All interpretation involves some form of induction. Passages and fragments of an author's writings are taken by an investigator, organized, and reassembled into a coherent and meaningful picture of the author's reality with the intent of illustrating some hitherto undiscovered motivation and/or intent. These inductive inferences may make a contribution to the store of human intellectual history...

Three fundamental systems of communication are defined: information, explanation and imagination. Information is based on analytic distinctions between objects in the world. Explanatory communication provides knowledge through discourse, narration, logic, rhetoric and other forms of systemic elaboration. Intellectual discovery relies on a third system of communication, that of imagination. Rath...

One has the strange impression of switching between parallel worlds when reading the main human rights and health policy works on the issues of health justice. Different contexts, intellectual traditions, conceptual frameworks and arguments, while running their own course, seem to be driven by similar fundamental concerns about what it is that a society ought to do regarding people’s health nee...

the foundation of most intellectual discourse is western-centric to the exclusion of other views. this includes ideal patterns of social interaction, preference for aesthetic, accepted norms and values, and the concepts of dignity, respectability, morality and ethics. such a position is culturally myopic. western cultural influence colors all of them including moral precepts. the assumption is ...

Modern intellectual discourse is still under the spell of the Heideggerian project. Once it had broken away from its German moorings Heideggerian thought proliferated and was received into non-German cultures. Their intellectual elites appropriated it according to their own reading of Heideggerian texts. While they came to divergent and often contradictory conclusions about the philosophical an...

slavophilism is described as a manifestation of national consciousness among russian intellectuals at the early 19th century. the aim of this article is to furnish a ground for understanding slavophilism as an attempt by a group of russian educated elites to confront the intellectual identity crisis. for the explanation of this idea, the article begins with a discussion of the different aspects...

In his article "Silence, the Utmost in Ambiguity" Mario Perniola presents a historical perspective on the meanings and development of the term "ambiguity" from ancient Greek to the modern age. Perniola's perspective is not a review of different approaches and schools of thought; instead, he presents an alternative philosophical and aesthetic discourse he counter-poses to modern and contemporary...