LANGUAGE AND UNDERSTANDING IN SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE

Since the birth of non-classical science starting with quantum theory in 1927, the language of contemporary physics and cosmology has been “beautified” by a nosegay of pure theoretical constructs. Besides, the quantum phenomena display incompatible propertie...

THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD (A POPPEREAN LECTURE)

The paper discusses issues related to scientific method – its essence and evolution from naïve induction to falsificationism. Special emphasis is placed on the ‘Problem of Induction’ and the classical issues raised by David Hume which stimulated the search for...

SEYNSGESCHICHTLICHE (СЪДБАТА) И ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИТЕ ИДЕОЛОГИИ НА ХХ ВЕК

DISCOURSE ON POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Aspects of the political philosophy of the century past are outlined through authorities like José Ortega y Gasset, Popper, and Brzezinski. The big events of the 20th century are interpreted through conceptions like: “mass political consciousness”, “open soc...

THE SENSE OF SHAME IN MORAL PHILOSOPHY OF VLADIMIR SOLOVYOV

Moral philosophy of Vladimir Solovyov distinguishes the man from animal by the sense of shame. This feature is fundamental to human being, because it separates his self into independent being. Man is both individual and social and the shame is determinated fac...

PREDECESSORS AND FOLLOWERS: IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA, NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI AND MODERN BULGARIAN SCHOOL

The study is looking for the link between Ignatius of Loyola (1491 – 1556) and Niccolo of Michialvelli (1469 – 1527) who belong to different spiritual eras of humanity although they lived and worked in approximately the same time. The question in the paper is...

CONTENT AND REALITY (Critique of the activities of counselors and psychologists in secondary education)

The aim of this article is not to unify the activities of school counselors and school psychologists. The article reflects the weakness in the field of practical psychology in Bulgarian schools.

PLATO ON GOVERNANCE, EDUCATION AND THE PHILOSOPHERS

This paper is an attempt of systematizing Plato’s notions about governance presented in his remarkable work “Republic“. Various key prerequisites and fundamental principles are being considered and ordered in a logical sequence according to a comprehensible co...

BETWEEN THE REPRESENTATION AND THE WILL OR THE BRIEFNESS OF PURE KNOWLEDGE IN SCHOPENHAUER’S PHILOSOPHY

The present article focuses on Schopenhauer ’s differentiation of knowledge and it pays a special attention to the significance and foundations of the aesthetical or pure knowledge. In doing so, this article begins by explicating the theoretical knowledge in i...

THE CHARISMATIC MIND AND THE SCHIZOID BIFURCATION OF THE PERSON BETWEEN SELF AS ITSELF AND SELF LIKE SOMEONE ELSE

The charismatic mind is the interior bifurcation between insanity and sense, it is the part of human nature, that carries the potency of soaring and self-overcoming, but also the self-destructive intention, destroying the individual. The charisma is the indivi...

ATANAS DALCHEV - BETWEEN REHMKEANISM AND INTUITIVISION