JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, TOME LXX, 2023


TOME LXIX - 2023
Current issue: Issue 6

C O N T E N T S

HISTORY OF WORLD PHILOSOPHY
CONSTANTIN STOENESCU, “Residual Hegelianism” and “Rhetorical Hegelianism” in Young Bertrand Russell’s Writtings
CLAUDIU BACIU, The Substantialist Character of the Kantian “Thing in Itself”
SERGIU BĂLAN, Naturalizing Epistemology: Hume’s Solution to Quine’s Problem

ROMANIAN PHILOSOPHY
VIOREL CERNICA, From the Third Person to the First Person: Some Answers to the Question about the Meanings of Vasile Tonoiu’s Philosophy
MIHAI POPA, The Meaning of “Forgetting” and Finding the Being in Speech in Constantin Noica

OPINIONS ON BOOKS
In focus: Mircea Flonta, Filozofia cercetătorului, București, Editura Humanitas, 2022, 406 pp.
ILIE PÂRVU, A Monumental Work of Contemporary Philosophy
ADRIAN MIROIU, On Different Types of Philosophical Thinking

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Mic compendiu de epistemologie românească [Compendium of Romanian Epistemology], Part I, Marius Augustin Drăghici, Oana Vasilescu (eds.), Bucharest, Romanian Academy Publishing House, 2022, 316 p. (Henrieta Anișoara Șerban)
Sandu Frunză, Publicitatea construiește realitatea. Eseu despre ființa umană, religie și publicitate în societatea de consum [Advertising constructs reality. Essay on Human Beings, Religion and Advertising in Consumer Society], Bucharest, Eikon Publishing House, 2023, 266 p. (Gabriela Goudenhooft)

SCIENTIFIC LIFE
International Conference On the Objectivity of Scientific Knowledge. Models and Theoretical Representations of Structure and Progress in Science. Thomas Kuhn’s Legacy, The Institute for Philosophy and Psychology „Constantin Rădulescu-Motru” of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, 29 September – 3 October 2022 (Oana Vasilescu)
The XXXIXth Congress of French-language Philosophy Associations (Rodica Croitoru)
The XVIth International Congress of the Society for Kantian Studies in French, University of Vienna, 28–30 September 2023 (Rodica Croitoru)

INDEX


Issue 5

C O N T E N T S

MODERNITY AND POSTMODERN CULTURE
HENRIETA ŞERBAN, On the dialogue between modemity and postmodem culture
OANA ŞERBAN, Unfulfilled biopolitics: the metaphilosophy of Edgar Morin or what’s left of the metodical civilisation of the homo sapiens?
ANA NEGOIŢĂ, Olivia Dobrea, Modernity and feminism. Avant-garde artists, repositioning and reconsideration
MIRUNA BARCAN, Reinterpretations of modernity. Reappraisal and revisionism as curatorial strategies

PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES
CLAUDIU BACIU, Virtue, Contemplation, and Freedom in Aristotle
CRISTIAN ANDREESCU, Facing the unknown - meanings for life, meanings for knowledge
ALINA MIHALACHE, Carnival’s masks on the extreme contemporary scene
AUGUSTIN CUPŞA, Simili carni. Identity construction through visual and tactile illusions

BOOK REVIEWS
MARIUS AUGUSTIN DRĂGHICI (ed.), Lucian Blaga, filosof al ştiinţei [Lucian Blaga, Philosopher of Science], Bucureşti, Editura Academiei, 2022, 209 p. (Henrieta Şerban)
OANA ŞERBAN (ed.), Rethinking Modernity: Transitions and Challenges, UK, Ethics International Press, 2023, 200pp. (Henrieta Şerban)
GHEORGHE DĂNIŞOR, Solitude-isolement du monde. Une philosophie sur l ’histoire echouee de l’humanite [Solitude-isolation from, and of, the World. A Philosophy of the Failed History of Humanity, Preface de Diana Danisor, author Gheorghe Danisor, Collection: Philosophical Openings - Debates, Editions L’Harmattan, 282 p. (Henrieta Şerban)

AUTHORS


Issue 4


400th ANNIVERSARY OF BIRTH OF BLAISE PASCAL
SEBASTIAN GRAMA, Ontological Incisions
OANA ŞERBAN, Social Bodies: In Search of a Pascalian Politics
ŞTEFAN BÂRZU, Introduction to Pascalian Ethics. From the Reason of the State of Nature to the Heart of the State of Grace

VARIA
VLAD MUREŞAN, What is Cultural Marxism?
IONUŢ VĂdUvA, The Specters of Romanticism: Marcuse and the legacy of Schiller
EMANUEL FLORESCU, Responsibility and Identity at David Hume
CRISTINA URSU, From detail to the whole: on constructing the “narrative thread”

OPINION ON BOOKS
In focus: Oana Vasilescu, Ion Tănăsescu, Mircea Dumitru (editors), Istoria filosofiei ca hermeneutica. Studii şi eseuri în onoarea profesorului Gheorghe Vlăduţescu, Bucharest, Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, 2022, 344 p.
MARIUS AUGUSTIN DRĂGHICI, (Un)conventionally on Gheorghe Vlăduţescu
RALUCA VASILESCU, The History of philosophy as Hermeneutics in Gheorghe Vlăduţescu

In focus: Daniel Nica, Who am I? Authenticity and Its Moral Limits, Oradea, Ratio & Revelatio, 2022, 265 pp.
PAUL SANDU, Figures of Authenticity: A Complex History
MARIAN CĂLBOREAN, Who am I? - Three Approaches about Authenticity
ALEXANDRA ZORILĂ, The Other as Limit and Possibility of Authenticity

