JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, TOME LXXII, 2025








TOME LXXII - 2025
Current issue: Issue 4


UNIVERSAL PHILOSOPHY
CENTENARY GILLES DELEUZE
HENRIETA ȘERBAN, Deleuze and Guattari. The Philosophical Power of Concepts
LORENA-VALERIA STUPARU, Two Visions of Time in Cinema: Gilles Deleuze and Andrei Tarkovsky
OANA ȘERBAN, A Biopolitical Approach of Deleuze’s Philosophy. (De)Territorializations and (Dez)Esthetizations of the Holocaust and Memory
VIORELLA MANOLACHE, Foucault on Deleuze: A Play in Three Acts and a Fable
ANA NEGOIȚĂ, Gilles Deleuze and the Unfolding Gaze. Methodologies of Contemplative Gaze in Contemporary Art
MARIA SINACI, The Genealogy of Influence: Deleuze and the Spinozist Legacy
IOAN COROAMĂ, On the Genesis of the Accord Between the Faculties: Gilles Deleuze and the Reversal of Kantian Criticism. Introductory Aspects on the Translation into Romanian of Kant’s Critical Philosophy
ADRIANA GUSTĂ, Problem Modeling and the Problem of Modeling in Mathematics. Lautmanian Dialectic and the Deleuzian Project

PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES
GEORGE REMETE, The Vision of Paradise in Dante and Ioan Alexandru
DIANA DĂNIȘOR, On Philosophical Interrogation (II)
SORIN ARDELEAN, Man, Between Norm and Interpretation, a Hermeneutical Perspective of the Human Being

OPINIONS ABOUT BOOKS
In focus: Ioan N. Roșca, Filosofia integrativității, Editura Fundației „România de Mâine”, București, 2021, 190 p.
CONSTANTIN STROE, Ioan N. Roșca: Philosophy of Integrativity
VALERIU SOFRONIE, Philosophy of Integrativity – the philosophy of a Romanian integral thinker: Ioan N. Roșca

SCIENTIFIC LIFE
Kant and the Problem of Method. The XVIIth Congress of International Society of Kant Studies in French, Bucharest, 10–12 September 2025 (Rodica Croitoru)

REVIEWS
Fabienne Brugère, Etica grijii [The Ethics of Care], translation from French and After-word by Oana Șerban, Bucharest, Eikon, 2025, 170 p. (Petruț Dinu)
Eugeniu Nistor, Filosofie și spiritualitate românească. Studii și cercetări [Romanian Philosophy and Spirituality. Studies and Research], Colecția Biblioteca de filosofie, Târgu Mureș, Editura Ardealul, 2024, 307 p. (Henrieta Șerban)
Henrieta Șerban, Richard Rorty, o filosofie pentru multiple înfloriri. Libertate, cunoaștere, solidaritate și speranță [Richard Rorty, a Philosophy for Multiple Blossoms. Freedom, Knowledge, Solidarity and Hope], Bucharest, Editura Pro Universitaria, 2025, 287 p. (Gheorghe Dănișor)

IN MEMORIAM
Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron and Kant Society in România (1944–2025) (Rodica Croitoru)
Virgil Nemoianu, an Intellectual History of Culture, Romaticism and Beauty (1940–2025) (Henrieta Șerban)


Issue 4

C O N T E N T S

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
SERGIU BĂLAN, On the Use of Metaphorical Language in the Natural Sciences
RODICA CROITORU, Prolegomena in Kant’s Critical Triangle: The Concept of Substance
PHILOSOPHY OF ART
VLAD MUREȘAN, The Objectivity of Beautiful
DAVID-AUGUSTIN MÂNDRUȚ, From the Exchange of Gazes to the Experience of the Beautiful and the Sublime
ALEXANDRA IRINA SANDU, The Clarity of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Theatrical Vision and the Concept of Imaginary Consciousness in Performance Art

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
MARIAN GEORGE PANAIT, Metaphysics and Human Rights (II) – Libertarianism and John Locke
RALUCA ELENA VASILESCU, The Two Sides of Politics

PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES
MARIUS DOBRE, The Moral Alternative and the Optimism of Constantin Noica
PAUL GABRIEL SANDU, A “Reconciliation” with Time – Speculative Figures and Metamorphoses of Temporality

BIBLIOGRAFICAL NOTES
Adrian Miroiu, Iov și dreptatea lui [Job and his Righteousness], Iași, Polirom Publishing House, 2025, 376 pp. (Robert Gabriel Ciobanu)

SCIENTIFIC LIFE
RODICA CROITORU, The 40th International Congress of ASPLF: Cosmos, environment, universe
EUGENIU NISTOR, The Xth Edition of „Constantin Rădulescu-Motru” National Symposium

IN MEMORIAM
George Bondor (1972–2025) (Horia Pătrașcu)


Issue 3


PHILOSOPHY OF LAW
DRAGOȘ PAUL ALIGICĂ, Liberal Nationalism: Parameters, Reconsiderations, and Reconstructions from a Contemporary Perspective
MARIAN GEORGE PANAIT, Metaphysics and Human Rights – Theoretical Framework
COSMIN DUMITRESCU, Aristotle’s Conception on Constitution, Citizenship, and Law
EMANUEL FLORESCU, Moral Optimism in David Hume
RALUCA ELENA VASILESCU, Human Rights, Justice, and Law in the Administration of Justice

