Sententiae

Kant: morality, anthropology, conscience. Kozlovskyi, V. (2023). Kantian Anthropology. Sources. Constellations. Models. Kyiv: Duh i Litera.

Vlada Davidenko — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0300

Review of Kozlovskyi, V. (2023). Kantian Anthropology. Sources. Constellations. Models. Kyiv: Duh i Litera.

Can we talk about “completeness of life” without “meaning in life”? Vinje, H. (2022). Complete Life in the Eudemian Ethics. Apeiron, 26(2), 299-323.

Elvira Chukhrai — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0300

Review of Vinje, H. (2022). Complete Life in the Eudemian Ethics. Apeiron, 26(2), 299-323.

Aquinas’ conceptual synthesis: an attempt at a new clarification. Stump, E., & White, T. J. (Eds.). (2022). The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

Andrii Shymanovych — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0300

Review of Stump, E., & White, T. J. (Eds.). (2022). The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

The Alushta schools as a phenomenon of Ukrainian philosophical thought at the turn of the 20th-21st centuries

Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0300

Materials of the discussion about informal philosophical schools held in Alushta (1987–1989, 1991, 1993). The context of the Ukrainian SSR in the 1980s and the impact of Schools on Ukrainian philosophy during the period of independence are analyzed.

“It's a pity that you were not with us...”

Viktor Malakhov, Tetiana Chaika — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0300

Reflections about authors’ participation in Alushta Schools of Young Philosophers.

Alushta “Owl of Minerva”

Maryna Stoliar,, Mykola Bohun — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0300

Reflections on the paradigm shift in philosophizing in Ukraine at the end of the 80s, based on the authors' personal memories of participation in the Alushta Schools of Young Philosophers.

German philosophy in the Ukrainian context (70–80s of the 20th century). Part III

Anatoliy Yermolenko, Vsevolod Khoma, Illia Davidenko, Kseniia Myroshnyk — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0300

Interview of Vsevolod Khoma, Illia Davidenko and Kseniia Myroshnyk with Anatoliy Yermolenko.

The first meeting of the Sententiae community

Polina Oprya — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0300

Report on the first Sententiae community meeting which took place on April 29, 2023.

Bergson and Merleau-Ponty in Deleuze's Gravitational Field. Olkowski, D. (2021). Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty: The Logic and Pragmatics of Creation, Affective Life, and Perception. Indiana: Indiana UP.

Arina Oriekhova — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0300

Review of Olkowski, D. (2021). Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty: The Logic and Pragmatics of Creation, Affective Life, and Perception. Indiana: Indiana UP.

The Oxford Quartet: Moral Philosophy After the Logical Positivists. Lipscomb, B. J. B. (2021). The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Vsevolod Khoma — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0300

Review of Lipscomb, B. J. B. (2021). The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Boundaries and Possibilities of Pluralism in Islamic Mind. Hashas, M. (Ed.). (2021). Pluralism in Islamic Contexts - Ethics, Politics and Modern Challenges. Cham: Springer.

Mykhaylo Yakubovych — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0300

Review of Hashas, M. (Ed.). (2021). Pluralism in Islamic Contexts - Ethics, Politics and Modern Challenges. Cham: Springer.

Time and Space in the Philosophy of Leibnitz. Part IIІ

Sergii Secundant, Arina Oriekhova — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0300

Arina Orekhova’s interview with Professor Serhii Secundant, devoted to Leibniz’s concept of time and space, the peculiarities of Michael Fatch’s interpretation of this concept, and various historico-philosophical approaches to understanding Leibniz’s philosophy as a whole.

Descartes’ Notion of Meum Corpus and Jean-Luc Marion’s Challenge to “the Myth of Cartesian Dualism”

Dmytro Sepetyi — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0300

Jean-Luc Marion, in his latest book, “Sur la pensée passive de Descartes,” recently published in an English translation, challenges something he refers to, in the English subtitle, as “the Myth of Cartesian Dualism” and counters it with his original interpretation of Descartes’ notion of meum corpus. This article explores the reasons he adduces for this purpose. The case is made that Marion fails to provide sufficiently solid argumentative and textual support for his construal in this respect and that traditional substance dualistic interpretative resources allow for a more straightforward and systematic reading. It is argued that Marion’s central dualism-deflecting claim, that in the Meditations, “my body” is not an extended thing but a mode of thought, is undermined by an analysis that carefully considers the context of those Descartes’ statements to which Marion appeals.

