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This article examines Paul Ricœur’s conception of the relationship between the affective dimension of experience and imagination’s reproductive force. Specifically, it focuses on Ricœur’s recovery of the affective aspects of human being’s incarnate existence and imagination modeled on representatio...

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The purpose of this paper is to introduce the notions of mediational fields and dynamic situated senses as a way to identify the structure of experiences, thoughts and their relations. To reach this purpose I draw some lessons from the debate between Dreyfus and McDowell about the structure of expe...

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Chronic disease during the period of adolescence demands a lot of specific issues dues to the particular psychological, physical and social development of this stage. Patient-doctor relationship, communication, medical consultation, information, sharing an uncomfortable diagnostic with parents or in...

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The subject of this research is the essence of performing interpretation, which is considered an integral part of the functioning of a musical work from its creation to its presentation to the audience. The research methodology is based on a comparative analysis of historical and music-theoretical...

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The Question of Hieronymus. Notes on the Literary Structure of the Treatise De divina omnipotentia by Peter Damianus. In the present study I intend to argue that there is a literary consistency of the central problem of Petrus Damianus’s treatise, De divina omnipotentia. This coherence is made up o...

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With this paper, I propose an interpretation of Caspar David Friedrich’s works on the 250th anniversary of his birth. Known as a romantic painter, Friedrich explored and cultivated our deep relationship with nature through his art. From the perspective of recent discoveries in the cognitive science...

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In his The Condition of the Working Class in England, Friedrich Engels outlines systematically the miseries of the workers in England in the context of industrialization. A key to his argument concerns the interface between the human body and the machine. In this article I argue that Engels provide...

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Olivier Messiaen wanted his music to express of his profound Catholic faith, and many of his instrumental works written for the concert hall have an overt religious message. The Star of Bethlehem and the Cross of Golgotha, the most powerful symbols of Christianity, stand at the beginning and the en...

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The introduction of experimental techniques as a tool of philosophical investigation has created quite a stir in analytic philosophy in the last two decades. Experimental results have shed a new light on traditional debates in various fields and have led to a reappraisal of the use and merits of va...

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Truth-conditional semantics is by far the best-known philosophical contribution of Donald Davidson. The main idea of this approach is to explain the concept of meaning by appeal to the concept of truth. Accordingly, we understand a sentence s of a natural language L, if and only if, we know its trut...

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The Intervenient Must be a Problem for the Children! This article attempts to find a theoretically and philosophically consistant foundation for the role of the facilitator of philosophy with children and draws conclusions about the type of activity that this facilitator must do. This requires a th...

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This paper re-evaluates Marcel Duchamp’s ready-mades in response to dialectical critiques which privileged their anti-artistic status as objects which transcended the processes of production, of manufacture and labour associated with the creation of works of art. It analyses Duchamp’s play on the si...

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The aim of this paper is to propose some philosophical interpretations of Winnicott’s concept of the use of an object. These interpretations will be coming from Heidegger’s fundamental ontology and from Buber’s late philosophical anthropology. We also noticed that Winnicott’s theory of the use of a...

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This paper provides a classification of violent agents according to the manner in which they relate to their own goals. By interpreting Jean-Paul Sartre’s discussion of violence in Notebooks for an Ethics, I show that violent agents may be classified into four categories that I call “defenders of t...

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The Aesthetic Experience of the Everyday and the “Life-World”. This article critically reviews the recent attempts for setting a better theoretical grounding for the new sub-discipline called “Everyday Aesthetics” (EA).I contend that: 1) many attempts are impeded by shortcomings rooted in inappropr...

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Starting with the statement that the Being is what-it-is, we have a new dilemma when we want to express something through a philosophical sentence. We will try to find out and to show how the structure of the verb, correlated with the judgement dresses up a double form: a passive one, and a reflexi...

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Judicialisation, a Solution and a Problem. One of the significant disputes regarding the phenomenon of judiciarisation is to know if it is an irreversible one, i.e. if it is a structural trait of postmodern democracies, or only a sign of a crisis of the European society. In the latter case, it woul...

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The Dimensions and the Affinities of the Game. Two people cannot be replicated. But they can have common points in life, such as social aspects or others regarding their sentimental life, their artistical one, their spiritual one and from these we can see how everything comes into place and forms t...

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This paper is going to present the syllogistic reasoning beginning with the Middle Ages and comparing the traditional type of this kind of reasoning with some modern conceptualizations (Hodges and Makinson). In this paper is emphasized the view of Petrus Hispanus, a Middle Age philosopher who based...

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