“That Sottish and Selfish principle”: Cugoano on Self-Interest, Imagination, and Moral Wrongdoing by Aminah Hasan-Birdwell

“…The paper will conclude by focusing on the philosophical and ethical dimensions of Cugoano’s descriptions of imagination and moral wrongdoing. …”
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Video Assemblages: ‘Machinic Animism’ and ‘Asignifying Semiotics’ in the Work of Melitopoulos and Lazzarato by Jay Hetrick

“…Assemblages (2010) is a three channel audio-visual documentary about the French philosopher and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. I will argue that, in order to fully understand this work, we must interrogate the incredibly dense theoretical context it inhabits. …”
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The Differences in Understanding Hominized Being in the Art Philosophy of Šliogeris and Heidegger by Tomas Kavaliauskas

“… Two different philosophical attitudes towards the hominized Being are analyzed: the one of Arvydas Šliogeris and the other of Martin Heidegger. …”
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Human Rights: is the concept truly coherent with the Christian moral teaching? by Aleksander Stępkowski

“…The author expresses scepticism about reconciling the concept of human rights with Christian anthropology, asserting that the rights-focused ethics is rooted in a non-Christian philosophical framework. The conclusion acknowledges the contemporary dominance of the rights-focused ethics but warns against the temptation to create a new "Christianity" compatible with this framework, urging a recognition of the anti-Christian nature of the ethical foundations of the modern Western society. …”
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AMERİKAN FELSEFESİNİN YENİDEN CANLANIŞI: JOHN J. MCDERMOTT by Celal Türer

“…John McDermott has played a primary role in the great renascence of interest in the history of American philosophical thought since 1958 and he has contributed and continues to contribute to advancement of that tradition in numerous areas. …”
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Technological a priori and Communicative Action in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano by Mete Han Arıtürk, Mehmet Büyüktuncay

“…This article examines the state of extreme mechanization in modern industrial societies, which leads to a strict separation of the various spheres of life and ultimately to the exclusion of the human element. The philosophers of the Frankfurt School, Herbert Marcuse and Jürgen Habermas in particular, have rigorously analyzed the inherently ideological function of technology in late capitalist societies. …”
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L'éducation à l'éthique de l'environnement dans le cadre de l'éducation en science et en technologie : une justification by Milagros Chavez Tortolero

“…The first and foremost educational strategy that would include the transversal dimension of environmental ethics in scientific and technological teachings, is the dialogical dynamics that are thought provoking and help clarify this issue as a whole - not only the obvious values touched upon in rational discourse, but also the underlying values expressed in other forms of discourse practised in the artistic and philosophical milieu.…”
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Territories of Equivalence by Clare Louise Lyster

“…I refer to previous object-based theories of space in architecture as well as to Object-Orientated Ontology, a philosophical movement that elevates the meaning of objects as independent conscious entities beyond human agency. …”
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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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Discursos contrahegemónicos y « significantes vacíos »: análisis de la influencia de los movimientos sociales poscrisis en las estrategias discursivas de Podemos en España by Laure Beltran

“…Drawing on the works of Antonio Gramsci, post-Marxist philosophers Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe consider political struggle as a battle to impose a particular way of perceiving a complex social space on a majority through the development of a system of signifiers to structure it. …”
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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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Theology Before and After Bishop Robinson’s Honest to God (1963)

“…The thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Rudolf Bultmann and Paul Tillich, which Robinson summarized in his book, were themselves simply the twentieth century version of the radical changes in theology made necessary by the advent of the post-Enlightenment world, and which had been set in motion in rather different ways at the beginning of the nineteenth century by the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and the theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher. …”
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L’âme des machines dans The Ghost in the Shell by Bounthavy Suvilay

“…Since his footnotes are perceived as marginal, most readers have been more focused on the investigations of the Section 9 rather than on Shirow’s philosophical comments. Numerous Ghost in the Shell adaptations in the media mix environment underscore the partial failure of Shirow’s initial project, each creator giving his version of the diegetic world and developing incompatible parallel universes. …”
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“Revealing what cannot be spoken” – Gabriel Josipovici’s Short Stories as Illustrations of Transcendental Negativity by Werner Wolf

“…These “unspeakable” issues refer to central philosophical problems: the liminal experience of death, selfhood, the accessibility of the other and creativity. …”
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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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