REPRESENTATION OF NATURE AND MAN IN PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY OF DESCARTES by А. M. Malivskyi, К. V. Soкоlоvа

“…The study of Descartes on nature in its broad sense as metaphysical basis of his ethics has been revealed and analyzed. …”
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METAPHISICAL BACKGROUND OF TECHNOLOGY by D. Y. Snitko

“…Purpose of the article is to clarify the nature of the connection of philosophy of both metaphysics and science-technical knowledge, the technology itself. …”
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The Heart Is Not an Animated Body: Machines of Nature, Functional Organs and Monadic Domination in Leibniz by Christopher P Noble

“…For the mature Leibniz, the organic bodies of living beings or substances are “machines of nature” containing both infinitely many (a) functional bodily organs and (b) further substances. …”
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Conway's Demonstration of a Mediator Between God and Creatures by Douglas Bertrand Marshall

“…We offer an interpretation of Conway’s demonstration that reveals its dependence on a rational principle ('PME'): if beings with extreme natures are united, then they are united by means of a being whose nature is the medium between the extremes. …”
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Gregorio de los Ríos at the Casa del Campo by Catherine Chomarat-Ruiz

“…Furthermore, he confers to pleasure gardens a metaphysical dimension. Giving grace to the beauty of the nature given by God pagans and Christians would have understood this objective of an art which gives sense to human being. …”
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THE ONTOLOGY OF EXISTENCE: THE NEXT PARADIGM. A REVIEW OF THE BOOK "THE IDEA OF THE WORLD: A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ARGUMENT FOR THE MENTAL NATURE OF REALITY", BY BERNARDO KASTRUP by O. A. Bazaluk

“…In recent decades, attempts to create and argue a new ontology of existence that could provide a robust alternative to the mainstream physicalist metaphysics have been made in science and philosophy. …”
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The Empiricist Impulse: Doers and Thinkers in Sixteenth-Century Spain by Portuondo María M.

“…This essay explores the tension that existed between empiricism and the metaphysical underpinnings of Aristotelian natural philosophy in Spain during the sixteenth century. …”
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C. McGinn. The concept of a person / trans. from Engl. A. V. Nekhaev by A. V. Nekhaev

“…The essay contains a critique of the metaphysical ways to use of the term ‘person’. Since the term does not designate any natural kind, philosophers must abandon the question ‘what constitutes the continued existence of a person?’. …”
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Did God Cause the World by an Act of Free Will, According to Aristotle? A Reading Based on Thomistic Insights by Carlos A. Casanova

“…In order to do this, the paper delves into the interpretation of many passages contained in the <i>Physics</i>, the <i>Metaphysics</i>, <i>De anima</i>, <i>Nicomachean Ethics</i>, <i>Eudemian Ethics</i> as well as <i>Politics</i>, <i>Topika</i>, <i>De generatione et corruptione</i>, <i>De coelo</i> and <i>De partibus animalium</i>. …”
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GREEK «ΦΥΣΙΣ» AS THE BASIS OF GENDER STEREOTYPES by S. V. Storozhuk, I. M. Goyan

“…However, when the concept of «nature» acquires metaphysical meaning and is viewed as a kind of potentiality that is actualized in the presence of favorable conditions prerequisites of gender equality are emerging. …”
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THE PROBLEM OF CORRUPTION OF BASIC SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS IN PARTICULAR: FORMAL-ETHIC AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS by V. O. Lobovikov

“…The aim of the paper is to carry out historical-philosophical andlinguistic analysis of ethical and metaphysical doctrine of Aristotle on corruption in general; to discuss of formal-ethical view on the problem of corruption in basic scientific researches; to define the place and role of fundamental scientific researches in knowledge-based economy taken as a whole, and Boston Chart, in particular.Methods. …”
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Can’t Software Malfunction? by Jeroen de Haas, Wybo Houkes

“…After reconstructing the argument, we show that it rests on two presuppositions regarding the nature of software and the activities of its creators, which we call ‘complete control’ and ‘self-containedness’. …”
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Le complexe des trois singes. Sur un certain journalisme primatologique by Etienne Bimbenet

“…Ultimately, the aim of this study will be to give, as a possible answer, a non-metaphysical, acceptable version of human specificity within what John MacDowell calls “second nature naturalism.”…”
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THE STRAFIFICATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE YOGACARA BUDDHISM PHILOSOPHY by Audrius Beinorius

“…The tradition of the Yogacara school emerged as a reaction to various metaphysical and psychological attitudes of Theravada Buddhism and to philosophical nihilism of Madhyamaka school. …”
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IŠ KO KYLA ŽMOGAUS TEISĖS? by Evaldas Nekrašas

“…Historically, public acceptance of the very idea of natural rights was closely linked with specific metaphysical or religious notions. …”
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English derby in philosophy: John Locke versus Derek Parfit by A. V. Nekhaev

“…Lockean personality is considered as a basic metaphysical structure, subject to moral responsibility for all actions performed on its behalf. …”
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HUMAN IMAGE IN CLASSICAL ISLAM AND SUFISM: PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS by M. V. Nesprava

“…The author proceedes from the unsatisfactory nature of the superficial interpretation of the human image in Islam, according to which a human is often expounded as a «slave of Allah», neglecting the multidimensionality of the metaphysical status of a human in Islam, as well as the polyparadigmality of the human image in various Islam directons. …”
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ANTHROPOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF PRAGMATISM AND PERSPECTIVES OF SOCIO-HUMANITARIAN REDESCRIPTION OF ANALYTIC METHODOLOGY by A. S. Synytsia

“…Attempts to comprehend the nature of human existence in pragmatism are empirically grounded. …”
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HUMAN DESTRUCTIVENESS IN THE EXISTING PRACTICES OF LATE MODERNISM VIOLENCE: POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE DIMENSIONS by O. V. Marchenko, L. V. Martseniuk

“…Research of the phenomenon of human destructiveness in the context of metaphysical images and violence practices of late Modernism. …”
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WILLIAM JAMES: THE CONCEPTION OF PRAGMATISM by Vytis Valatka

“…It either corresponds to the world of our external experience (as the ideas of natural sciences do), or to the world of our internal experience (as metaphysical ideas do). …”
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