January 2010

Alexander BaumgartenPages 9-27DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107122 ABSTRACT In this paper I shall debate the thesis according to which in the Aristotelian treatise On Soul the sense of touch works as a kind of knot for the knowledge faculties and, implicitly, as a unity for the entire treatise: it has a primitive function in the feeding process, it …

„Πλὴν τῆς γῆς”. Le sens du toucher et l’unité thématique de traité De l’âme d’Aristote Read More »

Thomas KochalumchuvattilPages 28-40DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107123 ABSTRACT Africa’s widespread problems are well publicized and none receives more attention than that of periodic outbreaks of ethnic violence. Past events in Rwanda, and in the ongoing conflict in Darfur-Sudan, linger in the memory while the outbreak of postelection violence in Kenya is a more recent example of the seemingly …

The Importance of Subjectivity in Overcoming Ethnical Conflicts in Africa: a Philosophical Reflection Read More »

Sebastian BoţicPages 41-53DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107124 ABSTRACT This paper is concerned with the ′criterion of demarcation′ that Karl Popper put forward, while trying to show that it can be safely said that it is still standing. In doing so, I turn to two main objections to it: a Lakatos-Kuhn vision on the growth of science, and the …

Is Popper’s ‘Criterion of Demarcation’ outmoded ? Read More »

Jun WangPages 54-69DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107125 ABSTRACT In Heinrich Rombach’s structural thought the phenomenological tradition has been extended to an intercultural dimension. In Rombach’s opinion the idea of structure has been developed in the East much earlier and much further than in the West. In the following paper I will show from an Eastern perspective that the …

Eine Vertiefte Interpretation Des Konfuzianistischen Begriffs “Ren” im Horizont Der Strukturphänomenologie Read More »

Elif ÇirakmanPages 70-85DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107126 ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to investigate the ways in which memory and imagination operate in and through the development of consciousness in literary texts. Its guiding theme shall be the double consciousness in modern life which sets the plot for one of the masterpieces of Henry James, The …

“The Inwardness of the Modern Mind”: Reading Henry James through a Hegelian Spirit Read More »

Nicolito A. GiananPages 86-96DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107127 ABSTRACT The article aims to support the notion of philosophy emerging from culture; a notion that paves the way for the emergence of ubuntu as a philosophy from an African culture. Understanding this emergence is vital in the manner a particular human community relates with itself and other communities worldwide. …

Valuing the emergence of Ubuntu philosophy Read More »

Xiaoxiao WangPages 97-110DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107128 ABSTRACT Architecture culture is the synthesis of material possession and spiritual wealth, created by human society history development and reflects historic continuity and nationality character. This paper has a comprehensive comparison analysis on distinctions of originality, architecture characteristic, developing logic, art forms, and intention between China and Western Countries exhibited on …

Comparison Analysis on Architectural Culture in China and Western Countries Read More »

Till KinzelPages 111-123DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107129 ABSTRACT This paper explores the implications of mass migration and the conditions of hybridization for early 21st century Western societies in texts dealing with migrant experiences. The novel Goodbye Lucille (2007) by the Afro-cosmopolitan writer Segun Afolabi will be explored with respect to the crucial problem of an ethics and politics …

Segun Afolabi, Transnational Identity, and the Politics of Belonging Read More »

Raffaella SantiPages 124-135DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107130 William Whewell is usually portraied as an anti-Hegelian. This article shows that, despite his criticism for Hegel’s philosophical system, Whewell was influenced by the Hegelian “historical” approach in the Lectures on the History of Philosophy, and by the conception of the progressive development of though (philosophy for Hegel, science for Whewell) …

From the History of Philosophy to the History of Science: Hegel’s influence on Whewell Read More »

Carmen CozmaPages 139-149DOI:10.5840/cultura20107131 ABSTRACT In the context of today.s moral and ecological crisis, and the accelerated advance of information and communication technologies, when human beings intensively experience their own fragility, a major question is that of well-being. That raises the issue of moral health, which represents, in an axiological and normative sense, a basis for …

Reviving a Cardinal Value: Sophrosýne Read More »