Volume 8, Issue 2, 2011

Petru Iluţ, Laura NistorPages 159-176 DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0025-9 ABSTRACT The article provides a summary of the analysis of the associations between Schwartz’s basic human values and religiosity in Romania, using the data of the fourth wave of the European Social Survey (ESS). Previous cross-cultural research has suggested that religiosity is positively and significantly associated with conservativeness […]

Irina PolyakovaPages 177-188DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0026-8 ABSTRACT This article discusses attempts of Russian philosophers of the 19th and 20th centuries (e.g. Vladimir Solovyev, Vladimir Ern, Nikolay Berdyaev) to suggest the genre of “philosophical biography” as a special kind of philosophical work. So, philosophical biography is treated as an understanding of life. The most important features of philosophical

Mohd Faizal MusaPages 189-208DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0027-7 ABSTRACT Part of the “Islamic literature” furore in Indonesia is the discourse of “Prophetic Literature,” founded by Abdul Hadi W.M. The background of “Prophetic Literature” is Sufism. Other ingredients that formulated “Prophetic Literature” are mysticism, “Javanese Sufism” and perennial philosophies concerned with spiritual experience and human effort to gain the

I Made Gede ArimbawaPages 209-222DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0028-6 ABSTRACT Based on the views of Hindus in Bali, the application of ornaments in the form of Balinese traditional symbols should follow the rules of the prevailing tradition. The symbols are created to show the cosmology and philosophy based on the teachings of Hinduism as indigenous in Bali and

Nicolae RâmbuOrcid-IDPages 223-234DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0029-5 ABSTRACT Regarded from a different perspective, the same values appear somewhat reversed. This phenomenon was explained by the authors who, following Oswald Spengler, associated culture with space more strongly by resorting to the terminology of optics and, also, by analogies with certain optical phenomena. This essay goes on the same path.

Isaac E. UkpokoloPages 235-252DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0030-z ABSTRACT The paper is challenged with the seeming contradiction resulting from the prevalent conception of the group mind and common good in African and Western cultures or societies. Many African scholars have theorized about the communalistic nature of African communities which leads to the flourishing of group consciousness as opposed