Human, almost human: how many human species are there? by Thierry Hoquet

“…Leaving aside the theological and political aspects of the question, this paper analyses three dimensions of the problem – metaphysical, biological and technical – using an approach that is both epistemological and historical. …”
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„Stânga” şi „dreapta” doctrinei revistei literare „Gândirea” by Iulia Belu

“…The movement was characterized by a lack of unity, there was the right wing of ˝Gândirea˝’s doctrine, which lingered in a metaphysical belief and traditional literary values and the left wing, that put more emphasis on creativity and freedom of the movement of literary ideas.…”
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Ultrasound of Primary Aneurysmal Bone Cyst by Katrina N. Glazebrook, Gary L. Keeney, Michael G. Rock

“…Aneurysmal bone cysts (ABC) are rare, benign, expansile lesions of bone often found in the metaphyses of long bones in pediatric and young adult population. …”
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The Empiricist Impulse: Doers and Thinkers in Sixteenth-Century Spain by Portuondo María M.

“…This essay explores the tension that existed between empiricism and the metaphysical underpinnings of Aristotelian natural philosophy in Spain during the sixteenth century. …”
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C. McGinn. The concept of a person / trans. from Engl. A. V. Nekhaev by A. V. Nekhaev

“…The essay contains a critique of the metaphysical ways to use of the term ‘person’. Since the term does not designate any natural kind, philosophers must abandon the question ‘what constitutes the continued existence of a person?’. …”
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A construção do saber geográfico no helenismo: II - As physiografias e a desmitificação de Gaia. by Antonio Carlos Vitte, Márcio Henrique de Mello Pereira

“…From the Ionians to Heraclitus and the atomists to Hippocrates, the Greek reason sought to understand and explain the origin of man and the earth no longer through myths, but in search of evidence in the very dynamics of nature, by highlighting at each historical moment the elements of nature that best synthesize the natural origin, as well as the metaphysical and ontological unity of the world.…”
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The wilderness wanderings: a theo-liminal pedagogy for mind decolonisation in African Christianity by C. J. Kaunda

“… This article argues that the current economic and political underdevelopment in the majority of African countries is a symptom of a profound metaphysical and intellectual crisis in the African person’s imagination and consciousness, a consequence of conceptual alienation wrought about mind colonialism. …”
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Éthique et pédagogie : entre l’institution de moralité et le désengagement éthique, comment ouvrir le champ d’un perfectionnement moral à l’école ? by Didier Moreau

“…The new teaching of morality in school arouses a debate against metaphysical positions. This paper realizes a critical review of them, from their epistemological presuppositions, to propose a way of ethical training of oneself, according to the stoic practice of the spiritual exercises as far as possible of any transcendence. …”
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HUMAN IMAGE IN CLASSICAL ISLAM AND SUFISM: PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS by M. V. Nesprava

“…As it has been shown, the general Muslim ideas about the metaphysical status of a human include two dimensions – a human is interpreted as «the slave of Allah», as well as "the vicegerent of Allah". …”
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Punishing (Not)Innocent Persons? by A. V. Nekhaev

“…However, Walker’s defence of the view of persons as abstract entities is met with several metaphysical objections. Alternatively, a new approach to moral and legal responsibility is developed based on principles of agency law, in which the conception of a guilty person does not require identity with the person who committed the culpable act.…”
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ANTHROPOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF PRAGMATISM AND PERSPECTIVES OF SOCIO-HUMANITARIAN REDESCRIPTION OF ANALYTIC METHODOLOGY by A. S. Synytsia

“…On the basis of the analysis of logical, epistemological and metaphysical ideas formulated by representatives of pragmatism, it is proved that pragmatic methodology is anthropocentric. …”
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“Great Flood-Gates of the Wonder World”: Baptisms of Water and Fire in Melville and Hawthorne by Ariel Clark Silver

“…When John the Baptist speaks of baptisms of water and fire in the Gospel of Matthew (3:11), he prefigures the mortal and metaphysical obsessions in which Melville and Hawthorne find themselves immersed. …”
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Figures de l’exil dans New Grub Street de George Gissing by Christine Huguet

“…In New Grub Street, Gissing’s acknowledged masterpiece combining autobiographical resonances with an insider’s dissection of the contemporary literary scene, estrangement is raised to the level of systematised exile, it is monopolised and articulated as a logical predicate.This paper will look at Gissing’s comprehensive vertical exploration of the concepts of belonging and exclusion in this 1891 novel which, being deeply rooted in material and metaphysical uprooting, tremulously urges the paradox of exile at home.…”
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Loen et Voltaire : une controverse métaphysique by Catherine Julliard

“…It reveals the importance of metaphysical debates and the power of argumentative and polemical speeches during the Enlightenment, when different reflections on the notion of soul were clashing. …”
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Gib Mihăescu – universul prozei scurte by Andrei Baciu

“…This, under the conditions that behind this uncanny relation there is a real modern existential thesis of the absurd: because of a metaphysical conspiracy – nota bene, as unmetaphorical as possible – the protagonists are inexorably driven towards the most tragic endings.…”
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Self-Effacing Barbie: The Ideal, the Real and the Quest for Authentic Selfhood by John Michael Corrigan, Justin Prystash

“…Rather than or in addition to presenting a left-wing or right-wing critique of contemporary gender roles, the film positions this contest within the vexed relationship between the ideal and the real. This metaphysical quandary is what propels the protagonists on a Buddhist-inspired quest for authentic selfhood, a selfhood characterized by both the effacement of the discrete self (the Buddhist concept of anatman) and the eclipse of monumentalized cultural and commercial idols, like Barbie, that organize and disseminate ideology.…”
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Philosophical Role of Deleuze and Spinoza in Gillian Howie's Feminism, on Deleuze and Spinoza: Aura of Expressionism by Behnaz Aghili Dehkordi, Hossein Kalbasi Ashtari

“…Deleuze's philosophical commentary on Spinoza is a critically important work because its conclusions provide the foundations for Deleuze's later metaphysical speculations on the nature of power, the body, difference and singularities. …”
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Cormac McCarthy’s Aesthet(h)ics of the “Canal-Rhizome” in Suttree by Marie-Agnès Gay

“…Moreover, the essay contends that the text’s aesthetic choice of liminal forms is also meant to enable the reader to share the hero’s metaphysical experience of the mysteries of death-in-life.…”
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Immigration, différence et intégration dans The Consul et The Saint of Bleecker Street de Gian Carlo Menotti by Walter Zidaric

“…In The Saint ofBleecker Street (1954), the Little Italy microcosm suggests a new reflection about questions which are related to the concept of difference and integration, connected to considerations of a metaphysical and religious nature. As metaphors of American society, these two operas finally symbolise all kinds of human multicultural societies by revealing the polysemic character of Menotti’s works.…”
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WILLIAM JAMES: THE CONCEPTION OF PRAGMATISM by Vytis Valatka

“…It either corresponds to the world of our external experience (as the ideas of natural sciences do), or to the world of our internal experience (as metaphysical ideas do). …”
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