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The problem expressed by the title has no simple psychological solution: like “people do not want to feel pain and thus do not want to transpose mentally into the minds of those who suffer”. The truth of this solution is obvious: in order to keep one’s balance and thus, the will to live, the humans focus on their own – each of them on his own – concrete, both momentary and long-term goals and do not internalise until the deep psychological/ mental level the facts and phenomena which may disturb...
The idea of priority denotes a definite subjective origin of decisions and attitudes leading to new facts: which, first of all, are accomplished by humans. In other words, the feature of something to being a priority may never be confused with an objective and impersonal element or characteristic of reality. On the contrary, the priority is the result of a deep deliberation – even though possibly very rapid – and thus, it is both the result of a bifurcation in the development of ideas in the hum...
A reassuring image/idea common people – and philosophers too – cherish is that if humans do not receive what they reasonably expect or need or if humans cannot be and act as they can (therefore, not according to some absurd desires), nevertheless they would receive something or would be something: the substituting fact or position or fate are what people deserve, au fond, by their predestination – the arrangement of things by the transcendent force – and/or by their own behaviour. The present re...
Between the everyday external goods man needs not only as a living being depending on the permanent exchange of matter and energy, but just in order to fulfill its specific function – the exercise of reason – according to Aristotle, there is one matter-of-course and which is so integrated in our routine habits that, when we consider the necessary external goods to be allocated to every human fellow as a right, we simply do not think to: cleanness, the need of cleanliness. But this matter-of-cour...
Anticipation is an essential function of the mind/ the consciousness, because it precedes and prepares the reaction of the organism to the stimuli of the environment. By preceding it, anticipation is a rapid review of the possibilities and conditions and, as a result, it is the frame of the best choice/the best model of reaction. In the methodology of cognition view, anticipation is a pattern of the next perceptions of the world: as such, this pattern / this modelling pattern is a “principle of...
Eseu cvasi-optimist Avertisment Întrebarea de mai sus pare o glumă, fireşte. Căci, pe de o parte, stăm unde vrem – fiind liberi ca cetăţeni, putem să locuim undeva din propria noastră hotărâre – şi, pe de altă parte, stăm unde putem, adică unde ne permit mijloacele materiale şi împrejurările care ne-au condiţionat ocupaţia şi traiectoria. Aşa că nu facem întotdeauna ceea ce am dori, conchidem noi cu înţelepciunea ancorată în acest prim şi cel mai constrângător strat al evidenţei. Şi-atunci are r...
(1) Introducción Nos encontramos en un año filosófico kantiano (Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804). En efecto, la filosofía se interesa y reflexiona sobre lo que piensa y le interesa la gente corriente; e independientemente de los marcos históricos y de los límites del esfuerzo filosófico técnico, la filosofía como tal es valiosa y permanece en la memoria y el patrimonio de la humanidad sólo en la medida en que aporta soluciones reales al problema real de la historia humana: la situación, la razón de ser...
[anul Kant – eveniment publicistic] To the memory of my parents Contents Introduction The precritical period (1745-1770): Kant’s journey, science and philosophy 2.1. In science, endeavour to detach from metaphysics, but… 2.2. From Kant’s traditional philosophical effort to its negation • 2.2.1. Questioning the traditional metaphysical approach: the world 2.2.2. The concept of God as an effort of thought The critical period (1770-1791): what does it mean to know Knowing and levels Knowledge “Thou...
(1) Introduction We are in a Kant philosophical year (Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804). In fact, philosophy is interested in and reflects on what ordinary peoplethink and what interests them; and, irrespective of the historical frames and limits of the technical philosophical effort, philosophy as such is valuable and remains in the memory and patrimony of humanity only at the extent of real solutions for the real problem of the human history: the situation, reason-to-be and dignified life of every com...
The 18th century was not only that of Enlightenment. There were even ideas which opposed[1] to the message of progress through cultural development of the many – although “the many” were, at least for the German intellectuals, only townsmen, and rather propertied. But just because of the coexistence of adverse ideologies, we cannot hold the principle of Enlightenment to be guilty of the theses of the Counter-Enlightenment, as Adorno and Horkheimer believed. And thus, we (not I/me, but we all as...
An important aspect of the human relationships and positions towards norms and even towards values is discipline or, better, the degree of discipline: and certainly, its feedbacks to relationships, norms and values. The pandemic has emphasised just the shortcomings of this necessary order in society and, more, of this accepted order. Therefore, discipline may be somehow equated with social order – the existence of social rules which constitute the framework of the continuity/rhythmic functioning...
My first point is to show that, between the cultural traditions, there are not only particular/specific elements which would have forged and would forge the culture of a people, but also universal elements. These universal elements intertwine with the other ones, are transposing through the other ones: their translation through and by the other ones outline a unique culture that is grasped by its followers as only specific, as only “theirs”, as if only they would have constructed it. But certain...
As it is known, the scientists have distinguished the types of human rationality – practical, theoretical, formal and substantive, said Max Weber[1] – as well as the pattern of the human rationality: to always correlate the means and the end of an action and to make this correlation in the frame of/according to the values existing in a time span but, concretely, of those assumed by people. When evaluating the human rationality, the researchers have focused on the means-end relations and the valu...
