Whitehead‘s Narration of the CrisisThis paper examines Alfred North Whitehead‘s treatment of the ?crisis of the European sciences,? in contradistinction to Edmund Husserl‘s analysis. For this task, I rely primarily on Whitehead‘s Science and the Modern World. Whitehead‘s analysis of the crisis of Western science and civilization is in Continue reading
John Rawls‘ Phenomenology of the Human Person
John Rawls‘ later work is largely concerned with understanding how his theory of justice, justice as fairness, can be neutral towards the plurality of opinions and doctrines concerning the good life that characterize modern constitutional democracies.
His account is based on what he calls the ?political conception of person?, Continue reading
Outline of a Game Theoretical Approach of Semantic NormativitySaul Kripke‘s famous but controversial interpretation of Wittgenstein‘s rule-following considerations ignited an ongoing debate on the normativity of meaning. The idea that meaning has a normative, action-guiding component, i.e. that the meaning of a word Continue reading
The Composition of the Soul in Relation to its First Principles: Origen and Rational EssencesOrigen of Alexandria maintained novel and complex theories about cosmology and ontology at a time of emerging orthodoxy in the history of the Church. His speculative work on God as well as the nature of being and beings laid a foundation for future Christian reflection.
His work even precipitated the Arian controversy of the fourth century, with both sides of the conflict Continue reading
The Freedom of Hegel‘s ConceptHow is the ?I think as Hegel‘s concept the ground of practical movement? This question is central to Hegelian thought and shows his indebtedness to certain Kantian concepts of freedom. My discussion will focus on the introduction to Book three of Hegel‘s Science of Logic, titled ?The Concept in General. I will first introduce my discussion with a brief analysis of Hegel‘s movement from substance to the concept. Continue reading
The research of the phenomenon of revolution from the point of view of relation between rational and irrational is considered to be an important problem field for history of philosophy and ethics. The present report offers an attempt of reconstruction of ethical philosophy of Baden school of Neo-Kantianism (W. Windelband, H. Rickert, E. Lask) as well as an attempt of putting it in perspective of possible methodological attitudes of the ethical analysis of the phenomenon of revolution. Continue reading
Due to rapid urbanization the relevance of the study of urban processes and social problems in the urban context has serious grounds.
Most socio-cultural and civilizational innovations arose in the cities. At the same time cities have been and remain the main platforms for the deployment of different kinds of social conflicts. Continue reading
The article raises the problems of cultural diversity, as well as the transformation of multicultural values over many centuries. Significant influence on their formation had external and internal factors that could contribute to the emergence, development or death of various cultural values. The modern world is complex and diverse, the dynamic dramatic events of recent years have very Continue reading
In Ideas, Book I Husserl develops his mature theory of intentionality as the fundamental structure of consciousness composed of noetic, subjective moment on the one hand, and noematic, objective moment on the other. In other words, intentionality is the sense-bestowing relation between mental process and its objective correlate, its sense: the noema.
The notorious difficulty of Husserl’s passages on noetic-noematic structures prompted the contemporary debate about the role and ontological status of the noema. Continue reading
Some half a century before Freud, Hegel suggested that mental derangement (Verr?cktheit) is a reversion to the earlier stages of the development of the soul and that it discloses the psychic origins of the mind to theoretical analysis. Freud never quotes Hegel and generally dismisses Hegelianism as the epitome of wild philosophical speculations. Continue reading