Translations and interpretations of the philosophical course by Stephan Kalynovskyi: Soviet tradition and its remnants

Mykola Fediai — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0300

The article analyzes the translations and interpretations of the philosophical course Stephan Kalynovskyi taught at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in 1729–1731. Drawing on unpublished translations, editorial corrections, letters, etc., the author reconstructs the history of this course’s translation for the first time, which began in the late 1960s. The author analyzes whether the researchers transcribed and translated the handwritten Latin text correctly and to what extent their interpretations of the course’s philosophical ideas are valid. The article demonstrates that researchers neither had the proper knowledge of the scholastic philosophical tradition and, in some cases, its specific type of Latin nor created the necessary critical apparatus. It resulted in many flaws in their works. Ukrainian philosophers grossly misinterpreted Kalynovskyi’s course because they found the Enlightenment, Cartesian, and local Ukrainian ideas in the text, written in Paris in the 1630s. The author also demonstrates that contemporary studies of Kalynovskyi’s course mostly repeat dubious Soviet ideas, while several dishonest scholars even practice plagiarism.

Vasyl Lisovyi on the history of Ukraine’s philosophy of the 20th century: a contribution to the discussion

Illia Davidenko — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0300

This paper is the first part of a study that examines the models of Ukrainian philosophy’s (1960–1980s) historization. The paper analyzes one of these models, proposed by Vasyl Lisovyi in the article “Ukrainian Philosophical Thought of the 60s–80s of the 20^th Century.” Reconstructing this model, I argue that one can legitimately summarize it in eight main theses: 1) the Ukrainian philosophy of this period is a component of philosophy as it developed and existed in Soviet times; 2) philosophy in Soviet times can be periodized according to the leader-centric principle; 3) representatives of this philosophy demonstrate three basic patterns of behavior: conflict, revisionism, and conformism; 4) revisionist researchers did not comprise a unified movement; 5) leading trends of this philosophy are analytical and creative dialectical-materialistic; 6) basic principles of the dialectical-materialist philosophy are metaphysicality and speculativeness; 7) the “discussion of the logicians and dialecticians” showed the groundlessness of dialectical philosophy’s claims to the status of the only true and “scientific” philosophy; 8) after the collapse of the USSR, the dialectical-materialist philosophy was rejected as unpromising due to its speculative nature and lack of conclusiveness.

Philosophical community and emancipation of thinking: experience of Alushta schools

Sergii Proleiev — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0300

The article examines the methodological problems of the historical-philosophical research of the “Soviet philosophy.” The process of the emancipation of thinking is examined through the analysis of the tradition of the Alushta Schools of Young Philosophers in 1987–1993. These schools played a historically significant role in overcoming the prejudices and stereotypes of the Soviet consciousness by the Ukrainian philosophical community. The mentioned analysis led to a few conclusions regarding the methodology of historical-philosophical research of the intellectual legacy – primarily texts – of the Soviet era. (1) Soviet philosophy was certainly an anti-philosophy, a social machine of anti-thinking. (2) The basis of analyzing both texts and events of this philosophy should consider the phenomenon of doublethink – two simultaneous and parallel spaces of discourses’ (meanings’) existence. Doublethink reflects the situation when ideological officialdom, loyalty to which was necessary, and the opposing desire for true thinking coexisted. (3) This collision led to the development of and was characterized by a number of features: the “Aesopian language,” peculiar regimes of private trust, intellectual reservations, etc. The article corroborates that the change in the dynamics of the intellectual situation (language of philosophy, mode of communication, communities of intellectuals, ethos and ideals of scientific research, etc.) is the main subject of historical-philosophical research.