The Concept of Soul: A Comparative Study of the Russian and the Armenian Pictures of the World
The author analyses the concept ‘soul’ as a means of representing reality in the brain through comparing two linguistic pictures of the world. It is known that a concept contains important cultural information, harbouring its concrete meaning in a linguistic unit. The study — a combination ...
Adventures of the soul: transmission of the system of mystical poetry in the language of Veniamin Blazhenny
... Blessed) can be seen as a vivid example of the translation of the typological properties of the language of mysticism in late 20th century poetry. The artistic nature of the work of the Blessed during this time did not receive a fundamental analysis. The soul, a key concept of Blazhenny’s poetry, reveals undoubted similarities with the conceptualization of the soul and the idea of metempsychosis in Jewish and Judeo-Christian mysticism. This study focuses on grammatical elements, and in particular ...
The concept of body and the problem of demarcation in new European metaphysics: from Descartes to Kant
... of explaining the interaction between mind and body form the complex tradition, which significantly influenced Kant’s precritical writings. Limitation of the crucial distinction between these two substances to the empirical sphere and the view on soul and body as homogeneous phenomena are the main peculiarities of Kant's position.
1. Васильев В. В. Философская психология в эпоху Просвещения. М., 2010.
2. Вольф Хр. Метафизика ...
The role of intertextuality in the formation of the opposition soul-body in Nikolai Kononov's «Eugenia's Genius»
... from Apuleius «Metamorphoses, or The Golden Ass» by Apuleius, »Light breath» by I. A. Bunin and Roman M. Kundera's «The Unbearable Lightness of Being». The authors explore the role of these relations in the formation of the artistic concepts of «soul» and «body» in N. Kononov's works. The authors аnalyse similarities of N. Kononov's texts with the above mentioned works in their themes, imagery and vocabulary.
1. Апулей. Метаморфозы, или Золотой осел / пер....
Moral und Dogma: Alois Riehls Neukantianismus im Spannungsfeld zwischen Religion und Politik
... important for an understanding of Morals und Dogma. Originally this essay was an expert opinion for the court case of the socialist H. Tauschinski who was accused of blasphemy. Tauschinski wrote an article in which he doubted the immortality of the soul and the existence of a personal God. These two dogmas of the Catholic Church were considered bу the Austrian authorities to be the foundations of public order. Riehl questioned not only the charge but also the validity of religious dogmas for morality....
Apriorität und autochthone Ideen der Kultur
... gives a rise to the initial (autochthonic) ideas which become its categorical language and arrange the space of a sense in culture. To such autochthonic ideas the author adds the idea of the sacral (dismemberment of space of sense) and also the idea of soul (comprehension of a temporal constancy).
1. Байбурин А. К. Обряды при переходе в новый дом у восточных славян (конец XIX — начало XX в.) // Советская этнография....
The teaching on postulates in Kant’s lectures on philosophical theory of religion
... Pure Reason and Critique of Practical Reasons, these lectures contain a number of explanations contributing to a better understanding of both Critiques. In particular, this holds true for the postulates of the existence of god and immortality of the soul and their role on Kant’s ethical system.
1. Кант И. Критика практического разума // Кант И. Собр. соч. : в 8 т. М., 1994а. Т. 4.
2. Кант И. Критика способности суждения ...
