January 2010

Marţian IovanPages 150-166DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107132 ABSTRACT An extremely profound knower of the history of the Romanian people and of humankind as a whole, Vasile Goldiş brought an original contribution to the development of philosophy of history. In this respect, without having attempted to write a treatise or to work out a systematic body of work in […]

Kiymet SelviPages 167-175DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107133 ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to discuss and clarify the general framework of teachers’ competencies. The general framework regarding teacher competencies were explained in nine different dimensions as field competencies, research competencies, curriculum competencies, lifelong learning competencies, social-cultural competen cies, emotional competencies, communication competencies, information and communication technologies competencies

Maximiliano E. KorstanjePages 179-207DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107134 ABSTRACT The present piece is aimed at discussing the relationship between religion and political power. Basically, social psychology like other humanistic sciences had been fully impacted by the effects of first and Second World War. Under such a context, many scholars devoted particular attention to the study of prejudice and

Sanja IvicOrcid-IDPages 208-217DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107135 ABSTRACT In the following lines the symbolic oppression founded on binary hierarchies that exist inside the framework of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Basic Freedoms will be presented. In those binary oppositions opposed terms are not equally valued. One of these terms is dominant, while the

Gloria VergaraPages 218-226DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107136 ABSTRACT Following the poetics of Gastón Bachelard, the Mexican poet Enriqueta Ochoa takes us to the intensity of the being across the metaphorical configuration of subjectivity. We are a bonfire, us humans, a wasps’ nest, according to the generating principle of the cosmic image of fire in Electra’s Return. But this

Frederic WillPages 227-240DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107137 ABSTRACT The essay hypothesizes a norm condition of stasis—the mood of sentient peace occupied on a quiet porch. From there the psyche is drawn upward by concept, into the benign/abstract world or downward into the pre-verbal which links us with prespeech man/woman. Is there any default position in this map of

Dan ChitoiuPages 241-257DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107138 ABSTRACT This article suggests an evaluation of the way by which European Culture understands the idea of rationality of the world. We pursue the consequences of the fact that in this cultural tradition the world is seen as a rational and unitary reality, which exists for the human dialogue as a

Oana MateiPages 261-263DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107139 ABSTRACT Last year, 500 years have passed from the moment when Jean Calvin was born. More than four centuries have passed from the Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve. These were outstanding moments in the European history, events which changed the world we live in, events which influenced Christian theology and also

George D. StănciulescuPages 264-266DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107140 ABSTRACT Gérard Pelé is a lecturer at the National School “Louis Lumicre” from Paris, PhD in Sciences of Art and a researcher at the Institute of Aesthetics of Technologies and Arts, whose current chairman is professor Costin Miereanu, a French composer and philosopher of Romanian origin. His third published volume,

Mihaela MocanuPages 267-270DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107141 ABSTRACT The author of the How to White a Scientific Text is the Manager of the Department of Journalism of the Faculty of Political Sciences, Public Administration and Communication, inside ”Babes-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, having an extensive experience in the department and also regarding the drafting of written texts, if we