VOLUME 10 • 2011
BOOK REVIEWS
Darwin, God, and the Meaning of Life: How Evolutionary TheoryUndermines Everything You Thought You KnewSteve Stewart-Williams (Swansea University)New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 341 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-76278-6 The Species Problem: A Philosophical AnalysisRichard A. Richards (University o..
THE LEGITIMACY OF PUNISHMENT
ABSTRACT. I am specifically interested in how previous research investigated the law of punishment execution, the law’s function of preserving and respecting the autonomy of persons, the prosecution and punishment of mass crimes at international level, and the legitimacy of punishment. This paper pr..
SCHELER’S PHENOMENOLOGY OF VALUES
ABSTRACT. In the present paper, I focus on Scheler’s concept of the ego, his ethical personalism, the metaphysical horizons of his phenomenology of the morally acting person, his concept of personhood, and his phenomenology of the person as a moral agent. The mainstay of the paper is formed by an an..
KUNDERA’S ART OF STORYTELLING AND THE POLITICS OF HIS NOVELS
ABSTRACT. The objective of this paper is to emphasize Kundera’s fictional mode, his vision of the literary possibilities, his use of the intrusive author in his novels, his aesthetic development, and his insistence on irony. We hope this paper makes a significant contribution to evaluating the direc..
FREUD’S THEORY OF THE DEATH DRIVE
ABSTRACT. The key contribution of this paper is to articulate and give expression to aspects of Freud’s death instinct, Freud’s dualistic model of life and death drives, the ethical significance of the death drive, the death drive as the source of decay and finitude, and the death drive as the impul..
SOCIAL DRIVERS OF ONLINE NEWS AND THE CONDITIONS OF PRODUCTION OF USER-AUTHORED CONTENT
ABSTRACT. This research makes conceptual and methodological contributions to the study of economies of scale in producing Internet-based news, media concentration in the context of the digital age, the development of digital technology and Internet-based services, the quality of given news content, ..
THE PLACE OF THE CHURCH IN MODERN INTELLECTUAL CULTURE
ABSTRACT. Our paper contributes to the literature by providing evidence on the question of religion’s place in legal and political discourse, the ethical influence of religion, the influence of religion in politics, the epistemic status of religious reasons, and the integration between religious and..
EFFECTS OF LONG-TERM VIOLIN PLAYING ON THE FACIAL SKELETON
ABSTRACT. Over the past decade, there has been increasing evidence describing the neural correlates of musical skills, health problems in musicians who play violin, and the cognitive and brain effects of music making. This paper aims to analyze and discuss ulnar neuropathies in violinists, the organ..
THE EXISTENCE AND EMERGENCE OF FOLKLORE IN EVERYDAY LIFE
ABSTRACT. The theory that we shall seek to elaborate here puts considerable emphasis on the subversive power of folklore, the supernatural in folk legends, the tenacity of folk beliefs, the knowledge of folk metaphysics, and the pervasiveness of folk beliefs. The mainstay of the paper is formed by a..
TORTURE, ILL-TREATMENT, AND HUMAN RIGHTS
ABSTRACT. This paper seeks to fill a gap in the current literature by examining different aspects of the role torture plays in the creation of political identity, the effect of pain on the torture victim’s identity or subjectivity, the elasticity of legal rights in the face of torture, the legal dim..
UNDERSTANDING CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR
ABSTRACT. The mainstay of the paper is formed by an analysis of the victims’ role throughout the entirety of penal law, jurisdiction over crime, the constitutional system of criminal justice, models of understanding criminal behavior, and corporate liability for international crimes. pp. 190–195 Ke..
HUSSERL ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTENTIONALITY AND KNOWLEDGE
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this study is to examine the essentialist character of phenomenology, Husserl’s transcendental-philosophical theory of intersubjectivity, his refutation of psychologism as a theory about the foundations of logic, and his theory of judgments of existence. The theory that we s..