In a famous and much misunderstood passage in Democracy and Education, Dewey (1916/1980) proclaims: ”If we are willing to conceive education as the process of forming fundamental dispositions, intellectual and emotional, toward nature and fellow-men, philosophy may even be defined as the general theory of education (338; emphasis in original). My article examines some of what he means by this s...

one of the greatest philosophers of western tradition, spinoza, in ethics, explained the nature of passions and presented some cures for them. george eliot, a great novelist in the nineteenth century and the translator of spinoza’s works, was strongly influenced by spinoza’s philosophy and of course in some cases surpassed him. in this essay, i try to explain that although in the case of cures ...

[Michael Polanyi's "The Body-Mind Relation" was a paper delivered at a 1966 conference sponsored by the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute, the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences and the University of California, San Diego .. The conference and the book that grew out of it, Man and the Sciences of Man, edited by William R. Coulson and Carl R. Rogers (Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill Pu...

Aiming to become a part of transcultural discourses and debates, the author argues in this paper for use approaches overcoming traditional ones doing philosophy comparatively Southern Europe. Within framework, new forms cross-cultural philosophizing Mediterranean will arise triangle among Western Balkans, Italy Greece as exchange knowledge ideas including more than twenty surrounding countries ...

We are living in a world where the mode of thinking is being increasingly influenced by Western ideology. The discourse about personal rights is one of the consequences of Western philosophy. Malawi, a south-eastern African country, has produced a Charter of Patients and Health Workers’ Rights and Responsibilities. Implementation of this document is expected to contribute to improving the deliv...

In this article major ancient Buddhist meditation techniques, samatha, vipassana, Zen, and ton-len, will be described in reference to contemporary clinical hypnosis. In so doing, the Eastern healing framework out of which these techniques emerged is examined in comparison with and in contrast to its Western counterpart. A growing body of empirical literature shows that meditation and hypnosis h...

The article discusses the views of modern Western philosophers on isuue socio-economic human rights, including right to subsistence. purpose work is answer question whether a decent life morally justified. was carried out within framework analytical approach and its inherent methodology. author identifies several types arguments expressed in literature against worthy existence. They are 1) actu...