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Research paper thumbnail of From semiotic pragmatism to existential semiotics

De Gruyter eBooks, Mar 6, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Bodily Or Gender Identity

Studia philosophica, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of The Communication Background of Philosophical Counseling

INNOVATIVE INSTRUMENTS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN COMMUNICATION AND EDUCATION, Edited by Maria Micle and Gheorghe Clitan, TRIVENT PUBLISHING, Budapest, Volume 6 (February 2021) 360 p. ISBN 978-615-81689-4-6, eISBN 978-615-81793-6-2, Jan 18, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Trei Întâlniri Teoretice Cu Poeticianul Mircea Borcilă

"La izvoarele imaginaţiei creatoare" : studii şi evocări în onoarea profesorului Mircea Borcilă, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Ioan Petru Culianu, sau filosoful (religiilor) ca magician

Journal for The Study of Religions and Ideologies, Aug 6, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of From semiotic pragmatism to existential semiotics

De Gruyter eBooks, Mar 6, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Why Can't AI Understand Images as Man Does?

Postmodern Openings, 2020

AI can identify images, but cannot understand them as man does. The problem of understanding the ... more AI can identify images, but cannot understand them as man does. The problem of understanding the iconic signs is the analogy, which cannot be clearly operationalized. Nothing guarantees signification by analogy, because it is neither the necessary effect of a cause, as in the indicative signs, nor the obligatory consequence of a rule, as of symbols (words). But the analogy is also fundamental to the human condition because our Ego implies the presence of Other. Or, just as the images, the understanding of Other implies the analogy: he is a self like me, but another self than myself, that is, an analogous self. That is, you can understand the behavior of the other's activities and actions, even what he communicates as messages because you interpret them as if it were about yourself. Different from the human being who is an existent, in AI the essence precedes existence. Even if the algorithms of the analogy process will be infinitely perfected, that analogy will miss the interpretation that comes from the life of the existing one. AI knows digital, man understands analog; AI understands from knowledge, man knows from understanding.

Research paper thumbnail of Trei Întâlniri Teoretice Cu Poeticianul Mircea Borcilă

Research paper thumbnail of Manipulare, seductie si ideologie ostensiva/ Manipulation, Seduction and Ostensive Ideology

Journal for The Study of Religions and Ideologies, Sep 20, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Knowledge, Public Communication and “Post-Truth”: What is Left of Truth in a Time of Pandemic?

Postmodern Openings, Apr 29, 2021

The pandemic seems to have reversed the relationship between Knowledge and Communication: communi... more The pandemic seems to have reversed the relationship between Knowledge and Communication: communication prevails and determines the significance and meaning of events, just as it happened in premodern times. Public knowledge is being eroded. Post-modern scientific knowledge, already unfathomably complex and technical, is both evolving and becoming obsolete at such great speed that it unveils, paradoxically, the vulnerability and relativity of the truth it claims to grasp. Alongside truth-correspondence and truth-coherence, the older truth-significance also makes itself known. Amplified by the resonance chamber of new media and social networks, the latter can emerge as the "post-truth" and "fake-news" that transform Public Communication into Public Relations.

Research paper thumbnail of Eliade’s Idea of Ultimate Reality and Meaning: A Disanthropomorphized, ’Weakened’ Transcendence

Ultimate Reality and Meaning, Jun 1, 1998

Orthodox Christianity framed his religious ideas until his discovery of the wide variety of relig... more Orthodox Christianity framed his religious ideas until his discovery of the wide variety of religious phenomena through direct and personal experience in India. Mircea Eliade is not a philosopher of language as are the French structuralists or the supporters of analytic philosophy, and hence he is not a thinker whose work would show the influence of the 'linguistic tum'. Rather, he belongs to the modern philosophy which has pondered on how one comes to know something, and which, by consequence, is a philosophy of the human subject. As a result of reflection on knowledge this philosophy of the subject has replaced a philosophy of form or substance. It does share, however, at least one major issue with modem occidental philosophy: the debate over transcendence. Though it does not deny divinity, the Cartesian 'cogito' opens up an implicit way of understanding the biblical statement 'I am who am' vis a vis the comprehending subject. Similarly, German philosophy implicitly made a successor to the 'dead God' out of the subject, out of the 'ego', even before Nietzsche. Mircea Eliade substitutes the pondering of knowledge in modern philosophy with the pondering of significance. But, while he does gesture towards language, he also maintains the presence of the subject, of the religious man or woman. At the same time he neither endorses a position affirming a full, positive transcendence nor does he reject the void, the negative. He explicitly declares himself to be an opponent of both Sartre's idea of a negative transcendence and of a 'mosaic anthropomorphic monotheism', preferring instead a disanthropomorphised transcendence, one purified by the 'acid bath' of Indian philosophy (Eliade 1990, p. 114). This is, in fact, a third type of transcendence that mediates between the full, positive one and the empty, negative one by a 'weakened transcendence' (Piclin 1969, pp. 21-81). Under these circumstances the Whole-the world, the Cosmos, Life-is significant,

