understanding of the principle of causality in humanitarian knowledge is presented. …”
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A Critique on the Book Ressentiment by Ali Yaghoobi Choobari, Hamideh Mohammadzadeh

“…In this book, Scheller introduces ressentiment as well as Nietzsche's view of the issue, which he, under the influence of this famous German philosopher, introduced and expanded the ressentiment concept. …”
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Slowness and Renewed Perception: Revisiting Douglas Gordon’s 24 Hour Psycho (1993) with Don DeLillo’s Point Omega (2010) by Françoise Sammarcelli

“…It then argues that Point Omega can be read as a complex theoretical essay, blurring the boundaries between genres, notably by establishing a dialogue with Gordon and Jesuit philosopher Teilhard de Chardin, while problematizing academic discourse. …”
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A Technique Socratic Questioning-Guided Discovery by M. Hakan Türkçapar, A. Emre Sargın

“…“Socratic Method” is a way of teaching philosophical thinking and knowledge by asking questions which was used by antique period greek philosopher Socrates. …”
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CARTESIAN PERSONAL METAPHYSICS by A. M. Malivskyi

“…Important prerequisites for its comprehension are attention to the ethical motive as the driving force of philosophizing and recognition of the importance of the poetic worldview. …”
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Semantics of legal concepts and natural kind terms: D. Patterson’s arguments by A. B. Didikin

“…The paper is devoted to the analysis of the arguments of the american legal philosopher Dennis Patterson regarding the applicability of the natural kinds terms to the semantics of the legal language. …”
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François Lamy’s Cartesian Refutation of Spinoza’s Ethics by Jack Stetter

“…François Lamy (1636–1711), a Benedictine monk and Cartesian philosopher whose extensive relations with Arnauld, Bossuet, Fénélon, and Malebranche put him into contact with the intellectual elite of late-seventeenth-century France, authored the very first detailed and explicit refutation of Spinoza’s Ethics in French, Le nouvel athéisme renversé (1696). …”
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From Life to Its Online School: An Analysis of Alain de Botton’s ‘The School of Life’ as Strategy and Tactic by Gökçen Karanfil, A. Özgür Gürsoy

“…The conceptual analysis is then applied to The School of Life (an online educational organization initiated by the popular author, philosopher, and entrepreneur Alain de Botton) both to offer an examination of this cultural artifact and to test the assumptions the theoretical framework developed.…”
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Explanation of Mystical Hermeneutics in Ja'far al-Sadiq's Exegesis Based on Paul Ricoeur's Opinions by Reza Tabatabaee Amid, Ghodratollah Khayatian, Azim Hamzeian

“…Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher and literary man, is one of the most remarkable theoretician of literary and philosophical hermeneutic. …”
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İBN SÎNÂ’NIN BİN YILLIK YARIM ANLAŞILMASI by Mehmet Bayraktar

“…Bu makalemizde İbn Sînâ’nın tam anlaşılması için söz konusu iki kavramın ayrı iki anlamı olduğu üzerinde duracağız.Anahtar Sözcükler: İbn Sînâ, el-Vâcibü’l-Vücûd, Vâcibü’l-Vücûd, Zorunlu Varlık, Zorlayan Varlık Abstract: Al-Wâjibu’l-Wujûd and Wâjibu’l-Wujûd are two very important concepts of Turkish philosopher Ibn Sina’s (Avicenna) metaphysics. But these two concepts have been understood until today as if they were the same and one concept. …”
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