Year XXIV, Issue 3, 2015<<Archive>>

Politicаl Philosophy

Thе Choicе – Philosophicаl аnd Psychoаnаlytic Dimеnsions

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THE CHOICE AS PHILOSOPHICAL AND PSYCHOANALYTIC PROBLEM

The article analyzes the choice from several perspectives. The choice as a moral problem is a choice between good and evil. The choice as a social problem is a choice between individualism and collectivism, between aspiration for career inert and passive adap...

choice, happiness, psychoanalysis, religion, reason

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CHOICE AND FREEDOM

Human choice is possible because of the freedom intrinsic to human beings, and it is also meaningful on the base of the notion of it. Two different antinomies of freedom are considered in this short essay, stemming from the philosophical contexts of theistic...

choice, freedom, antinomies of freedom, theistic/atheistic existentialism

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IS THERE A LAW OF MOTIVATION?

This article follows till the end the direction, drawn by the provocative Schopenhauer’s posing of the “law of motivation”, which according to Schopenhauer determines the motives of human in its constant “willing”. Such a law statement must find its own necess...

law of motivation, Kant, Schopenhauer, Maslow, theory of motivation, the higher motivations, the practical law, the realm of ends

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THE CHOICE BETWEEN ROMANTIC AND CONSUMER’S LOVE THROUGH THE PRISM OF PSYCHOANALYSIS

Despite its centrality in the lives of many people, psychoanalysis, with its traditional emphasis on psycho sexuality and rationalism, has generally undervalued the importance of love and romance. This study explores the devaluation within psychoanalytic theor...

romantic love, sexuality, psychoanalytic theory

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THE FREE CHOICE IN THE CONTEXT OF “LANGUAGE – BODY” PROBLEM

The advances in neurosciences provoked the classical concept of both psychology and philosophy. The mind-body problem was redefined again after a number of mental processes have been proven to be functions of the brain. The choice as an action selection operat...

neurosciences, “mind-body problem”, “language-body problem”, free choice, biosophy

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CHRISTIAN IDEAS ON FREEDOM OF MAN AND MORAL CHOICE ACCORDING TO THE REPRESENTATIVES OF RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY (F. DOSTOEVSKI, N. BERDYAEV AND B. VISHESLAVTSEV)

Within the framework of this article is made an attempt to mark some important Christian ideas about human freedom and their importance for the formation of some basic positions of Christian ethics on moral self-determination and moral choice. Secondly the art...

Christian ethics, freedom of choice, Russian religious philosophy

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SELECTION OF NEW HOMO CREABILIS. THE CHOICE BETWEEN FORMAL, NON-FORMAL AND INFORMAL

The choice is an internal battle that stretches the mind of a cross and put it to the test to accept or reject, store or amended. The trend towards personalization of anti-global personal world through individualisation and informalisation of being put people...

Formal, non-formal, informal, Educational triad, Informal epistemology, Homo creabilis.

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MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING: THE CHOICE BETWEEN THE SUFFERING AND THE PLEASURE

This study examines the problem of the meaning of life and the choice between suffering and pleasure, according to the Biblical book of Ecclesiastes, written by the wisest king that ever lived on Earth, and according to the greatest psychiatrist, founder of t...

the meaning of life, suffering, pain, pleasure, delight

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