Dear reader,
The first issue of "Philosophy" for 2024 has a diverse content in four sections, and the journal remains true to its title of developing the dialogue between philosophical inquiries coming from different horizons. Most authors in the issue explore significant phenomena of our time. Vigilant and innovative, they develop new questions and approaches that the challenges of the time demand from philosophy…
Actuality and Modality: Vatsov’s Energetic Metaphysics
Prof. Alexander Kanev, DSc.
Sofia University
https://doi.org/10.53656/phil2024-01-07
Absract. The article reconstructs and critically discusses the energetic metaphysics of Dimitar Vatsov, which may be regarded as an important event in the philosophical life in Bulgaria. The article consists of two parts...
Philosophy оf Shared Society
Assoc. Prof. Albena Taneva,
Assoc. Prof. Kaloyan Simeonov,
Assist. Prof. Vanya Kashukeeva-Nusheva,
Assist. Prof. Denitsa Hinkova
Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (Bulgaria)
Melanie Hussak
Protestant University of Applied Sciences Freiburg (Germany)
https://doi.org/10.53656/phil2024-01-01
Abstract. Insights on shared society reflect the nexus between collective actions and durable policy for the common good…
“Revolving” Ownership: The Interplay between Yang-Ownership and Yin-Ownership
Prof. Stoyan Stavru, DSc.
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgaria)
https://doi.org/10.53656/phil2024-01-02
Absract. The article examines the concept of “revolving ownership” as a metamodel of property, whose structure allows for the interchange (rotation) of diverse components included in it, each capable of achieving different objectives through varied means...
Approaching Edith Stein´s Philosophical Anthropology
Dr. Marcus Knaup
University of Hagen (Germany), University of Zagreb (Croatia)
https://doi.org/10.53656/phil2024-01-03
Abstract In the following contribution I would like to present Edith Stein´s Philosophical Anthropology in somewhat more detail…
The Song of Desire (Kāma): If you meet Kāma, don’t kill him
Prof. Dr. Milena Bratoeva
Sofia University
https://doi.org/10.53656/phil2024-01-04
Absract. The present article examines two narratives from the epic Mahābhārata (MBh), focused on the topic of desire (kāma) and the relationship erotic – ascetic (kāma – tapas)...
The True Sense оr to My Only Desire: The Music as a Reason for Sun Reflections
Angelina-Ogniana Gotcheva, PhD
South-West University “Neofit Rilski”
https://doi.org/10.53656/phil2024-01-05
Abstract. The article presents musicological and existentialist philosophical discourses on renaissance and baroque structures in the works of two contemporary classical composers…
The Changing Status of Rationality in the Field of the New Rhetoric
Dr. Neli Stefanova, Assoc. Prof.
Sofia University
https://doi.org/10.53656/phil2024-01-06
Absract. The study aims to analyze the changes in the status of rationality in the field of the New Rhetoric – the most influential direction in the modern theory of argumentation, which appeared in the 1960s with the scientific works of C. Perelman – L. Olbrechts – Titeka and S. Toulmin...
Dobrin Todorov. Scientific and Technical “Worldviews” and the Crisis of Humanism
Prof. Nina Dimitrova, DSc.
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
https://doi.org/10.53656/phil2024-01-08
