IS METAPHYSICS A FEASIBLE PHILOSOPHICAL OPTION?

Before attempting to answer our primary question “is metaphysics a feasible philosophical option?”, I believe that it is necessary to explain and to discuss what the nature of philosophy is, and how it differs from science because my assumption that metaphysic...

MAN, TEXT AND LANGUAGE: ON THE BORDER BETWEEN OPENNESS AND CLOSEDNESS

The article examines the problem of “openness” and “closedness” of language and text in theoretical and interpretive layout from philosophical and anthropological point of view. According to G. Bachelard’s ideas, mentioned in his “Poetics of space”, speech cl...

AN EPISTEMIC VIEW OF THE EXISTENTIAL STATUS AND TRANSFORMATION OF ENGLISH PHILOSOPHICAL TEXTS IN THEIR CULTURAL TRANSCENDENCE IN TRANSLATION

The paper is based on a long-time project with my BA and MA classes at the South West University of Bulgaria, where our main concern is the establishment of the levels of significance of the meaningful text features that provide clues for the linguist involved...

THE PROBLEM OF EVIL IN HISTORY

Hegel points out that "today we went beyond the limits of Kant’s philosophy", but, as he specifies, this can be done in two ways: forwards and backwards. Has Hegel "gone ahead" in the solution of the problem of evil? What is the nature of evil and what is its...

MAN AS MARTYR. MARTYRIUM OR PHILOSOPHY OF THE MARTYRDOM

What has been written is free – above all free from any intrusive corporate inspirations, especially those clad in the attire of ideology or power. I shall confess that it is an emanation of an <b>anima candida</b>, “light soul”, sincere and candid, revolted d...

FROM REPRESENTATION TO VISUALIZATION: REFLECTION ON THE TWOFOLD COGNITIVE INTERPRETATION OF CORPOREALITY

In what content would human knowledge be able to envelop the corporeality and incorporate it as its subject? The relation between the subject of knowledge and the body as a primary phenomenon is problematized in different fields of science, uncovering the spec...

TECHNOLOGIES OF OURSELVES AND NETWORKS OF POWER

The purpose of this article is to examine the scope of assisted reproduction in Bulgaria through a specific framework, namely Michel Foucault’s view of the construction and identity of subject. The analysis focuses on Foucault’s ideas of the construction of id...

OUR ENVIRONMENT OR OUR LIFE! THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY NORWEGIAN ECOPHILOSOPHIES TO THE DEBATE ON INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Against the background of the debate on industrial development and environmental protection the aim of this article is to clarify one of the main objectives of the twentieth-century Norwegian ecophilosophies, namely, the rehabilitation of the normative validit...

THE BULGARIAN ZEITGEIST