January 2014

Kyung Han You, Jiha KimPages 7-22DOI: 10.5840/cultura20141111 ABSTRACT The primary goal of this paper is to investigate the theoretical and methodological applicability of the relevant theories of Marcuse and Foucault to analyzing the relationship between comedic pleasure and the popular media. The researchers investigate the similarities of and the differences between the respective positions of […]

Pedro Blas GonzálezPages 23-39DOI: 10.5840/cultura20141112 ABSTRACT This paper takes a phenomenological perspective regarding the difficulties encountered in daily life by man in prehistory. I argue that the economics of being necessarily establishes man as a being that must make choices. Of these, man must eventually arrive at the realization that higher, rather than lower choices

Luka ZevnikPages 41-62DOI: 10.5840/cultura20141113 ABSTRACT The main aim of this article is to contribute to the discussion about the universality of well-being by juxtaposing the theoretical and empirical arguments of the two extreme theoretical positions regarding the possibility of a universal notion of well-being. The article first explains that the question about the possibility of

Peter MathewsPages 63-81DOI: 10.5840/cultura20141114 ABSTRACT Pairing together the Coen brothers film A Serious Man (2009) with the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, this paper looks at questions about morality, illusion, and the influence of Jewish thought on contemporary ethics. Beginning with a reading of Nietzsche that locates his discussion of the Jews within its proper historical

Patrizia TorricelliPages 83-98DOI: 10.5840/cultura20141115 ABSTRACT The grammar rules of the modal and auxiliary verbs vedere (see), volere (want) and avere (have) in modern Italian reveal a cognitive scheme underlying the superficial linguistic structure that depends on a certain conceptualization of reality within the Western world cultural models. The article therefore puts forward a semantic approach

Cyril-Mary P. Olatunji, Olugbenga O. AlabiPages 99-112DOI: 10.5840/cultura20141116 ABSTRACT The concept of ÒrÒ among the Yoruba people in Nigeria has a lot in common with the biblical concept of Λoγos. This paper explores Λoγos as derived from Greek Logos translated as Word into English, and its parallelisms with ÒrÒ a fêted concept among the Yoruba.

Mahdi Dahmardeh, Hossein Timcheh Memar, Abbas Timcheh MemarPages 113-126DOI: 10.5840/cultura20141117 ABSTRACT In pursuit of moralities and beliefs in the grey area of culture, the researchers carried out a study on Top Notch series to pinpoint the trace of ethics. This paper seeks to unfold the representation of ethics as an indubitable part of culture in

Adrian NitaPages 127-140DOI: 10.5840/cultura20141118 ABSTRACT Leibniz sustains three arguments for spontaneity: the argument from the complete notion, the argument from substantial forms and the argument from monadic spontaneity. In order to see the nature of spontaneity and whether the spontaneity is an inferior value with respect to freedom, as it appears in the Theodicy, in

Benaouda Bensaid, Fadila GrinePages 141-163DOI: 10.5840/cultura20141119 ABSTRACT A proper understanding of the Islamic perspective on old age with particular consideration of significant current changes and adaptations affecting Muslim elderly’s emotional, cultural and socio-economic needs, transitions and transformations requires a degree of acquaintance with Islam’s religious principles and values. This paper discusses a number of theological

Georg W. OesterdiekhoffPages 165-192DOI: 10.5840/cultura201411110 ABSTRACT Auguste Comte, the founder of sociology, and Norbert Elias, the last classical sociologist, based their sociologies on the idea that humankind has gone from a stage of childhood to adult stages. The essay shows that there has actually taken place a psychogenetic evolution of humankind in history. Empirical researches