Well-being is dead, long live well-being! by Mark Piper

“…The upshot of this paper is that philosophers should abandon the attempt to establish any invariant substantive claims about well-being as such (well-being invariantism is dead). …”
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Researching in prison education-spaces: Thinking-with Posthuman, Post Qualitative, Feminist Materialism ‘beings’ to disentangle methodology. by Lucy Harding

“…In being-with these concepts, I trace the influences of philosophers and theorists in these practices, including the work of Deleuze & Guattari, Braidotti, Barad, Haraway, Manning, St. …”
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La dimension métaphysique du devoir de mémoire. Prendre conscience de la nature humaine lors d’une visite à Auschwitz-Birkenau by Nathanaël Wadbled

“…This relationship to the past echoes the memory practice to which the philosopher Karl Jasper invites when he thinks about German guilt. …”
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Fracture-Safe and Fatigue-Reliable Structures by M. N. James

“…Learning from history is, by popular account, something at which human beings are not particularly good; George Bernard Shaw having stated that “we learn from history that we learn nothing from history”, while the Spanish philosopher George Santayana apparently claimed that “those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it”.1 This is certainly true in the field of structural integrity where, some 150 years after the first full-scale structural fatigue tests were carried out, fracture-safe and fatigue-reliable design can be achieved to a statistical probability in complex and sophisticated structures, such as aircraft. …”
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COMPLEX SYMBOL "MIND" AND THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL RELATIVISM by Gintautas Mažeikis

“…The history of rational epistemology is considered from anthropology point of view of cultural and philosophical anthropology. There are short interpretations of various types of symbol "Mind": "the first cause of movement", "basis of being", "force of salvation", "strenght of harmonizing of cosmos", "creative power of form of thinking", "basis of structure of Ego", "product of connections of neurones", "expression of social and natural relations". …”
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The Ancient Greeks in the Thought of Arvydas Šliogeris: The Ambiguity of Reception by Gintarė Škėmaitė

“…Therefore, the reception of the Greeks supports Šliogeris’ philosophical theory. This effect stems from the specifics of his thinking; he approaches it with passion and is unafraid of incoherence or repetition. …”
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Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge as Cognitive Ethical Narrative by Hossein Pirnajmuddin, Omid Amani

“…Adding some reflections on the philosophical implications of Sartre and Levinas, it is proposed that the protagonist’s act of betrayal is circumstantially complex. …”
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« Never was there a happier partnership » : les illustrations d’Arthur Hughes pour At the Back of the North Wind de George MacDonald by Catherine Persyn

“…Last but not least, the eponymous character of the story and mouthpiece of the author’s philosophical views, the magical North Wind, whose sole mention immediately calls to mind the most inspired and best-known engravings of the whole series, deserved to be studied at some length, which is done under the heading : You Cannot Barre Love Oute.…”
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‘Bang-whang-whang goes the drum’ : Robert Browning ou l’énergie comique de l’homme-orchestre by Yann Tholoniat

“…Robert Browning’s vis comica has long been overlooked, some readers from the Browning Society, founded in 1887, preferring to see a philosopher in the poet, and some critics, like George Santayana, choosing to dismiss Browning’s ‘poetry of barbarism’. …”
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Les opérations intellectuelles des élèves et la perception de l’enseignante dans trois discussions à visée philosophique en classe de CP by Lidia Lebas-Fraczak

“…In three philosophical discussions in a class of schoolchildren aged 6-7 years, we analyzed linguistic forms in successive utterances to establish the intellectual processes involved. …”
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"He will die in another way before he is dead". The violence of the prison system in "The Double Dying of an Ordinary Criminal" by Breyten Breytenbach by Rosa Calì

“…Then, Breytenbach’s short story The Double Dying of an Ordinary Criminal will be analysed, with special emphasis on the themes of the double and death, and Breytenbach’s indictment of prison conditions and the death sentence during Apartheid (1948-1991). Finally, the philosophical musings on death and mirrors in the second chapter of the story will be further explored, describing the role of writing and thinking about death. …”
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Henryka Skolimowskiego krytyka cywilizacji zachodniej w kontekście kryzysu ekologicznego by Rafał Czekalski

“…The recurring adjective 'new' points on the one hand to the necessity of breaking with current philosophical tradition and on the other – to opening up to and looking for inspiration in present existential dimensions; this referring mainly to broadly understood spirituality. …”
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The Depersonalized as Vanishing Hero and Heroine in Yorùbá Moral Placards by Olatunde Bayo Lawuyi

“…It takes as its starting point the philosophical import of the Yoruba proverb. Ọjọ́ a bá kú là ń dère, èèyàn ò sunwọ̀n láàyè (It is on the day one dies that one becomes an idol; no one is appreciated when alive). …”
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Managing the digital transformation of education as part of the Chinese national project of a “Great Unity” society by M. Yu. Zakharov, A. V. Shishkova

“…Using the comparative, hermeneutic, historical and philosophical methods, the authors analyse three problem areas – social ideal, forecasting, and national education in China. …”
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Itinerariu spiritual. cum se autoconstruiește un «șef» de generație by Bianca Burța-Cernat

“…On insiste, en même temps, d’une manière significative, sur une lecture en parallèle de l’article écrit par le jeune Eliade et d’un essai très important, publié, au début des années ’20, par le philosophe espagnol José Ortega y Gasset, Le thème de notre temps – comparaison dont on n’a pas tiré jusqu’aujourd’hui toutes les conséquences.…”
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The importance of the general system theory for the modern world by Šijan Aleksandar, Karabašević Darjan, Rajčević Dušan

“…The historical development of the thought of wholeness is presented at the beginning, reflecting on philosophical attitudes that indicated the importance of the whole in relation to the parts. …”
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The University Idea: Retrospection, Vertions and Prospects by A. G. Kislov, O. V. Shmurygina

“…The authors analyze the philosophical and pedagogical heritage of foreign and Russian thinkers, and trace the main evolutionary stages of higher school development A great variety of university ideas comes from the precise historical peculiari- ties and experiences; though, all the existing versions are associated with ideal- istic (platonic, essentialist) positions. …”
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Comparative Ontology: Challenges and Defects. A Critic of the Book “HerameHasti (Pyramid of Being): A Critic of the Foundations of Comparative Ontology” by Hasan Ahmadizade

“…The author in his book, “HerameHasti” (Pyramid of Being)has tried to notice to some philosophical problems, comparing Islamic philosophy and Western philosophy and logic. …”
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A Critical Review of the Book Curriculum in Secondary School by Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Hosseini

“…Therefore, a combination of a critical book review, critical philosophical inquiry, and critical educational criticism methods was used. …”
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COSMOLOGY OF TIME AND THE SPIRITUAL OF LIFE IN JANAVESE-ISLAMIC TRADITION by Ali Jafar

“…This study aims to see and analyze the cosmological relation between time and spiritual life in the Javanese-Islamic tradition. Philosophically, the system of pranotomongso(cycle of time) believes to have a solid connection to the knowledge of time and the spiritual dimension of life surrounding it. …”
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