Cultura. International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology

ISSUE 13/2010

DEBATES and DIRECTIONS

The Sense of Touch and the Thematic Unity of the Aristotelian Treatise On Soul
Alexander BAUMGARTEN
The Importance of Subjectivity in Overcoming Ethnical Conflicts in Africa: a Philosophical Reflection
Thomas KOCHALUMCHUVATTIL
Is Popper’s ‘Criterion of Demarcation’ outmoded?
Sebastian BOÞIC
An In-Depth Interpretation of the Confucian Concept “Ren” in the Horizon of the Structural Phenomenology
Jun WANG
‘The Inwardness of the Modern Mind’: Reading Henry James through a Hegelian Spirit
Elif ÇIRAKMAN
Valuing the emergence of Ubuntu philosophy
Nicolito A. GIANAN
Comparison Analysis on Architectural Culture in China and Western Countries
Xiaoxiao WANG
Segun Afolabi, Transnational Identity, and the Politics of Belonging
Till KINZEL
From the History of Philosophy to the History of Science: Hegel’s influence on Whewell
Raffaella SANTI

ISSUE 12/2009

DEBATES and DIRECTIONS

Die Vertreibung der Sinne Klangräume: Rufen und Hören in der verstehenden Soziologie
Horst BAIER

Women’s Fashion: Function of Sex or Social Construction?
Robert C. TRUNDLE

Influence of Norse Mythical Archetype in Frederich Nietzche Thought: Predestination and Totalitarianism
Maximiliano E. KORSTANJE

Power, Complexity and Post-Visual Attention
David CORNBERG

Nihilism as Axiological Illness
Nicolae RÂMBU

Saving Time and Paying for the World
Frederic WILL

Upholding Philosophy as Emerging from Culture: The Case of Filipino Philosophy
Nicolito A. GIANAN

ISSUE 11/2009

DEBATES and DIRECTIONS

Metaphysics, Politics, and Philosophy: George Grant’s Response to Pragmatism
Till KINZEL

Mass Media and European Cultural Citizenship
Gheorghe-Ilie FÂRTE

Newton’s Perspective on Mathematical Problems
A.L SAMIAN

The Founding Ideas of the Modern Cultural Horizon and the Meanings of Reason
Dan CHITOIU

Nihil est in intellectu quod non primus fuerit in sensu. The limits of Gnoseologic Paradigm, from Aristotle to Locke
Tomita CIULEI

The Modernist Project of Post-Humanism
Teodor NEGRU

ETHICAL APPROACHES

On Teaching Philosophy
Laura ARCILA VILLA

Author Guidelines

Schedule Cultura. International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology appears on the following dates:

June 30th
December 30th

Call for Papers

Deadline for sending materials:

April 1st
October 1st

Author information Prospective authors should send their contributions to the following address: journal.axiology@yahoo.com The editorial staff may alter manuscripts wherever necessary to make them conform to the journal’s style. Although we accept papers in German, French, Italian and Spanish, we encourage those written in English. The language must be checked by a native speaker.

The manuscript should be prepared according to the following guidelines:

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ABSTRACT
No more than 200 words, in English.
KEYWORDS 5-7 words in English.

TEXT
The manuscript cannot be longer than 8000 words. The book reviews cannot be longer than 3000 words. The manuscript should be typed and single-spaced on A4 paper, Gramond style 12. Emphasizing italics are not to be used excessively. Bold type is not used anywhere in an article, apart from the title. Use italics for the title of the work and, only when is absolutely necessary, providing emphasis. If the paper is divided into sections use an Arabic number and a period followed by a space and the section name. In-text citations: any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the References page. The author's last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your References page. The author's name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. When a source has no known author, use a shortened title of the work instead of an author name. Place the title in quotation marks if it's a short work (e.g. articles) or italicize it if it's a longer work (e.g. plays, books, television shows, entire websites) and provide a page number. Do not include URLs in-text. Only provide partial URLs such as when the name of the site includes a domain. Multiple citations. To cite multiple sources in the same parenthetical reference, separate the citations by a semi-colon. Quoted material, translations and page references must be exact. For short quotations enclose the quotation within double quotation marks. Question marks and exclamation points should appear within the quotation marks if they are a part of the quoted passage but after the parenthetical citation if they are a part of your text. The extended quotations (40+ words) are displayed (with left indentation). In displayed quotations no quotation marks are used around the quotation itself.

ENDNOTES
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WORKS CITED
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NOTES
1. The author assumes all responsibility for the ideas expressed in the material published. Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.
2. The authors have the obligation to respect all rules concerning the law governing copyright. Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors. 3. All texts are reviewed by two experts. The double-blind peer review process is expected to take 2-3 months or more in some cases. The editors may ask for revision and may require reformatting of accepted manuscripts.