ROMANIAN PHILOSOPHY
MARIUS DOBRE, Is Skepticism a Malady of the Spirit?
MIHAI POPA, Knowledge and Transcendence in Nae Ionescu

PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES
NELA MIRCICĂ, The Methodology of Philosophical Knowledge – the Phenomenological Perceptivism
IRINA TURCANU, Love and Desire Between Tradition and Modernity: From Platonic Eros to Polyamorous Compersion

BIBLIOGRAFICAL NOTES
Gheorghe Vlăduțescu, Exerciții pentru o posibilă metafilosofie [Prolegomena to a Possible Metaphilosophy], Bucharest, Pro Universitaria, 2024, 121 p. (Ion Tănăsescu)
Franz Brentano, Psihologia din punct de vedere empiric [Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint], partea I, translated by Alexandru Bejinariu and Ion Tănăsescu, introduction by Ion Tănăsescu, Bucharest, Humanitas, 2024, 374 p. (Cristina Dumitru)
Eugenia Bogatu, Perspective pragmatiste în comunicare: interpretări semiotice [Pragmatist perspectives in communication: semiotic interpretations], Bucharest, University of Bucharest Publishing House, 2024, 256 p. (Emanuel Florescu)
Félix Pageau, Tenzin Wangmo, Emilian Mihailov (eds.), Robots and gadgets: Aging at home, Les Presses de l’Université de Laval, 2024, 132 p. (Măriuca Iosef)

IN MEMORIAM
After Virtue, “Onward, to the Thirteenth Century”: Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (1929–2025) (Henrieta Șerban)


Issue 2

C O N T E N T S

PHILOSOPHICAL PRACTICE TODAY. LANDMARKS AND PERSPECTIVES
(Guest editor: Florin Lobonț)
LAURENȚIU STAICU, Friendship as therapy
FLORIN LOBONȚ, Thinking about thinking: the metacognitive dimension of philosophical practice in the light of conceptual idealism
ARMAND A. VOINOV, Discussing assisted suicide in philosophical counseling using Plato
ADRIANA VLAICU, Philosophical Practice versus Alienation as a Social Construct
ANCA-CORNELIA TIUREAN, Delegated thinking or developed thinking: on AI and philosophical counseling
VERONICA BÂTCĂ, Fear of bullying: a case study in applying the Five Elements philosophical counselling method

PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
SAVU TOTU, The Platonic death of Socrates and the Socratic birth of the theory of ideas
ANTON ADĂMUȚ, Something about parrêsia and about some exemplary parrêsiasts
PETRUȚ DINU, St. Gregory Palamas’ dispute with Gregory Akindynos. Between uncreated and created

PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES
MARIUS DOBRE, Doubt and skepticism

SCIENTIFIC LIFE
EUGENIU NISTOR, “Constantin Rădulescu-Motru” National symposium
EUGENIU NISTOR, The Colloquium of culture and humanities journals at the 11th edition

IN MEMORIAM
Professor Vasile Muscă (1944–2025) (Cristinel Trandafir)


Issue 1


PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND LOGIC
CONSTANTIN STOENESCU, „Science in Context”. Internalist antecedents of Merton’s thesis
IONEL NARIȚA, Syllogistic equations
MARIUS DOBRE, Some special types of argumentation in informal logic

PHILOSOPHY OF LAW
MARIAN CĂLBOREAN, Wisdom and judgement. The types and limits of legal indeterminacy
RALUCA ELENA VASILESCU, Moral and political foundations of the administration of justice

RESTITUTIO: CONSTANTIN NOICA
TITUS LATES, The road of Constantin Noica within universality (I): 1938–1987
GRIGORE VIDA, Noica in Berlin: the conference “The internal tension of small cultures” (1943)
CONSTANTIN NOICA, Die innere Spannung der kleinen Kulturen (Das Ewige und das Historische in der rumänischen Kultur)
CONSTANTIN NOICA, The internal tension of small cultures (The eternal and the historical in Romanian culture) (Translation by Grigore Vida)

OPINIONS ON BOOKS
In focus: Mircea Flonta, Filosofia într-o lume pragmatică. Impresii, experiențe, reflecții. Șase convorbiri cu Leonid Dragomir [Philosophy in a pragmatic world. Impressions, experiences, reflections. Six conversations with Leonid Dragomir], București, Cartex, 2024, 191 p. 
ION TĂNĂSESCU, Philosophy as conceptual analysis
MARIAN GEORGE PANAIT, An exercise in admiration: Mircea Flonta

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Leibniz, Opere [Works], vol. 11, Scrieri matematice [Mathematical writings], under the aegis of the Leibniz Society of Romania, ed. Adrian Niță, translation and notes by Dana Dinu, Adrian Niță, Elena Emilia Ștefan, preface by Bogdan Suceavă, Bucharest, Romanian Academy Publishing House, 2024, 506 p. (Alin Negomireanu)

SCIENTIFIC LIFE
Symposiums dedicated to the personality and work of Lucian Blaga (Eugeniu Nistor)

IN MEMORIAM
The philosophy of values – “Confluences” and “perspectives”. In memoriam Marin Aiftincă (1942–2024) (Mihaela Pop)
A deacon of Romanian philosophy. In memoriam Marin Diaconu (1937–2025) (Vlad Bilevsky)