Moral Certainty instead of Moral Objectivity by Aistė Noreikaitė

“…A brief preliminary conception of it is developed while invoking the German philosopher Robert Spaemann’s ontology of a person. …”
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The Underground Railroad and the politics of narration in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) by Delphine Louis-Dimitrov

“…It highlights the structuring function of philosophical and political principles drawn from romantic reform and transcendentalism, showing how they articulate with distinct literary strategies to convey an antislavery discourse targeting the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law. …”
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Siła upokorzenia. Avishaia Margalita refleksja o upokorzeniu i przyzwoitym społeczeństwie by Katarzyna Liszka

“…The article discusses Avishai Margalit’s philosophical reflection on humiliation developed in his book The Decent Society. …”
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Yorùbá Philosophy and Contemporary Nigerian Realities by Adeshina Afolayan

“…Specifically, it is grounded on the urgency of interrogating Nigeria’s postcolonial realities in the light of Yorùbá philosophical insights that, among other things, enable a rethinking of postcolonial social practices especially as sites of identity, agency, knowledge, objectivity, and even of resistance and power. …”
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REVISING THE PROJECT OF MODERNITY HERMENEUTICS by Marius Povilas Povilas Šaulauskas

“… The article is intended to argue the fundamental modernity of Habermasian, Gadamerian and, to a considerable extent, Rortian philosophical projects in spite of their "self-limiting" and thereby "transcending" modern metanarrative characteristics. …”
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Une chambre à soi : genres et corps en art by Luc Schicharin, Anne-Laure Vernet

“…During the course of 2 symposium respectively called « Genderqueer Workshop : a Reflexion on Contemporary Bodies through the Arts », and « A Room to One’s Own : Genders and Bodies in Art » held from March 2015 to January 2016, the problematic of political subjectivity has been approached through an aestethical and philosophical study of works of art which are organized according to the codes of contemporary art and of militant artistic practices coming from subcultures and popular cultures. …”
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Mably on Esteem, Republicanism, and the Question of Human Corruption by Andreas Blank

“…This commonplace, however, has become problematic through the discussion of the problem of human corruption in philosophers such as Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) and Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715). …”
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Cosmétiques by Alain Naze

“….), à travers une interrogation autour des sources de la pensée du philosophe. Ce questionnement implique une prise en compte des réaménagements que sa philosophie impose, relativement à la réception de ses « maîtres » en pensée, au premier rang desquels on trouve Lyotard, mais aussi de ceux qui ont constamment aimanté sa réflexion, de Simondon à Walter Benjamin. …”
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La verdad en tiempos de guerra. Una ilustración del consecuencialismo de John Dewey by Miguel Catalán

“…This contribution tries to show the stance of the pragmatist philosopher John Dewey on the role of truth and public reason in United States during the First World War. …”
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THE PECULIARITIES OF HEGEL'S ETHICS by Rūta Marija Marija Vabalaitė

“…The contemporary notion of subject enables us to assert that in spite of the totalitarian features of Hegelian philosophical system, his theory of morals is valuable for youth's education. …”
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Sarmiento y la nación cívica by Susana Villavicencio

“…The idea of “community of citizens” summarizes this figure of the nation that subscribes to the modern Republican tradition, and proposes the unity based on the respect for common law. This philosophical idea, supported by the enlightened elite in a moment of violent confrontations and endless civil conflict, has a central role in the process of national organization and the establishment of a republican government after the collapse of the colonial bond. …”
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Corpo potência e política - Espinosa e os direitos das mulheres by Maria Luísa Ribeiro Ferreira

“…About this issue we critically analyse the perspective of some feminist philosophers (Geneviève Lloyd, Moira Gaytens, Beth Lord e Margaret- Gullan Wuhr). …”
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Unidentified Verbal Objects by Esa Kirkkopelto

“… This article considers how artistically performative practices, especially the scenic embodiment of words, problematizes our accustomed understanding of language, both in a philosophical and an everyday sense. In classical phenomenology à la Heidegger or Merleau-Ponty, language is considered a medium of the process of appearing or expression. …”
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Contradictions Around the Stoic Sage. Chapter Twenty of Plutarch’s On Stoic Self-Contradictions by Anna Aklan

“… In Chapter nineteen of his De Stoicorum repugnantiis, Plutarch criticizes Chrysippus in that the idea of the sage he presents is contradictory in parts of the Stoic philosopher’s writings. Plutarch exposes the contradictions which center mainly around the mutually exclusive precepts of the private versus public life of the sage and secondly, around his money-earning occupations that both entail further contradictory corollaries. …”
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People First, Communication First: Public Relations For Information And Document Managers by Mehmet Ali Akkaya

“…Yılmaz who plays a part among the most productive members of profession, academicians, philosophers… of the knowledge and document management area in our country; together with his natural talent on the communication concern; once again invites us to think widely regarding ourselves, our profession, target audience and environment and freshen ourselves on these concerns via his second edition book with the heading as “First Human, First Communication”.…”
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A crítica pós-moderna: analítica da interação e da sociabilidade by Carlos A. Gadea

“…The article claims that the post-modern critique is in a way defined as a kind of reuse of theoretical approaches to social interaction ranging from philosophical pragmatism and eclecticism to etnomethodology and the so-called cultural studies…”
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On two ways to expand on the harm principle by Rodrigo Jungmann de Castro

“… In this article I survey the historical antecedents of what has been commonly referred to as John Stuart Mill´s Harm Principle and some of the ways in which the principle has been discussed in the work of recent analytic philosophers. Subsequently, in the article`s substantive core, I focus entirely on what Mill refers to as the “moral coercion of public opinion”. …”
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Thomas Henry Huxley et la Bible by Christophe Duvey

“…The naturalisation of the Scriptures seems then logically to follow his philosophical views based on the limits of human knowledge.It appears that it was the question of authority which underlay Huxley’s interest in the Bible. …”
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Guarding the boundaries: a Swedish policy debate about geography and education for sustainable development by Hampus Hallingfors, Henrik Åström Elmersjö

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Le conservatisme américain : entre maturité philosophique et précarité politique by Jérôme NOIROT

“…Many theories hold that American conservatism in its current expression is philosophically incoherent and will ultimately disintegrate paving the way for a major partisan realignment. …”
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