Review of Descartes, R. (2024). Œuvres (Vols. I-II). (J.-M. Beyssade, D. Kambouchner, Eds.). Paris: Gallimard.
Review of Bartsch, S. (2023). Plato Goes to China: the Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism. Princeton: Princeton UP.
The article explores the possibility of the Ukrainian national philosophical tradition in the global world. The author justifies an approach to this tradition based on the following theses: 1) this tradition is constituted fully, rather than fragmentarily, with the emergence of the Ukrainian state; 2) the war has significantly intensified the need for self-determination in Ukrainian philosophizing; 3) the national tradition is enabled by the Ukrainian language and its conceptual resources, which determine the formation of the disciplinary structure of Ukrainian philosophy, as well as the diversity of currents and directions for researching contemporary issues; 4) an important part of Ukrainian philosophy is the phenomenon of philosophy in Ukraine, which must exist not as a negation or confrontation with the national philosophical tradition, but in a modality of interaction, discussion, and dialogue. All traditions must preserve freedom of philosophical expression.
This article seeks to interpret Yājñavalkya’s teaching on ātman within the problem context of the historical types of knowledge. The focus falls not on external phenomena but on the nature of magical, religious, and philosophical knowledge, approached through the very criteria employed by Yājñavalkya himself. Within this framework, the category of religious knowledge is significantly narrowed. Such an epistemological approach enables a clearer differentiation between religious and magical knowledge within any given religious tradition.
Review of Horstmann, R.-P. (2024). From Apparent to True Knowledge (Wissen). Transitions in Hegelʼs “Phenomenology of Spirit”. Stuttgart; Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog.
