{"title":"Beyond universalism/social constructivism debate in the history of emotions: The case of acedia","authors":"L. Radenovic","doi":"10.2298/theo1904005r","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/theo1904005r","url":null,"abstract":"Peter Toohey (2011) argues that the feeling of acedia, initially described by the Desert Fathers, is a romanticized version of the simple boredom felt by ordinary people. For Toohey, acedia is not real, but manufactured, i.e. a socially constructed emotion, unlike regular boredom which is universally felt. This distinction indicates that Toohey sides with universalist approach to emotions, which helps him avoid relativism of social constructivism in the history of emotions. However, by claiming that acedia is manufactured emotion Toohey is in danger to negate the reality of an emotional experience that many individuals seemed to have had. The goal of this paper is to outline the way we can overcome the shortcomings of Toohey?s approach to acedia. For this purpose, I argue, along with Griffiths (1997), that all our emotions have their roots in both culture and biology. I also argue that a job of a historian of emotions is to engage in the phenomenology of emotions of our predecessors. This article has been corrected. Link to the correction 10.2298/THEO2003169E","PeriodicalId":374875,"journal":{"name":"Theoria, Beograd","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115842875","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":"Plato’s aesthetic paideia","authors":"Miloš Miladinov","doi":"10.2298/theo1902069m","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/theo1902069m","url":null,"abstract":"The author examines the role of the phenomenon of art and beauty in Plato?s\u0000 theory of education. In the introductory part, the main thesis of the work\u0000 is explained bearing in mind possible difficulties that such a thesis\u0000 implies. In the second chapter, the author examines the role of art in the\u0000 educational process with a focus on Plato?s so-called epistemological\u0000 argument. Then, in the next chapter, the artistic expression of Plato itself\u0000 is analyzed, which further reinforces the argumentation in favor of the\u0000 thesis about Plato?s positive appropriation of art for educational purposes.\u0000 Finally, in the last chapter, the author gives an interpretation of Plato?s\u0000 idea of beauty and focuses a certain parallelism between wonderment as the\u0000 beginning of philosophy and the experience of beauty.","PeriodicalId":374875,"journal":{"name":"Theoria, Beograd","volume":"8 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127513642","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 is dead”: Kajica Milanov on dialectical and historical materialism","authors":"B. Milosavljevic","doi":"10.2298/theo2202017m","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/theo2202017m","url":null,"abstract":"Kajica Milanov (1905-1986) was educated in Vienna, Belgrade and Berlin. He\u0000 taught philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy (University of Belgrade).\u0000 During World War II Milanov was in German captivity. Afther the war Milanov\u0000 was asked to teach philosophy in the spirit of Marxism. Because of the\u0000 political pressure he had to emigrate to Austria, and eventually to\u0000 Australia (1949). In 1954 Milanov became a Lecturer at the Department of\u0000 Philosophy in Hobart, University of Tasmania (UTAS). At that time the most\u0000 notorious scandal in the history of Australian philosophy broke out (Orr\u0000 case). In that troubled period Milanov managed to keep alive studies at the\u0000 Philosophy department (1956-1969), with which he has been credited today. He\u0000 continued to work at the same department as a Senior Lecturer until 1975.\u0000 Milanov had authored several books and special publications.","PeriodicalId":374875,"journal":{"name":"Theoria, Beograd","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125387997","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 question of personal identity: Kant and Kantian perspectives","authors":"S. Micic","doi":"10.2298/theo2302017m","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/theo2302017m","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we will be examining the question of personal identity in the\u0000 context of Immanuel Kant?s philosophy, as well as among contemporary Kantian\u0000 thinkers such as Christine Korsgaard. Our investigation will focus primarily\u0000 on those aspects of the issue that are relevant to moral philosophy. While\u0000 some may believe that personal identity is not a primary concern of\u0000 philosophy, or that it does not merit extensive discussion, we argue that it\u0000 is indeed a significant philosophical question, particularly in the context\u0000 of moral philosophy. Our inquiry will begin with Kant?s theoretical\u0000 philosophy, specifically