JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, TOME LXIX, 2022

Current issue: Issue 6

C O N T E N T S

BIOETHICS AND HUMAN DIGNITY
(Guest editor: Maria Sinaci)
IOAN BIRIȘ, Human Enhancement and Human Nature: Two Incompatible Ethical Principles?
GABRIELA GOUDENHOOFT, The Right to Die Versus ‘A Bad and Long Life’. On the Prevalence of Dignity Over Other Rights
HENRIETA ȘERBAN, Is 'Human Dignity' a Pleonastic Phrase?
ANTONIO SANDU, Philosophical Foundations of Informed Consent
MARIA SINACI, The Concept of Human Dignity in Bioethics: Challenges and Perspectives

P.P. NEGULESCU – 150 YEARS FROM BIRTH
CONSTANTIN STOENESCU, Criticism of John Stuart Mill’s Empiricism in the Philosophical Work of P.P. Negulescu
TITUS LATES, P.P. Negulescu and the Relativity of Knowledge

PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES
NORA GRIGORE, Comparison between Formal Ontologies: Aristotle versus Frege
MARIA AMARINEI, ȘTEFAN BÂRZU, The Aesthetics of the Scapegoat. El Akelarre by Goya between the Witches’ Sabbath and the Bacchae’s Mania

ESSAY
CLAUDIU BACIU, On Free Wil

SCIENTIFIC LIFE
“Lucian Blaga” International Festival From Lancrăm-Sebeș, at the XLII Edition (Eugeniu Nistor)
International Colloquium “Lucian Blaga Between Tradition and Modernity”
Cultural Program “Efigies of Romanian Culture” (Eugeniu Nistor)
The Colloquia of Culture and Humanities Journals, 2022 Edition (Eugeniu Nistor)



Issue 5

C O N T E N T S

PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATION
(Guest editor: Marin Bălan)
MARIN BĂLAN, Philosophy and Education
DORINA PĂTRUNSU, Is Philosophy Educationally ‘Profitable’? A Functionalist Critique of the Functionality Desideratum of Education
CONSTANTIN STOENESCU, The Community of Inquiry and the New Learning Paradigm
ANDA FOURNEL, Philosophy for Children “without” Children? Some Reflections on the Dialogue Between Adult and Child
ILEANA DASCĂLU, Values and Symbols in Fairytales
MARIN BĂLAN, Can Ethics Be Taught to Children?

VARIA
CLAUDIU BACIU, On the Premises of Hegel’s Philosophy
DANIEL NICA, Nietzsche and Authenticity as Self-Reinvention


Issue 4

C O N T E N T S

HISTORY OF WORLD PHILOSOPHY
ALEXANDER BAUMGARTEN, On the Reducibility of Divine Knowledge from Augustine’s On Trinity to Meno’s Paradox
CLAUDIU BACIU, On World and Man as Necessary Media of Divine Revelation
RODICA CROITORU, The Meaning of Opus Postumum for Transcendental Philosophy

ROMANIAN PHILOSOPHY
MARIUS DOBRE, Noica and Logic
HENRIETA ANIȘOARA ȘERBAN, Knowledge – Creation
OANA VASILESCU, Scientific Knowledge and Metaphysical Knowledge in Lucian Blaga
NELA MIRCICĂ, Christian Transformations Reinterpreted in the Substantialism of Camil Petrescu

PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES
ADRIAN NIŢĂ, Soul, Reason, Spirit in the Literature of Carlos Franz – a Multidisciplinary Approach
EUGENIA BOGATU, Pragmatist Meanings of Personal Development


Issue 3

C O N T E N T S
THOMAS   KUHN   –   60   YEARS   FROM   THE   STRUCTURE   OF   SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS
Henrieta ȘERBAN, On the Kuhnian Epistemological Idealism
Sergiu BĂLAN, Thomas Kuhn’s Evolutionary Epistemology
Maria SINACI, Kuhn’s Account on Paradigm and Family Resemblance
Ana NEGOIȚĂ, Conceptualism and the Shifting Paradigms in Art
Oana ȘERBAN, The Commutability of the Structure of Scientific Revolutions in Art and the Aesthetic Validity

