Shaftesbury on the Beauty of Nature by Michael B. Gill

“…I show how that view emerged as Shaftesbury’s solution to a problem he took to be of the deepest philosophical and personal importance: the problem of how worship of God can be both transportingly emotional and entirely rational.In section 1 I sketch the denigration of wild nature in two of Shaftesbury’s predecessors: Burnet and Locke. …”
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La grande enfance by Jean-François Dupeyron

“…In fine, the model of a Great Childhood (Nietzsche) proposes a new philosophical horizon for the pedagogical welcoming of a form of life filled of acting power: the early chilhood.…”
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Animals, Mimesis, and the Origin of Language by Kári Driscoll

“…The moment when Siegfried tries and fails to imitate the bird’s song represents a concurrence of themes from these earlier philosophical discourses and serves to elucidate how here, as in Rousseau and Herder’s accounts, animals are present at—indeed, seem to bring about—the origin of the very thing which later excludes them, namely language. …”
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The Ontology of Biological Groups: Do Grasshoppers Form Assemblages, Communities, Guilds, Populations, or Something Else? by Jeffrey A. Lockwood

“…By adopting the framework of constrained perspectivism—a form of philosophical pragmatism—it is argued that a term is correct if it accurately reflects the conceptual framework of the investigator and effectively communicates this perspective to others. …”
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Localizing Violations of the Principle of Sufficient Reason—Leibniz on the Modal Status of the PSR by Sebastian Bender

“…The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR)—the principle that everything has a reason—plays a central role in Leibniz’s philosophical system. It is rather difficult, however, to determine what Leibniz’s attitude towards the modal status of the PSR is. …”
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Quand l’art prend soin de vous by Diane Watteau

“…En hommage à Jean-Louis Déotte, Diane Watteau rappelle la fécondité de ses réflexions sur l’art et le care, notamment dans l’analyse par le philosophe d’une exposition organisée à la Pharmacie, un espace pour l’art contemporain situé dans le pavillon Dormois de l’hôpital de Tonnerre à l’été 2017. …”
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Penser l’écocide au XIXe siècle : crimes contre la nature, châtiment divin et vengeance de la Terre by Samy Bounoua

“…We want to show in this article that the idea of ecocide is older than the word : since the beginning of the 19th century, in the West, many (scientists, philosophers, naturalists, essay writers, etc.) have worried about the growth of the environmental damages, considering them as transgressions, and even as crimes committed against God’s creation or, in a more secular spirit, against a nature which should have remained untouched, for the good of mankind. …”
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Comment définir l’humain à partir de sa diversité ? Questions épistémologiques et enjeux philosophiques by Mathilde Lequin

“…Through a review of the history of debates on past human diversity and an analysis of the different biases that influence assessments of the number of hominin species, this note puts forward several avenues to update the theoretical framework of palaeoanthropology, by proposing a critique of the bush-like model of evolution in favour of a reticulate model, by bringing out the philosophical assumptions underlying the systematic description of new hominin species and through a discussion on the specifically anthropological dimension of past human diversity.…”
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Les révoltes au pays de la révolution by Kamel Chachoua

“…This study will attempt to show how this posture is the dual expression of virulent nationalism filled with Marxist ideology of the 1960-70s on the one hand, and a positivist, scientistic unconscious inherited from the philosophical tradition of Ecole Normale and Paris. This dual source may explain the character both “revolutionary” and “conservative” of this pioneering elite of independent Algeria.Algeria, Sociology, Algerian intelligentsia, Nationalism, Social movements, Algerian exception, Arab revolts…”
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Dialog religijny w turystyce by Maciej Ostrowski

“…He discusses also various types of religious dialogue: within the tourists’ own religious community, the ecumenical dialogue between members of different Christian denominations, philosophical dialogues with non-believers and finally dialogue between members of different religions. …”
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La vitalité, la vie et le travail by Éric Hamraoui

“…We have chosen an approach that combines aspects of philosophical thought, the psychology of work, and public hygiene history, but that also includes elements of theology, sociology, and, to a lesser extent, of literature, in order to highlight the necessity to develop instruments that can determine the mechanisms leading to the exhaustion of life at work and resulting in numerous health problems and even suicide.…”
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La mère, la directrice, la pédagogue et la lectrice : de l’utilisation du sexe comme variable pédagogique chez Pauline Kergomard by Bérengère Kolly

“…By this way, Pauline Kergomard does aknowledge the necessary circulation between family and school, and differentiates real from philosophical model: her new model of school is thus both in distance with real mother and anchored in “motherly genius”. …”
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Entropic «Virus» of Democracy Энтропийный «вирус» демократии Ентропійний «вірус» демократії by V. V. Khmel

“…The article deals with the social and philosophical analysis of democracy as an element of holistic social being in contrast to its political and instrumental interpretation in politology research. …”
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HERAKLEİTOS: KOSMOS'TAN İNSAN'A by Hakan Poyraz

“…Likewise other Ionian philosophers, Herakleitos was also concerned with the first principle that constitutes cosmos. …”
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THE RESPONSIBILITY OF ARCHITECTURE: BEAUTY, JUSTICE AND THE CALL OF CARE by H.A. Auret

“…Interwoven with these philosophical positions, the text refers to the historical development of church architecture as interpretive device. …”
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Autorité de la formation, autorité du formateur : autonomie(s) structurelle, substantielle, individuelle by Camille Roelens

“…This article questions, from the point of view of philosophical politics of education, the issues raised by Le Nouveau monde (Gauchet, 2017) regarding the aims of education and the available means to achieve them. …”
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WHITEHEAD'iN TABİATÇI TEİZMİ:DİN VE BİLİMİN UZLAŞTIRILMASI by Celal Türer

“…According to Whitehead we must make science and religion into harmony since we need providing "a vison of the harmony of truth" Whitehead's attempt for overcoming the conflict between science and religion is to integrate them into a philosophical woddview. For Whitehead, the conflicts between science and religion can be effectively overcome only through the adoptation of a form of naturalism that is satisfactory from both a scienticfic and religious viewpoint. …”
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Rethinking Technology in a Hyperconnected World: Beyond the Hype of Inter - connectivity by Alina Betlej, Małgorzata Skórzewska - Amberg

“…The theoretical discussion is embedded in the framework of the chosen philosophical and social approaches. It starts with the attempt to understand the essence of the discussed changes and poses several questions to be answered. …”
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Engineering economics and engineering economics education strategy by T. Yu. Krotenko

“…This necessitates a conceptualization of the cultural traditions, philosophical and historical foundations of modern engineering education, which makes the need to create a new type of educational environment extremely obvious. …”
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Gustav Landauer : le devenir révolutionnaire comme alternative anarchiste by Anatole Lucet

“…German philosopher and activist Gustav Landauer (1870-1919) promoted an original form of “anarchism-socialism”, thereby challenging social and political standards under Wilhelm II. …”
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