În loc de captatio benevolentiae: antropologie și fenomenologie • Sub o întrebare filosofică (diferența dintre antropologie și fenomenologie) ce, pentru un non-antropolog, pare necesară, se prezintă doar o schiță a unui fenomen suficient de răspândit pentru a fi cercetat: antropologic și, deci, multi și interdisciplinar. Într-adevăr, dacă – plecând de la vechile direcții semnalate de Aristotel – filosofia în general este desfășurarea rațiunii în contemplarea lumii sau, mai clar, căutarea cauzelo...
If I would dedicate this note to the upcoming Christmas, it would be simple bumkum: “holidays are always the occasion to show our compassion for the unfortunate, our goodwill, our charity, au fond our love for humans, are they?” And tear-exciting palaver about poor children and mothers finding their happiness (goods necessary for the everyday life, or the pay of healthcare and school, or even a little house lightened by both the candles of the Christmas tree and the until now inexistent TV set)...
One of the most neglected concepts by philosophy was and is the regret. The reason is the huge content of personal responsibility towards the phenomena contemplated with sorrow. And for the regret is not only a sentiment of sadness related to what had happened – or could have happened but did not – but also one of remorse. And we know from psychology that the remorse is so difficult to support[1], namely to fit to and converge with the deep feeling of personal identity/self-esteem/telos, that pe...
Times, and now the capitalist system crisis we live in, push to the prominence of some concepts instead of the former ones. As the crisis emphasizes contradictions and situations no one could conceive and believe before, common people – rather than the philosophers – arrive to feel as urgent concepts the intolerable, the irreversible, the state of emergency, the point of no return, the every, the all/the any, and again the salvation, the means and the ends. The blind ideology refuses to see and...
One of the most frequent and, at the same time, dangerous epistemological faults of the contemporary thinkers – and indeed, only these ones are blind, since the former have only discovered the significances of time – is the homogenization of situations, images and concepts related to man. Philosophy works, obviously, at the level of universals, but homogenization is not tantamount to the universal included in the concepts-theories as main philosophical tools. Homogenization is a fallacious gener...
Volum unic în literatura română – Claude Karnoouh, Cu ajutorul lui Mihai Pop, Odiseea bravului soldat Alexa: o cronică rimată a Primului Război Mondial, Cu o postfaţă de Claude Karnoouh: Prin foc şi sabie – sau gândirea Totale Mobilmachung-ului şi a Weltbürgerkrieg-ului la ţăranii din Carpaţi (Bucureşti, Editura Muzeului Literaturii Române, 2014), Traducerea din română a Odiseii bravului soldat Alexa şi a Verşului lui Bonaparte de Claude Karnoouh, Traducerea din franceză a notelor, a prefeţei şi...
„N-are cultură, dar are experienţă”, auzim destul de des concluzia ce se vrea nepărtinitoare, superioară şi înţelegătoare. Fraza denotă existenţa unor clişee în gândirea comună: al diferenţei şi opoziţiei dintre cultură (cunoştinţe temeinice, teorii, legarea discursivă a tuturor acestora) şi, pe de altă parte, un know how general, un savoir faire ca savoir vivre; al diferenţei şi opoziţiei dintre livresc şi practică, sau dintre teorie şi practică; şi chiar dintre „umanioare” şi cunoaşterea tehni...
[Schiţă filosofică] Abstract. The paper starts from the significance of the beauty of the body within the concept of man and shows why has the Greek philosophy explained the human as a rational being, the beauty of the body having a subordinated place, however not despised but intertwining with the mind: only together, the body and the spirit giving the harmony of the human person. The paper selects from the features of the corporeal beauty, the erect stature and joins the philosophical image wh...
Scopul acestor notaţii este dublu: de a pune în lumină importanţa perspectivei sistemice asupra fiinţei umane şi de a lega această abordare sistemică de problema calităţii vieţii. Perspectiva sistemică – aceea care discută despre părţile unui lucru legându-le între ele şi legând totalitatea acelui lucru de alte totalităţi – a fost, în fond, presupusă, deşi nu totdeauna exprimată, de către conştiinţa comună [1]. Într-adevăr, conştiinţa umană a însemnat – au arătat nu numai primii filosofi greci c...
Language English Разделы: Теория Professor Politehnica University The paper, only an introduction to the theme, intends to make out some different discourses about communism in order to suggest its ontology. But this one means a structure of concepts related to both the static and dynamic (principles) of communism, as well as to its position in space and time, and to its realisation. Ontology of communism appears in this way to be challenged by the intertwined and complex levels of practice. How...
The new industrial revolution is a two-edged sword. It may be used for the benefit of humanity, but only if humanity survives long enough to enter a period in which such benefit is possible. It may also be used to destroy humanity, and if it is not used intelligently it can go very far in that direction. [1] 0.1. Many ancient ideas were later formalized and synthesized in rigorous and elegant theories which gave to the old wisdom the proofs and challenges of a more and more complex environment....