Reconciliation ecology, from biological to social challenges by Denis Couvet, Frédéric Ducarme

“…We then examine its potential for social legitimacy through a review of philosophical and policy frameworks. We pay particular attention to the representation of ordinary biodiversity’s extrinsic values, and to the most appropriate social norms for integrating these into new practices of conservation, based on the potential of the capabilities approach.…”
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La participation des enfants à l’école sous le prisme des droits de l’enfant by Maude Louviot

“…Indeed, if participatory intentions are multiplying in practices and official prescriptions (democratic debates, philosophical discussions, student councils, cooperative practices, etc.) we argue that not all forms of pupils’ participation are equal and that some approaches are more effective than others.…”
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Possibilia: Possible Worlds and the Limitless in Architecture by Sean Pickersgill

“…Employing some basic structural clarity from contemporary modal logic, and from studies in fictionality, it is possible to see a renewed value in the ‘worlds’ that speculative projects describe, and to understand the profound philosophical value in imagining an existence in an ‘other’ world.…”
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'n Voorgestelde raamwerk vir die skryf van 'n akademiese publikasie: voorbeelde uit die teologiese etiek by L. O. K. Lategan

“…These steps are the formulation of a problem, conceptualisation, hypothesis formulation, ethical approval, methodology, philosophical framework, literature review, data capturing, analysis, validation of the hypothesis, summary and literature list. …”
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Catholicism and the Support for European Integration: A Critique of the Methodological Underpinnings by Rosita Garškaitė

“…Yet, the scholarly discussion of its meaning has seldom gone beyond statistical analyses that show robust correlations, but cannot provide an understanding of why and when Catholics tend to choose commitment to European Union over skepticism or indifference to it. Three philosophical arguments are presented in the paper which indicate the flaws of positivist research and show how an interpretivist approach could shed light on the topic studied. …”
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« Tuer pour saisir la vie » : neutralisation épistémologique et politique des animaux dans l’Antiquité by Benedetta Piazzesi

“…Retracing the intellectual background of the interviewee, we show the emergence of a new historiographical and philosophical interest in animals in ancient societies from the 1970s onwards, questioning the theoretical perspectives of Marxism, historical epistemology and structuralism. …”
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Primates et Sociétés : La sortie de l’état de nature by Thomas Robert, Gabriela Daly Bezerra de Melo

“…Historical studies are combined with philosophical investigations in order to emphasis the complex relations between primatologists and their object of study. …”
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Book review: Holistic Special Education: Camphill Principles and Practice. Robin Jackson, editor by Jeremy Millar

“…Holistic Special Education: Camphill Principles and Practice is a story of a vision transcending the destruction and displacement of the Nazi era, and then bringing a holistic philosophical and spiritual approach to the care of children with special needs in the North East of Scotland. …”

Public security in the pre-classical political and legal thought of ancient Greece by Y. O. Zahumenna

“…A thorough theoretical and legal study of the key features of general philosophical and special legal understanding and interpretation of security issues of man, society and state in the pre-classical political and legal thought of ancient Greece is given. …”
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THE DESIRE FOR RECOGNITION IN THE CONTEXT OF FRANCIS FUKUYAMA’S UNIVERSAL HISTORY by T. V. Danylova

“…Leaving aside the criticism based on geopolitical and civilizational confrontation and confusion which confronts Fukuyama’s theory, it should be stated that anthropological aspect of Fukuyama’s theory has vastly evaded philosophical comprehension. Purpose. This article attempts to test Fukuyama’s theory through the lens of philosophical anthropology and analyze human desire for recognition in the context of Fukuyama’s World History. …”
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The Genesis of Higher Education Internationalisation by D. А. Smaliakou

“…Meanwhile, the definition of the philosophical foundations of this phenomenon can shed light on the nature and rules of its development. …”
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Die etiek van regstellende aksie by J. M. Vorster

“…The article concludes with a presentation of guidelines for fair and justifiable affirmative action in South Africa within the context of Christian ethics and legal philosophical principles. …”
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Individualisme, religion, spiritualité avec Marcel Gauchet :Quels enjeux et quels possibles pour l’éducation ? by Camille Roelens

“…This article uses the philosophical work of Marcel Gauchet to consider what the contributions of religions to the spiritual dimension to individuation and individualization could be in democratic modernity. …”
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Delectatio et decor ordinis. O teologii Jacka Salija by Jerzy Szymik

“…How can you define the theology which is both Theocentric, and Christocentric; consequently ministerial towards the Church, man, “spiritual seekers”; constructive in theses and polemical; intransigent towards foolishness, naivety, barbarity; creative and deeply set in the most outstanding philosophical and theological tradition; creating identity and cooperating with culture, literature and arts; engaging all intellectual powers into matters of faith and ethos; professional, research, erudite and ministerial, close to life, existential; Polish and universal, substantively systematized and formally diverse...? …”
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Elementos humboldtianos en las teorías de la religión y de la magia de Konrad Th. Preuss by Paulina Alcocer

“…Through a comparative exposition of their methods for the analysis of the « intellectual culture », Preuss’ theories are supplemented with a philosophical grounding. The relation between their thought is established through the analysis of Preussian concepts such as « magic-religious way of thinking » and « complex representations » and Humboldt’s notions of the word-formation process, and the role of language and discourse in the constitution of a worldview.…”
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The Information of Public Sciences: Definitions by Žiedonė Zaveckienė

“… Many different conceptions are noticed in defining information: mathematical, cybernetic, philosophical, philological, and bibliographical directions. …”
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Une perspective philosophique sur la durabilité forte. Pour un écocentrisme relationnel by Rémi Beau

“…However, this criticism didn’t prevent some environmental ethicists from proposing a philosophical approach of ecological sustainability. …”
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« I am content with tentativeness from day to day » : Thomas Hardy et le parti pris poétique du tâtonnement by Laurence Estanove

“…In his notebooks and prefaces, Thomas Hardy dwells heavily on the elusive, non methodical quality of his writing, pointing at the absence of any philosophical coherence in his work. This deliberate artistic preference for uncertainty is visible in the poet’s hesitant stances, wavering between harsh renunciation and the relief of conscious dreaming. …”
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Sous la conduite d’Hermès, aux carrefours de la traduction et du féminisme by Jane Elisabeth Wilhelm

“…We will examine in this paper the meeting points of translation, hermeneutics and feminism, invoking in particular Paul Ricœur's “paradigm of translation” and his concept of linguistic hospitality. Philosophical hermeneutics, in its political dimension, allows us to acknowledge the partiality of our understanding and to support feminist arguments regarding the interpretative dimension of difference. …”
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METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF RESEARCH ORTHODOX ANTHROPOLOGY МЕТОДОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ АСПЕКТЫ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ ПРАВОСЛАВНОЙ АНТРОПОЛОГИИ МЕТОДОЛОГІЧНІ АСПЕКТИ ДОСЛІДЖЕННЯ ПРАВОСЛАВНОЇ АНТРОПОЛОГІЇ... by R. V. Stetzuk

“…The article analyzes the approaches to the Orthodox anthropology that existed and exist both in philosophical and theological studies and in theology. …”
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