Sarmiento y la nación cívica by Susana Villavicencio

“…The idea of “community of citizens” summarizes this figure of the nation that subscribes to the modern Republican tradition, and proposes the unity based on the respect for common law. This philosophical idea, supported by the enlightened elite in a moment of violent confrontations and endless civil conflict, has a central role in the process of national organization and the establishment of a republican government after the collapse of the colonial bond. …”
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Corpo potência e política - Espinosa e os direitos das mulheres by Maria Luísa Ribeiro Ferreira

“…About this issue we critically analyse the perspective of some feminist philosophers (Geneviève Lloyd, Moira Gaytens, Beth Lord e Margaret- Gullan Wuhr). …”
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Unidentified Verbal Objects by Esa Kirkkopelto

“… This article considers how artistically performative practices, especially the scenic embodiment of words, problematizes our accustomed understanding of language, both in a philosophical and an everyday sense. In classical phenomenology à la Heidegger or Merleau-Ponty, language is considered a medium of the process of appearing or expression. …”
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Contradictions Around the Stoic Sage. Chapter Twenty of Plutarch’s On Stoic Self-Contradictions by Anna Aklan

“… In Chapter nineteen of his De Stoicorum repugnantiis, Plutarch criticizes Chrysippus in that the idea of the sage he presents is contradictory in parts of the Stoic philosopher’s writings. Plutarch exposes the contradictions which center mainly around the mutually exclusive precepts of the private versus public life of the sage and secondly, around his money-earning occupations that both entail further contradictory corollaries. …”
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People First, Communication First: Public Relations For Information And Document Managers by Mehmet Ali Akkaya

“…Yılmaz who plays a part among the most productive members of profession, academicians, philosophers… of the knowledge and document management area in our country; together with his natural talent on the communication concern; once again invites us to think widely regarding ourselves, our profession, target audience and environment and freshen ourselves on these concerns via his second edition book with the heading as “First Human, First Communication”.…”
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A crítica pós-moderna: analítica da interação e da sociabilidade by Carlos A. Gadea

“…The article claims that the post-modern critique is in a way defined as a kind of reuse of theoretical approaches to social interaction ranging from philosophical pragmatism and eclecticism to etnomethodology and the so-called cultural studies…”
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On two ways to expand on the harm principle by Rodrigo Jungmann de Castro

“… In this article I survey the historical antecedents of what has been commonly referred to as John Stuart Mill´s Harm Principle and some of the ways in which the principle has been discussed in the work of recent analytic philosophers. Subsequently, in the article`s substantive core, I focus entirely on what Mill refers to as the “moral coercion of public opinion”. …”
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Thomas Henry Huxley et la Bible by Christophe Duvey

“…The naturalisation of the Scriptures seems then logically to follow his philosophical views based on the limits of human knowledge.It appears that it was the question of authority which underlay Huxley’s interest in the Bible. …”
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Guarding the boundaries: a Swedish policy debate about geography and education for sustainable development by Hampus Hallingfors, Henrik Åström Elmersjö

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Le conservatisme américain : entre maturité philosophique et précarité politique by Jérôme NOIROT

“…Many theories hold that American conservatism in its current expression is philosophically incoherent and will ultimately disintegrate paving the way for a major partisan realignment. …”
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Entre humour noir et réflexivité : écouter la voix de Moss dans No Country for Old Men by Françoise Sammarcelli

“…The latter slows down the rhythm by introducing discontinuity in the sequence of dramatic actions and combines wisecracking and philosophical reflections; it is also endowed with a special status as it contains Moss’s last words in the text. …”
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The Interface Between the Written and the Oral in lfa Corpus by Omotade Adegbindin

“… While the modernists in the field of African philosophy embrace writing as a precondition for philosophy and forcefully maintain the need to cast philoso­phy in the image of science, the traditionalists insist that African philosophy is essentially a philosophical reflection on African oral traditions, morals, and re­ligious practices. …”
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L’École Républicaine est-elle le fruit des idées et de valeurs protestantes ? by Anne Ruolt

“…Then, in a second step, the article analyzes the thought of Buisson in a philosophical-theological perspective, and shows from the writings of its founding philosophy, how he has resolutely rejected all of Protestantism orthodox and heterodox to found a « other party » closer to Auguste Comte that of Jean Calvin. …”
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Estação Carandiru e o mundo construído pelas formas de nomeação by Maria Aparecida Silva Ribeiro

“…This article proposes a reading of the text of Varella, from the choices practiced in their nomination process, which subsidize the narration, in line with traditional of the narrator setting enunciated by the philosopher Walter Benjamin. It also scrutinizes the ways in which space, almost a character in the story told, is built by nominating speech, in its excesses and shortages.…”
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REVISING THE PROJECT OF MODERNITY HERMENEUTICS by Marius Povilas Povilas Šaulauskas

“… The article is intended to argue the fundamental modernity of Habermasian, Gadamerian and, to a considerable extent, Rortian philosophical projects in spite of their "self-limiting" and thereby "transcending" modern metanarrative characteristics. …”
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Editorial by Editor

“…The article provides a philosophical and scriptural exploration of Prana as an essential element of existence and consciousness. …”
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PARADIGMA FISIKA QUR’ANI DALAM TRIDHARMA PERGURUAN TINGGI KEAGAMAAN ISLAM by Muslimah Susilayati, Mufiq Mufiq, Barid Syamsiyah

“…With this integration model, the paradigm of the integration with its various philosophical variants is expected to become a solution for various social problems that occur in society. …”
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The geometric concepts of the Istana Dalam Loka traditional house: An ethnomathematics study by Maulidia Dwi Meyundasari, Intan Dwi Hastuti, Syaharuddin Syaharuddin, Saba Mehmood

“…This study explores the philosophical aspects of traditional architecture and ethnomathematics geometry in the Istana Dalam Loka traditional house, located in West Nusa Tenggara. …”
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The Eternal Return. Apocatastasis and its Manifestations in Ancient Philosophies: Pythagoreanism, Stoicism, Zoroastrianism, Platonism and Gnosticism by Alexandru LAZĂR

“…This study explores the acceptances of the concept of apocatastasis in five of the most influential philosophical and religious traditions of antiquity: Pythagoreanism, Stoicism, Platonism, Gnosticism and Zoroastrianism. …”
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Teaching-learning of psychology: reflections from interbehavioral scientific matrix by Winter Edgar Reyna Cruz, Manuel Hernández Reyes

“…In previous works it has been pointed out that the exercise of Psychology is not limited to a single type of practice; On the contrary, psychologists perform philosophical, theoretical, technological, professional and transdisciplinary practices. …”
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