One of the main article goals are going to be especially analytical, comparing as well as deductive English language specialised reflections of this philosopher and aesthetics-studious person together with our Slovak and Czech language sources. The part of our work is going to be also concentrated on the previous conferential reflections, but an addition of the next, not only her bookish and past characteristics, but also the current Internet ones, that are an integral part of our life and inevitable information (...) sources, is going to be presented too. All these considerations´ result should be the following, closer Langer´s clarification in the 20th and 21st century aesthetics-philosophical world. Due to all the above mentioned ideas, the next article goal of the same interest relevance is going to happen the comparative current/modern authors theories of the philosophical-aesthetics art world insight, concerning the understood and reflected Susanne Langer´s part of her lifetime work so far. Our research should then be focused on closer assembling of our answer to the continually ongoing question about the philosophy of art and aesthetics´s meaning and message of this controversial american philosophical and aesthetics world figure. (shrink)

For Latin American philosophers, the quality of their own philosophy is a recurrent issue. Why hasn’t it produced any internationally recognized figure, tradition, or movement? Why is it mostly unknown inside and outside Latin America? Although skeptical answers to these questions are not new, they have recently shifted to some critical-thinking competences and dispositions deemed necessary for successful philosophical theorizing. Latin American philosophers are said to lack, for example, originality in problem-solving, problem-making, argumentation, and to some extent, interpretation. Or does (...) the problem arise from their vices of “arrogant reasoning?” On my view, all of these answers are incomplete, and some even self-defeating. Yet they cast some light on complex, critical-thinking virtues and vices that play a significant role in philosophical thinking. (shrink)

Once a name to conjure with, Scottish idealist James Frederick Ferrier (1808–1864) is now a largely forgotten figure, notwithstanding the fact that he penned a work of remarkable power and originality: the Institutes of Metaphysic (1854). In ‘Reid and the Philosophy and Common Sense,’ an essay of 1847 which anticipates some of the central themes of the Institutes of Metaphysic, Ferrier presents an excoriating critique of Thomas Reid's brand of common sense realism. Understanding Ferrier's critique of Reid – its content, (...) motivations, and significance – is the task of the present essay. (shrink)

This paper divides the sophisms and paradoxes put forth by Chinese thinkers of the pre-Qin period of China into six groups: paradoxes of motion and infinity, paradoxes of class membership, semantic paradoxes, epistemic paradoxes, paradoxes of relativization, other logical contradictions. It focuses on the comparison between the Chinese items and the counterparts of ancient Greek and even of contemporary Western philosophy, and concludes that there turn out to be many similar elements of philosophy and logic at the beginnings of Chinese (...) and Greek civilizations. (shrink)

یکی از مهم ترین مسائل فلسفی ،کلامی و عرفانی که کارکرد تربیتی مؤثر بویژه در تربیت توحیدی دارد ، تاثیر عوامل غیر معرفتی نظیر اراده ، ملکات نفسانی و الگو های رفتاری ، امیال ، عواطف و اغراض در فرآیند ادراکات آدمی از قبیل نگرش های انسان شناختی ، خدا شناختی ، جهان شناختی ، و درک او از معنای زندگی و حیات طیبه و... است. این بحث پلی ارتباطی میان دو حوزه معرفت شناسی و اخلاق محسوب می شود. این (...) مقاله بر آن است تا ضمن بررسی دقیق تر این ادعا، دیدگاه مولانا را در این خصوص جویا شود.اینکه مولوی نیز به تأثیر ساحت های غیر عقیدتی بر ساحت عقاید و باور ها معتقد بوده است ، مهم ترین سخن این نوشته است. ازاین رو مهم ترین مصادیق عوامل غیر معرفتی که موجب شفافیت یا کدورت شناخت بشری می شود ، معرفی شده و با درک آراء مولوی در این زمینه، به اهمیت عوامل غیر معرفتی در مبانی معرفتی انسان پرداخته شده است. (shrink)

Highlights of Claude Sumner's lifelong accomplishments in the field of Ethiopian philosophy.

Rhetoric has always had a bad reputation among philosophers. As far as we know, the first discussion of rhetoric in the history of philosophy takes place in Plato’s works. Plato accuses sophistry as possessing an attitude that contains rhetoric, and thus accuses it for having almost no philosophical value. However, Plato himself uses a kind of rhetoric in some of his works too — this rhetoric can be called a ‘true rhetoric.’ In this work, the notion of rhetoric is analysed (...) considering Gorgias, Phaedrus and Republic, and it will be queried as to whether the ‘true rhetoric’ of Plato is true enough. (shrink)