Octavian Gabor

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Methodist College, Illinois, United State

Both Thomas Love Peacock and Plato use dialogue for their works while they differ in what they envisage and what they achieve, i.e. same form, different objectives. Thus, having Peacock and Plato writing dialogues in different frames---one literary and one philosophical---raises an important question: can literary writers be more provocative of tho...

In a world where faith and reason are perceived as enemies, this book describes them as companions. Readers are invited to travel into the souls of ordinary people and the minds of philosophers and theologians, experience the meekness coming from faith, or attempt to decipher complicated philosophical concepts. This is a book that reveals the human...

This is a book review of Ruth Coates' "Deification in Russian Religious Thought: Between the Revolutions, 1905–1917" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), 232 pp.

Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context examines the translation and reception of Russian literature as a world-wide process. This volume aims to provoke new debate about the continued currency of Russian literature as symbolic capital for international readers, in particular for nations seeking to create or consolidate cultural and po...

Prior to its philosophical meaning of “contemplation,” theoria meant the journey that a theoros took to a different city to participate in a religious spectacle. One of the common features that philosophical theoria and traditional theoria share is the journey that the philosopher and the theoros respectively take toward the realm that is to be kno...

The link between language and thought formed a major new exploration of twentieth-century philosophy. Languages nuance our ideas and perceptions. Though from various angles, Heidegger, Derrida, Wittgenstein forged new ways of understanding the relationship between our views of the external world and our culturally and linguistically pre-determined...

Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannus shows that humans' problems do not appear when they listen to the gods, but when they listen to themselves imagining that they follow the gods. Instead of placing themselves in the service of the god, as Socrates does in Plato’s Apology, they only think that they follow the divinity, while they actually act according to...

Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannus shows that humans' problems do not appear when they listen to the gods, but when they listen to themselves imagining that they follow the gods. Instead of placing themselves in the service of the god, as Socrates does in Plato’s Apology, they only think that they follow the divinity, while they actually act according to...

Constantin Noica is a Romanian philosopher of the 20th century, who lived for most of his life in a communist totalitarian society. Directly or indirectly, he shows in his work various ways of doing philosophy in an absurd context. His final answer stems from his belief that all things are either good or can become good. For him, doing philosophy i...

Plato’s Crito and Sophocles’ Antigone challenge the concept of justice as “benefitting friends and harming enemies”: justice stems from anger and harms the soul. The Antigone first illustrates how violence results from people’s actions when they see themselves as the agents of justice; second, it points to a possible reassessment of justice as bene...

In Plato's Meno, Socrates is challenged to explain how it is possible to inquire into something without already having a grasp of that something or without knowing the direction in which one is going. In this dialogue, Constantin Noica (1909–1987) sees one of Plato's insights: knowledge is always directed toward something that is already known. In...

There are two types of responsibility in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: a judgmental one and a healing one. In judgmental responsibility, humans judge others and the world around them and act in order to "cleanse" it from any impurities. In doing so, they establish themselves as supra-humans and, by consequence, as murderers. In healing respons...

Purpose: To explore and understand the use and intended outcomes of presence from the perspective of and as experienced by nurses. Methods: Twenty-seven nurses participated in one of four focus groups. Data were analyzed using Giorgi's phenomenological method. Findings: Four themes emerged: (1) therapeutic communication; (2) nurse well-being;...

This project tackles the question of whether Aristotle considers form to be peculiar to each particular being or to be identical for all members of a species. I focus on the form of natural beings, so soul. Contrary to the general opinion in Aristotelian scholarship, I believe that both species form and particular form are at work at the same time,...