2015

Polycarp IkuenobePages 7-26DOI: 10.5840/cultura201512218 ABSTRACT I examine the plausibility that culture may induce moral ignorance to mitigate or vitiate blameworthiness. I show how culturally induced moral ignorance may explain and provide an excuse, but not a justification for, terrorist acts, and how a recognition of their moral ignorance and the basis for it, may indicate […]

Tomas KačerauskasPages 27-44DOI: 10.5840/cultura201512219 ABSTRACT The article deals with the concepts and problems of creative society. The author analyses the postmodern, post-industrial, post-rational, post-democratic, post-economic, post-capitalistic distinctiveness of creative society. According to the author, creative society has characteristics such as “outstanding-ness” (of both individual and society), creative living, and casual work relations. The paper deals

Rubén HercePages 45-59DOI: 10.5840/cultura201512220 ABSTRACT This paper is an approach to the context in which Dawson’s work originated as well as to the main critiques of the works by Oswald Spengler, Arnold Toynbee and Thomas S. Eliot, with whom he differed on how to address the study of culture. The contrasts between Dawson and the

Mahdi Dahmardeh, Hossein ParsazadehPages 61-72DOI: 10.5840/cultura201512221 ABSTRACT The role of culture in a field as vast as applied linguistics is so pronounced and vital that even a highly selective overview might not be sufficient to be comprehensive. What follows might be a synoptic account of the role of culture in the realm of applied linguistics.

Weilin FangPages 73-80DOI: 10.5840/cultura201512222 ABSTRACT Anoixism is a new contemporary philosophy which has spread from Asia to Europe in recent years. Anoixism lists openness as its first principle, accepting and acknowledging every doctrine and philosophy in the world. Phoenixist liberalism and Anoixist naturalism are two main parts of Phoenixist ethics. It starts from human nature

Georg W. OesterdiekhoffPages 81-102DOI: 10.5840/cultura201512223 ABSTRACT There has been a long history of discussion whether intellectual or socioeconomic factors caused the rise of constitutional state and democracy, replacing the previous authoritarian forms of government. Some authors emphasized the role developmental psychology could play in illuminating the intellectual causes to these political phenomena. According to Piagetian

Alexandru PetrescuPages 103-114DOI: 10.5840/cultura201512224 ABSTRACT In the following lines, we consider the current debate concerning the origin, the specificity and evolution of analytical philosophy. We will try to motivate the idea that the origins and evolution of analytical philosophy are not entirely due to the British philosophers; in fact, this problem cannot be properly explained

Mariana Momanu, Nicoleta Laura PopaPages 115-128DOI: 10.5840/cultura201512225 ABSTRACT Nationalism is inextricably connected with the modern history of nations and nationstates, and reflects the axiological sets derived from the aspirations of young nations. However, recent political, economic and social developments at the global level have determined the resurgence of nationalism, and signs of the pheno¬menon are

Corneliu C. SimuţPages 129-144DOI: 10.5840/cultura201512226 ABSTRACT This paper is an attempt to offer a concrete contribution to the study of indigenous African religions and in particular to the support of creating a set of traditions from whose perspective one could engage in the study of indigenous African religions as well as of African spirituality in

Cristian IftodePages 145-162DOI: 10.5840/cultura201512227 ABSTRACT In order to grasp the true ethical meaning of Foucault’s aesthetics of existence, I begin by explaining in what sense he was an anti-normativist, arguing that the most important thing about the “final” Foucault is his strong emphasis on the idea of human freedom. I go on with a brief