his transcendental deduction of categories and his\u0000 treatment of paralogisms, as we aim to gain a deeper understanding of Kant?s\u0000 views on personal identity. Following our analysis of the relevant parts of\u0000 Kant?s work, we will then turn to the contemporary Kantian thinker Kristin\u0000 Korsgaard, who has offered critiques of Derek Parfit?s understanding of\u0000 personal identity.","PeriodicalId":374875,"journal":{"name":"Theoria, Beograd","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126635000","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 idea of freedom in protestantism","authors":"Živan Lazović","doi":"10.2298/theo2203021l","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/theo2203021l","url":null,"abstract":"Starting from the methodological assumption that ideas have a driving power\u0000 and from the distinction between negative and positive notions of freedom\u0000 (Berlin), this paper deals with the role that the idea of individual\u0000 freedom, as a central part of the Protestant pattern of Christian life,\u0000 played in the origin and spread of the reformation movement in XVI century.\u0000 In his criticism of the corruptive practices of the Roman Catholic Church\u0000 and his reliance on the Bible as the only authority (sola scriptura)\u0000 regarding Christian teaching, Luther gave the concept of freedom a religious\u0000 content: a necessary and sufficient condition for the spiritual (positive)\u0000 freedom of the person is contained in the slogan sola fide, while in\u0000 external life each individual has the obligation to accept his social\u0000 position and conscientiously fulfill the calling (Beruf) that God has set\u0000 for him. After he published them in the form of 95 theses in 1517, Luther?s\u0000 views spread and initiated decades of conflicts that resulted in major\u0000 cultural, political and economic changes. They directly or indirectly\u0000 influenced the profiling of the modern Western European order, but they did\u0000 not escape the trap into which many similar doctrines fell - the privileged\u0000 social classes (rulers and nobility), whose interests they corresponded to,\u0000 used them to achieve their own goals. Thanks to the Enlightenment and\u0000 liberal tradition, today we inherit a more universal conception of basic\u0000 human liberties and rights, devoid of religious content, but the temptations\u0000 remain the same.","PeriodicalId":374875,"journal":{"name":"Theoria, Beograd","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116779217","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":"Logico-ontological aspects of the pandemic","authors":"Aleksandar Lukić","doi":"10.2298/theo2204169l","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/theo2204169l","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the author examines the logical and ontological aspects of\u0000 pandemic. Relatedly, the the definition of a pandemic is scrutinized. The\u0000 very word pandemic (????????) comes from the Classical Greek language and\u0000 refers to something pertains to all (???) people (?????). However, this\u0000 cannot be of great use for the definition of pandemic, because with each one\u0000 known so far, it was about a wide distribution in the people, and not about\u0000 the entire people. We will try to show that a precise definition (or precise\u0000 description) of the pandemic does not exist, which means that the very\u0000 notion is not clear, and therefore the declaration of a pandemic is a matter\u0000 of preference of those who declare it. ?Wide distribution? is a wide notion\u0000 that could be a part of acceptable scientific definition. Such a lack is,\u0000 however, compensated by the frequent use of emotional determinants that only\u0000 obscure the problem, instead of illuminating it. Expressions such as:\u0000 ?invisible enemy?, ?social distancing?, ?new normal?, ?responsibility?,\u0000 ?solidarity?, ?state of war?, ?virus attack? and others, have an emotional\u0000 function, the goal of which is to replace the scientific, rational\u0000 understanding of things.","PeriodicalId":374875,"journal":{"name":"Theoria, Beograd","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127960739","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":"Women and power in times of dynastic crises (selected examples from English medieval history)","authors":"Melina Rokai","doi":"10.2298/theo2302121r","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/theo2302121r","url":null,"abstract":"The paper examines the connection between women and power during the dynastic\u0000 crisis. More precisely, the paper primarily refers to members of the high\u0000 nobility and ruling houses during the dynastic crisis in the fifteenth\u0000 century in England. In order to achieve a more accurate picture of the\u0000 possibilities that an aristocratic woman, connected by family ties to the\u0000 center of