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Christian MöckelPages 26-39DOI: 10.5840/cultura2005222 ABSTRACT Phenomenological philosophizing is practiced out of a sense of responsibility for contemporary culture, which is experienced as existing in a profound crisis. The first part of this contribution contains a systematization of the theory of crisis, a theory developed in many of Husserl’s works: the description of the main phenomena […]

David FreemanPages 40-49DOI: 10.5840/cultura2005223 ABSTRACT The nincteenth-century poet, critic and philosopher, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, once characterized the mind of William Shakespeare as “oceanic”. Oceans, of course, teem with myriad forms of life: is philosophy one such form in the oceanic vastness of Shakespeare’s creative genius? If so, how do we identify philosophic elements in his

Nancy MardasPages 53-63DOI: 10.5840/cultura2005224 ABSTRACT A great deal has transpired — in philosophy and in the life-world — since the publication of two seminal essays by Anna Teresa Tymieniecka : Poetica Nova and that in which she introduced the concept of the “cipher” as the means by which human being creates and establishes itself within

Traian D. StänciulescuPages 64-73DOI: 10.5840/cultura2005225 ABSTRACT Mediated by a hermeneutic/semiotic reading of symbols, searching out and finding some similitudes between mythical constructions concerning the genesis of the world and scientific hypotheses can be considered fruitful from at least two viewpoints, since: (a) it allows the validation of a truth which is difficult to prove through

Alexandru GelanPages 74-81DOI:10.5840/cultura2005226 ABSTRACT The names “John Doe” for males, “Jane Doe” or “Jane Roe” for females, Version: 1 0 or “Jonnie Doe” and “Janie Doe” for children, or just “Doe” non-gen- der-specifically are used as placeholder names for a party whose true Remark: identity is unknown or must be withheld in a legal action,

Carmen CozmaPages 85-90DOI: 10.5840/cultura2005227 ABSTRACT Because our soul is touched and moved at its deepest levels. In contact with music, a spiritual tumult invades our entire being; and we are revealed to ourselves in a new and previously unknown way. Face to face with the harmonious sounds — giving music the status of an artistic

Ludmila Bejenaru, Vladlen BabcinetchiPages 91-100DOI: 10.5840/cultura2005228 ABSTRACT The Russian icon was always related to the soul of the Russian painter, his anxiety and his emotions. Through the icon the russian has always expressed his faith and mentained the bundle with God. The icon has been considered by the russian people a bridge between human and

Daniel GarberPages 101-110DOI: 10.5840/cultura2005229 ABSTRACT As I write these words, I am sitting in a hotel room in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Three-hundred fifty years ago, or so, this area was frequented by my people. I don’t mean my ancestors, who were in an altogether different part of Europe, doing very different things. I

Manuela MihociPages 111-128DOI: 10.5840/cultura20052210 ABSTRACT Being experienced (Erfahrung) means living. Around these two concepts: experience and living, I created this paper, as an approach to a pretty sensitive field of study, the religious one. The place of truth here can be read between the lines, but this issue stays open and needs more profound study.

Ana-Maria PascalPages 154-171DOI: 10.5840/cultura20052212 ABSTRACT As its title is meant to suggest, this paper is a reply to Sir Tim Lankester’s article “International Aid: Experience, Prospects and the Moral Case”, published in the World Economics last year’. Therefore, T would like to begin by expressing my gratitude for the authot’s responsiveness to my interest and