Memory and Recalling in Shelagh Stephenson’s The Memory of Water by Kader Güzel

“…Expressing the thoughts and research of various thinkers and philosophers, this study represents the variable approaches to memory. …”
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VOLTAIRE’S PHILOSOPHY: HUMAN NATURE AND INTERPRETATION OF RELIGION by Yu. Zimaryova

“…In order to achieve this purpose it is necessary to complete the following tasks: to analyse academic literature on Voltaire’s interpretation of the phenomenon of religion; to expose Voltaire’s basic ideas about human nature; to substantiate the importance of anthropological approach to the phenomenon of religion with the ideas of Voltaire’s philosophical works. Methodology. The achievements of anthropocentric philosophical thought of the XIX century possess great potential in the process of constructive comprehension and theoretical reconstruction of the anthropological intention that accompanies the process of philosophising. …”
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A. A. ZINOVIEV ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SOVIET MANAGERIAL ELITE by E. M. Amelina

“…The article analyses the views of the famous Russian sociologist and philosopher, A. A. Zinoviev (1922–2006) on the Soviet administrative elite and the stages of its social and spiritual evolution. …”
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A Technique Socratic Questioning-Guided Discovery by M. Hakan Türkçapar, A. Emre Sargın

“…“Socratic Method” is a way of teaching philosophical thinking and knowledge by asking questions which was used by antique period greek philosopher Socrates. …”
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A Critical Review of the Book Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language by Shahram Shahryari

“…Kripke’s interpretation of Wittgenstein’s question and answer has provoked many philosophical debates, which have important implications for the methodology of the social sciences as well as the humanities. …”
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LANDASAN QUR'ANI DALAM HUBUNGAN ANTAR AGAMA: TITIK TEMU HERMENEUTIKA GERAK GANDA DAN TAFSIR FILOSOFIS THABATHABAI by Amrizal Amrizal

“…Fazlur Rahman with his double movement hermeneutics and Thabathabai with his philosophical interpretation. Although hermeneutics and interpretation are often disputed, the interpretation of these two figures has a common point that can be synthesized through logical dialectics. …”
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DECONSTRUCTION, APORIA AND THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF JUDGEMENT by Audronė Žukauskaitė

“… Deconstruction can be defined as a philosophical project which in the process of interpretation seeks to reveal contradictory or undecidable values within the philosophical text. …”
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Identifying the Prophetic Legal Ethos in the Death Penalty Provisions of the Indonesian Criminal Code by Basto Daeng Robo

“…The concepts of humanization, liberation, and transcendence serve as foundational elements of the philosophical framework of prophetic law, which coherently and sequentially aligns with the structures of ontology, epistemology, and axiology. …”
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„Anwärter auf die Hölle“: Stepan Trofimowitsch und die Menippea der Pharisäer by Ruth Karin Lévai

“…Five specific aspects of the Menippea as defined by Bakhtin are employed in the analysis: 1) the absence of epic or tragic distance, with the subject presented on the plane of the present day, 2) the bold and unrestrained use of the fantastic and adventure devoted to a purely ideational and philosophical end, 3) insanity of all sorts, 4) no abstractly philosophical or religiously dogmatic resolution to ultimate questions, rather their embodiment in carnivalistic acts and images, and 5) the creation of an extraordinary plot situation or a provocative anacrisis.…”
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Of Human Bondage and the Question of Free Will by Mahinur Akşehir Uygur

“…In this questioning, Maugham’s main philosophical inspiration is Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) and he borrows the title of his book from Spinoza’s magnum opus, Ethics (1677) in which “Of Human Bondage” is the title of an episode. …”
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The Difference between Moderate and Limited Communitarianism by Lungelo Siphosethu MBATHA

“…This article uses philosophical analysis to defend the status of limited communitarianism as a standalone theory in African political philosophy. …”

An Inquiry on Ancient Natural Theology: The Milesians by Adem İrmak

“…This paper examines the possibility of offering an alternative interpretation of their philosophical contributions from the perspective of natural theology. …”
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Music’s ability to foster prosocial behavior: a teleofunctionalist perspective by Jin Hyun Kim

“…Drawing on recent interdisciplinary music research—biologically or developmental psychologically oriented—which conceptualizes music as a communicative toolkit primarily serving affiliative communicative interaction, this paper investigates the question of whether and to what extent music is capable of fostering prosocial behavior within the framework of teleofunctionalism—a philosophical theory of mind. A teleofunctionalist perspective allows us to specify this question as follows: To what extent might a function of establishing affiliative socio-interactional relationships be considered a proper function of music, a concept suggested by philosopher Ruth Millikan? …”
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ENSEMBLE MUSIC AS EDUCATIONAL AND COMMUNICATIVE RESOURCE. ONLINE SEMINAR REVIEW by Valentina L. Boiko, Svetlana A. Mitasova, Sergey G. Chaikin

“…Music has always been a magnet for the greatest minds of mankind considering it as a cultural phenomenon, as manifestation of Divinity, and as a specific art form. Philosophic studies of music nature show that origins of spiritual culture can be seen as deep as in the earliest civilization periods. …”
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Friedrich Hölderlin or Emanuele Severino? The Sacral Dimension of Nature in the Context of Modern Technology by Andrzej Kobyliński

“…He believes science and modern technology have become an extremely effective tool of man’s dominion over the natural world. The Italian philosopher says that today the human will to power applied to nature leads to its objectification and desacralization. …”
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BİR AĞIT OLARAK İNSAN by Ahmet İnam

“…Why is it so? In this paper a philosophical explication of the concept of "elegy" will be explicated and and onto-ethical implication of it will be descri…”
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Bertrand Russell’s epistemology: towards neutral monism by A. B. Didikin

“…The article presents the evolution of the ideological views of the British philosopher Bertrand Russell on the nature of knowledge and the methodological principles underlying the cognition theory. …”
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Ciało - źródło grzechu czy powód do chwały w świetle poglądów Tertuliana by Adam M. Filipowicz

“…Despise body in ancient philosophical thought; 3. Dignity of body according to Tertullian; 4. …”
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Foreign words, Gramophones and Truth in “Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell (1946) by Pierre Guerlain

“…This paper analyses Orwell’s stance as far as the use of foreign words in English is concerned and relates it to his larger political and philosophical views. It deconstructs the perception of Orwell as a linguistic chauvinist and focuses on the affinities between Orwell, Russell and Chomsky to make a point about the fight between post-modernists and so-called rationalists.…”
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Trauma Talk by Siri Husvedt

“…At the crossroads between theoretical reflections, autobiographical and fictional writings by the author, memories and dreams, not to mention essays by philosophers, psychoanalysts and neuroscientists, this extremely personal and creative paper aims at defining the specificity of trauma narratives – such an endeavor being conceived as essentially paradoxical. …”
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