DECONSTRUCTION OF THE METAPHYSICS OF PRESENCE IN PHENOMENOLOGY AND STRUCTURALISM by A. A. Polivoda

“…Derrida, to deconstruct Western philosophy means to explore the tensions and contradictions in text, which should clarify false reliability of accepted hierarchies. …”
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KİŞİSEL KİMLİK VE ÖLÜM SONRASI HAYAT by Muhsin Akbaş

“…One of the traditional problems of the Western philosophy of religion is human destiny after death. …”
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Tomorrow’s Ethics in a Globalizing World

“…They are as follows: firstly, from the ethics of obedience to an ethic of creative commitment; secondly, from a primary concern with micro-ethics to an equal and even greater concern with macro-ethics; thirdly, from a cluster of regional value systems to a cooperatively created global ethic; in the fourth place, from a conceptual base in western philosophy and theology to an academic base in the social and natural sciences; and in the fifth place, from dependence on religion in important parts of the world, including ours, to what I want to call a relationship with religion characterized by cooperative, critical and creative independence for ethics. …”
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GENEALOGY AS POSSIBILITY OF OPENNES TO DIFFERENCE: CRITIQUE OF POWER AND DOMINATION BY FOUCAULT by Kasım Küçükalp

“…İt is possible to claim that efforts to reveal the connection between allegations of truth and power relationships by means of establishing a geneology of moral which is the practical embodiment of Western thought in general and the mentioned approach in particular, have become one of the most debated issues in Western philosophy as of Nietzsche. Such discussion , which also constitues the framework of hereby study, concentrates on how the allegations of truth serve in favour of interests of certain powers and as an oppressive function through legitimisation of domination via allegations of knowledge and truht, as well as subsequent disregard of differences, constitutes the central axis of Foucault’s philosophy. …”
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O a(u)tor e suas "interversões" em Retrato desnatural, de Evando Nascimento by Fabíola Padilha

“…This paper aims at proposing a reading of the supposedly fictional book Retrato desnatural (diários - 2004 a 2007), by Evando Nascimento, published in 2008, by observing the way through which the author, in consonance with the notion of “writable text” by Roland Barthes, entertains a dialogue with diverse artistic lan- guages (plastic arts, music, theater, cinema, literature) as well as with the western philosophy. It will also be verified that this dialogue, on its turn, flows into the idea of expropriation of the subject, since the author recognizes, under the sign of the "self", the innumerable traces of the others in his writing. …”
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THE CONCEPT "SINN DES LEBENS" IN PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY by V. Y. Popov, Е. V. Popova

“…The paper considered the explication of the concept of "Sinn des Lebens" within the framework of Western philosophy and psychology of the ХІХ-ХХІ centuries. …”
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ANTHROPOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF "CRIME" IN HISTORICO-PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE by I. O. Kovnierova

“…The article establishes that in the history of Western philosophy, there are five anthropological paradigms that differ in a thorough rethinking of the essence of a man. …”
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IMAGE OF HUMAN IN THE POSTMODERN EPOCH by L. M. Mykulanynets

“…The analysis of anthropological ideas of Western philosophy of different ages shows the variety of views about understanding the nature of the person, its complexity and ambiguity. …”
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STRATEGY OF SOCIALLY-ANTHROPOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT IN IDEAS AND SYSTEM OF MODERN SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION: INTEGRATION OF MODEL OF THE INSTRUMENTALISM AND THE NEOPRAGMATISM WIT... by Viktor Zinchenko

“…Classification existing in the western philosophy of education and education of directions is spent, proceeding from basic principles of philosophical school or a current, first of all considering those the purpose and means which are really involved by them in process of education, social development and socially-moral education and being based on the basic installations, the purpose expressed by that or other direction, how its supporters imagine the person, its requirement, a social role, модус behaviour which the education system and education urged to form. …”
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