FROM ANIMAL TO ENVIRONMENT: THE NARRATIVE OF A RESEARCH ON NATURE FROM THE 18TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT DAY

This paper is the text of a lecture given at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski on 2 November 2023 at the invitation of Professor Irena Kristeva. Its purpose is to retrace the path of my research, from the question of the Animal in the eighteenth century to...

THE GENUINE RHYTHM ОF BEING АS А TASK ОF PHILOSOPHY

This work can be seen as a kind of continuation of the main topic in my essay “Notes on the Assimetrical Rhythm of Being, or What is Philosophy with a Soul”. Here I make a new attempt to support the thesis why the understanding and study of what I call the “un...

ONTOLOGY NON FINITIO

The article addresses key ontological issues related to the book “What is Ontology? Counter Definitions” (2023) by Dimitar Vatsov and Boyan Manchev. The analysis is divided into five parts: (1) The first part outlines the broader philosophical context and the...

THE LIMITS OF PHILOLOGICAL READING – SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE INTERNAL LIMITS IN THE HUMANITIES

The article deals with the problem of the boundaries in contemporary humanities – if “everything is a text” and the process of assimilation and interpretation of new meanings is fundamentally open and infinite, then do we have any grounds to distinguish betwee...

THE FALLACY OF SYNTHESIS AND DIAIRESIS: TOWARDS LOGIC AND LOGOS IN ARISTOTLE’S RHETORIC AND SOPHISTICAL REFUTATIONS

The present study focuses on the so-called ‘fallacy of combination and division’ or ‘synthetic-dieretic fallacy,’ as discussed by Aristotle in his treatises ‘Rhetoric’ and ‘On Sophistical Refutations.’ Despite significant scholarly interest in these manipulati...

PRIDE, REASON AND SALVATION. REFLECTIONS ON THE MEANING OF THOMAS MORE’S UTOPIA

The aim of this paper is to recover the original intention of Thomas More in creating the fictional island depicted in his book Utopia. Drawing on Erasmus’ 1519 letter, the author suggests beginning with Book II and analysing it separately from Book I. This ap...

CROSSING WITH HEGEL THE ZONES OF THE LATE SOVIET (ANTI)UTOPIA

During the late Soviet era, science fiction was one of the first zones of its ideological cosmos, registering the exhaustion of the communist utopia precisely within the literary genre aimed at its representation. In this article I consider the history of the“...

ONTOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS OF THE PROJECTIZING COMMUNITY IN “PHILOSOPHICAL WONDERING” METHOD FOR DOING PHILOSOPHY WITH CHILDREN

Considering the leading position in the ontology of philosophy sessions at present, namely: building of “community of inquiry”, here I discuss the advantages and the horizon that are created to philosophy and philosophizing through the ontology of projectizing...

ON THE CONTEMPORARY ORGANIZATION OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE, OR HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO BE “A BELIEVER BUT NOT RELIGIOUS”