12 articles in this issue
Georgia APOSTOLOPOULOU
After the alleged ‘ends’ of metaphysics, of history, and of art, aesthetics reorganises the field of its enquiry. While retaining the question of the meaning of art for the human as the background justification of its theorising, aesthetics meets philosop... see more
Ana BAZAC
The paper discusses the problem of “competition” between the image and the articulated language/text. The problem as such is historical and it reflects the change between the language based communication (including the radio era) and the mainly image base... see more
Haig KHATCHADOURIAN
* This article was written by late Haig Khatchadourian in October 31, 2015.
Lin TAO, Haijun TANG, Mingzhuo ZOU
The topic emotion in traditional philosophy is discussed fragmentarily. And in recent years, there are two important approaches to analyze emotions, namely neo-Jamesianism and cognitive theory of emotion. Neo-Jamesians identify emotions with states of bod... see more
Li ZHANG, Lan ZHANG
The generation of any kind of theory cannot be separated from its specific social background, and it will certainly be marked by the era. Social factors restrict the existence and development of scientific theory and these factors do not directly affect s... see more
Vladimir BRANSKIJ, Kadzhik M. OGANYAN, Karina K. OGANYAN
The research of the synergetic philosophy of history leads to a fundamentally new approach to the study of personality and rational understanding of the meaning of life. The heuristic role in the history synergetic philosophy is argued in the structuring ... see more
Tamás HANKOVSZKY
In the whole fourth chapter of The God Delusion Richard Dawkins in a long and complicated argumentation attempts to prove that God’s existence is improbable and we have no reason to believe in Him. In my paper I am going to examine the basic structure of ... see more
Balázs M. MEZEI
In this essay, I argue that religion is centrally important in the future of liberal democracy in the Western sense of the word. Without the values of religion, we may have to face the emergence of authoritarian and totalitarian forms of political existen... see more
Linos G. BENAKIS
Harmonics was one of the four mathematical sciences in the Byzantine higher education curriculum, together with Arithmetic, Geometry, and Astronomy (what was called quadrivium in the Latin West). Our knowledge of Byzantine harmonics is rather limited, as ... see more
Aghvan HOVSEPYAN
This article presents a methodological analysis of Grigor Narekatsi’s famous work “The book of lamentations” from the point of view of the theory and practice of judiciary science. The author offers a detailed study of Grigor Narekatsi’s conception of the... see more
Alexander MISHURIN
This article is devoted to a sequential analysis of the first book of Aristotle’s Politics. It suggests an interpretation of the classical problem of natural hierarchy of men as it described in the first book of the treatise. In this book, Aristotle exami... see more
Kadzhik M. OGANYAN
In Memoriam