The Life of Embryon According to Thomas Aquinas by Piotr Roszak

“…It is very popular among scholars to reduce the question of medieval embryology only to so called “delayed animation”, with a little reference to important philosophical background of the topic. This article present the concept of “life” in the perspective of thomistic doctrine, especially putting the emphasis on the issue of the soul as the principle of life and what does the virtus generativa means for Aquinas. …”
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BERTRAND RUSSELL'IN FELSEFE ANLAYIŞI ÜZERİNE BİR İNCELEME by Fikri Gül

“…Bertrand Russell, one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, has a unique position in philosophy by his opinions and determinations within the framework of his philosophical understanding. He is a member of the "Vienna Circle" and he brought a new perspective to philosophy by his "logical positivist" approach which he called "my own philosophy". …”
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‘Sentimental’: Since the Death of Little Nell by Dominic Rainsford

“…In this respect Dickens anticipates recent philosophical claims that some types of sentimentality cannot be avoided and should not be condemned.…”
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Fazer-se multidão: multiplicidade, classe e comum by Bruno Tarin

“…In order to support the analyzes and elaborations on this concept, the article begins with a brief reflection on how the idea of large groups or collective subject has been seen throughout history, with emphasis on the period of the philosophical and political formation of the sovereign States (16th century) and the period of formation of those that became known as mass societies (19th century). …”
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Du rapport au savoir comme modalisation philosophique du savoir dans la philosophie pour enfants by Jean-François Goubet

“…Relation to knowledge is commonly used in the most diverse senses, for instance to refer to the social conditions of learning or to the psychological conditions of investment in school. The philosophical tradition has also the right to give a proper sense to relation to knowledge. …”
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INTERNET COMMUNICATION TOOLS: THE WAY OF CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY OR FREEDOM OF CHOICE IN THE DIGITAL AGE by E. V. Dyatlova, M. V. Mikhina

“…An assumption has been made, that a resourceful basis for communication research via the Internet are philosophical categories and cultural-historical psychology, because its statements allow to conceptualize the Internet communication tools as indirect activity. …”
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CORRESPONDENCE AGAIN? INTERNAL REALISM AND THRUTH by Sami Pihlström

“…What is extremely problematic in Putnam’s latest views, however, is his attempt to return to a pre- or non-philosophical way of thinking about the relation between language and the world. …”
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MUSTAFA SEKİP TUNÇ'UN İNSAN ANLAYIŞI by Levent Bayraktar

“…It is only a holistic philosophical approach based on the whole disciplines investigating man and his cultural doings that can give us the representation of man. …”
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U.S. public television in the digital era: from niche to “Greek marketplace”? by Hélène Palmeri

“…Motivated by the renewed interest for public media in the United States since 2008, as well as the return of a futuristic philosophical bent in official speeches, we examine the reality of public media 2.0 and the place of public television in the context of Obama’s America. …”
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Shaftesbury on the Beauty of Nature by Michael B. Gill

“…I show how that view emerged as Shaftesbury’s solution to a problem he took to be of the deepest philosophical and personal importance: the problem of how worship of God can be both transportingly emotional and entirely rational.In section 1 I sketch the denigration of wild nature in two of Shaftesbury’s predecessors: Burnet and Locke. …”
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On the Mission of Humanitarian Education in Higher Technical School by A. A. Polonnikov

“…It analyzes discourses of renewing the sense of teaching liberal disciplines, philosophical ones in the first place, in higher school, with factors of lowering their status identified in it. …”
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La grande enfance by Jean-François Dupeyron

“…In fine, the model of a Great Childhood (Nietzsche) proposes a new philosophical horizon for the pedagogical welcoming of a form of life filled of acting power: the early chilhood.…”
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The Ontology of Biological Groups: Do Grasshoppers Form Assemblages, Communities, Guilds, Populations, or Something Else? by Jeffrey A. Lockwood

“…By adopting the framework of constrained perspectivism—a form of philosophical pragmatism—it is argued that a term is correct if it accurately reflects the conceptual framework of the investigator and effectively communicates this perspective to others. …”
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Localizing Violations of the Principle of Sufficient Reason—Leibniz on the Modal Status of the PSR by Sebastian Bender

“…The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR)—the principle that everything has a reason—plays a central role in Leibniz’s philosophical system. It is rather difficult, however, to determine what Leibniz’s attitude towards the modal status of the PSR is. …”
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„Ekologizm” jako nowy nurt polityczny. Implikacje filozoficzno-etyczne by Mariusz Ciszek

“…Taking into consideration the philosophical and ethical categories using in the environmental philosophy the author explains that ecologism should be connected with the anthropocentric model for environmental ethics, then it will not be dangerous for a man. …”
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Comment définir l’humain à partir de sa diversité ? Questions épistémologiques et enjeux philosophiques by Mathilde Lequin

“…Through a review of the history of debates on past human diversity and an analysis of the different biases that influence assessments of the number of hominin species, this note puts forward several avenues to update the theoretical framework of palaeoanthropology, by proposing a critique of the bush-like model of evolution in favour of a reticulate model, by bringing out the philosophical assumptions underlying the systematic description of new hominin species and through a discussion on the specifically anthropological dimension of past human diversity.…”
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H. Bergson on the Problem of Origin of Life by Pavlo Bartusiak

“…A close reading of his texts reveals the philosopher’s implicit assumption of an origin of life on Earth through natural processes. …”
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Dialog religijny w turystyce by Maciej Ostrowski

“…He discusses also various types of religious dialogue: within the tourists’ own religious community, the ecumenical dialogue between members of different Christian denominations, philosophical dialogues with non-believers and finally dialogue between members of different religions. …”
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Entropic «Virus» of Democracy Энтропийный «вирус» демократии Ентропійний «вірус» демократії by V. V. Khmel

“…The article deals with the social and philosophical analysis of democracy as an element of holistic social being in contrast to its political and instrumental interpretation in politology research. …”
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THE RESPONSIBILITY OF ARCHITECTURE: BEAUTY, JUSTICE AND THE CALL OF CARE by H.A. Auret

“…Interwoven with these philosophical positions, the text refers to the historical development of church architecture as interpretive device. …”
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