Volume 14, Issue 2, 2017

N.N. TrakakisPages 7-36DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2017.02.01 ABSTRACT Taking as its starting-point Eva Illouz’s sociological study Why Love Hurts (2012), this paper develops a philosophical framework for understanding love and marriage, particularly in their contemporary manifestations. To begin with, premodern practices in love and marriage during the ancient Greek and Byzantine eras are outlined and contrasted with modern […]

Hamid AndishanPages 37-48DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2017.02.02 ABSTRACT Can all values be reduced to one or a few fundamental ones? Two values may neither exceed the other in importance nor be equal. In such situation, they cannot be reduced to each other or to a third value, and we can call such values as ”incommensurable”. Drawing on the

Motsamai MolefePages 49-68DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2017.02.03 ABSTRACT This article repudiates the dichotomy that African ethics is communitarian (relational) and Western ethics is individualistic. „Communitarianism‟ is the view that morality is ultimately grounded on some relational properties like love or friendship; and, „individualism‟ is the view that morality is ultimately a function of some individual property like a

Bina NirPages 69-88DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2017.02.04 ABSTRACT Judeo-Christian Western culture recognizes a legislating, judging and punishing God. The view that a judge separate from man indeed exists, constitutes, among other things, cultural motivation for the pursuit of success, on the one hand, and fear of failure, guilt, on the other. The human-being fears the consequences of judgement,

Mónica Gómez SalazarPages 89-106DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2017.02.05 ABSTRACT Based on onto–epistemological pluralism and social practices this work maintains that the proclamation of cultural neutrality originating in the idea of equality without any distinction of color, sex, language, religion or political opinion, really favors white racism and cultural imperialism of the liberal way of life. This article argues

Inna Valerievna Miroshnichenko, Elena Vasilievna MorozovaPages 107-120DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2017.02.06 ABSTRACT The authors prove and describe the action of new networking mechanisms of formation of identities which arise in the context of societal transformations of the modern society. The networking mechanisms of identity formation represent a complex of interrelated and interdependent practices in global information and communication

Corneliu C. SimuţPages 121-140DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2017.02.07 ABSTRACT This paper investigates the possibility of identifying various ecodomical or constructive possibilities which have the potential to ideologically transform the world at a global scale in the sense that they can promote a set of ideas with positive connotations in dealing with the extremely complex issue of religion. Whether

Weilin FangPages 141-158DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2017.02.08 ABSTRACT This article focuses on the study of the emotional discourses contained in the Chu bamboo slips dating back to the Chu kingdom of the Warring States period, and announces a newly discovered tradition of Emotionalism in ancient China. In addition to the two main traditions of Confucianism and Taoism, there

Perihan Elif Ekmekci, Berna ArdaPages 159-172DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2017.02.09 ABSTRACT Interventions in medicine require multicenter clinical trialson a large rather than limited number of subjects from various genetic and cultural backgrounds. International guidelines to protect the rights and well-being of human subjects involved in clinical trialsarecriticizedforthe priority they place on Western cultural values. These discussions become manifest