Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy & Humanistic Sciences

Prozac-propelled Postmodern Poetry, Partly (II)

2024-03-15T10:45:57+02:00

Conventionally singled out of the class of antidepressants, Prozac is further associated in what follows with poetic activity in terms of postmodern female identity. The two women under consideration, Liza Porter and Martha Silano, are lost and adrift in their stressed-out dysfunctional families, not in the least because of their mood disorders, major depression and respectively postpartum psychosis. Psychotherapy turning out to be inefficient for them in the long run, antidepressants or rather a combination of them come into play, and they restore a sense, even if more or less altered, of some poetic identity. In their interviews, they actually admit they are both cases of a definite progress from non-poetry to poetry. We will take either at her word, intent as we are on relating poet restoration to human recuperation.

New Times, New Knowledge, and Finding the ‘NorthStar’ of Success in a Changing World of Learning

2024-03-12T12:34:51+02:00

As a primordial concept of human experience, knowledge, in a broad sense, was not necessarily and always linked to learning, but rather something bestowed from on high or mysteriously granted. Throughout the eras since, education changed from an esoteric elite marker to one of pragmatic, applied ability to discover and invent. With the coming of the industrial revolution, social massification al la Marcuse followed, and with it the use of mass persuasion, for good (literacy campaigns) or ill (rank consumerism). Knowledge was thus intimately tied up with the processes of democratization and adaptation to trends increasingly related to economic and at most social competitiveness, so, in a word, the need for a programmatic and generally pragmatically oriented Learning. In other words, the accessibility of knowledge and the related methodologies of its teaching, assimilation and evaluation have become increasingly widespread. As Western (and then others) societies have followed the “knowledge society” transformation, philosophical conflicts on the essential meaning of “education” and for whom have persisted and intensified. In the coming A.I. transformation, how will mass education evolve for the many, vis-a-vis of elite esoteric education for the few? To which type of beneficiaries will it predominately serve? To a transhumanist Elon Musk, for example, or, on the contrary, much more sensitively stressed by the rigors of the new “intellectual revolution” (cf European Commission), sustainable development in a broad meaning, post-pandemic resilience and a flexible pragmatism, open to interdisciplinarity and ethical options grounded in self and civic responsibility/responsibility?

The Place of the Intellectual in the Contemporary World. An Opinion on the Issue Addressed in the Novel „Mic Dejun la Café de Flore” [Breakfast at Café de Flore] Authored by Elena Adriana Dobrinoiu

2024-03-19T12:06:37+02:00

This article is about an anthropological and philosophical analysis of the novel „Mic Dejun la Café de Flore”, a novel authored by Elena Adriana Dobrinoiu and published at Lumen Publishing in 2024. Our analysis has as its main subject the place of the intellectual and especially of the intellectual engagement in the public space - either in politics or journalism – analysis that is occasioned by the reading of the autobiographical novel by Elena Adriana Dobrinoiu, a novel that was read in the key to a possible answer to the question whether and what place the intellectual has in the contemporary world, at least in the current Western cultural space.

Review of the Volume “Depresia între știință și credință” [Depression between science and faith] by Petronela Polixenia Nistor

2024-03-13T11:57:39+02:00

This contribution is a review for the volume of university lecturer PhD. Petronela Polixenia Nistor, entitled “Depresia între știință și credință” [Depression between science and faith], which is published by the "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University Publishing House from Iași in 2015 and represents the research work carried out in order to obtain the PhD. degree in Orthodox Theology, within the Faculty " Dumitru Stăniloae" from Iasi

Depressive and Anxiety Disorders in Adolescents. A Psycho-spiritual Approach and Statistical Contextualization

2024-03-12T11:54:58+02:00

At the beginning of the third millennium, depression is under a lot of debate and specialist studies, literature, artistic manifestations and people's testimonies highlight this form of mental disorder that is growing and giving rise to complex and various problems. Depression means a state of pathological sadness and, at the same time, is a permanent negative state, an emotional pain overwhelming an individual in moments almost normal of life, but which are perceived disproportionately. Besides sadness, cognition, thought process, will and decision-making power are also impaired. Usually, depressive states do not have an organic cause, but some existential causes, linked to the absence of perception of life meaning and the connection to God.
Depressive disorder is a real public health issue, with a major impact on the cognitive, psychological and social development of adolescents. Therefore, this work aims to identify, from a theoretical perspective, the factors that generate a context favoring the triggering and amplification of some forms of depressive or anxiety disorders in adolescents, and also to highlight some multidisciplinary methods of understanding and intervention proposals.

Anxiety and Depressive Disorders in Adolescents. Contemporary Psycho-spiritual and Therapeutic Values

2024-03-12T12:26:49+02:00

This work is a continuation of a study on `Depressive and anxiety disorders in adolescents. A psycho-spiritual approach and statistical contextualization` and highlights from a theoretical perspective the interdependent relationship between the spiritual and mental health, which should be seriously contemplated when creating a therapy plan for adolescents with depressive and anxiety disorders. It also deals with the connection between health and the temptations of the current world, which theology and spirituality distinguish in the multitude of emotional and psychological disorders. Additionally, this study showcases the psychotherapies in a synthetic manner: cognitive-behavioral, existential, logotherapy and interpersonal psychotherapy and highlights the inherent value of their interconnection with religious acts such as fasting, prayer, confession, which support the medical-psychological therapeutics, providing adolescents with discipline in the process of healing these contemporary pathologies.