ROMANIAN PHILOSOPHY
Ștefan-Dominic GEORGESCU, The Logical Structure of the Idea of System in Romanian Philosophy
Șerban N. NICOLAU, The Beginning of Romanian Neoaristotelism. Teophilus Corydaleus

PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES
Adrian NIȚĂ, Membranes of Comprehension in Javier Marias
Victor D. POPESCU, Rorty and the Post-Philosopher’s Dilemma   
Noni-Emil IORDACHE, Sensation, Representation, and Ideas in John Locke’s Philosophy Of Knowledge

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Maria Sinaci, Bioethics and Human Improvement. A Philosophical Perspective, Eikon Publishing House, 2021, 282 p. (Gabriel Hasmațuchi)
Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann, Francesco Alfieri, Martin Heidegger: The Truth about the Black Notebooks,  Oradea,  Ratio et Revelatio Publishing House, 2021, 454  p. (Bogdan Mincă)


Issue 2

C O N T E N T S

LOGIC AND EPISTEMOLOGY
MARIUS DOBRE, On the old and new use of the term “genus”. A short logical approach
CONSTANTIN STOENESCU, The principle of acquaintance and transition from denotative concepts to theory of descriptions in Russell’s early philosophy

ROMANIAN PHILOSOPHY
MARIUS AUGUSTIN DRĂGHICI, The relationship between common and scientific knowledge in Blaga’s Trilogy of Knowledge
ION DUR, Nae Ionescu – a laic theologian from the porch of the church

POLITICAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY
NORA GRIGORE, The dialectical method in Nicomachean Ethics
ANDREI LUCIAN, The role of ethical principles within the construction and unification of moral codes
CRISTINA ALEXANDRU, Political utopia vs. political reality. Fractures between worlds

HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
NONI-EMIL IORDACHE, Spinoza and Descartes on freedom and free-will

PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES
SERGIU MIHALCEA, What is secondary orality?

OPINIONS ON BOOKS
In focus: Mihai Popa, The Anthropology of Poiesis [Antropologia poiesis], Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Lady Stephenson Lybrary, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2022
ȘTEFAN-DOMINIC GEORGESCU, Creation and becoming – meanings of poiesis
SERGIU BĂLAN, Reason of being or freedom of creation in The Anthropology of Poiesis


Issue 1

C O N T E N T S

ROMANIAN PHILOSOPHY
Sergiu BĂLAN, Romanian Systematic Philosophy. Historical-Theoretical and Comparative Aspects
Henrieta Anişoara ȘERBAN, On the Singularity of Man in the Bio-ontological and Meta- ontological (Relative) Continuity Starting from Lucian Blaga
Eugeniu NISTOR, Blaga’s Cultural “Method” in Knowledge and Creation

UNIVERSAL PHILOSOPHY
Vlad MUREȘAN, Hegel’s Ontology of Desire
Marius DOBRE, Critical Thinking and Value Judgements
Ștefan BÂRZU, The Function of Interpretation in Shaping Reality. Paul Ricœur and the Hermeneutical Openings of his Phenomenology of Fiction
Manuel COJOCARU, Foreshadowing the Theory of Death Denial through Heroism in Ernest Becker’s Earlier Works

PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES
Marius-Bogdan CORBU, The Reformed Iconoclasm. The Conversion of Religious Spaces and the Conversion of the Christian Believer

OPINIONS ON BOOKS
In Focus: Cristian Iftode, Viața bună. O introducere în etică, București, Editura Trei, 2021, 543 p.
Paul Gabriel SANDU, The Good Life
Daniel NICA, Is the Relation with Others Dependent on the Reflection on the Self?