Research paper thumbnail of From persuasion to manipulation and seduction. (A very short history of global communication)

Journal for The Study of Religions and Ideologies, Oct 13, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Bodily Or Gender Identity

Studia philosophica, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Postmodernismul. Deschideri filosofice

Manfred Frank, Günther Figel, Claude Karnoouh, Matei …, 1995

Research paper thumbnail of Secularization and the Rise of Individualism

Contents INTRODUCTION 1. CURRENT THEORIES ON RELIGION 1.1 Approaches to the sacred 1.1. a The exp... more Contents INTRODUCTION 1. CURRENT THEORIES ON RELIGION 1.1 Approaches to the sacred 1.1. a The explanation of the sacred through non-religious analysis 1.1.b The explanation of the sacred with reference to the religious phenomenon 1.2 The secular religion 1.2.a The à-la-carte religious reference of the individual 1.2.b The individual and the secular religion 2. THE INDIVIDUAL 2.1 Aristotle and the tension between the individual and the community 2.2 Christianity as the origin of the individual 2.3 Modern trajectories of the individual 2.3.a The political trajectory of the individual: the social contract, the citizen and the human rights 2.3.b The theoretical trajectory and the problems of the individual 3. POWER AND COMMUNITY 3.1 The Church and the State 3.1.a The Christian and the natural world 3.1.b Types of relations between the Church and the State 3.1.c Mutual influences between the Church and the State 3.1.d The citizen's options after the separation between the Church and the State 3.2 The social conditioning of religion 3.3 Power and individuality 3.4 The relativity of the available world 4. SECULARIZATION 4.1 Secularization, a discussed and disputed process 4.2 The secularizing effect of Christianity on the other religions 4.3 The secularization caused by the Enlightenment 4.3.a The maturation of thought 4.3.b The emancipation of society 4.4 The contesting of the innovating status of modernity and Nietzsche's nihilism 4.5 The individual as the result of secularization CONCLUSION Index of names Index of terms BIBLIOGRAPHY

Research paper thumbnail of Postmodernismul: Deschideri filosofice

Research paper thumbnail of The Communication Background of Philosophical Counseling

Innovative Instruments for Community Development in Communication and Education, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Why Can't AI Understand Images as Man Does?

Postmodern Openings, 2020

AI can identify images, but cannot understand them as man does. The problem of understanding the ... more AI can identify images, but cannot understand them as man does. The problem of understanding the iconic signs is the analogy, which cannot be clearly operationalized. Nothing guarantees signification by analogy, because it is neither the necessary effect of a cause, as in the indicative signs, nor the obligatory consequence of a rule, as of symbols (words). But the analogy is also fundamental to the human condition because our Ego implies the presence of Other. Or, just as the images, the understanding of Other implies the analogy: he is a self like me, but another self than myself, that is, an analogous self. That is, you can understand the behavior of the other's activities and actions, even what he communicates as messages because you interpret them as if it were about yourself. Different from the human being who is an existent, in AI the essence precedes existence. Even if the algorithms of the analogy process will be infinitely perfected, that analogy will miss the interpre...

Research paper thumbnail of From the “Camera Obscura” to the Computer, or How Does the Image Become an Apparent Indexical Sign

Journal for Communication and Culture

DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals, SPARC Europe Award 2009 English. Free, full text, quality... more DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals, SPARC Europe Award 2009 English. Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages. ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Communicative Force of the Body. Constituent problems of gesture semiotics

anale.fssp.uaic.ro

Abstract. It is said that Friedrich II has undertaken in the XIII centuries an experiment through... more Abstract. It is said that Friedrich II has undertaken in the XIII centuries an experiment through which he was trying to discover the primordial lan-guage, spoken in Paradise, by raising children to whom no one has ever spoken. As it is well known, the end result of this experiment ...

