Human subjectivity in the prenatal period by Tadeusz Biesaga

“…The Author thinks that the proposal to treat a human embryo as a deceased donor of organs, is wrong both in the field of embryology and philosophical anthropology. It is also wrong to question the subjectivity of human embryo using various criteria of growth (developed nervous system, brain, consciousness, participation in the life of society and looking after one's own interests). …”
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The enigma of validity: Speculations on the last paragraph of Donner le temps II by Rezende Gabriel

“…Validity, as the mystical foundation of normativity, functions simultaneously as a metaphysical shortcut to secure self-reference in philosophical thought and as the impossibility of any foundational grounding (Grundlegung).…”
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Humans in Digitized Worlds: Perspectives on Self-Expansion, Outdoor Activities, and Body Perception by André Klostermann

“…The first presentation examines the philosophical implications of wearable fitness technologies, focusing on how self-tracking devices influence self-knowledge and create potential dissonance between digital feedback and bodily awareness. …”
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Hunting for Education: ‘Archaeological’ Speculations on Critique and Paideia by Stefano Oliverio

“…In their educational project, the Greeks still maintained an awareness of this ‘history,’ as is evident by the importance that hunting held in their myths about and their (philosophical) reflection on education. This idea will be investigated by also tracking the evolution of the gesture of hunting towards the horizon which presides over the creation of the school and the form of rationality and the epistemic attitude that it embodies. …”
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A Hermeneutic Analysis of Selected Yorùbá Pentecostal Songs by George Olusola Ajibade

“…As Christianity moved through the intellectual and political worlds, especially among the Yorùbá people of southwestern Nigeria, it acquired new categories of thought. Yorùbá philosophical language began to be applied in expressing some of the mysteries of the Christian faith. …”
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Réhabiliter l’Homme avec la technologie by Stéphane Simonian

“…This double issue will be developed in a philosophical approach, relying in particular on the thought of Simondon (1958). …”
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O espaço é a flor azul do imaginário: Gaston Bachelard e Walter Benjamin em Paris – a descoberta de uma paisagem literária by Valéria Cristina Pereira da Silva, Carlos Fonseca Clamote Carreto

“…In an allegorical and phenomenological way, we took the image of the blue flower, as a symbol of the space in the philosophy of the imagination and the imaginary, as well as the survival of the romanticism that belongs to both philosophers. The blue flower is the direct image of the imagination, manifested in the consciousness and also in the desire as a place to be reached, and at the same time, an emblem of an occult dimension, of something that waits to be discovered. …”
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What was the cause of Friedrich Nietzsche's illness? by E. Žilinskas

“…Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is one of the most profound modern philosophers. Since childhood, Nietzsche suffered from severe headaches, and at the age of thirty he became blind in his right eye. …”
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THE PERSPECTIVES OF EDUCATION: COMPETENCES, INTELLECTUAL ENVIRONMENTS, TRANSDISCIPLINARITY by Andrey L. Andreev

“…The article also attracts attention to the fact that in newly adoptededucation standards competences are treated as widely as to include moral dispositions and values, and this position from the philosophical point of view seems very doubtful, as soon as in this case the notion of competence embraces nearly the whole contents of our mentality. …”
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Aesthetics and Ethics in Anna Jameson’s Characteristics of Women by Alison Stone

“…In this paper I contribute to the recovery of women in the history of philosophy by giving the first modern-day philosophical account of the ideas on aesthetics and ethics of Anna Jameson (1794–1860). …”
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L’identité argentine ou la construction d’un mythe littéraire entre Europe et Amérique by Lionel Souquet

“…Paradoxically enough, this literary image is not so far removed from the socio-cultural reality as the identity of the Latin-American novelist is often defined by his or her engagement with reality through (philosophical, political, historical and sociological) description and analysis. …”
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Well-being is dead, long live well-being! by Mark Piper

“…The upshot of this paper is that philosophers should abandon the attempt to establish any invariant substantive claims about well-being as such (well-being invariantism is dead). …”
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Researching in prison education-spaces: Thinking-with Posthuman, Post Qualitative, Feminist Materialism ‘beings’ to disentangle methodology. by Lucy Harding

“…In being-with these concepts, I trace the influences of philosophers and theorists in these practices, including the work of Deleuze & Guattari, Braidotti, Barad, Haraway, Manning, St. …”
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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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The Ancient Greeks in the Thought of Arvydas Šliogeris: The Ambiguity of Reception by Gintarė Škėmaitė

“…Therefore, the reception of the Greeks supports Šliogeris’ philosophical theory. This effect stems from the specifics of his thinking; he approaches it with passion and is unafraid of incoherence or repetition. …”
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Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge as Cognitive Ethical Narrative by Hossein Pirnajmuddin, Omid Amani

“…Adding some reflections on the philosophical implications of Sartre and Levinas, it is proposed that the protagonist’s act of betrayal is circumstantially complex. …”
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« Never was there a happier partnership » : les illustrations d’Arthur Hughes pour At the Back of the North Wind de George MacDonald by Catherine Persyn

“…Last but not least, the eponymous character of the story and mouthpiece of the author’s philosophical views, the magical North Wind, whose sole mention immediately calls to mind the most inspired and best-known engravings of the whole series, deserved to be studied at some length, which is done under the heading : You Cannot Barre Love Oute.…”
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Les opérations intellectuelles des élèves et la perception de l’enseignante dans trois discussions à visée philosophique en classe de CP by Lidia Lebas-Fraczak

“…In three philosophical discussions in a class of schoolchildren aged 6-7 years, we analyzed linguistic forms in successive utterances to establish the intellectual processes involved. …”
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"He will die in another way before he is dead". The violence of the prison system in "The Double Dying of an Ordinary Criminal" by Breyten Breytenbach by Rosa Calì

“…Then, Breytenbach’s short story The Double Dying of an Ordinary Criminal will be analysed, with special emphasis on the themes of the double and death, and Breytenbach’s indictment of prison conditions and the death sentence during Apartheid (1948-1991). Finally, the philosophical musings on death and mirrors in the second chapter of the story will be further explored, describing the role of writing and thinking about death. …”
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Henryka Skolimowskiego krytyka cywilizacji zachodniej w kontekście kryzysu ekologicznego by Rafał Czekalski

“…The recurring adjective 'new' points on the one hand to the necessity of breaking with current philosophical tradition and on the other – to opening up to and looking for inspiration in present existential dimensions; this referring mainly to broadly understood spirituality. …”
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