THE DEMONOLOGY OF MICHAEL PSELLUS: SOCIO-CULTURAL CONTEXT AND NEOPLATONIC INFLUENCES

The present study aims to explore one of the relatively underresearched aspects of Michael Psellus’ philosophical legacy, namely, his demonological treatises. Although extremely brief, these texts establish a new paradigm that shapes the Byzantine intellectual...

KANT AND CONTEMPORARY METAPHYSICS

The paper examines the evolution of metaphysical thought from Immanuel Kant to contemporary philosophy, focusing on a pivotal shift in 1951. It explores Kant’s critique of traditional metaphysics and his influence on modern thinkers like Ludwig Wittgenstein an...

CONCERNING THE NOUMENON, OR KANT’S THIRTEENTH AND FATAL CONCEPT OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL ANALYTIC

The paper provides a detailed reconstruction of Kant’s deduction of the concept noumenon at the end of CPR’s Transcendental analytic with the final aim to undermine the view of its unknowability. According to our initial premise, the contradictions, faced by K...

Physicalism in the Philosophy of Mind

The text aims to formulate the position in the philosophy of consciousness known as physicalism in a way that does not repeat the shortcomings of existing formulations and yet retains the essential features of the physical as the basis of the mental. It explai...

IRRITABILITY (NEED) AND AN-IRRITABILITY (FATIGUE): A DISORDER OF RHYTHMS – THE ONTOLOGICAL BURNOUT

This paper discusses the concepts of effort, resistance, action-reaction, sense of life, death, and habit as explored by philosophers such as Xavier Bichat, Maine de Biran, and Félix Ravaisson. It highlights the idea that habit is formed as a result of the alt...

AGREEMENT AS BEGINNING OF PHILOSOPHIZING

The text discusses the issueof agreement (contracting) for philosophical activity (teaching, class, session, etc.) in institutional (school, university, etc.) and meta-academic forms of philosophizing (philosophy with children in kindergartens and primary and...

PHILOSOPHIZING WITH CHILDREN AND PHILOSOPHIZING CHILDREN’S EVERYDAY LIFE

The text explores the form and content of doing philosophy with children, which, while being an educational activity, differs from classical teaching as it is guided by ideas and standards of a different spirit. Children are acknowledged as capable of autonomo...

A PROCESS-APPROACH IN EDUCATION: DEVELOPING KEY COMPETENCIES THROUGH PHILOSOPHY AND CIVIC EDUCATION. THEORY AND PRACTICE