The article is devoted to present Polish research on the literary work and philosophical thought of Hryhorii Skovoroda. scientific reflection Skovoroda’s legacy was initially carried out historical level. It initiated by Adam Honory Kirkor in 1874. In context history Ukrainian literature, Jo?zef Tretiak, Ivan Franko Bohdan Lepkyi presented general characteristics work, seeing it only original s...

This paper aimed to present a novel approach the comparative philosophy of religion which I call traditions-oriented. It is related and yet distinct from both confessional (tradition-oriented) theology. begins with reflection on meaning employment ‘comparison’ in context philosophical analysis. What follows an analysis nature practice conducted under umbrella concept religion. After sketching o...

French humanists and reformers around 1500 drew upon ancient twelfth-century practices of reading numerologically, in an effort to recover a rich mode doing philosophy rooted Christian scriptures. This article is chiefly exploratory, setting out this programme’s sources, practices, aims within the circle Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples, comparing influential projects Modern Devotion, Marsilio Ficino,...

We conducted 4 experiments to examine how people incorporate visual information about strangers’ religious identities—religious badges—into their decisions about how much to trust them. Experiment 1 revealed that Christian and non-Christian participants were more trusting (as measured by self-report) of targets who wore a religious badge associated with Christianity (Ash Wednesday ashes) than t...

The question of God’s relationship with creation touches upon important contemporary issues with regard to science, interfaith dialogue, and contemporary philosophy. Using the fundamental and specifically Christian theological stance that begins from creatio ex nihilo, the author shows how Chiara Lubich, on the basis of her charism of unity, develops an original understanding of the event of cr...

In the past few decades the West has witnessed an explosion of interest among psychologists, theologians, scientists, and philosophers alike in what Huxley (1970) has called philosophia perennis,the 'perennial philosophy', a universal doctrine as to the nature of man and reality lying at the very heart of every major metaphysical tradition, whether that of the Hindus, the Buddhists, the Amerind...

The object of the study is atheism and theism as important ideological components two opposing solutions to "main question philosophy" – materialism idealism forming systems human life navigation. subject paradigms Soviet Orthodox Christianity. Materialism are fundamental elements Marxist doctrine underlying philosophy culture period Russian history, theism, creationism providentialism Christia...

Christian List (London School of Economics) and Peter Menzies (Macquarie University) (forthcoming in the Journal of Philosophy) ABSTRACT It is often argued that higher-level special-science properties cannot be causally efficacious since the lower-level physical properties on which they supervene are doing all the causal work. This claim is usually derived from an exclusion principle stating th...

In recent decades, beauty has become a largely unfashionable, even offensive notion within art and philosophy. As Eastern Orthodox theologian, David Bentley Hart, has pointed out, this offence has a twofold sense. Firstly, the ‘beautiful’ has been dismissed as philosophically insignificant in comparison to the ‘sublime’ by an intellectual tradition tracing itself back to Immanuel Kant’s Critiqu...