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Questioning the boundary between “Us” and “Them” with Waldenfels and Derrida
Between what we call “us” and what we call “them”, a line must be drawn, which immediately becomes a contentious border, or a divide, that brings to...
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Zdziechowski, Masaryk and Russian philosophy
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Marian Zdziechowski are well-known personalities from the Czech and Polish cultural environments, respectively. Their...
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The generation and suspension of meaning in Dostoevsky’s Demons
This paper examines the relationship between the generation and suspension of meaning in Dostoevsky’s Demons with reference to Bakhtin’s thesis that...
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Moral Transformation as Shifting (Im)Possibilities
The phenomenon of moral transformation, though important, has received little attention in virtue ethics. In this paper we propose a virtue-ethical...
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Making More Sense: A Confucian-Hermeneutic Path to Aesthetics
The paper endeavors to provide a perspective on aesthetics that proceeds from the original Greek meaning of “aesthetics” as “what is perceived by the...
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Zdziechowski’s distinctiveness: on the distinctive differences between Marian Zdziechowski’s thought and the Russian Renaissance
The article is a comparative analysis of the philosophy of the Russian Religious Renaissance and the views of Marian Zdziechowski (1861–1938), a...
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Czechoslovak praxeology—a discipline that did not exist?
On the basis of contemporary Czech and Slovak texts and correspondence between Czechoslovak scientists and Polish praxeologists, the study shows how...
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Streaming and blocking: how to take back the streets (for democratic theory)
The built environment matters for democracy: certain forms of political action require particular types of physical space, and decisions about...
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A Nishitanian Ethics of Sympathy
In this article, I will present a construction of a Nishitanian ethics of sympathy primarily based on passages from Nishitani Keiji’s principal work...
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Prison Violence as Punishment
The United States carceral system, as currently designed and implemented, is widely considered to be an immoral and inhumane system of criminal...
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The perceived object in media-based empathy: applying Edith Stein’s concept of Wortleib
The question of how other consciousnesses appear via media has forced us to re-think the classical phenomenological accounts of sociality. However,...
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Liberty, Secrecy, and the Right of Assessment
In this article we argue that governmental practices of secrecy threaten the epistemic dimension of rights. We defend the view that possessing a...
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Partiality and Meaning
Why do relationships of friendship and love support partiality, but not relationships of hatred or commitments of racism? Where does partiality end...
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A Severance of Union. Catholicism, Social Transformations, and State–Church Relations in Peru in the Late Twentieth Century
This article explores how in Peru, where a close union between the state and the Catholic Church endured until the mid-twentieth century, and where...
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Unwelcome Migrant Churches—A Case Study of the Portrayal of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in German-Speaking Online Press
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the portrayal of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in German-speaking online press....
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Rawls and Economic Liberties
There is widespread agreement among political philosophers that there is a core set of civil and political liberties that ought to be given special...
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Affectivity in its Relation to Personal Identity
My aim is to propose affectivity as a criterion for personal identity. My proposal is to be taken in its weak version: affectivity as only one of the...
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Beyond Religious Affiliations: Profiles of Religiosity and Institutional Belonging in Contemporary Argentina
Quantitative studies on religion are usually characterized by drawing a map of religiosity in a given society, based on socio-demographic variables...
