Użyteczność teorii Jonasa w rozstrzyganiu konkretnych problemów ekologicznych? by Joanna Chudzik

“…The following article attempts to answer the question if it is possible to find criteria enabling to solve the ethical-political dilemmas such as the one of Rospudy Valley on the grounds of Jonas ethical theory, the answer to this question is reconsidered in the context of Jonas philosophical project which is the establishment of ethics for life in the ontology of organic being. On the grounds of metaphysics, Jonas justifies the constitutive link between consciousness with being and the absolute good in affirmation of the importance of existence over non-existence. …”
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"God in Himself" and "God as revealed to us": the impact of the substance concept by D. F. M. Strauss

“… The static space metaphysics of the Eleatic school (Parmenides) is continued by Plato, Aristotle and subsequently followed up by Thomas Aquinas. …”
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal et le néoplatonisme by Pauline Belvèze

“…A new analysis of Hofmannsthal’s Ein Brief shows that this text—against what Pierre-Antoine Huré demonstrates in his own study—has more common features with the Neoplatonic metaphysics than with its mystics. The conception of the world that is sketched in the second part of the fictitious letter is closely linked to a conception of the human beings, which is gradually developed in the poems Ein Traum von großer Magie and Nox portentis gravida. …”
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Derek Parfit: concern of no one as myself by A. V. Nekhaev

“…He entered the history of modern metaphysics and moral philosophy as a proponent of radical NeoLockean view on the issues of personal identity. …”
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Mastering Humans: Thinking (and) Slavery in the Age of Efficiency by Przemysław Uściński

“…Nietzsche’s critique of slave morality and Heidegger’s analysis of the metaphysics of the will to power reveal a number of contradictions inherent in the concept of mastery, including the disavowal of bodily vulnerabilities and ecological interdependences. …”
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Spinoza’s Strong Eudaimonism by Brandon Smith

“…I will show that Spinozistic happiness is not only naturalistic, stable, and exclusively intrinsically good, but that Spinoza is also a strong eudaimonist because his ethical account of happiness is incomprehensible without appeal to metaphysical, epistemological, and psychological doctrines. …”
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The enigma of validity: Speculations on the last paragraph of Donner le temps II by Rezende Gabriel

“…In this paper, I will trace some of the clues Derrida leaves in Donner le temps II and other texts, arguing that the “mystery of normativity” is bound to the ambiguous status of legality within metaphysics. Validity, as the mystical foundation of normativity, functions simultaneously as a metaphysical shortcut to secure self-reference in philosophical thought and as the impossibility of any foundational grounding (Grundlegung).…”
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Dwaj ludzie z lustrem. Metafory fotografii i fotograficzne motywy w etiudach Romana Polańskiego by Magdalena Szczypiorska-Chrzanowska

“…Metaphors and motifs originating in the technical, practical, mythopoetic, and anthropologic aspect of photography—e.g. mirror, doubling, doppelgänger, shade, voyeurism, murder, mortification/vivification—used in Polanski’s early film narratives refer to copying vs. creating, reproducing a fragment of the world vs. developing it anew, exploring “reality” vs. illusion, “truth” vs. imagination, optics vs. metaphysics, and produce an autonomous space of meanings and possible interpretations. …”
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Lost to Presence: The Entanglements of Writing, Protestant Christianity, and Empire in the 19th-Century Southern Africa by Sepetla Molapo

“…This ontology of force, in which Christianity participates, is a consequence of a modern metaphysics that splits individual and divine will. …”
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Is the Absolute Spirit God? Reviewing and Criticizing Hegels Concept of God by Mohammad Mehdi Ardebili

“…Although the reader cannot derive explicit answers for these questions, he or she can understand the approach of the writer about Hegelian analysis of the concept of God, and consequently grasp a brief impression of Hegelian metaphysics.…”
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Motyw nadziei w najnowszej poezji Dmitrija Strocewa by Bartosz Osiewicz

“…The methodological basis of the research is focused on the observations on hope made by the French philosopher Gabriel Honoré Marcel in the essay Outline of the phenomenology and metaphysics of hope (1942), and by the priest Józef Tischner in the essay Binding of Hope (1973). …”
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THE ONTOLOGY OF EXISTENCE: THE NEXT PARADIGM. A REVIEW OF THE BOOK "THE IDEA OF THE WORLD: A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ARGUMENT FOR THE MENTAL NATURE OF REALITY", BY BERNARDO KASTRUP by O. A. Bazaluk

“…In recent decades, attempts to create and argue a new ontology of existence that could provide a robust alternative to the mainstream physicalist metaphysics have been made in science and philosophy. …”
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Waking the ruin: Graham Harman’s object-oriented ontology, photogrammetry and the dami of Imbros by Sevcan Ercan, Joe Graham

“…Within the context of a philosophy that prioritises objects and stresses the looseness of the bond between objects and their own qualities, Harman’s recently articulated focus on ‘zeroing’ form and function in order to engage the withdrawn reality of buildings on an aesthetic level offers a case in point. Applying Harman’s metaphysics in conjunction with 3D photogrammetry treated as an aesthetic technique, this article interrogates a type of ruin – dami (plural damia) found on the North Aegean Island of Imbros/Gökçeada – with a view to stimulating them ‘awake’. …”
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IBN ARABI AND FRITHJOF SCHUON’S ANDROCENTRIC ONTOLOGY by Cennet Ceren Cavus

“…In dichotomies they elaborated to explain their metaphysics -such as “active-passive”, “total-part”, “superior-inferior”, and “essence-accident”-, they attribute all the favorable sides to the masculinity while attributing the unfavorable sides to the femininity. …”
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Review of The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche by Maryam Arab

“…Essays have been organized in six discrete sections such as biography, historical relations, principal works and fundamental issues such as values, epistemology and metaphysics, and developments of will to power. These essays contain striking and precise points that can influence our understanding of Nietzsche’s philosophy and provide us with a broad knowledge of the main elements of his philosophy, such as superman, will to power, and eternal recurrence. …”
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Spinoza’s EIp10 As a Solution to a Paradox about Rules: A New Argument from the Short Treatise by Michael Rauschenbach

“…Spinoza and his interpreters have used EIp10 to prove central claims in his metaphysics and philosophy of mind (i.e. substance monism, mind-body parallelism, mind-body identity, and finite subject individuation). …”
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Corpses, Embryos, Animal by E. V. Loginov

“…If I’m a material being, that question is an important part of the metaphysics of material beings. Animalism claims that I’m a human animal. …”
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Czy współczesna antropologia uwzględnia wiarę? by Tomasz Kraj

“…Taking faith into consideration means seriously considering such issues as: the linear concept of time, the Christian concept of man created in the image and likeness of God, the concept of human freedom, and the concept of human personhood rooted in metaphysics. The majority of contemporary anthropological positions reject the transcendent and metaphysical dimensions of the world, the existence of God, and the Christian concept of man. …”
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Formation of Ideas in Crisis A Critical Review on the Book: Spinoza and Politics by Etienne Balibar by Behnam Joodi

“…For this reason, according to Balibar, it is impossible to separate Spinoza's metaphysics from his politics, as if the latter were an application of the former. …”
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