Abstract: The article is an interpretation of the first part of the Meno (70a-79e), in which Plato deals with the problem of knowledge of virtue. Parmenides’ being, constituted by Justice, becomes a reference point for reflecting on the ontological and cognitive profil

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Abstract: Spinoza and Kant are considered to be polar opposites with respect to ethics. The radical difference between them is supposed to consist in Spinoza’s ethical egoism, or interest-based Strebensethik, and Kant’s duty-cantered, deontological Sollensethik. I chal

: Spinoza ir Kantas etikos požiūriu laikomi visiškomis priešingybėmis. Manoma, kad esminis skirtumas tarp jų yra etinis Spinozos egoizmas, arba interesais pagrįstas Strebensethik, ir Kanto pagrįstas pareigomis, deontologinis Sollensethik. Straipsnyje ši opozici

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Abstract: In this paper, we propose a new actualist and contingentist modal metaphysics – fundamental essentialism – according to which individuals just are realized essences. Orthodox possible worlds semantics is incompatible with actualism and contingentism since Kri

: Straipsnyje siūloma nauja aktualistinė ir kontingentistinė modalinė metafizika – fundamentalusis esencializmas, – kuria remiantis individai ir yra realizuotos esmės. Standartinė galimų pasaulių semantika yra nesuderinama su aktualizmu ir kontingentizmu, kadan

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Abstract: In this paper, I develop a critical assessment of epistemic instrumentalism as advocated by Kyle Stanford (2006). Epistemic instrumentalism is based on the claim that the criterion for the reliability of any theory is the absence of what Stanford calls ‘uncon

: Straipsnyje analizuojamas kritinis episteminio instrumentalizmo vertinimas, kurį išplėtojo Kyle’as Stanfordas (2006). Episteminis instrumentalizmas grindžiamas teiginiu, kad bet kurios teorijos patikimumo kriterijus yra nebuvimas to, ką Stanfordas vadina „neį

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Abstract: There are various accounts for the war in Ukraine; this essay is not contesting such accounts but, taking the classical understanding of the war between Sparta and Athens, elucidated by Thucydides, there seems to be a “hidden reason”. The latter is the declin

: Esama įvairių karo Ukrainoje aiškinimų. Šiame straipsnyje atsigręžiama į klasikinę karo tarp Spartos ir Atėnų istoriją, kaip ją nušviečia Tukididas, ir siekiama atskleisti karo „slaptąją priežastį“. Pastaroji siejama su Spartos politinės galios nusilpimu ir i

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Abstract: This paper takes on the highly problematic question whether the political is reconcilable with the conception of a person within Robert Spaemann’s philosophy. Spaemann devotes himself to detailed explication of the moral ontology of the person, however, the p

: Straipsnis nagrinėja aktualią politiškumo problemą ir siekia ištirti, ar implicitiškai vokiečių filosofo Roberto Spaemanno filosofijoje glūdinti politiškumo samprata suderinama su jo plėtojama asmens ontologija. Plėtodamas ontologinę asmens sampratą Spaemanna

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Abstract: Many critics of Martha Nussbaum claim that her account of the capabilities approach is a perfectionist theory that does not provide a unique standpoint to political justice and only complements Rawls’ conception of primary goods. The purpose of this article i

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Abstract: The article analyses the modern phenomenon of hating in the light of the Nietzschean concept “ressentiment”. It is concluded, that hating can be considered as a kind of the ressentiment experience. This confirms the legitimacy of the “hating ressentiment” con

: Straipsnyje nagrinėjamas šiuolaikinis neapykantos fenomenas nyčiškosios resentimento sampratos kontekste. Daroma išvada, kad neapykanta gali būti laikoma tam tikra resentimento patirtimi. Tai patvirtina „neapykantos resentimento“ sąvokos įvedimo teisėtumą, ka

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Abstract: In medicine, some personality traits, involving specific patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior, are considered to be pathological. Personality types, characteristic of such pervasive and maladaptive traits, are known under the term “personality disorders

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Abstract: Today, scholars struggle to provide a coherent account of the unique, unitary structure of disgust as portrayed in Aurel Kolnai’s essay On Disgust. And even though Kolnai stressed that ambivalence was the main challenge in accounting for the essence the pheno

: Šiandien tyrinėtojams vis dar sunkiai sekasi nuosekliai paaiškinti Aurelio Kolnai šleikštulį (pristatomą jo esė Apie šleikštulį) kaip struktūriškai vienalytį, unikalų. Nepaisant to, kad Kolnai ne kartą pabrėžė ambivalentiškumą kaip pagrindinį iššūkį apibrėžia

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Abstract: This paper raises the hypothesis that M. Bakhtin’s creative category of chronotope is within the dynamic of epistemology and socio-constructivism. To this end, two philosophical conceptions are analyzed: Bakhtin’s theory of chronotope as a formally constituti

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Abstract: The paper considers a polemic thesis that Viveiros de Castro’s Amerindian perspectivism is characterized by the overcoming of the first-person perspective. Multi-natural cosmological deictic figures instead of the first-person perspective. This opposes the la

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