Vol. 1 No. 1 (December 2024)
  • Articles

    The Quest for Happiness: Medieval Perspectives for Our Future: Philosophical and Literary-Historical Investigations

    Albrecht Classen
    1-12

    49 (Abstract) 21 (Download)

    Human life makes sense only if the individual can achieve a certain degree of happiness. In order to address this topic in an insightful and effective way, this paper turns to a selection of medieval literary narratives where the focus specifically rests on happiness that an individual might achieve when the circumstances and the ideals... more

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    Sartre’s ‘Freedom’ and Society: Existentialist’s Dilemma in Naturalistic View

    Anirban Ghosh, Malabika Chakrabarti
    13-25

    18 (Abstract) 65 (Download)

    Existentialism dealt with the essence of human existence and established its priority over others where freedom of act for a conscious mind was the prime factor. Jean-Paul Sartre emphasized on such individual freedom with imposition of some liabilities over it for humanity. Sartre and other philosophers furnished different causes for such restrictions. However, the general... more

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    Justice, Democracy, and Freedom in the Middle Ages: The Fables by Marie de France

    Albrecht Classen
    26–38

    31 (Abstract) 18 (Download)

    It might be surprising, and yet it can certainly be confirmed that the Anglo-Norman poet Marie de France offered in her Fables (ca. 1190) a wide range of political, social, moral, and philosophical notions about the way people within her society should and could live together in a peaceful, just, and respectful manner. She did... more

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    Thought-Shaping, Reflection and the Refractive Element

    Otto Paans
    39-54

    41 (Abstract) 18 (Download)

    Is it possible to think beyond the structuring and directing influences of thought-shaping? Or, phrased differently, how can thought-shaping be genuinely free and creative? My response in this essay is that we must move beyond the idea of thought-shaping as mere awareness or critical reflection. As I show, the notion of reflection itself has raised... more

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    Heidegger’s Philosophical Anthropology and its Application to the Police in the UK: A Realistic Reflection

    Robert Adlam
    55–69

    113 (Abstract) 20 (Download)

    This paper is written from an ‘insider’ and decades-long practitioner-based set of experiences whilst the author was working as an academic director of studies at the UK Police College, Bramshill. It begins by briefly identifying and characterising the College as a particularly distinct cultural institution. It underlines the fact that the academic staff found themselves... more