Staying Optimistic: The Trials and Tribulations of Leibnizian Optimism by Lloyd Strickland

“…As we shall see, while Leibniz’s doctrine did win a good number of adherents in the 1720s and 1730s, especially in Germany, support for it had largely dried up by the mid-1740s; moreover, while opponents of Leibniz’s doctrine were few and far between in the 1710s and 1720s, they became increasing vocal in the 1730s and afterwards, between them producing an array of objections that served to make Leibnizian optimism both philosophically and theologically toxic years before the Lisbon earthquake struck.…”
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THE ROLE OF ETHICS AS A COMPONENT OF PHILOSOPHY IN HISTORY-THEMED DOCUMENTARIES by USAKU ROBINSON WAMMANDA

“… This article examines ethics and philosophical considerations in media and communication within the context of historical documentary filmmaking. …”
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Ecophilosophical and Ecopsychological Aspects of Sustainable Consumption and Lifestyle by Mikołaj Niedek

“… The aim of the article is to outline the philosophical and psychological dimensions of a sustainable lifestyle based on responsible consumption. …”
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CARING FOR WOMEN ON THE FRONTLINES: ENHANCING WOMEN WORKERS’ CAPABILITIES AND BUILDING SOCIAL FRIENDSHIP by M.M.-Y. Yuen

“…Employing surveys by non-governmental organisations, particularly those in Hong Kong, as well as my own interviews and observations, I examine the situation of the frontline workers and discuss the moral principles and conditions for upholding women’s dignity and well-being, based on the capability approach of feminist philosopher Martha Nussbaum. I argue that emphasising women’s moral agency and giving a voice to women themselves through women collectives are important in empowering them and building a life-giving community among women, especially during and after the pandemic. …”
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Spinoza’s Strong Eudaimonism by Brandon Smith

“…Strong eudaimonists, conversely, build their conceptions of happiness around an overall philosophical system that extends far beyond ethics, while nevertheless being directed at the promotion of a happy life. …”
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Les usages de la fin du monde : l’apocalypse et la post-apocalypse en tant que modes narratifs by Connor Pitetti

“…Through a broad survey of fictional, religious, philosophical, and political end-time narratives, this essay identifies two strategies for telling stories about the end of the world. …”
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Human subjectivity in the prenatal period by Tadeusz Biesaga

“…The Author thinks that the proposal to treat a human embryo as a deceased donor of organs, is wrong both in the field of embryology and philosophical anthropology. It is also wrong to question the subjectivity of human embryo using various criteria of growth (developed nervous system, brain, consciousness, participation in the life of society and looking after one's own interests). …”
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The enigma of validity: Speculations on the last paragraph of Donner le temps II by Rezende Gabriel

“…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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Humans in Digitized Worlds: Perspectives on Self-Expansion, Outdoor Activities, and Body Perception by André Klostermann

“…The first presentation examines the philosophical implications of wearable fitness technologies, focusing on how self-tracking devices influence self-knowledge and create potential dissonance between digital feedback and bodily awareness. …”
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Hunting for Education: ‘Archaeological’ Speculations on Critique and Paideia by Stefano Oliverio

“…In their educational project, the Greeks still maintained an awareness of this ‘history,’ as is evident by the importance that hunting held in their myths about and their (philosophical) reflection on education. This idea will be investigated by also tracking the evolution of the gesture of hunting towards the horizon which presides over the creation of the school and the form of rationality and the epistemic attitude that it embodies. …”
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The Architecture of a Lifetime: Structures of Remembrance and Invention in Walter Benjamin and Aldo Rossi by Jolien Paeleman

“…In addition, this study examines how one of Rossi’s most famous architectural artefacts, the ossuary of San Cataldo cemetery at Modena, can be viewed as a coalescence of a Benjaminian thought-image, thereby fortifying the philosopher’s presence in modern architecture.…”
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A Hermeneutic Analysis of Selected Yorùbá Pentecostal Songs by George Olusola Ajibade

“…As Christianity moved through the intellectual and political worlds, especially among the Yorùbá people of southwestern Nigeria, it acquired new categories of thought. Yorùbá philosophical language began to be applied in expressing some of the mysteries of the Christian faith. …”
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Réhabiliter l’Homme avec la technologie by Stéphane Simonian

“…This double issue will be developed in a philosophical approach, relying in particular on the thought of Simondon (1958). …”
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O espaço é a flor azul do imaginário: Gaston Bachelard e Walter Benjamin em Paris – a descoberta de uma paisagem literária by Valéria Cristina Pereira da Silva, Carlos Fonseca Clamote Carreto

“…In an allegorical and phenomenological way, we took the image of the blue flower, as a symbol of the space in the philosophy of the imagination and the imaginary, as well as the survival of the romanticism that belongs to both philosophers. The blue flower is the direct image of the imagination, manifested in the consciousness and also in the desire as a place to be reached, and at the same time, an emblem of an occult dimension, of something that waits to be discovered. …”
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What was the cause of Friedrich Nietzsche's illness? by E. Žilinskas

“…Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is one of the most profound modern philosophers. Since childhood, Nietzsche suffered from severe headaches, and at the age of thirty he became blind in his right eye. …”
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Cosmotechnical Difference in Architecture and Urbanism by Dulmini Perera, Samuel Koh

“…It does so by examining the concept of ‘cosmotechnics’, as proposed by the philosopher Yuk Hui. Cosmotechnics – defined as ‘the unification of the cosmic and moral order through technical activities’ – proposes that technology is not a universal category but always exists in a co-productive relationship with a specific cosmology. …”
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THE PERSPECTIVES OF EDUCATION: COMPETENCES, INTELLECTUAL ENVIRONMENTS, TRANSDISCIPLINARITY by Andrey L. Andreev

“…The article also attracts attention to the fact that in newly adoptededucation standards competences are treated as widely as to include moral dispositions and values, and this position from the philosophical point of view seems very doubtful, as soon as in this case the notion of competence embraces nearly the whole contents of our mentality. …”
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Aesthetics and Ethics in Anna Jameson’s Characteristics of Women by Alison Stone

“…In this paper I contribute to the recovery of women in the history of philosophy by giving the first modern-day philosophical account of the ideas on aesthetics and ethics of Anna Jameson (1794–1860). …”
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L’identité argentine ou la construction d’un mythe littéraire entre Europe et Amérique by Lionel Souquet

“…Paradoxically enough, this literary image is not so far removed from the socio-cultural reality as the identity of the Latin-American novelist is often defined by his or her engagement with reality through (philosophical, political, historical and sociological) description and analysis. …”
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Athens or Rome? A New Perspective on the Political Philosophy of H. Arendt by Simas Čelutka

“… Hannah Arendt is widely known as a philosopher who attempted to rehabilitate the ancient Greek conception of politics. …”
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