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Raphael BextenPages 161-184DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096210 ABSTRACT ‘What is the sufficient reason for the inalienable dignity of man?’ If man has an inalienable dignity, there has to be an ontologically sufficient reason for the inalienable dignity of man. We find this ontologically sufficient reason for the inalienable dignity of man in the ontological being and essence of […]

Antonio VaccaPages 185-209DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096211 ABSTRACT This essay is a coherent and consistent system of transcendental philosophy, which portrays a reality, hidden by the veils of the exterior appearance, unknowable in the inner fundamental nature, lack of any meaning, where evil and good, moral and immoral are empty words without any possible content, hollow shells. A

Alexandru PetrescuPages 213-225DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096212 ABSTRACT Can we still talk today about a therapeutically dimension of philosophy? To what extent does Heidegger’s philosophy exhibit such a dimension? And how can we reconcile this aspect of Heidegger’s thought with his political involvement in 1933? These are some of the questions starting from which I will try to

Anton CarpinschiPages 226-245DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096213 ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to single out the path towards a model of fallibility assumed by the establishment and implementation of the culture of recognition and comprehensive truth. Starting from the hypostases of the human, this anthropological model defines the fallible human being, the author of the comprehensive

Alexandru BobocPages 246-255DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096214 ABSTRACT This paper brings in discussion some key moments in semiotic field in the process of modern reconstruction of logic and of philosophy of language. We are following the construction of logical semiotic (from Frege to Carnap and ‘semantic of the possible worlds’) and the central position of the concept ‘possible

Till KinzelPages 7-21DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096115 ABSTRACT The Canadian thinker George Grant offers a critique of modernity that tries to come to terms with the challenge of Heidegger to Plato. Against philosophical approaches which claim that any kind of metaphyics is obsolete and should be overcome, Grant attempted to think through what the rejection of metaphysics by

Gheorghe-Ilie FârtePages 22-33DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096116 ABSTRACT The main thesis of my article is that the viability of the European Union does not depend so much on its political structure as on its being anchored in a culture-based public sphere and on the establishment of a cultural European citizenship. The public sphere could be defined as an

A.L. SamianPages 34-45DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096117 ABSTRACT Isaac Newton’s (1642-1727) contribution to the quantitative aspects of mathematics are well known compared to his views on it’s qualitative aspect. In this paper, the author attempts to examine Newton.s position with regard to the orientation of mathematical problems based on some of his own writings on the subject.

Dan ChiţoiuPages 46-59DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096118 ABSTRACT The present text investigates the key ideas of the modern cultural horizon, and especially the meanings of what we call Reason. Modernity brings a certain understanding of Reason sought as the main human capacity. But this understanding took the shape of a belief, fact visible everywhere not only in the

Tomiţă CiuleiPages 60-77DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096119 ABSTRACT The limits of gnoseologic paradigm, from Aristotle to Locke. The effort here has its basis in the need to overcome limits of interpretation, tabulations and classifications that often accompany analyses on classic empirism, in general and his Locke, in particular. We try to find aut in Greek philosophy the germs