Promoting Politics as Way of Existence in Contemporary European Media Victor MORARU Abstract. The article focuses on the promotion paradigm in media activity, it examines various aspects of the concept of promotion, and presents the accumulated experience of the Moldavian and Romanian media in the coverage of the political process through the comprehension of promotion […]
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Sami People and the Right to Self-Determination
Sami People and the Right to Self-Determination Adrian Liviu IVAN Ruxandra Emanuela NUȚ Abstract. Currently, one can observe the trend of a global manifestation of what we call the right to self-determination of indigenous peoples, which is also one of the central goals of the United Nations. Selfdetermination refers to varied and complex issues, […]
The Behavioural Dynamics of Romania’s Foreign Policy in the Late 1990s: the Drive for Security and the Politics of Voluntary Servitude
The Behavioural Dynamics of Romania’s Foreign Policy in the Late 1990s: the Drive for Security and the Politics of Voluntary Servitude Eduard Rudolf ROTH Abstract. This article investigates the nature, the magnitude and the impact of the exogenously articulated preferences in the articulation of Romania’s foreign policy agenda and behavioural dynamics during the period 1996-2000. […]
The Marshall Plan and The Beginnings of Comecon
The Marshall Plan and The Beginnings of Comecon Cristian BENȚE Abstract: The integration of the Eastern-European states into the Soviet Union’s sphere of influence at the end of the Second World War represented a complex process that aimed all the vital sectors in those states.In a relatively short period of time, the political, economic, social […]
Introduction. Subjectivity and Individuality: Two Strands in Early Modern Philosophy
SUBJECTIVITY AND INDIVIDUALITY: TWO STRANDS IN EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY INTRODUCTION Andrea Strazzoni* For generations of scholars the emergence of the notion of human subjectivity has marked the shift to philosophical modernity. Mainly traced back toDescartes’s founding of philosophy on the Cogito and to Kant’s ‘Copernican Revolution’,1 the rise of subjectivity has been linked to the […]
Early Modern Subjects and the Self-Conception of Philosophy in Germany 1556-1599
EARLY MODERN SUBJECTS AND THE SELF-CONCEPTION OF PHILOSOPHY IN GERMANY 1556-1599 Stefan HEßBRÜGGEN-WALTER* Abstract. The paper discusses the concept of a subject as an actor’s category in early modern philosophy and asks whether contemporary notions of subjectivity can be meaningfully related to this early modern understanding of the concept. When thinking about the early modern […]
Oliva Sabuco and the Matter of the Matter
OLIVA SABUCO AND THE MATTER OF THE MATTER Steven BARBONE * Abstract. This exploratory study investigates the work of Oliva Sabuco de Nantes Barrera (1562–1626?). Sabuco’s major work, New Philosophy of Human Nature neither Known to nor Attained by the Great Ancient Philosophers, which Will Improve Human Life and Health (1587), in many ways foresees […]
The recentior nominalis of Leibniz’s Disputatio metaphysica de principio individui: Fulgentius Schautheet and his Controversia against the Thomistic Doctrine on the Principle of Individuation
THE RECENTIOR NOMINALIS OF LEIBNIZ’S DISPUTATIO METAPHYSICA DE PRINCIPIO INDIVIDUI: FULGENTIUS SCHAUTHEET AND HIS CONTROVERSIA AGAINST THE THOMISTIC DOCTRINE ON THE PRINCIPLE OF INDIVIDUATION Chiara CATALANO* Abstract. In his Disputatio metaphysica de principio individui (1663), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) supports his own account of the principle of individuation on the basis of the authority of […]
Hume’s Individual: Agent or Billiard Ball?
HUME’S INDIVIDUAL: AGENT OR BILLIARD BALL? Hannah DAWSON* Abstract. It is hard to make out the agent in Hume’s science of man. For the most part, human beings appear operated on passively by the association and attraction of ideas, creatures of custom rather than creators of the future, more predictable even than the rising of […]
Diderot and Materialist Theories of the Self
DIDEROT AND MATERIALIST THEORIES OF THE SELF Charles T. WOLFE* Abstract. The concept of self has preeminently been asserted (in its many versions) as a core component of anti-reductionist, antinaturalistic philosophical positions, from Descartes to Husserl and beyond, with the exception of some hybrid or intermediate positions which declare rather glibly that, since we are […]