July 2007

Alexandru BobocPages 7-21DOI: 10.5840/cultura2007421 ABSTRACT The “Pragmatic Turn” in Actual Thinking . The study of a pragmatic dimension to semiotics appears only late in the history of the discipline. „Pragmatic” seems the last one called into the dispute of signs. The study capitalizes on semiotics and the theory of action, with the distinction operated between […]

Teresa Castelão-LawlessPages 22-36DOI: 10.5840/cultura2007422 ABSTRACT What counts as scientific ideology for Canguilhem and Kuhn is functionally distinct. However, in this article I argue that metaphysical and other non-scientific beliefs brought about by scientists into their research traditions and that Kuhn sees as generating scientific change coincide closely with Canguilhem’s conception of scientific ideology. Kuhn failed

Fernando CiprianiPages 37-49DOI: 10.5840/cultura2007423 ABSTRACT A socioanthropological debate in the 17th Century. The Myth of the Good Savage. The myth of the Good Savage was born and developed especially in the 17th century, but it already had its ethnological bases in the geographical discoveries of the 15th century and in the colonial conquests. The French

Mobeen ShahidPages 50-58DOI: 10.5840/cultura2007424 ABSTRACT In Ideen II Edmund Husserl delineates the three spheres which constitute the reality which human being is and this way introduces us to a different anthropology which is fruit of his phenomenological analysis. The tri-partite analysis of the human subjectivity, in Ideen II provides us with an anthropology which is

loan Alexandru TofanPages 59-80DOI: 10.5840/cultura2007425 ABSTRACT This article discusses the response which Hegel gives in his Lectures on the History of Philosophy to a problem which is first posed in his early writings. The problem is that of the possibility to comprehend the Absolute, the Infinity („Life” is the term Hegel uses in his Early

Ovidiu BalanPages 83-89DOI: 10.5840/cultura2007426 ABSTRACT In this article I argue that attendant on the acceptance of the idea of an immortal soul is a legitimate question concerning the soul’s status before the individual’s birth and after its death. Whether the Greeks were the originators of the doctrine of the transmigration of souls or this was

Angela Ales BelloPages 90-108DOI: 10.5840/cultura2007427 ABSTRACT In the study of the soul between psychology and phenomenology in Edith Stein works it becomes clearer that it is only phenomenology that really comes to grips with the question of psychic causality by correlating the two moments and it is therefore only phenomenology that can respond to Hume’s

Carmen CozmaPages 109-116DOI: 10.5840/cultura2007428 ABSTRACT Among other modalities of arts” approach, phenomenological apparatus offers us a fruitful one in the endeavour to disclose part of the rich and in-depth meanings that art in general unfolds through its products. Here, we are especially interested in phenomenology as a style of philosophizing and as a method of

Gloria VergaraPages 117-136DOI : 10.5840/cultura2007429 ABSTRACT The Aesthetic Experience in Roman Ingarden’s thinking . In this article we study the ideas of the Polish philosopher, Roman Ingarden, as an essential key in the discussion on literary reception. The notion of “aesthetic experience” is revised, especially in The Cognition of the Literary Work of Art. Ingarden

Traian D. StănciulescuPages 137-156DOI: 10.5840/cultura20074210 ABSTRACT To understand – intuitively and analytically both – that man is a „being of light” created as a perfect „face and alikeness” and, implicitly, as a becoming measure of the cosmic „wave patterns”, is the main purpose of the present paper. To recuperate the language of the religion by