VOLUME 4(1) • 2005
ETICA PARADIGMEI LEGALISTE IN DREPTUL INTERNATIONAL
ABSTRACT. International law takes its project as governance, while comparative law stakes out the ground of cultural understanding. The division of international legal society into independent international and national realms is historically contingent, reflecting a certain view of the world legal ..
KANT: MOTIVATION AND PERFORMANCE OF DUTIES OF JUSTICE
ABSTRACT. Kant suggests that right only commands compliance when there is an empirical motivation, but he claims that right requires that all individuals who can enter into the civil condition ought to. Right would need to presuppose that there is a providential 'coincidence' between enlightened sel..
WITTGENSTEIN SI ARHITECTONICA MUZICALA A LUMII
ABSTRACT. Wittgenstein tends to define a work of music in terms of an abstract sound pattern which is antecedent to its composition by any particular composer. Wittgenstein attempts to explain and justify the widespread descriptions of music in terms usually used to characterize human beings and he ..
KANT AND THE RATIONAL BASIS OF MORALITY
ABSTRACT. Kant's idea of virtue as moral strength in opposing passions can be linked to his notion of freedom and self-governance. Kant provides extensive arguments concerning which particular representations must be understood as derived from our own cognitive capabilities, and arguments that such ..
THE ANALYTICITY OF KANT'S PRINCIPLE OF RIGHT
ABSTRACT. International society has the ultimate capacity to enable all societies to promote the ever-increasing well-being of themselves and their members. Morality is discontinuous between the domestic and international spheres. Law is the progression of legal ideas in the social world which media..
KANT'S TREATMENT OF MORAL CONFLICT
ABSTRACT. Kant argues that a good will is not good because of what it effects or accomplishes. Practical freedom of will is based on the transcendental freedom of will. The Kantian path to ethical transcendence suggests the content of the categorical imperative. Moral anthropology is a kind of self-..
KANT, THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS AND PRACTICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
ABSTRACT. Anthropology as conceived by Kant is a broad-based inquiry into the nature of human beings in general, and a discipline that is empirical and pragmatic. Kant deals with some of the same themes and concepts of his critical philosophy, such as self-consciousness, taste, and the highest good...
HEIDEGGER'S HERMENEUTIC APPROACH TO FUNDAMENTAL ONTOLOGY
ABSTRACT. Heidegger's thought is that metaphysics is prior to logic, in that an understanding of logic is required to have an adequate theory of logic. Heidegger, while defining the act of synthesis, resorts to the field of pure sensibility, as a siege of the ecstatic temporality. Heidegger recogniz..
THE ONTOLOGICAL STATUS OF MUSIC AND THE NATURE OF MUSICAL EXPERIENCE OF
ABSTRACT. All components of musical experience are entirely different from those required for any other endeavor, listening connects us with the world in the most intimate way. Musical expression cannot be adequately explained as the disembodied perception of musical contour. Composers over the cent..
STRAWSON ON TRUTH, MEANING AND UNDERSTANDING
ABSTRACT. Strawson notes that the meanings of the sentences of a language are largely determined by the semantic and syntactic rules or conventions of that language. The meaning of a sentence is a syntactic function of the meanings of its parts and their arrangement. Strawson tries to explain the fo..
WITTGENSTEIN'S PHILOSOPHICAL ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD, LANGUAGE AND LOGIC
ABSTRACT. What Wittgenstein means by analysis generally understood can best be seen by contrasting it with 'explication'. The Tractatus has a 'therapeutic intent' to bring the reader to see the hopelessness of traditional philosophy and its problems. There are features of reality, or of languages's ..
METAFIZICA ADECVARII REALISMULUI STIINTIFIC LA INDETERMINAREA REFERENTIALA
ABSTRACT. Scientific realism maintains that science seeks to uncover the one objective way that the world is. Although primarily a claim about the aim of science, it also presupposes a certain metaphysical claim about the nature of reality. Claiming that science seeks to describe the objective reali..