Research paper thumbnail of From semiotic pragmatism to existential semiotics

De Gruyter eBooks, Mar 6, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Bodily Or Gender Identity

Studia philosophica, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of The Communication Background of Philosophical Counseling

INNOVATIVE INSTRUMENTS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN COMMUNICATION AND EDUCATION, Edited by Maria Micle and Gheorghe Clitan, TRIVENT PUBLISHING, Budapest, Volume 6 (February 2021) 360 p. ISBN 978-615-81689-4-6, eISBN 978-615-81793-6-2, Jan 18, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Trei Întâlniri Teoretice Cu Poeticianul Mircea Borcilă

"La izvoarele imaginaţiei creatoare" : studii şi evocări în onoarea profesorului Mircea Borcilă, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Ioan Petru Culianu, sau filosoful (religiilor) ca magician

Journal for The Study of Religions and Ideologies, Aug 6, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of From semiotic pragmatism to existential semiotics

De Gruyter eBooks, Mar 6, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Why Can't AI Understand Images as Man Does?

Postmodern Openings, 2020

AI can identify images, but cannot understand them as man does. The problem of understanding the ... more AI can identify images, but cannot understand them as man does. The problem of understanding the iconic signs is the analogy, which cannot be clearly operationalized. Nothing guarantees signification by analogy, because it is neither the necessary effect of a cause, as in the indicative signs, nor the obligatory consequence of a rule, as of symbols (words). But the analogy is also fundamental to the human condition because our Ego implies the presence of Other. Or, just as the images, the understanding of Other implies the analogy: he is a self like me, but another self than myself, that is, an analogous self. That is, you can understand the behavior of the other's activities and actions, even what he communicates as messages because you interpret them as if it were about yourself. Different from the human being who is an existent, in AI the essence precedes existence. Even if the algorithms of the analogy process will be infinitely perfected, that analogy will miss the interpretation that comes from the life of the existing one. AI knows digital, man understands analog; AI understands from knowledge, man knows from understanding.

Research paper thumbnail of Trei Întâlniri Teoretice Cu Poeticianul Mircea Borcilă

Research paper thumbnail of Manipulare, seductie si ideologie ostensiva/ Manipulation, Seduction and Ostensive Ideology

Journal for The Study of Religions and Ideologies, Sep 20, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Knowledge, Public Communication and “Post-Truth”: What is Left of Truth in a Time of Pandemic?

Postmodern Openings, Apr 29, 2021

The pandemic seems to have reversed the relationship between Knowledge and Communication: communi... more The pandemic seems to have reversed the relationship between Knowledge and Communication: communication prevails and determines the significance and meaning of events, just as it happened in premodern times. Public knowledge is being eroded. Post-modern scientific knowledge, already unfathomably complex and technical, is both evolving and becoming obsolete at such great speed that it unveils, paradoxically, the vulnerability and relativity of the truth it claims to grasp. Alongside truth-correspondence and truth-coherence, the older truth-significance also makes itself known. Amplified by the resonance chamber of new media and social networks, the latter can emerge as the "post-truth" and "fake-news" that transform Public Communication into Public Relations.

Research paper thumbnail of Eliade’s Idea of Ultimate Reality and Meaning: A Disanthropomorphized, ’Weakened’ Transcendence

Ultimate Reality and Meaning, Jun 1, 1998

Orthodox Christianity framed his religious ideas until his discovery of the wide variety of relig... more Orthodox Christianity framed his religious ideas until his discovery of the wide variety of religious phenomena through direct and personal experience in India. Mircea Eliade is not a philosopher of language as are the French structuralists or the supporters of analytic philosophy, and hence he is not a thinker whose work would show the influence of the 'linguistic tum'. Rather, he belongs to the modern philosophy which has pondered on how one comes to know something, and which, by consequence, is a philosophy of the human subject. As a result of reflection on knowledge this philosophy of the subject has replaced a philosophy of form or substance. It does share, however, at least one major issue with modem occidental philosophy: the debate over transcendence. Though it does not deny divinity, the Cartesian 'cogito' opens up an implicit way of understanding the biblical statement 'I am who am' vis a vis the comprehending subject. Similarly, German philosophy implicitly made a successor to the 'dead God' out of the subject, out of the 'ego', even before Nietzsche. Mircea Eliade substitutes the pondering of knowledge in modern philosophy with the pondering of significance. But, while he does gesture towards language, he also maintains the presence of the subject, of the religious man or woman. At the same time he neither endorses a position affirming a full, positive transcendence nor does he reject the void, the negative. He explicitly declares himself to be an opponent of both Sartre's idea of a negative transcendence and of a 'mosaic anthropomorphic monotheism', preferring instead a disanthropomorphised transcendence, one purified by the 'acid bath' of Indian philosophy (Eliade 1990, p. 114). This is, in fact, a third type of transcendence that mediates between the full, positive one and the empty, negative one by a 'weakened transcendence' (Piclin 1969, pp. 21-81). Under these circumstances the Whole-the world, the Cosmos, Life-is significant,

