Based on the philosophical notion that language embodies thought we investigated whether a habitual tendency for intrusive thought that younger and older participants report over a period of 100 sessions, spread out over about 6 months, is associated with brain regions related to language production. In favour of this hypothesis, we found that individual differences in habitual intrusive though...

Social stratification, formation of various classes and appearance of various layers in the society is a fact resulting from social conditions of public life and a wide variety of material, economic and subsistence factors as well as political situation, religious beliefs and public customs and thoughts; also ethnic divisions play an essential and undeniable role in this field. Greed and coveto...

Ancient Chinese philosophy already developed a philosophy of humanitarianism or humanity in the general sense. The concept of "Ren" / "Jen" was indeed a main idea already in Confucianism. It was to my mind Mencius, who was the most explicit, if not even the first, philosopher of what I call concrete humanity. The article takes up Albert Schweitzer's discussion of MengZi's philosophical humanita...

In Part II of the Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments, Johannes Climacus writes “Something about Lessing”, an almost obstinately vague and self-contradictory tribute to a thinker whom he greatly admires. In a subsection entitled, “An Expression of Gratitude”, Climacus finds numerous ways not to express his gratitude. Then, in a subsection entitled, “Possible/Actual...

The relics of written culture Muslims Central Asia the late period (before Soviet time), not connected directly with a book tradition, are considered in article. author accents attention on “small forms” — various extractions, records, qit‘a philosophical, didactic, professional-practical and others content. Mainly they poetical texts Persian-Tajik Turkic-Uzbek languages. results an examination...

the main goals of current essay are explanation and analysis of modern-postmodern contentions to do determining the role of philosopher of education for the purpose of evolution in education. the method is critical philosophical discovery with two main lines of rational and emancipatory approaches. although there are important contentions between modern and postmodern thoughts the inquiry indic...

social stratification, formation of various classes and appearance of various layers in the society is a fact resulting from social conditions of public life and a wide variety of material, economic and subsistence factors as well as political situation, religious beliefs and public customs and thoughts; also ethnic divisions play an essential and undeniable role in this field. greed and coveto...