NIKOLAI BERDYAEV AND THE CHIVALROUS ALTERNATIVE OF THE BOURGEOIS WORLD

Though the ideas and practices of chivalry never evolved in Russia, Nikolai Berdyaev wrote in spiring lines in order to protect it. The very personality of Berdyaev reminds us of knightly virtues and times long gone. The fight against the spiritual bourgeois a...

A PRIORI IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: EARLY RUDOLF OTTO

The quest for a priori principle in religion is especially active in the German Enlightenment. Immanuel Kant is one of the first, who makes effort to justify religion as a natural religion (religia naturalis). After Kant the issue about the aprioristic status...

THE ECSTATIC PRACTICE OF RABATA – RELIGIOUS AND HISTORICAL MANIFESTATIONS

The present article deals with the phenomenon of rabata – sufic and neosufic practice and ritual typical of the Nakshibend order and its branches. In the article several aspects of rabata are discussed: the descriptions of rabata in the writings and works of N...

ANTHROPOLOGY OF CRIME

The present paper investigates the following topics: 1 – Sources of crime’s Anthropology; 2 – Killing to survive; 3 – Essence of the Crime; 4 – The criminal Mind; 5 – Absolution of the homicide and the abolition of the death penalty.

„DON QUIXOTE“ AS A TREATISE ON REALITY (based on „Reflections on „Don Quixote“)

Referring to some of the basic ideas of “<i>Reflections on Don Quixote</i>”, Javier San Martin analyzes the philosophical approach of Ortega to the book “<i>Don Quixote</i>” by Cervantes. The article presents the intertextuality of the “<i>Reflections</i>” and...

THIRD THOUGHT PROCESS AT THE INTERSECTION OF METAPSYCHOLOGY, COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND NEUROSCIENCE

The strict dif ferentiation between the abstract-verbal-logical thought (the Freudian secondary thought process) and the primitive, fantastic thought (primary thought process) is conditional and the border between the two is not clear-cut. This fact allows one...

AGE CHARACTERISTICS OF SENSORY KNOWLEDGE IN PRIMARY SCHOOL AGE BY PSYCHOANALYTIC PERIODIZATION OF SIGMUND FREUD

This article aims to present the perspective of psychoanalytic periodization age of the school students from the initial stage of primary education. In psychoanalysis self-concept is part of the personal sphere and its content influences the perception and the...

BEYOND LIFE AND DEATH – THE BIOPOLITICS AND THE POWER OF THE BIOTECHNOLOGIES

In the following article different problems of the biopolitics are investigated. The biopolitics is a power which decides on the questions of life and death. The biotechnologies and their development, the solving of questions in which cases and under what cond...

TRANSCENDENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS VERSUS PHENOMENOLOGICAL UNCONSCIOUS

THE OTHERS IN THE BIOGRAPHY OF PERSONALITY