Research paper thumbnail of From persuasion to manipulation and seduction. (A very short history of global communication)

Journal for The Study of Religions and Ideologies, Oct 13, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Bodily Or Gender Identity

Studia philosophica, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Postmodernismul. Deschideri filosofice

Manfred Frank, Günther Figel, Claude Karnoouh, Matei …, 1995

Research paper thumbnail of Secularization and the Rise of Individualism

Contents INTRODUCTION 1. CURRENT THEORIES ON RELIGION 1.1 Approaches to the sacred 1.1. a The exp... more Contents INTRODUCTION 1. CURRENT THEORIES ON RELIGION 1.1 Approaches to the sacred 1.1. a The explanation of the sacred through non-religious analysis 1.1.b The explanation of the sacred with reference to the religious phenomenon 1.2 The secular religion 1.2.a The à-la-carte religious reference of the individual 1.2.b The individual and the secular religion 2. THE INDIVIDUAL 2.1 Aristotle and the tension between the individual and the community 2.2 Christianity as the origin of the individual 2.3 Modern trajectories of the individual 2.3.a The political trajectory of the individual: the social contract, the citizen and the human rights 2.3.b The theoretical trajectory and the problems of the individual 3. POWER AND COMMUNITY 3.1 The Church and the State 3.1.a The Christian and the natural world 3.1.b Types of relations between the Church and the State 3.1.c Mutual influences between the Church and the State 3.1.d The citizen's options after the separation between the Church and the State 3.2 The social conditioning of religion 3.3 Power and individuality 3.4 The relativity of the available world 4. SECULARIZATION 4.1 Secularization, a discussed and disputed process 4.2 The secularizing effect of Christianity on the other religions 4.3 The secularization caused by the Enlightenment 4.3.a The maturation of thought 4.3.b The emancipation of society 4.4 The contesting of the innovating status of modernity and Nietzsche's nihilism 4.5 The individual as the result of secularization CONCLUSION Index of names Index of terms BIBLIOGRAPHY

Research paper thumbnail of Postmodernismul: Deschideri filosofice

Research paper thumbnail of The Communication Background of Philosophical Counseling

Innovative Instruments for Community Development in Communication and Education, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Why Can't AI Understand Images as Man Does?

Postmodern Openings, 2020

AI can identify images, but cannot understand them as man does. The problem of understanding the ... more AI can identify images, but cannot understand them as man does. The problem of understanding the iconic signs is the analogy, which cannot be clearly operationalized. Nothing guarantees signification by analogy, because it is neither the necessary effect of a cause, as in the indicative signs, nor the obligatory consequence of a rule, as of symbols (words). But the analogy is also fundamental to the human condition because our Ego implies the presence of Other. Or, just as the images, the understanding of Other implies the analogy: he is a self like me, but another self than myself, that is, an analogous self. That is, you can understand the behavior of the other's activities and actions, even what he communicates as messages because you interpret them as if it were about yourself. Different from the human being who is an existent, in AI the essence precedes existence. Even if the algorithms of the analogy process will be infinitely perfected, that analogy will miss the interpre...

Research paper thumbnail of From the “Camera Obscura” to the Computer, or How Does the Image Become an Apparent Indexical Sign

Journal for Communication and Culture

DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals, SPARC Europe Award 2009 English. Free, full text, quality... more DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals, SPARC Europe Award 2009 English. Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages. ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Communicative Force of the Body. Constituent problems of gesture semiotics

anale.fssp.uaic.ro

Abstract. It is said that Friedrich II has undertaken in the XIII centuries an experiment through... more Abstract. It is said that Friedrich II has undertaken in the XIII centuries an experiment through which he was trying to discover the primordial lan-guage, spoken in Paradise, by raising children to whom no one has ever spoken. As it is well known, the end result of this experiment ...