January 2009

Till KinzelPages 7-21DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096115 ABSTRACT The Canadian thinker George Grant offers a critique of modernity that tries to come to terms with the challenge of Heidegger to Plato. Against philosophical approaches which claim that any kind of metaphyics is obsolete and should be overcome, Grant attempted to think through what the rejection of metaphysics by […]

Gheorghe-Ilie FârtePages 22-33DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096116 ABSTRACT The main thesis of my article is that the viability of the European Union does not depend so much on its political structure as on its being anchored in a culture-based public sphere and on the establishment of a cultural European citizenship. The public sphere could be defined as an

A.L. SamianPages 34-45DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096117 ABSTRACT Isaac Newton’s (1642-1727) contribution to the quantitative aspects of mathematics are well known compared to his views on it’s qualitative aspect. In this paper, the author attempts to examine Newton.s position with regard to the orientation of mathematical problems based on some of his own writings on the subject.

Dan ChiţoiuPages 46-59DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096118 ABSTRACT The present text investigates the key ideas of the modern cultural horizon, and especially the meanings of what we call Reason. Modernity brings a certain understanding of Reason sought as the main human capacity. But this understanding took the shape of a belief, fact visible everywhere not only in the

Tomiţă CiuleiPages 60-77DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096119 ABSTRACT The limits of gnoseologic paradigm, from Aristotle to Locke. The effort here has its basis in the need to overcome limits of interpretation, tabulations and classifications that often accompany analyses on classic empirism, in general and his Locke, in particular. We try to find aut in Greek philosophy the germs

Teodor NegruPages 78-89DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096120 ABSTRACT The idea this article relies on is that we should rethink cultural distance between modernism and post-modernism. We can no longer support the thesis of a radical break between the two cultural periods since many of the changes that have marked our contemporary world were initiated or at least announced

Laura Arcila VillaPages 93-101DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096121 ABSTRACT Wittgenstein’s conception of philosophy raises two questions about the teaching of philosophy and its place in a liberal arts curriculum. First, Wittgenstein denies that philosophy is a body of doctrine, affirms that it is an activity, and assumes that the two alternatives are incompatible. This implies that teaching a

Marly BulcãoPages 102-110DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096122 ABSTRACT Reflections or Dialogicals: Ways for Making up an Ethics. This purpose of this article is to analyze the relationship between reason and ethics in the thoughts of Léon Brunschvicg and Gaston Bachelard. It will demonstrate that although the positions of these two authors have points in common as far as

Carmen CozmaPages 111-118DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096123 ABSTRACT This essay is focusing on the understanding of the necessity to care more and more about the value of human life, and consequently to find a pathway of cultivating and improving the humanness of man, considering the nowadays climate with its serious moral and ecological crisis. Facing the risks of

Maximiliano E. KorstanjePages 119-129DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096124 ABSTRACT Western societies characterize by promoting material well-being enrooted in legal-rational administration as a form of development. Although, the study of crime has been broadly studied in recent years, many scholars devoted attention in analysing the bridge between authority and penitentiaries. This paper obliges us to rethink the relationship between