{"title":"Fasting, a Means to Spiritual, Bodily and Social Health","authors":"Traian-Alexandru Miu","doi":"10.18662/lumenphs/27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18662/lumenphs/27","url":null,"abstract":"In Eastern spirituality fasting has both a physical and a spiritual side. Physical fast involves refraining oneself from consuming certain types of food and reducing the amount of food allowed to be consumed. The spiritual fast implies the spiritualization of the human being by avoiding hollow thoughts, facts that are against moral laws, inappropriate words. Both physical and spiritual fast create the proper conditions that lead to spiritual and bodily health. The purpose of fasting is the spiritual ascension, the bodily health being only a side effect of the ascetic endeavors of the human being. A person can only be declared healthy if both his/her soul and his body are in good health. Of course, the medical aspects of fasting should not be forgotten either, the Christian having the duty of properly taking care of his body, by not neglecting or disregarding it. Having a dichotomous nature, the human being must be concerned with the soul, but also with the body, fasting being the means by which the soul manages to dominate the passionate impulses of the body. Fasting has an important religious-moral value, it is a welcome act to God, a means of removing passions and sins, an instrument of lust control, a separation from the materialism of the present world. Fasting is a way to acquire the moral order within society, being a means of Christian philanthropy, an instrument of helping people, a way through which society can progress.","PeriodicalId":106930,"journal":{"name":"Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy and Humanistic Sciences","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125305506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Communication and Practice of Philosophical Counselling and Philosophical Practices","authors":"Sandu Frunză","doi":"10.18662/lumenphs/28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18662/lumenphs/28","url":null,"abstract":"It is inevitable that philosophical practices will become a significant concern in the Romanian cultural space. Following the example of Western counseling practices, Romanian thinkers began to theorize and practice different forms of applied philosophy and philosophical counseling. One of the most productive and creative voices in the field of applied philosophy is Professor Antonio Sandu. The volume Consilierea filosofica apreciativa [Appreciative Philosophical Counselling], along with other works published under his signature, is a major contribution to the development and implementation of philosophical counseling. Antonio Sandu's texts can be used as a starting point for the theoretical construction, for the exercises of the practitioners, but also for those who want a support for the institutional construction of the training programs in the philosophical practices and philosophical counseling.","PeriodicalId":106930,"journal":{"name":"Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy and Humanistic Sciences","volume":"231 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121533281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review to the volume Doxa in conceptia lui Platon, author Adriana Mihaela Macsut, Lumen Publishing House","authors":"A. Sandu","doi":"10.18662/lumenphs/30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18662/lumenphs/30","url":null,"abstract":"An attempt to clarify the meaning of the term da , as it appears in the Platonician philosophy, is made by Adriana Mihaela Macsut in the volume Doxa in Plato's conception published in 2019 by LUMEN Publishing House. According to the author, doxa can be \"considered to be a structural concept, which is in a relation of signification with the objects at mental level, a doctrine that shows that this is a sign of the object and not merely a term by which there is highlighted an idea that expresses a word. This review aims only to point out a possible correlation between da - as opinion - and the justification of an opinion outside the epistemic frameworks as well as the possible relation of doxal knowledge to the idea of fake news .","PeriodicalId":106930,"journal":{"name":"Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy and Humanistic Sciences","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125704138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Philosophy of Science, Technique and Technology","authors":"Gabriela Niculina Neofet","doi":"10.18662/lumenphs/22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18662/lumenphs/22","url":null,"abstract":"The philosophy of technology constitutes a relatively recent area of reflection, compared to other topics of philosophical interest such as science or morals. This fact is not independent of the change in public sensitivities regarding technological change and anti-essentialist tendencies of contemporary philosophy. On the one hand, the traditional essentialist approach in philosophy of science and knowledge, typical of currents such as logical empiricism, conceived of technology as applied science and, more globally, practical activity as an application of general rules or principles. Recent historicist and naturalistic approaches in philosophy of science, and the development of ICT studies, have favoured a more realistic and contextualized view of science and its relations with technology, facilitating awareness of the great diversity of problems. specific philosophical posed by technology. Technology, on the other hand, has been categorized as a social problem in recent decades, becoming prominent in the media, public forums and political agendas. With the current intense technological development, the close dependence of the economy, institutions and ways of life on technological devices and processes, as well as the serious environmental repercussions or ethical and legal dilemmas caused by nuclear energy, has become especially evident. As a result of both factors, the interest in technology acquires in recent decades a remarkable impulse and ends up making it an object of study in more and more monographs, specialized magazines and international conferences. The academic conceptualization of technology, understood as applied science, only reflected a culturally generalized point of view during much of this century.","PeriodicalId":106930,"journal":{"name":"Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy and Humanistic Sciences","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124578760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Metal Detecting as Contemporary Artistic Research Method. Educational Values and Ethical Issues","authors":"Ion Rusen","doi":"10.18662/lumenphs/25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18662/lumenphs/25","url":null,"abstract":"Metal detecting became a major issue for cultural environment, over intense debates for and against. Already regulated in western countries and making its contribution to cultural and scientific studies, is still fiercely debated in Eastern European countries. Usually classified as outdoor hobby or leisure activity, metal detecting, although incomplete and inadequately legislated, has proven to be a cultural and scientific vector with great potential for participatory research and democratic access to cutting-edge technology. The centennial anniversary of First World War highlighted the major social, cultural and mainly educational impact of metal detecting opportunities of bringing to light countless artifacts and situations which described the human dimensions and personal dramas of people trapped in both major conflicts of 20th century. Besides undeniable educational values, when practiced by responsible and trained metal detectorists, inherent ethical issues arise in some contexts and situations. The article addresses the potential of metal detecting as contemporary artistic research method, within