This article is replying to Professor Vladimir Hanga’s core ideas about the Wallachian Proclamation of Islaz (1848) from both an analytical and hermeneutical point view. It argues against Proclamation’s nature a bill rights, stressing its peculiar ethos lack clear liberal goals; it confirms V. allegations influence French revolutionary ‘declarations des droits’ but emphasizing overwhelming 1848...

Identity has become a much-used word. The term captures the dilemma of self, for it describes and seems to explain the contradictions of living in a society that appears to be in constant change. Similarly, 'postmodernism', 'postmodernity', and 'postmodern' have become widely-used terms in public life as well as in the social sciences. In this context, indentity-construction and maintenance in ...

Background and Aim: The process of theoretical approaches in explaining crime throughout the history is indicative of various interpretations of crime. In 1980s, in the light of French and German schools of thought, the post-modern movement arouse just because they have a new interpretation of the concept of crime within the domains of criminal justice. It was mainly believed that crime was the...

The past decade has seen the gradual emergence of what might be called a postmodern perspective on nursing research. However, the development of a coherent postmodern critique of the modernist position has been hampered by some misunderstandings and misrepresentations of postmodern epistemology by a number of writers, leading to a fractured and distorted view of postmodern nursing research. Thi...

This paper looks at the correspondence between Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia (1618-1680) and French philosopher Ren? Descartes (1596-1650). Analyzing specific segments letters they addressed to each other, it emerges that Descartes, advising recommending her read Seneca, was also following an ancient, or more precisely, Stoic therapeutic technique. Namely, seems he, like Stoics, believed philos...

Dr. Willmer's second edition of this little book fulfills his stated purpose ... to correlate some of the numerous fragments of scattered data which have so far been obtained and to orientate them in such a way as to illustrate the more fundamental contributions which the method has made to physiological knowledge, and to show the manner in which a change of outlook has already been brought abo...

This review deals with the relationship between Islam and West from point of view Bulgarian-French philosopher Tzvetan Todorov, especially in his book Fear Barbarians. Some issues have been discussed. Firstly, term barbarism or savagery is defined compared concept civilization. Secondly, attention paid to Todorov's historical criticism a number Western concepts postulates that they are circulat...