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Beyond the Bounds of Experience? John Tyndall and Scientific Imagination

Raffaella SantiPages 106-114DOI: 10.5840/cultura20085211 ABSTRACT “You imagine where you cannot experiment”… John Tyndall is a 19th century Irish scientist and natural philosopher. For him, scientific imagination is the faculty that enables scientists “to transcend the boundaries of the sense” and to connect the visible with the invisible – by forming mental images of phenomena, and […]

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„Gedankenbilder. Kultur als Konstruktion und Konstitution des Sozialen – am Leitfaden Max Webers“

Horst BaierPages 7-27DOI: 10.5840/cultura20085112 ABSTRACT “Analytical construct. The Culture as construct and the constitution of the social – fallowing Max Weber”. The key of this paper is the chalange to determinate the place of the cultural sociology in the context of the general sociology and of the other cultural sciences, like cultural anthropology and ethnology.

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The Theme of the Simplicity of the Mind as the Presupposition of the Byzantine Cultural Model

Dan ChiţoiuPages 28-39DOI: 10.5840/cultura20085113 ABSTRACT This article discuss the origin of the Byzantine Cultural Model, influenced by the patristic anthropologic perspective, which discerns that present-day man is not generic man, but is at an intermediate stage, between a lost condition and one that could be attained. A dimension of the Eastern Christian understanding of man

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Reflections on an Ignored Dimension of Pre-Socratic Philosophy: Knowledge

Tomiţă CiuleiPages 40-59DOI: 10.5840/cultura20085114 ABSTRACT This paper bases on a (great!) wrongful act which was made to Greek philosophy, and especially to the pre-Socratic one: the unilateral abatement of the studies to those of cosmological nature. The big mutation would take place in Socrates’ time, who by the anthropology of the discourse takes philosophy to

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Le Concept de Logos chez Héraclite. L’Analyse Du Fragment B1

Kazimierz MrówkaPages 60-70DOI: 10.5840/cultura20085115 ABSTRACT “The concept of Logos at Heraclitus. The analyze of B1 fragment”. “Logos” is the most important word in the Heraclitus’ philosophy. One can tell, that Heraclitus is the philosopher of logos. The way of interpretation of this notion influences the comprehention of all work of the Greek thinker. The word

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The Political Plato

Vlad IchimPages 73-79DOI: 10.5840/cultura20085116 ABSTRACT This study deals with the issue of Plato’s political interest. Some say he had none. We’ll try to show that in fact he was very political, to the extent that the core of his work is a political agenda, and is politically orientated. There’s also the aspect of the relation

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Ethical Dilemmas in Academic Activity

Magdalena IorgaPages 80-85DOI: 10.5840/cultura20085117 ABSTRACT The nowadays academic teacher’s activity is split between teaching activity, scientific research concern and institutional goals. As it appears in the studies focusing on academic problems that the teacher’s orientation is going to be rather personal and professional than academic. The new generation of academic staff is trying to mix

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The Culture at the Crossing between the Memory and the Oblivion

Simona MitroiuPages 123-129DOI: 10.5840/cultura20085120 ABSTRACT The culture defines some of the elements that we consider identity guide marks. The continuity of the identity is very closely bonded to these cultural elements. The understanding of the modality to represent the identity is possible through the analysis of some of these cultural elements and of the correlations

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