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Baptiste Morizot, Stirring up the Embers of Life, translated by Bogdan Ghiu, Bucharest, Seneca, 2022, 214 p. (Paul Sandu)


Issue 3

JEAN BAUDRILLARD
(Guest editor: Henrieta Șerban)
HENRIETA ȘERBAN, Jean Baudrillard, a Guru of Symbolic Exchange Philosophically Retrieved
HENRIETA ȘERBAN, Jean Baudrillard Retrieved: in “the Shadow of the Silent Majorities” and in the Scintillating “Transparency of Evil”
VIORELLA MANOLACHE, (Not) Forgetting Jean Baudrillard!
LORENA STUPARU, “The Fatality of the Object” and the Symbolic Circuit of Seduction

PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES
CLAUDIU BACIU, Free Will between Fact and Possibility
MIHAI POPA, Knowledge and Metaphysics: Romanian Ontological Reflections in the Interwar Period
EVA IVAN-HAINTZ, The Actuality of Critical Theory and its Sociocultural Implications
CONSTANTIN STROE, On Man and his Moral (Eugen Russu)

OPINIONS ON BOOKS
In focus: Ion Cordoneanu, Liviu Cocei (editori), Despre fericire, Timișoara, Editura Universității de Vest, colecția Filosofia în viață, 2022, 241 p.
HORIA VICENŢIU PĂTRAȘCU, Seven Images of Happiness

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Florea Lucaci, Spiritul biblic și rațiunea filosofică, Timișoara, Editura Universității de Vest, 2023, 360 p. (Marius Dobre)


Issue 2

C O N T E N T S

UNDER THE SIGN OF PHILOSOPHICAL THINKING. FROM PLATO TO HEGEL
SAVU TOTU, How Do We Think Platonically [?]
ANTON ADĂMUȚ, Fidelity in Philosophy: a Little about the Case of Aristotle
VLAD MUREȘAN, Master and Slave. A Conservative Interpretation

ROMANIAN PHILOSOPHY
EUGENIU NISTOR, The Writings of Ion Petrovici Commented in the Histories Dedicated to Romanian Philosophy
ADRIAN CIOCIOMAN, How Is the Philosophical Thinking Possible? P.P. Negulescu’s Transcendental Constitution and Biological Reduction

OPINIONS ON BOOKS
In focus: Ştefan-Dominic Georgescu, Marius Augustin Drăghici (coordonatori), Istoria şi teoria sistemelor filosofice româneşti, Bucureşti, Editura Academiei Române, 2022, 315 p.
MARIUS DOBRE, An Account of the Romanian Systematic Philosophy
VIOREL CERNICA, A Systematic History of Romanian Philosophy

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Notes to a new edition: Nicolae Bagdasar, Istoria filosofiei românești, ediţie îngrijită, prefaţă, postfaţă şi note de Gheorghe Vlăduţescu şi Eugeniu Nistor, Târgu Mureș, Editura Ardealul/ Colecția Biblioteca de filosofie, 2022, 516 p. (Titus Lates)

IN MEMORIAM
Mihai Șora (1916–2023) (Viorel Cernica, Ion Tănăsescu)
With & about Mihai Șora (bibliographical references by Titus Lates)


Issue 1

C O N T E N T S

CONTEMPORARY EMBODIMENTS OF NEOPLATONISM
(Guest editor: Horia Vicenţiu Pătraşcu)
CORNEL-FLORIN MORARU, Towards a Metaphysics of the Virtual: NeoplatonicContemplative Temptations and Virtual Reality
GEORGE BONDOR, Exercises of the Distance: Neoplatonism and Metaphysics
RAMONA ARDELEAN, Part-whole Intercorrelation as an Expression of Unity or Nonseparability in Quantum Physics and Neoplatonic Metaphysics
HORIA VICENŢIU PĂTRAŞCU, Two Models of Thought: Gnosticism and Neoplatonism

PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES
RADU CERNĂTESCU, Prolegomena to a Metaphysics of Dreaming
MARIA SINACI, The Good Life and Happiness in Spinoza
CLAUDIU BACIU, On the Concept of an “Absolute Idealism”
EMANUEL FLORESCU, Considerations on the Relationship of Hume’s and Kant’s Metaphysics and Ethics with the Concrete Experience
MARIUS DOBRE, Again, on Cioran. Consistencies and Inconsistencies Between Life and Work

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann, Francesco Alfieri, Martin Heidegger: Adevărul despre Caietele Negre [Martin Heidegger: The Truth about the Black Notebooks], transl. by Paul Gabriel Sandu, Dragoş Grusea, Alexandru Bejinariu, Oradea, Ratio et Revelatio Publishing House, 2021, 454 p. (Gelu Sabău)
Nicolae Bagdasar, Istoria filosofiei româneşti [History of Romanian Philosophy], edited by Gheorghe Vlăduţescu and Eugeniu Nistor, Preface by Gheorghe Vlăduţescu, Afterword by Eugeniu Nistor, Târgu Mureş, Ardealul Publishing House, 2002. (Ioan N. Roşca)
Maria Sinaci, Bioetica şi ameliorarea umană. O perspectivă filosofică [Bioethics and Human Improvement. A Philosophical Perspective], Eikon Publishing House, 2021, 282 p. (Henrieta Şerban)