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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Asymetria pomiędzy dobrem a złem z perspektywy filozoficznej i moralnoteologicznej by Tadeusz Kuźmicki

“…This asymmetry of good can be systematically analyzed three-dimensionally through the references to the thought of Thomas Aquinas, to the legacy of Neo-Thomist Josef Pieper, and to the reflections of an influential moralist Eberhard Schockenhoff. From a philosophical perspective, this asymmetry is observable in the analysis of a being, which, as created, is good in contradistinction to evil, which is nothing. …”
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ŽMOGAUS IR GAMTOS SANTYKIŲ PROBLEMOS RAIDA FILOSOFIJOJE by Jūratė Mackevičiūtė

“…THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN AND NATURE RELATIONS IN PHILOSOPHY Jūratė Mackevičiūtė Summary The article analyses an ecological problem from the philosophical standpoint. I discuss the way which led human reason has covered from the cosmological ideas to the concrete scientific investigations of the present ecological situation. …”
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Schemata und Systemcharakter by Stefan Rohringer

“…Following the arguments of the philosophers Michael Esfeld and Martin Seel it is first shown how music-analytical discourses and musical works can be described as systems. …”
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Staying Optimistic: The Trials and Tribulations of Leibnizian Optimism by Lloyd Strickland

“…As we shall see, while Leibniz’s doctrine did win a good number of adherents in the 1720s and 1730s, especially in Germany, support for it had largely dried up by the mid-1740s; moreover, while opponents of Leibniz’s doctrine were few and far between in the 1710s and 1720s, they became increasing vocal in the 1730s and afterwards, between them producing an array of objections that served to make Leibnizian optimism both philosophically and theologically toxic years before the Lisbon earthquake struck.…”
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Ecophilosophical and Ecopsychological Aspects of Sustainable Consumption and Lifestyle by Mikołaj Niedek

“… The aim of the article is to outline the philosophical and psychological dimensions of a sustainable lifestyle based on responsible consumption. …”
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Spinoza’s Strong Eudaimonism by Brandon Smith

“…Strong eudaimonists, conversely, build their conceptions of happiness around an overall philosophical system that extends far beyond ethics, while nevertheless being directed at the promotion of a happy life. …”
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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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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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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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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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