ruling power and authority in the person of the ruler - the king,\u0000 had in order to legitimately possess and retain power, the paper will talk\u0000 about the changes in social relations that occurred in earlier periods,\u0000 about the difference in power and ruling authority, and then about similar\u0000 examples in the wider European context. Special attention will be paid to\u0000 the female actors of the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487), which culminated in\u0000 the dynastic crisis, but which was further deepened by it, as well as to the\u0000 perception of their power.","PeriodicalId":374875,"journal":{"name":"Theoria, Beograd","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128632282","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":"Simplicity out of complexity? On physical eschatology and abiogenesis","authors":"M. Ćirković","doi":"10.2298/theo2103005c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/theo2103005c","url":null,"abstract":"Standard reductionist narrative about the necessity of complex systems\u0000 arising from simple subsystems can be undermined from multiple directions.\u0000 Here, I shall suggest an unexpected way of such undermining which occurs\u0000 upon joining our best understanding of the future evolution of the universe\u0000 (as outlined by physical eschatology) with the continuity thesis which plays\u0000 the key role in studies of the origin of life (abiogenesis). Many aspects of\u0000 evolution - including physical, chemical, and astrobiological evolution -\u0000 would look quite different from what we empirically find around us at the\u0000 present epoch if the history of the universe within our cosmological horizon\u0000 were to be observed from a timeless ?Archimedean? point. Avoiding the\u0000 pitfalls of this chronocentric bias leads to several unexpected conclusions,\u0000 one of them being that the directed panspermia, coupled with advanced\u0000 biotechnology, represents the most probable origin of almost all\u0000 phylogenetic lineages in the universe. Therefore, complex lifeforms are\u0000 required for emergence of (almost) all simple lifeforms. This has several\u0000 counterintuitive and unexpected philosophical consequences.","PeriodicalId":374875,"journal":{"name":"Theoria, Beograd","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124659167","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":"Mathematically and dynamically sublime in fine arts","authors":"Iva Draskic-Vicanovic","doi":"10.2298/theo2102121d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/theo2102121d","url":null,"abstract":"Taking into account the intriguing fact that Kant in his Critique of\u0000 Judgment, when the category of sublime in arts is concerned, mentions the\u0000 examples of the sublime in art just in the field of fine arts, specifically\u0000 - architecture, and only in the context of mathematically sublime, author\u0000 organizes research in this text in two directions, i.e. raises two important\u0000 questions: 1 ) What are the possible philosophical reasons why Kant does so\u0000 and 2) Is it, if at all, and by what means, possible to discuss dynamically\u0000 sublime in the fine arts.","PeriodicalId":374875,"journal":{"name":"Theoria, Beograd","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121067468","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":"Different approaches to the scientific investigation of music","authors":"Sanja Srećković","doi":"10.2298/theo1904061s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/theo1904061s","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with the approaches to researching music from the scientific\u0000 perspective. It is argued that the scientific literature concerning music\u0000 contains two different methodological approaches which significantly\u0000 determine the range of possible conclusions to be reached by the research.\u0000 The approach ?from the outside? investigates music by automatically applying\u0000 to music the more general conclusions concerning human cognition and other\u0000 capacities and behaviors. Thus, this approach omits music?s internal\u0000 factors. In contrast, the approach ?from within? consists in empirically\u0000 investigating reactions to music, capacities necessary for its\u0000 understanding, performing, etc., and their relationships with the reactions\u0000 and capacities outside the domain of music. The paper shows that, even\u0000 though the scientific research of music is still in the beginning stage, the\u0000 approach from within enables more complete explanations concerning music,\u0000 due to taking into account a larger number of factors relevant for\u0000 philosophical understanding of the phenomenon of music.","PeriodicalId":374875,"journal":{"name":"Theoria, Beograd","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116256906","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}