Ortega on liberalism and democracy: revisiting an old discussion by Carlos Morujão

“…However, my central claim in this paper is that the kind of liberalism Ortega proposes is only understandable in the light of its philosophical groundwork. I also try to highlight the changes in Ortega’s concept of liberalism, from his early liberal socialism (under the influence of Paul Natorp) to the mature liberalism that follows Ortega’s acceptance of phenomenology, of which we find a document in Meditations on Quixote of 1914 and in “New and old politics”, published in the same year. …”
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DragGAN: Interactive Point-Based Image Manipulation on Generative Adversarial Networks by Wu Muran

“…This post introduces DragGAN, a picture-enhancing method that uses engaging dragging to obtain exact control over philosophical photos. DragGAN enables users to move, and adjust the position, style, location, and size of specific areas of a picture, and do so by integrating feature-operated motion supervision and point-tracking techniques. …”
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A Technique Socratic Questioning-Guided Discovery by M. Hakan Türkçapar, A. Emre Sargın

“…“Socratic Method” is a way of teaching philosophical thinking and knowledge by asking questions which was used by antique period greek philosopher Socrates. …”
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Paupertas (poverty) in John Calvin's Institutes by R. M. Britz

“…Calvin thus reveals the landscape of reality in which the presuppositions of the popular philosophical concepts of fate, fortune, chance and other meta-historical  causes are considered meaningless. …”
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تقنيات السير الذاتي في " تقرير إلى غريكو "لـ نيكوس كازانتزاكيس أنموذجا by Feghrour Hala

“…This research highlights the innovative methods Kazantzakis used to transform his autobiography into a poetic and philosophical masterpiece, addressing the interplay between identity, creativity, and redemption.     …”
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Music videos as cultural artefacts of the eighties by Retha Van Niekerk

“… A overview of the development of movements in art and music during the twentieth century is given to place music videos in perspective as cutural phenomena reflecting certain artistic, philosophical and social tendencies of the present. Music videos, are seen against the back ground of the semiological view that a cultural artefact does not simply reflect society, it also acts as a "signifying practice with its own determinate product: meaning" (Hall 1980:30). …”
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http://ejournal.iainsurakarta.ac.id/index.php/al-araf/article/view/1248 by Syamsul Bakr

“…This article aims to describe human philosophical thought of Ibn Miskawaih in the book entitled Tahdzib Alakhlaq which is focused on the conception of human being structure; the relation of human material substance (physic) and immaterial substance (soul); the human life ultimate; and the conception of Insan Kamil. …”
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Evaluating Stress during Pregnancy: Do We Have the Right Conceptions and the Correct Tools to Assess It? by Raquel González-Ochoa, Elly N. Sánchez-Rodríguez, Anahi Chavarría, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Ospina, Tania Romo-González

“…However, some contradictions might arise from methodological issues or even from differences in the philosophical grounds that guide the studies on gestational stress. …”
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Of Human Bondage and the Question of Free Will by Mahinur Akşehir Uygur

“…In this questioning, Maugham’s main philosophical inspiration is Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) and he borrows the title of his book from Spinoza’s magnum opus, Ethics (1677) in which “Of Human Bondage” is the title of an episode. …”
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History and Philosophy of Science at the Crossroads of Doctoral Education’s Reforms: Polemical Notes by E. N. Ishchenko

“…The article shows that the significant efforts of the professional philosophical community aimed at conceptualizing the methodological and methodical foundations of the discipline were successful and played an important role in the process of training doctoral students. …”
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»Nema ništa bolje od toga kad su braća složna«. Korespondencija majke M. Amadeje Pavlović s episkopom Varnavom Nastićem by Jasna Krista Mijatović

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Towards a Holistic Approach to Sustainable Development: Inner Development as a Missing Link for Sustainability Transformation by Julia Blanc, Annekatrin Meißner

“…Our results show that the dimensions of Being, Relating, and Collaborating in the IDG Framework can be substantiated by the normative discourse on spirituality and by reference to the social principle of personality in Christian Social Ethics, as well as by the Indian Social Philosophical Perspective of Vimala Thakar which focuses on a value-based approach. …”
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Legal Protection for Medical Laboratories Concerning Risk-Based Business Licensing Standards and the Fulfillment of Clinical Pathology Specialist by Etik Nunuk Setyorini, Mokhamad Khoirul Huda, Andika Persada Putra

“…The results indicate that in the formulation of regulation, the legislative rationale must consider philosophical, sociological, and juridical aspects. However, the sociological aspects is not fully addressed due to the uneven distribution of DSPK, rendering the regulation ineffective at the national level. …”
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Historical background and basic elements of the ideal of Chinese traditional management education by M. Yu. Zakharov, A. V. Shishkova

“…The article is devoted to determining the specifics of the ideal of traditional management education in China in the context of the modern strategy of ­China’s digital breakthrough. Using historical-philosophical, comparative and hermeneutic methods, the authors refer to the works of thinkers of Old China and modern researchers on the topic of education and public administration, and identify the components of the ideal traditional management education. …”
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Music’s ability to foster prosocial behavior: a teleofunctionalist perspective by Jin Hyun Kim

“…Drawing on recent interdisciplinary music research—biologically or developmental psychologically oriented—which conceptualizes music as a communicative toolkit primarily serving affiliative communicative interaction, this paper investigates the question of whether and to what extent music is capable of fostering prosocial behavior within the framework of teleofunctionalism—a philosophical theory of mind. A teleofunctionalist perspective allows us to specify this question as follows: To what extent might a function of establishing affiliative socio-interactional relationships be considered a proper function of music, a concept suggested by philosopher Ruth Millikan? …”
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The shadow side of occupational therapy: Necropower, state racism and colonialism by Pier-Luc Turcotte, Dave Holmes

“…To prevent the recurrence of these injustices, history must be unveiled and occupational therapists urged to come to terms with their own involvement and responsibility.Objective and Method Utilising Achille Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics, this academic essay blends select historical and philosophical perspectives to explore occupational therapy’s concealed role in manifestations of institutionalised violence.Results By examining its roles in World War II and France’s colonisation of Algeria, we make visible the development of occupational therapy’s distinct ‘shadow side’. …”
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آرنلڈ جوزیف ٹائن بی کی تاریخ بینی کے تناظر میں امت اسلامیہ کی وحدت میں رکاو ٹوں کامطالعہ by Dr. Muzaffar Ali, Dr. Abdul Rahman Abdul Hameed Hammad

“…This research aims to provide a brief overview of Toynbee’s life and his philosophical influences, specifically Ibn Khaldun. The methodology involves an analysis of Toynbee’s writings and their reception among Muslim historians. …”
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Free will and conformity: less faith in free will corresponds to greater tendency to conformism by V. G. Keller

“…Philosophical debates around the concept of free will have not ceased for many centuries. …”
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POSTMODERNISM: A STEP IN AN "INEXACT DIRECTION" by I. N. Krizhanovskiy

“…We consider relatively new phenomena directly related to the predominance of the philosophical principles of postmodernism in the world information field (for example, “columbiners”, clip thinking, postdemocracy, and some others). …”
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Post-Soviet Features of Hungarian Administrative Sciences by Ádám Rixer

“…Moreover, the positivist way of thinking of representatives of administrative law (and other administrative sciences) results in the dominance of commentaries, i.e. the philosophical and future-oriented, strategic scientific approaches to the problems are often secondary, residual. …”
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