Volume 8, Issue 2, 2011

Asunción López-Varela AzcáratePages 7-22DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0015-y ABSTRACT Cross-cultural communication is about generating dialogical positions across cultural barriers. Communication is achieved when participants are able to construct meaning across varied sign systems. Oral communication makes use of a wide range of signs that contribute to make meaning, from eye contact to gestures and speech. In written/printed communication, […]

Giuseppe CacciatorePages 23-38DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0016-x ABSTRACT The aim of this article is the analysis of a new model of intercultural ethics. In this way I propose a “creative” and dynamic version of universalism, which can be used as a model for the construction of a pluralistic and intercultural philosophical perspective.

Robert C. TrundlePages 39-50DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0017-9 ABSTRACT Connections of beauty to science, whereby scientific truth informs truth about art, is denied by a Humean-Kantian-positivist tradition. Its denial of even scientific theories being known to be true proceeds pari passu with denying any known truth in the less rigorous sciences such as aesthetics that, for Aristotle, studies

Giuseppe D’AnnaPages 51-61DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0018-8 ABSTRACT In this paper I would like to demonstrate that the “society of spectacle” notably influences our idea of the other and our intercultural thought and practice. In this way the imagination is not a free creative capability of a human being, but a political and social instrument of power of

Che Mahzan AhmadPages 63-71DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0019-7 ABSTRACT Ethno-pragmatics as device to understand the culturally Other is essential when we believe that there is a nexus of intimate relationships between language and culture. The whole idea of ethno-pragmatics is to understand local life-worlds in the wake of celebrating particularism in inter-cultural communication. Ethnopragmatics basically appreciates language practices

Monica RiccioPages 73-84DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0020-1 ABSTRACT This article questions the universal value attributed to the idea of democracy within a global intercultural context. The point is: do “mature” Western democracies, with their history, their nature and their limits, meet the needs of intercultural ethics? A first factual finding shows that outside, at the frontiers of “mature”

Scott H. BoydPages 85-104DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0021-0 ABSTRACT This article questions the predominance of pragmatism and fixed points of reference in academic paradigms regarding culture and proposes a theory of autopoietic culture based on a theory of living forms developed by the biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela. The central part of the theory of autopoietic culture

Maximiliano E. Korstanje, Geoffrey SkollPages 105-126DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0022-z ABSTRACT Many scholars in recent years have focused their efforts on revealing the connection of philosophy and authority. Basically, from Nietzsche onwards, philosophy has witnessed ongoing efforts for “will to power” by some philosophers and of course this motivated many philosophers to take part in politics. Nonetheless, this

Constantin StoenescuPages 127-142DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0023-y ABSTRACT My aim in this paper is to discuss the topicality of Merton’s thesis with a twofold meaning: as an idea which has its own place in the sociology of science and as an idea which is currently in its area of research. Merton asserts that the development of science in

Wei ZhangPages 143-158DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0024-x ABSTRACT Based on the dispute between Protagoras and Socrates on the origin of ethics, one can ask the question of whether the principle of ethics is reason or feeling/emotion, or whether ethics is grounded on reason or feeling/emotion. The development of Kant’s thoughts on ethics shows the tension between reason and