The existential strategies of the power over things: labour, acquisitiveness, adventure
Using the concept of «power over things», this article describes human experience in the ownership,management and disposal of things. The diversity of this experience manifests itself in the existential strategies of power over things distinguished by the author — labour, adventures ...
Major infrastructure projects and the foreign policy of the Baltic states in 2010—2014
... multi-billion investments into energy sector are of political rather than economic nature. The projects to develop alternative power grids and high-speed railways can result in large-scale economic downturns diminishing the prospects of balanced social ... ... http://news.tts.lt/?r=bootstrap%2Farticle§ion_id=4&article_id=3166 (accessed 23.12.2008).
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Translation and the ‘soft’ bridges of communication
... are essential today and are conceptualised in this article. Translation is crucial as both instrument of equivalence between things and ideas, and as agent revealing differences between them. I will consider how the translation of texts, which do not ... ... the Environment.
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Kant’s and Fichte’s ethics as sources of Schopenhauer’s philosophy
... Firstly, for a long time, Kant’s ‘moral law’ was a major element of Schopenhauer’s philosophy, whereas the regulatory power of ethics supported its claim as a means to cognise the supersensible. Secondly, the dichotomy between the noumenal and ... ... Morals and Fichte’s System of Ethnics contributed to Schopenhauer’s understanding of will as the primary essence of all things and the idea of its absolute and unconditional nature and its primacy over cognition. Sixthly, some of the key aspects of Schopenhauer’s pessimism are rooted in Fichte’s philosophy. Seventhly,...
Shpet, Humboldt, Kant: Forms, Concepts, Schemes. Terms and Ideas
... underlying thesis of this analysis being that words, terms and concepts are not the same thing: one and the same word or word combination can denote different terms, and the... ... this term was transformed, according to Shpet, into “the concept of inner form” over time by various thinkers — Plato, Plotinus, Goethe, Humboldt and others. The... ... of method accords with Shpet’s conviction that terms have meaning and explanatory power. Contrary to Shpet, it is difference that is the initial experience and the key...
Language and the nature of humanness. Invitation to a discussion
... niche of humans as organism-environment systems. It is in this continuously self-constructed human niche that the uniquely human power to reasoning (intelligence) emerges and develops. Humanness rests in language as the creative beginning of the world in ... ... Linguistics: A guide to understanding language
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On the morals-centrism of Kant’s transcendental anthropology and the role of morals in human nature
... transcendental anthropology is the metaphysics of morals. This role of morals manifests itself in the primacy of practical reason over theoretical reason. The humanity owes its development and existence to practical reason. In Kant’s system, morality is ... ... Press, 2006
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