16 papers
A popular book about a scientist is always interesting, for it concerns remarkable deeds which improved the human knowledge and thus, the telos, the reason-to-be of the human being and its civilisation. Accordingly, the life as such of the scientist, narrated by the popular book, is of absolutely secondary relevance since it does not explain the logic and uniqueness of the scientific construction. As already it is well-known, once created, a work has its own “life”, i.e., its own internal causes...
Abstract. The intention of this paper is a short review. However, the reading has generated some remarks which concern both some concrete aspects dealt with in the book and the certain methods used to indicate political opinions through the appearance of a “neutral” approach. The book is an expose of some ideas promoted by the papers which have been chosen by the author in order to show the concerns and the problems related to the present world instability. The most important features of the met...
, Volumul este o interpretare a operei filosofice a lui Lucian Blaga din punct de vedere epistemologic. Iar această interpretare este consonantă cu dorinta clar exprimată de Blaga, însusi de a-i privi teoria care cuprinde si leagă trilogiile sale drept o perspectivă nouă, , asupra cunoasterii. În siajul paradigmei kantiene de precedentă a explicării procesului, , de creare a cunostintelor asupra ontologiei care le sintetizează savant în chip de concepte, , ordonatoare ale întelegerii lumii, Luci...
Translation (into Romanian) by Rodica Croitoru, 2019 This is only a note about the translation into Romanian of Kant’s magnum opus: Immanuel Kant, Critica rațiunii pure, Traducere, Studiu introductiv, Studiu asupra traducerii, Note, Bibliografie selectivă, Index de concepte german-român, Index de concepte român-german de Rodica Croitoru, București, Editura Paideia, 2019, 1061 p. [Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, Translation (into Romanian), Introductory Study, Study about Translation, Not...
Dialogue and Universalism, Journal of the International Society for Universal Dialogue, Vol. XXIX, No 2/2019, pp. 217-238 Universal, a concept describing a point of view about the state of things, is, first of all, related to values. The values themselves are ideas taken over by as wide as possible human groups: ideas which thus are criteria for other appreciations and actions. And because the coherence of the human society requires the assumption of common criteria, they are created and moved s...
ABSTRACT The paper is a critical review of the announced book, and its core is given by the analysis of the arguments and unfolded logic of the book put face to face with their effects. In this way, both the book and the review are parts of the necessary dialogue concerning the legitimacy of the irrational. The critical stance does not reproduce at all the mechanical view of the human rationality as mere cold logic, but is opposed to a “critique of the instrumental character of reason from the s...
Abstract. This paper is both an expanded review and an article insisting on some problems of the philosophical methods and the treatment of the human subjectivity. Thus, it starts from the book of Tibor Szabó, Le sujet et sa morale: Essais de philosophie morale et politique, Szeged, Centre Universitaire Francophone, 2016, and, first, highlights how the description of the human subject in the world may stay within the frame of the metaphysical suppositions or may divert from it. This position tow...
ABSTRACT The review of the Romanian philosopher’s book (The crisis of the theory of knowledge) presented in France and led by Edmond Goblot (1928) is made on the occasion of the translation of the book into Romanian by Maria Michiduţă and its publishing by Adrian Michiduţă. The volume is interesting because it is a rare piece of criticism between the habitual presentations of theories of different thinkers as such, and certainly because of the ideas it provides for our present understanding of t...
ABSTRACT This is the translation into Romanian of my review article of the above book in International Journal of General Systems. For this reason I do not translate the abstract, but only mention that the review is intended to highlight the neuro-physiological objective basis of the anticipative thinking and, at the same time, to suggest that anticipation is a telic process (it is related to the telos of the organism). KEYWORDS. anticipation, neuro-physiology, learning, psychology, consciousnes...
ABSTRACT. The review of Alexandru Boboc’s book relating the late 19th century science and its philosophy is an occasion to highlight some features of the scientific and philosophical atmosphere and theories of the time. These atmosphere and theories point the dialectic of continuity and discontinuity between the early modern and 19th century’s philosophical tradition and the development of the philosophy of the 20th century. KEYWORDS. the second half of the 19th century, science, philosophy, rea...
Iaşi, Institutul European, 2015, 273 p. Fiecare carte este şi oglinda celui care o scrie. Iar atunci când autorul şi explică istoria scrierii cărţii, o dată mai mult apare sporul de înţelegere pe care o carte o aduce în câmpul psihologiei şi sociologiei creaţiei ştiinţifice. Cum dezvăluie autorul, cartea de faţă este rodul cercetărilor sale de 20 de ani, finalizate şi cu obţinerea titlului de doctor, şi care au fost impulsionate de interesul său pentru raţionalitatea ştiinţifică. Într-adevăr, pr...
ABSTRACT. It is a review of Mircea Maliţa’s book about the fruitfulness of intellectual history studies centered on the relevant metaphors of the modern historical moments of science and philosophy. Există două obiective principale în acest volum: de a evidenţia rolul euristic al metaforei în gândirea ştiinţifică şi filosofică modernă şi de a descrie-demonstra pattern-ul metaforic dominant în jurul căruia s-au conturat cercetări relevante ale făuririi lumii moderne. Este interesant că sunt numit...
ABSTRACT. The review of an ambitious book, Philosophy and logic of social sciences, by Ioan Biriş, distinguished Professor at the Western University of Timişoara, emphasises some aspects of the image proposed by the author, as well as the difficulties of the approach of this kind of topic. Volumul (439 p.) este absolut impresionant din punctul de vedere al acoperirii – inclusiv cu o bibliografie densă a – unor arii largi ale problematicii ştiinţelor sociale, ca şi din punctul de vedere al ambiţi...
ana_bazac@hotmail.com An interesting international conference was held at Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth, University in Pune, India, from November 1–5, 2012 and chaired by Professor Viorel Guliciuc, „Ştefan cel Mare” University, Suceava, and Professor Kuruvilla Pandikatu, Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth, Director of the Centre for Science Religion Studies. Beside the opportunity to gather researchers from different parts of the world and different formative antecedents – and to benefit from the hospitality of th...
ABSTRACT. This review of Mircea Maliţa’s book, Homo fraudens, emphasises the logic of the analysis of the concept of fraud as characteristic of the human being in its development and some epistemological significances of both the standpoints and choices of the author in his construction and the ideas highlighted by him. KEYWORDS. human being, anthropology, knowledge, fraud, crisis, politics, ethics. Într‑o formă plăcut accesibilă, ideile de etică grave din această carte2 au profunde semnificaţii...
ABSTRACT. Ioan Biriş’s The concepts of science is a panorama of the main episte‑ mological theories in their logical development. The book focuses on the problem of the constitution, utilisation and functions of the concepts, and constructs the solving of this problem by discussing the relationships inside the triptych thinking‑language‑reality. The critical standpoint configures an integrative approach. KEYWORDS. epistemology, theories of the concept, language, empiricism, cognitivism, scientif...