“Pro-existence” is a concept developed by 20th century western Christian theologians to describe the service of the Church facing contemporary challenges. The leading Romanian theologian Dumitru Staniloae (1903–1993) took this further by expressing his Orthodox understanding of the relationship between service and pro-existence. The article explores Staniloae’s call for Orthodox Christians to s...

Aus-einander-setzung between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction Gadamer's Concept of Solidarity This paper will analyze the debate Gadamer Derrida concept solidarity. The previous research literature focused only on their first debate, which could lead to limited results, even though exchange these two philosophers continued after debate. In addition, revised a large part his speech, caused with D...

Naturalists hold that attention to, respect for, and coherence with critical findings in the empirical sciences abet philosophical proposals. Moreover, the border between high-level scientific theorizing and the speculations of some naturalistically inclined philosophers in some fields has become increasingly porous. In such a milieu it should come as no surprise that naturalists search the new...

With the Enlightenment, philosophers in the West recognized that the immediate given of perception is a mental image or representation, not an extra-mental object. That insight raised a pressing, epistemological question: to what degree, if any, do those mental images represent an extra-mental state of affairs? To phrase the question in slightly different terms: in what manner (if any) and to w...

The brain has long been an object of interest and fascination for philosophers. Some philosophers, such as Descartes, even offered proposals as to how it worked. But philosophers, using the tools of their profession, do not have the ability themselves to investigate the operation of the brain any more than they have tools to investigate the cell, the atom, or the solar system. With respect to t...

INTRODUCTION The World Wide Web (WWW) continues to enjoy phenomenal growth with the promise of facilitating a digital society. Technology continues to evolve, allowing an increasingly peripatetic society to remain “connected” without any reliance upon wires. As a consequence, mobile computing is a growth area and the focus of much energy. Mobile computing heralds exciting new applications and s...

In the past twenty years the Internet has grown, from text -entry green-screen communication between the military, a few universities and res earchers, to a visually-based mass communication and advertising medium and even a tool for political activists. This growth has been ad hoc, spectacular and peripatetic. The advent of the GUI into mainstream computing was the point at which the Internet ...

Conflicts about the nature, causes and treatment of schizophrenia have never ceased. Recently, however, a particular set of beliefs ('the Orthodoxy') has become influential, and dominates political and managerial agenda for controlling clinical practice and educational initiatives. Theories and therapeutic strategies that differ from the particular biological, behavioural, cognitive and family ...