La Ville botanique by Maria A. Villalobos H.

“…Does the botanical garden offer the basis to lay down the foundations of an new urban landscape which would promote the knowledge and sensibility of Nature and of Culture, beyond the philosophical and social oppositions ?…”
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Angel in “the Cartesian theatre” – Aquinas and the mind-body problem by Tomasz Stępień

“… One of the solutions of the mind-body problem, which returns to the philosophical discussion on consciousness is the “soul hyphotesis”. …”
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Mental preparation of karateka for sports competition in kata by Paweł Adam Piepiora, Julia Barbara Jurczyk, Jolita Vveinhardt

“…Mental preparation for sports competition in karate is significant, as it is deeply embedded in the philosophical and ethical values that underpin this combat method. …”
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Human Self-Experience in the Garden: Horticulotherapy from an Ontological-Axiological Perspective by Marlena Kilian, Michał Paluch

“…The ontological and axiological description proposed in the article aims to include the way of thinking derived from the Polish philosophical tradition into the international eco-pedagogical discourse. …”
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THE ROLE OF MYTHOLOGY IN THE CULTURAL-HISTORICAL PARADIGM OF DEVELOPMENT by Тарас ТИМОШЕНКО

“…Attention is focused on a certain kind of interaction between myth and philosophy, where the myth, despite its irrational essence, has not been left out of the attention of philosophical thought. It is emphasized that mythology constantly experienced changes and adaptation to new living conditions, cultural factors and its paradigmatic foundations. …”
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Poetic Utterances and Socio-Political Commitment in Ọbasa’s Poems by Lere Adeyemi

“…Tus, a lot of critical works that exist on Obasa’s poems largely concentrate on the cultural ̣ and the philosophical dimensions with little or no focus on the socio-political commitment of the poet. …”
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There is no Such Thing as a Free Market by Dirk van den Heuvel

“…Schumacher’s position is interpreted in the tradition of the ideas of philosopher Ayn Rand and Nietzschean master-servant morality. …”
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ЕMPATHY AS CONDITIONS OF HUMAN CREATIVITY by Tamara N. Matyukh

“…Methodological and theoretical basis of the study was a combination of systemic, structural-functional and hermeneutic approaches; psychological and philosophical concepts of empathy problems and theoretical analysis of foreign and domestic literature in the field of philosophy, aesthetics, psychology. …”
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Religious motives in the dastan “Idegey” by Valiullina F.M.

“…Religious motives are not limited to the narration of the people’s attitude of that era to religion; they also contribute to the understanding of religious, philosophical, and moral views while revealing what place religion occupied among the masses of that times.…”
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MORAL SEARCH IN MULTICULTURAL COMMUNICATION by I. A. Donnikova

“…Theoretical basis is the works of foreign and Ukrainian authors, revealing the main approaches to the problem of multiculturalism; studies on ethics and philosophical anthropology that define the problem field in the anthropo-logy of morality. …”
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Cognitive Trend in Implementing the Third Mission of University by Nikolay D. Tskhadaya, Dmitry N. Bezgodov, Oksana I. Belyaeva

“…As a source of the fundamental principles of the communicative space of the University, the authors propose the social and philosophical concepts of communication by M. M. Bakhtin, J. …”
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Chinese Funding: A Curse to Africa by Chido T Chipfakacha

“…Though some scholars would suggest that China`s contribution was as a result of the hostility that was there in the times of the cold war between the self-acclaimed democrats of the Western bloc and the Communist Eastern bloc. Philosophers like Marx Engel, Karl Marx, Lenin and Mao Zedong had a major influence on the liberation of Africa. …”
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The examination of the Tofā Māmāo cultural concept and repositioning it as a theoretical approach to guide Pacific research by Aliitasi Su’a-Tavila, James Mbinta

“…The findings revealed that the Tofā Māmāo is defined metaphorically as a Pearl of Wisdom and a principal philosophical element in the fa'a-Samoa (Samoan culture). …”
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ON THE THRESHOLD OF TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY: HUMAN READINESS TO THE NEW STAGE OF EVOLUTION by М. L. Lazareva

“…The study is aimed at a philosophical analysis of the state of humanity’s readiness for technological singularity, the definition of the concept of postbiology and the investigation of ways to bring the population (in particular, the Ukrainian one) to a new, qualitatively higher level of existence. …”
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Cinéma/Science-fiction : vers un changement de paradigme critique ? by Simon Bréan

“…Science fiction is currently integrated into the « mainstream » cinema, a very broad category that allows for the creation of major projects, whose objective of spectacular entertainment is no longer incompatible with a certain intellectual ambition and whose potential for social or even philosophical criticism is put forward as a commercial argument. …”
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Ecphrasies of the Petersburg Buddhist temple in the poetry of Elena Schwartz by Leonid V. Dubakov

“…Schwartz are based on the description of the exterior and interior of the datsan and transformed into philosophical and religious works. The poetic ecumenism of Schwartz’s work determines the image of a Buddhist temple in the form of a sacred space - in a city experiencing infernal apocalyptic desolation, flooding, and overshadowing by everyday care. …”
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Measurement of Quality of Life II. From the Philosophy of Life to Science by Soren Ventegodt, Joav Merrick, Niels Jorgen Andersen

“…We believe it should be possible to make operational the philosophical ideas of the good life in order to make it the object of scientific research. …”
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Preface by Nikoletta Hendrik

“…Our aim was to introduce Stoicism to a wider audience with no prior philosophical education but an interest in the modern renaissance of the movement on the one hand, and to generate in-depth scholarly discussions of classical texts and the afterlife of the Portico on the other. …”
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The Power of Discourse in Postmetaphysics: Between Dialectical Materialism and Transcendentalism by A. S. Merzenina

“…The article examines the significance of “postmetaphysics” as a continuation of Derrida’s philosophy of deconstruction for resolving the philosophical conflict between the transcendental and dialectical traditions of thought. …”
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Quality of Life from a Transhumanist Perspective by Zlatica Plašienková, Martin Farbák, Eva Smolková

“… The issue of quality of life has been a subject of major interest in the course of history, even though it was originally related to a specific philosophical question of a good life. Nowadays, the quality-of-life issue represents a more complex term, related to a lot of aspects that make human life good, valuable and meaningful. …”
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