Year XXX, Issue 1, 2021<<Archive>>
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Меtаphysics
METAPHYSICS OF REALITY: PRAGMATICO-ANALYTIC INTERPRETATION OF WITTGENSTEIN'S PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH
The article examines Ludwig Wittgenstein’s views on the world and human beings in it. It is emphasized that the philosopher, in addition to paying a lot of attention to the study of language, which determined the basis of his method of cognition, followed a nu...
reality; world; logical atom; fact; object; microcosm; Wittgenstein
HOW WE THINK THE TRANSCENDENT: THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN CARL JUNG AND MARTIN BUBER
The relationship between metaphysics and psychology has different dimensions. An emblematic example of this relationship is the literary polemics between Martin Buber and Carl Jung about boundaries between the two areas of scientific knowledge. According to Bu...
metaphysics; psychology; Carl Jung; Martin Buber; archetypes
Contеmporаry Philosophy
THE PROBLEM OF THE TOTALITARIAN NATURE OF THE INFORMATION SOCIETY IN THE CONTEXT OF ITS INFLUENCE ON SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
The article discusses the features of the process of transformation of human consciousness and educational culture in the conditions of the modern information society in the context of digitalization. By using such concepts, the theory of postmodernism and exi...
information society; social Institute; transformation of consciousness; simulacra; technique; manipulation
ALIENATION AS A PROBLEM IN HEIDEGGER’S PHILOSOPHY
The concept of alienation is important part of the 20th century leftwing social criticism and a key theme of Western Marxism and critical theory. It also has a significant impact on various existentialist-inspired cultural criticism. The development of the soc...
homelessness; presence-at-hand; falling; enframing; alienation; Heidegger
Politicаl Philosophy
ON STRIKING SIMILARITIES BETWEEN CHAPTERS XIV – XIX OF MACHIAVELLI’S THE PRINCE AND THE FIFTH BOOK OF ARISTOTLE’S POLITICS
In the article, I try to refute an old and widespread superstition according to which the new political philosophy created by Niccolo Machiavelli breaks with classical political philosophy by taking a novel position toward the political; that is, that classics...
Machiavelli; Aristotle; tyranny; political philosophy; ancients; moderns
MORALS AS A LAW BUILDING AND CHANGING FACTOR
This article studies the specific designation of morals under the conditions of a modern society . Due to the circumstances that morals are able to overcome differences between the social regulatory systems and to unite the perceptions of a regulatory framewor...
morals; law; moral norms; lawmaking; regulatory systems
Book Rеviеws
THE PROCESS PHILOSOPHY FOR THE ESSENCE AND THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION
The review comments and analyses main topics, ideas and theses emphasized in Vesselin Petrov’s new book Elements of Contemporary Process Philosophical Theory of Education and Learning. Describing the structure of the book, the review outlines the author’s anal...
Process philosophy; Whitehead; holism; organism; education; learning; artificial intelligence
THE NEW MONOGRAPH OF PROF. NIKOLAY MILKOV – A REMARKABLE RESEARCH APPROACH
The emphasis is on the research approach applied in the last monograph of Prof. Nikolay Milkov. It is about studying the early sources of analytical philosophy, and especially in German literature from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, he dwells...
Bulgarian philosophical thought; Moore; Mihalchev; Torbov