Year XXVIII, Issue 3, 2019<<Archive>>
History of Philosophy
PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT OF PHAN BOI CHAU
Phan Boi Chau (1867 – 1940) was a representative of revolutionary thinkers, revolutionaries, poets and educators of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In his life of ups and downs, he has left many valuable ideas as lessons for the development...
Phan Boi Chau; philosophical thought; history; Viet Nam
ARENDT AND HEIDEGGER: THE HUMAN CONDITION RECONSIDERED
Heidegger’s name is often brought up in connection to Arendt’s The Human Condition (1958), since his thought had a pervasive influence on Arendt’s work.Although Heidegger is not mentioned in The Human Condition, Arendt herself claims in her letter that her wor...
Arendt; Heidegger; politics; philosophy; action; public space; modernity
PHILOSOPHY, RATIONALITY AND DECISION-MAKING: BASIC TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS OF BUILDING THE HUMAN MIND
This paper studies the viability of philosophy as a system of knowledge and its efficacy as a tool for decision making. Decisions are the key to life, given the existential predicaments human beings constantly confront and the fact that man is a purposive bein...
philosophy; decisions; thinking; logic; conceptual analysis; human mind
Мorаl Philosophy
HOW CAN WE BROADEN MYOPIC MORAL HORIZONS? THE ROLE OF ETHICAL GRADUALISM FOR ‘MORAL’ REMAPPING
One of the main objectives of this article is to clarify why ‘mapping’ otherness in the era of the Anthropocene is not an axiologically neutral process. This hypothesis is elaborated by demonstrating how the proponents of both radical anthropocentrism and radi...
radical anthropocentrism and radical eco-centrism; ethical gradualism; myopic moral horizons; broader ethos of progress
FREEDOM IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RUSSIAN ETHICAL PARADIGM (PART II)
Freedom in the context of the ethical views of the Russian classics – Berdyaev, Solovyov, Dostoevsky and others, is examined. Emphasis is placed on freedom and the enormous challenges to achieve it. The faith in Man and the possibility for divine incarnation i...
Freedom; good; evil; Christianity; God; Moral Good; Highest Good; Berdyaev; Solovyov; Dostoevsky
Philosophy of Sciеncе
PROCESS-RELATIONS IN “TIME EXPERIENCE”
I analyze here process-relations in time experience. My thesis is that McTaggart’s series A and B are process-relations. I demonstrate how McTaggart’s unreality thesis should be replaced by a relativity thesis: Series A and B are relations of processes: asymme...
time; experience; relativity; process; life; entropy
“THE INTELLECT” ACCORDING TO THE HIGHER-ORDER THEORIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
The central aim of this paper is to provide certain clarity regarding the question ‘What role does ‘the intellect’ play from the perspective of a Higherorder Theory (HOT) of consciousness. My hope is to show that there are grounds for the conclusion that there...
intellect; mind; higher order theories of mind; evolution; adaptation