Cultura

Volume 5, Issue 2, 2008

Il diritto di famiglia in Egitto: lo “Stato” nel ruolo di interprete della Legge islamica

Costantino PaonessaPages 14-28DOI: 10.5840/cultura2008522 ABSTRACT The Islamic contestation of the last twenty years has in many aspects called into question the legitimacy of current juridical systems of supposedly Muslim Countries. Their adoption of another rationality of the law is today a well affirmed process but has left many consequences. In the article we will try

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Should Businesses and Corporations Set up a “Department of Islamic affairs”?

Guy TrollietPages 29-31DOI: 10.5840/cultura2008523 ABSTRACT In a world in which globalisation has opened the access to Muslim countries, Muslim community having been identified as a distinctive high potential market, the question if businesses and corporations should set up a „Department of Islamic affairs” became more than pertinent.

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Between Islamism and Islam

Daniel UngureanuPages 32-43DOI: 10.5840/cultura2008524 ABSTRACT Islamism is a form of political and religious utopia, created by the Arab-Muslim world, as an ideological alternative to the invasion of modern western doctrines: communism, socialism, liberalism, capitalism etc. This political and ideological current appears to some as a substitute for nationalism, which lost its appeal in many Muslim

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In Quest of the Measure’s Restoration

Carmen CozmaPages 47-52DOI: 10.5840/cultura2008525 ABSTRACT The acute consciousness of the moral crisis we face today makes us to inquire after the philosophy’s opportunities in finding a viable way to overcome serious worries concerning life, world, and human being. We think that the ethical value of measure and the correlated principle of “golden mean” could enlighten,

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Semiotics as a Pathway to Spiritual Science: From the Culture of Addiction to Absolute Freedom

David CornbergPages 53-64DOI: 10.5840/cultura2008526 ABSTRACT The continuing growth of semiotics signifies increased awareness of global communicative processes. Expansion of the communicative universe through semiotic research furthers the transformation of our contemporary experience. Semiotics thus provides a means to articulate transmodernity. We validate this assertion through semiotic analysis of an everyday object, by which we discover

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La Fête Perdue

Horia BádescuPages 83-88DOI: 10.5840/cultura2008528 ABSTRACT The lost celebration. To live the sacred, that means to admit its presence in the world and to celebrate this presence; respectively, to affirm the presence of its absolute value, of the Meaning, finally, in the horizon of harmony and joy, and to fill up ourselves by that. In nowadays,

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Les Routes de Nuit et de Jour. L’analyse du fragment B1 du Poème de Parménide

Kazimierz MrówkaPages 99-105DOI: 10.5840/cultura20085210 ABSTRACT In my article I analyze one fragment (B1) of the poem On Nature of Parmenides, which introduces the entire work. I describe the journey of the young man, from darkness to light, as a mystic way to the Truth (Aletheia), the way of gnosis.

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