VOLUME 4(1-2) • 2005
UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION AND INTERNATIONAL GOVERNANCE
ABSTRACT. Universal jurisdiction is exercised by powerful countries over acts that occurred in developing countries and that were committed by persons from such countries. The state is made responsible for the acts of a movement that was not a government at the material time and could not have drawn..
STILURI INTERPRETATIVE IN CREATIA PIANISTICA ROMANTICA
ABSTRACT. The important features of the Baroque, Classic, and Romantic styles must be understood so that one will not play Mozart on the piano in the same way one would play Chopin or Liszt. Muzic is an art in time and unlike painting, sculpture, and architecture, music can and must be brought back ..
THE RULE OF LAW AND THE LEGAL SYSTEM IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY
ABSTRACT. The construction of the legal person relies on the notion of a separate, autonomous and rational being who approximates a man capable of employing rights aggressively and assertively and in ways that follow rules. A lack of legal character on the part of the fundamental substantive norms o..
LAW, STATE, AND SOCIETY
ABSTRACT. Liberal political philosophy maintains that individuals should be left unimpeded to pursue their conceptions of the good life. The law is a system of rules that are identified by appeal to a rule of recognition. A rights-based conception of the rule of law assumes that citizens have moral ..
RELATIA OMULUI POLITIC CU FILOSOFIA SI SOFISTICA PRIN PRISMA PROBLEMATICII ADEVARULUI
ABSTRACT. The growth of descriptive and explanatory studies relevant to political philosophy as well as normative work in other disciplines has complicated study of the history of political philosophy. Political philosophy tends to aspire to an account of an appropriately structured and functioning ..
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEARNING STYLE AND ENJOYMENT OF MUSIC
ABSTRACT. Expressive performance consists of deviation from the regular, in sound properties such as loudness, tempo, articulation, and intonation. Before an effective interpretation can be developed, both a musicological and historical investigation should take place. The study of certain factors o..
NEANTUL CA STRUCTURA A REALULUI IN VIZIUNEA LUI SARTRE (II)
ABSTRACT. Consciousness belongs to a different ontological category from that of the physical world. Consciousness is always constituted by a tacit self-consciousness. The conception of a conscious mental state which does not include this self-conscious dimension is incoherent, since it would be an ..
FIINTA IN CONTEXT ROMANESC
ABSTRACT. There are kinds of being and modes of being. The kinds of being may be subdivided into universals and particulars and into concrete beings and abstract beings. Also, being as entity or thing is what all real entities possess -existence, that refers i) to the sum total of reality, and ii) t..
DAVIDSON'S TRUTH-THEORETIC TREATMENT OF MEANING
ABSTRACT. The normative concepts relevant to belief are those of justification and having reasons for. A theory of meaning for a language should at least entail, for any sentence of the language, a sentence that 'gives its meaning'. The concepts of meaning, truth, belief, desire, intention are inter..
WHITEHEAD'S PROCESS METAPHYSICS
ABSTRACT. The construing of cosmological enduring societies as metaphysical entities has left philosophy a bundle of contradictions. Whitehead's metaphysical notion of causal inheritance was never meant to be confused with the scientific generalization from the cosmological stability of orders. The ..
TRANSHUMANIST VALUES
ABSTRACT. Transhumanism promotes not only traditional means of improving human nature, such as education and cultural refinement, but also direct application of medicine and technology to overcome some of our basic biological limits. By responsible use of science, technology, and other rational mean..
CE A URMAT DUPA RUSSELL
ABSTRACT. Slater details relevant formal aspects of the epsilon calculus before tracing its extensive application not just to the theory of descriptions, but also to more general problems with anaphoric reference. The paper also contrasts a Meinongian account of cross-reference in intensional constr..