Year XXIV, Issue 2, 2015<<Archive>>
History of Philosophy
REFLECTIONS ON THE TRADITION
The present text discusses the balance between the spirit of Modernity and that of Tradition, analyzing the rejecting of Tradition in the Century of criticism. The author makes an attempt to explain the reasons of the thinkers with a traditionalistic orientat...
tradition, modernity, Voltaire, E. Burke, J. de Mestre, Lammenais
THE PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF LUDWIG FEUERBACH
In the wider sense, the concept of philosophical anthropology covers all views on the nature and essence of man since the remotest antiquity, whereas in its narrower associations it points to a philosophical discipline and a conceptually diverse movement that...
God, man, religion, anthropology, reason, thinking, sensory contemplation, love
Philosophy аnd Thеology
CHRISTIAN EXISTENTIALISM OF SØREN KIERKEGAARD AND ITS REFLECTIONS IN THE RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY. LEV SHESTOV AND NIKOLAI BERDYAEV
The article attempts to explore the religious motives in the existential philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard and his influence on the two of the world’s leading representatives of Russian religious philosophy in the twentieth century – Lev Shestov and Nikolai Berdy...
Christian philosophy, existentialism, Russian religious philosophy
THE HOLY AS AN A PRIORI CATEGORY. RUDOLF OTTO
In 1917 in Germany is published the work „Das Heilige“ by the German theologian and philosopher of religion Rudolf Otto. In this work Otto subjected to phenomenological analysis experiences of the sacred – a essentially necessary element in all religions. Aft...
religious a priori, Rudolf Otto, Immanuel Kant, sacral, phenomenology
THE PRAETOR – FOR SOME ASPECTS OF HIS ACTIVITIES
The Roman law has been developed by the judicial protection of personal rights. The following text analyzes the nascency and the development of the Praetor’s institution, his activity related to the organization of the litigation and some other aspects in prae...
praetor, praetor’s rights, Rome institution, Roman law, rescript
THE CHRISTIAN CONCEPT OF SUFFERING IN THE CONTEXT OF THE BIBLICAL IDEAS OF GOD’S PUNISHMENT
The article is about the Christian and ethical views of the problem related to the suffering reflected in the light of the Biblical points of view and ideas in terms of God’s Rightness and Punishment.
Christian ethics, religious philosophy, suffering, God’s punishment
Philosophy of Sciеncе
SIMULATION AND MIRROR NEURONS. ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF INTENTION IN IACOBONI’S EXPERIMENT
The goal of the present article is to analyse some of the main premises for justifying the simulation theory (ST) via the mirror neuron theory. The first task will be to formulate a criterion which will set the analysis’s limits. Here I will refer to this crit...
simulation, mirror neurons, intention, behaviour
THE NEWEST PROJECTS IN CONTEMPORARY EPISTEMOLOGY
The article briefly investigates new approaches in epistemology, focusing on their benefits and deficiencies. These approaches include naturalized epistemology, virtue epistemology, evolutionary epistemology, and memetics. Their reconstructions include a bri...
naturalized epistemology, virtue epistemology, evolutionary epistemology, memethics