the related creative activities applied to recovered artifacts and collected data: classifications, photographic investigations, potential as sculptural objects and artistic installations. During the last decade, Eastern European metal detectorists became aware that democratization and public access to this technology offers the opportunity of participative research and regulated access to historical anthroposphere. Applications of this technology are multiple, within research areas of cultural environment. The method has great potential for educational fields and interactive teaching in arts and humanities.","PeriodicalId":106930,"journal":{"name":"Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy and Humanistic Sciences","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128366469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Scenario of Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology as a Restoration Discourse of the Political","authors":"Daniel Tincu","doi":"10.18662/lumenphs/23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18662/lumenphs/23","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper aims to understand the state in a political theology key, as formulated in Carl Schmitt’s writings. In other words, through “political theology” it is not emphasised a certain political doctrine, but it rather asserts a way of thinking the political through theology. This scenario is brought to the theorist’s attention because of the modernisation process intensively developed in the 20th century. Moreover, the author argues that the crisis of the state is a theological-political problem since the modern theory of the state is a legitimate successor of theology The German author’s plan is to provide an alternative to the European secularised modernity, since he identifies that the political organisation of a society (always) reflects its religious beliefs. In this way, the study attempts to approach the tension between theology and politics, surpassing the historical-institutional experience, by proposing the understanding of some schmittian metaphysical subtleties that reveal the relationship between theology and politics as a mutual determination. Therefore, using the method of correspondence between theological and political concepts, the paper focuses on Schmitt’s arguments when claiming that the state has lost its monopoly over the political, so that the reaffirmation of the political theology becomes the natural and legitimate scenario.","PeriodicalId":106930,"journal":{"name":"Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy and Humanistic Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128808492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nikos Kazantzakis’s Writing Style in the Original and Translation","authors":"Tinatin Darakhvelidze","doi":"10.18662/lumenphs/24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18662/lumenphs/24","url":null,"abstract":"The article deals with Nikos Kazantzakis’s creative style, and how, in what ways and to what extent the writer's style is adequately reflected in the translation. The factors that determine Kazandzakis' creative style are outlined, in particular a few key points from his biography, which has led to the development of a writer 's outlook and writing habits, without which it is difficult to ascertain the true meaning of translation. Based on the contrasting analysis of Nikos Kazantzakis's novel \" Zorba the Greek\" and his Georgian translation, we tried to find out how the translator adequately understands the nuances of the original ethnical consciousness, which is one of the characteristics of the Kazantzakis’s style and how properly the translator managed to translate them. Nikos Kazantzakis’s language is always interesting for researchers and it provides them with various material. The writer’s special approach to language is evident in all his works, except for the abundance of his native Cretan dialect, the writer abundantly uses his own fictional neologisms in his works, complicating the process of translator’s work. Ethno-linguistic specifics such as dialect expressions and neologisms clearly show the specifics of ethnical mentality. In order to understand ethnical consciousness and mentality properly and to translate it further, it is necessary to take realies and the background knowledge into account. In the present article we will try to analyze if the translator takes all of these components into account in order to obtain an adequate translation.","PeriodicalId":106930,"journal":{"name":"Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy and Humanistic Sciences","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133927016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Romanian Media accounts of St. Valentine and Dragobete: Ethical Challenges on reporting about multicultural traditions","authors":"A. Purcaru","doi":"10.18662/lumenphs/26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18662/lumenphs/26","url":null,"abstract":"The paper analyses an unethical media account of two celebrations, St. Valentine and Dragobete. If in 2018 The Romanian National Television posted on Social Media an appropriate account of St. Valentine Holiday, in 2019 the situation was completely different. While reporting on St. Valentine, the media trust considered appropriate to present it in an unjustified comparison with the Dragobete celebration of 24th of February, described as an authentic Romanian celebration of love. While reporting about Dragobete, the celebration was again compared with Valentine?s Day, the second reduced to the adopted American tradition of love celebration, whereas the first described as the appropriate one for Romanians to celebrate. None of the two media accounts remained true to the history of either celebration. St. Valentine is a Christian Holiday with Ancient European roots, however controversial the love celebration tradition may be, as the second is a Romanian pagan celebration. There was no need to account for the two events in an antagonistic manner. A separate account of the two celebrations would have been more appropriate. If the Romanian television decided to promote Dragobete as an important Romanian celebration on Social Media, it could have done so without relating it to St. Valentine. Moreover, these accounts disregard the Romanian Catholic communities which celebrate Valentine, the martyr priest, on the 14th of February. The paper discusses how both media accounts disregard the ethical recommendations on reporting about multiculturalism and generate an unnecessary state of conflict between the communities who celebrate one or both holidays.","PeriodicalId":106930,"journal":{"name":"Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy and Humanistic Sciences","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130235921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review on Repere ale autobiografiei spirituale din spaţiul ortodox în secolele XIX şi XX - Ioan de Kronstadt, Siluan Athonitul şi Nicolae Berdiaev, authored by Iuliu-Marius Morariu","authors":"Antonio Sandu","doi":"10.18662/lumenphs/29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18662/lumenphs/29","url":null,"abstract":"The volume Highlights of the spiritual autobiography in the orthodox space in the 19th and 20th centuries – John of Kronstadt, Silouan the Athonite and Nikolai Berdyaev – (Repere ale autobiografiei spirituale din spaţiul ortodox in secolele XIX si XX - Ioan de Kronstadt, Siluan Athonitul si Nicolae Berdiaev -), of the author Iuliu-Marius Morariu, published at LUMEN Publishing House, presents a theological - metaphysical and stylistic analysis of autobiographical writings of three Christian thinkers and spiritual experiencers of whom at least two have attained holiness.","PeriodicalId":106930,"journal":{"name":"Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy and Humanistic Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122281106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}