Existențialismul românesc by Paul Cernat

“…After the Second World War, when Existentialism became a well-known and significant philosophical and cultural movement in the world, we may also talk about Existentialism as present in the creation of few Romanian writers reviewed in this article.…”
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REJECTION OF DOGMA by Henrikas Zabulis

“…Later on, his ability to question everything what was officially accepted in the Marxist theory has formed a gighly original school of the University philosophers, which attracted strong enough criticism of official institutions, but made a great impact on academic youth. …”
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Fin du Temps et Retour à l'Origine (Aspects de Vimamologie duodécimaine VI) by Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi

“…The examination of these relations seems to show, as some philosophical and mystical exegesis have underlined, that the Twelver Shiite vision of the world rests, like other initiatic traditions with mythical language, on the triptych of original purity, the invasion of evil and the final return to the origin.…”
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How to Think Constructivism? Ruskin, Spuybroek and Deleuze on Gothic Architecture by Piotrek Swiatkowski

“…His analysis leads to a critique of the work of Deleuze and Guattari, who are portrayed as philosophers of the sublime. Their resistance to the signifying semiotics leads them too far. …”
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Thinking, Totalitarianism, and Tribunals: The Notion of Responsibility in Repressive Regimes by Andreea Norica Bălan

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« Décomposition fécondante » : la chimie organique et les savoirs du vivant chez Flaubert by Judith Wulf

“…This choice of coupling or separating chemistry and life perfectly mirrors the century’s scientific and philosophical debates. In keeping with his method, Flaubert gives them a voice in his writing.…”
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RSE et théorie des parties prenantes : les impasses du contrat by Didier Cazal

“…Then I underline how stakeholder theory is rooted in contractarianism: the firm is viewed as a nexus of contracts between stakeholders, in the line of transactions costs theory, its philosophical foundations are inspired from social theories of social contract and justice as fairness, as they were especially developed by Rawls. …”
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La ‘Mitteleuropa’ et l’humain du futur by Adriana Popović

“…I build this organorg with influences as varied as my Balkan origins, my readings of science fiction or philosophical, sociological or political essays. My artistic work is built in a kind of resistance to the programmed obsolescence of the body, to its disappearance as foreseen in some SF books and in contemporary art. …”
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Cannibalism and Other Transgressions of the Human in The Road by Andrew Estes

“…The recent emergence of posthumanism as an area of philosophical and literary enquiry adds further urgency to the topic of anthropophagy, which serves both to define the human and to place individuals outside this category. …”
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Design, Anthropology, and Sociology. A Possible Transdisciplinarity? by Angelo Bucci

“…The article advocates the re-evaluation of design ethical dimension and its potential for shaping future narratives; it stresses the importance of promoting sustainable and ethical behaviors through design to enhance collective well-being. Drawing on philosophical and sociological perspectives, it proposes proactive design interventions to envision and shape desirable futures. …”
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Et hic est finis : Bibliomanie, ou le livre-arbitre by Magali Soulatges

“…On the grounds of the bibliomaniac Giacomo’s boundless worship of this image, and considering the possible double interpretation of the word “Finis” in bibliological and philosophical registers, might we not recognize in Bibliomanie the form of a Vanity?…”
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L’autorité éducative : bienveillance envers l’autre, vigilance envers soi by Camille Roelens

“…The reflexion, conducted from a philosophical point of view, is articulated around a wide acceptation of the kindness, and in permanent resonance with the double-dealing of individual autonomy and autonomous functioning of collectives, which seems to be the functioning of the individuals’ society. …”
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‘Diaphaneitè’ and Dante: a New Perspective on Pater’s Early Essay by Julia Straub

“…Despite acute awareness of Walter Pater’s interest in and use of literary, mythological, philosophical and artistic sources in his own writings, his reception of Dante Alighieri has not been investigated sufficiently yet. …”
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Mirror-Image Asymmetry, Chirality, and Suttree by Bryan Giemza

“…Understanding chirality in turn reveals new dimensions of scientific and philosophical meaning in McCarthy’s work, including his investigation of free will, chance, and determinism; his interest in narrative, consciousness, and evolutionary theory; and his search for a logos—a universal ordering principle in both the material and metaphysical worlds.…”
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Phénoménologie de la baie des anges by Claude Montserrat-Cals

“…This article harks back to the phenomenological attempt which was made in Cette Lumière (This Light) by Claude Montserrat-Cals, to tell a landscape and to trigger off its appearance from a philosophical approach. It deals with the Baie des Anges in Nice and its morning light glistening on the sea. …”
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El príncipe modelo reflejado en las obras Relox de príncipes y Enseñanzas de Neagoe Basarab hacia su hijo Teodosio by Andrei Iulian Din

“…In the present paper we intend to put up for discussion the concept of the “ideal prince”, reflected in the works of two important authors in the history of medieval literature, namely Antonio de Guevara’s Dial of Princes and Neagoe Basarab’s The teachings of Neagoe Basarab to his son Theodosie. An entire philosophical system was built around this concept, from the Classic Era to the Renaissance, and the ideology behind it represented the answer to certain existential questions that a collective unconscious had at a certain point. …”
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Communitarianism, Personhood and Politics: Engaging with the Philosophy of Bernard Matolino (Guest Editor’s Introduction) by Mutshidzi MARAGANEDZHA

“…At the heart of this project lies an in-depth exploration of Bernard Matolino’s influential ideas and their significance within the African philosophical tradition. We will investigate how Matolino’s work has informed contemporary African thinkers as they redefine the role of community in modern, multicultural societies. …”

Pratiquer une réflexion épistémologique sur les sciences dans une école communautaire du Québec : exemple de tension entre savoirs diffusés et savoirs locaux.  by Hervé Ferrière, Laurence Ferrière

“…We led discussions with philosophic objectives around these questions with a small group of 14 or 15 years old pupils, within Native’s school of Quebec. …”
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On the Mission of Humanitarian Education in Higher Technical School by A. A. Polonnikov

“…It analyzes discourses of renewing the sense of teaching liberal disciplines, philosophical ones in the first place, in higher school, with factors of lowering their status identified in it. …”
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On the scaling of digital twins by aggregation by Marcelo Pias, Lawrence Bull, Daniel S. Brennan, Mark Girolami, Jon Crowcroft

“…This mindset emphasises that DT complexity emerges from the framework of connections (Wagg et al. [2024, The philosophical foundations of digital twinning, Preprint]) as well as the (interpretable) units that constitute the whole.…”
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