ISSUE 10/2008

Le Statut Personnel: Exemple: Le Serment du Dos (zihâr)
Aida FARHAT

Il diritto di famiglia in Egitto: lo “Stato” nel ruolo di interprete della Legge islamica
Costantino PAONESSA

Should Businesses and Corporations Set up a “Department of Islamic affairs”?
Guy TROLLIET

Between Islamism and Islam
Daniel UNGUREANU

In Quest of the Measure’s Restoration
Carmen COZMA

Semiotics as a Pathway to Spiritual Science: From the Culture of Addiction to Absolute Freedom
David CORNBERG

Axiological Reflections about Don Quijote
Nicolae RÂMBU

ISSUE 8/2007

„Pragmatic Turn” dans la Pensée Contemporaine
Alexandru BOBOC
Faculty of Philosophy
Bucharest University

Metaphysics and Ideologies in Science
Teresa CASTELAO-LAWLESS
Philosophy Department, LSH 215
Grand Valley State University Allendale, USA

Un Dibattito Socioantropoplogico nel Settecento. Il Mito del Buon Selvaggio
Fernando CIPRIANI
Facoltà di Scienze Sociali
Università „G. d'Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara via dei Vestini, Italy

A Phenomenological Analysis of the Psyche in Ideas II and A Phenomenological Psychology
Mobeen SHAHID
Pontifical Lateran University
The Vatican City

Early Theological Works Towards an Archeology of Certain Late Hegelian Motifs
Ioan Alexandru TOFAN
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Iassy, Romania

ISSUE 9/2008

Gedankenbilder. Kultur als Konstruktion und Konstitution des Sozialen – am Leitfaden Max Webers
Horst BAIER

The Theme of the Simplicity of the Mind as the Presupposition of the Byzantine Cultural Model
Dan CHIŢOIU

Reflections on an Ignored Dimension of Pre-Socratic Philosophy: Knowledge
Tomiţă CIULEI

Le Concept de Logos chez Héraclite. L’Analyse Du Fragment B1
Kazimierz MRÓWKA

The Political Plato
Vlad ICHIM

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. dr. Nicolae Râmbu
Faculty of Philosophy and Social-Political Sciences
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
B-dul Carol I, nr. 11
700506 Iaºi, Romania
nikolausrambu@yahoo.de

Co-Editors
Prof. dr. Aldo Marroni
Facoltà di Scienze Sociali
Università degli Studi "G.d'Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Via dei Vestini, 31
66100 Chieti Scalo
aldomarroni@unich.it

PD Dr. Till Kinzel
Englisches Seminar
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Bienroder Weg 80
38106 Braunschweig, Germany
till.kinzel@gmx.de

Executive Editor
Dr. Simona Mitroiu
Human Sciences Research Department
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
Lascar Catargi, nr. 54
700107 Iasi, Romania
simona.mitroiu@uaic.ro

Editorial Asssitants
Radu Vasile Chialda
Irina Frasin
Adina Romanescu
Marius Sidoriuc
Daniel Ungureanu

Designer
Aritia Poenaru

Advisory Board

Prof. Dr. Mario Perniola, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
Prof. Dr. Paul Cruysberghs, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Prof. Dr. Michael Jennings, Princeton University, USA
Prof. Emeritus Dr. Horst Baier, University of Konstanz, Germany
Prof. Dr. José María Paz Gago, University of Coruña, Spain
Prof. Dr. Alexandru Boboc, Correspondent member of the Romanian Academy,
Bucharest, Romania
Prof. Dr. Teresa Castelao-Lawless, Grand Valley State University, USA
Prof. Dr. Richard L. Lanigan, Southern Illinois University, USA
Prof. Dr. Fernando Cipriani, ‘G.d'Annunzio’ University Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Prof. Dr. Elif Cirakman, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Prof. Dr. David Cornberg, University Ming Chuan, Taiwan
Prof. Dr. Carmen Cozma, ‘Alexandru Ioan Cuza’ University Iassy, Romania
Prof. Dr. Nancy Billias, Department of Philosophy, Saint Joseph College, Hartford, USA
Prof. Dr. Christian Möckel, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Prof. Dr. Leszek S. Pyra, Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland
Prof. Dr. A.L.Samian, National University of Malaysia
Prof. Dr. Dimitar Sashev, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Prof. Dr. Kiymet Selvi, Anadolu University, Istanbul, Turkey
Prof. Dr. Traian D. Stãnciulescu, ‘Alexandru Ioan Cuza’ University Iassy, Romania
Prof. Dr. Gloria Vergara, University of Colima, Mexic

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