A Reading of Sandu Frunză's Readings: Filosofie și comunicare cotidiană. Cărțile ar putea să-ți schimbe viața [Philosophy and Daily Communication. Books Could Change Your Life], Lumen Publishing House, 2020

Is it still necessary to read books? Why should we, if we generally should, read more books? Why should we tire ourselves by doing this activity, when technology gives us so many other ways to consume the information we need or don't need? Why get bored with long, still texts, without images, trying to penetrate the meaning of their words, often distributed among the beautiful but difficult to probe formulations, when we have the alternative of receiving information through other sources, much more user-friendly? This paper is a review of the volume ”Filosofie și comunicare cotidiană. Cărțile ar putea să-ți schimbe viața” [Philosophy and everyday communication. Books could change your life], written by Sandu Frunză and published at Lumen Publishing House from Iași in 2020.

Some Approaches Regarding the Philosophy of Technology

The concept of technology can be understood in many ways, especially nowadays, when we are practically connected to a multitude of increasingly complex artifacts. Talking about the philosophy of technology means bringing to the fore a multitude of related fields, as technology has changed the way we behave in the world, the way we relate to others and also the way we think and act. In this paper we will make an analysis of the concepts of technique and technology starting from the philosophies of Antiquity and continue on the way we currently understand man's relationship with artifacts.

The Evolution of Mind and Reflexive Thinking Starting from the Ancient Greeks to Stoic Philosophers

The aim of this article is to investigate the vision of self-knowledge and the human ability to know oneself and also in relation to the source, starting from the ancient Greeks and exploring their sources of inspiration. Everything is pursued in relation to the affirmation: Man's self-consciousness is a mirror of the source Consciousness, which knows itself through people. There are a few arguments in relation to this: Self-awareness as a self-concern reflected in the universe, appears in pre-Socratic thinkers and outlined in Plato in the triadic vision, and much later is the subject of well-defined study in psychology. Therefore, a good knowledge of the subject starts from the first mentions. The perspective of Stoic philosophers in which self-concern is organized in the form of a set of clearly defined rules, well-defined procedures, a true process of transformation that is completed with the creation of an attitude of alignment Man-Universe / Universal Nature. It is the best represented system of self-conscious work of all the schools of philosophy up to that time.

The Factory of False Windows in Law and in Ethics. Symmetries and Dissymmetries of Values

There exists in ethics many values that seem to enjoy full positivity, which is expressed by names, but which in reality hide either asymmetries or false balances between the very opposed values they pretend to reconcile, while this pretense turns out fruitless.

Review of the Book ”Building Bridges: Promoting Wellbeing for Family. Handbook for Parents”, Coordinator Aurora-Adina Colomeischi, Lumen Publishing House, 2018

The volume “Building bridges: Promoting wellbeing for family. Handbook for parents ”, published by Lumen Publishing House from Iași in 2018, was developed within the project “Building bridges: Promoting social inclusion and well-being for the families of children with special needs (PSI-WELL)”, and is the result of a cross-sectional and transnational study on social inclusion, stress levels and the well-being of families with children with special needs, carried out in each of the 6 countries that were partners in the project (Romania, Spain, Portugal, Croatia, Turkey and Lithuania). The volume coordinated by Assoc. Prof. PhD. Aurora Adina Colomeischi provides concrete results of the extensive research undertaken within the project and seems to be a viable starting point for the development of an educational policy for parents and families of children with special needs. The work is very well substantiated scientifically, and is especially useful for parents who face the special needs of their children, but also for the specialists who undergo therapy with them. In our opinion, the book deals with desirable aspects in the development of social intervention programs often aimed at parents with children with special needs, programs dealing with improving personal resources and parenting skills needed to solve various special and difficult situations presented by children.

The Importance and Limits of Experiential Psychotherapy

Experiential therapy focuses on emotions - whether we are talking about negative emotions, such as anger, pain, shame - correlated with past experiences, but also emotions associated with success, self-esteem, or even responsibility. Unlocking already experienced emotions and their subjective experience is the central point of experiential therapy - whether we are talking about the experience of the immediate and the awareness of our own being, or we are talking about "frozen" experiences, to which we have no conscious access outside psychotherapeutic practices. It reconfigures our mental maps by generating behaviors that make sense only in correlation with the understanding of those emotions, that are present in the subconscious but of which we are unaware and are not effectively rationalized. The article aims to analyze the field of application and the therapeutic particularities of experiential psychotherapy as a form of existentialist-humanistic therapy, as well as the limits of the experiential paradigm in a postmodern context.

Conceptual Delimitations related to the Philosophical Approaches on Synthetic Biology

Synthetic biology is an area of ​​technological development and innovative scientific research at the crossroads between biology and technology (bioengineering), that aims to create artificial living systems, either by redesigning living systems that already exist in the natural environment, or by producing organic systems that are quasi-biological, which emulate organic life. A number of research methods and technologies are incorporated in the development of synthetic biology, including genetic engineering, molecular biology and bio-molecular engineering, biophysics, chemical engineering, evolutionary biology, computer and computing engineering, genetics etc. The article aims to analyze the meanings of the term synthetic biology and the technological path that made the emergence of synthetic biology possible, the technological applications of synthetic biology, and starting from all this, to present a series of philosophical perspectives on synthetic biology.

Review of the Volume “Bioethics in Crisis or the Crisis of Bioethics? An Anthropology of the Pandemic in the Medicalized Society”, Author: Antonio Sandu, Lumen Publishing House, 2020

The volume “Bioethics in crisis or a crisis of bioethics? An anthropology of the pandemic in the medicalized society”, authored by Antonio Sandu and published by Lumen Publishing House from Iasi, in 2020, is not at all what bioethicists might expect. It is more than they expected. It is a book that not only deals with traditional topics of bioethics, but also takes on new discussions, newly spawned by the current COVID-19 medical and social crisis. It is not only a book for bioethicists, be they philosophers or specialists in the medical field, but it is also an eye opener for sociologists and law specialists.

Review of the Book ”Vocea de la căpătâi. Ghid practic de consiliere psihologică la patul bolnavului” [The Bedside Voice. Practical Guide for Psychological Counseling at the Patient’s Bed], Author: Ligia Moise, Lumen Publishing House, 2019

The volume ”Vocea de la căpătâi. Ghid practic de consiliere psihologică la patul bolnavului” [The bedside voice. Practical guide for psychological counseling at the patient’s bed], authored by Ligia Moise, and published in 2019 by Lumen Publishing House from Iasi, Romania took me back to the years when I graduated the training course in psychotherapy, when I was looking, as a debutant professional, for examples from the professional practice of experienced psychologists or psychotherapists, a field that was not very richly represented in the literature, so the invitation of Ligia Moise to a journey into the world of the clinical psychology can be seen as an important contribution to the enrichment of knowledge in the field of the relationship with the patient, gathered from a complex professional experience.

In the Trace of Gerardo Mello Mourão: The Inter-Gender Hybridism and the Formation of Epiliric Poetry in Contemporary Brazilian Literature

In its configurative and representational basis, contemporary literature has established a warm dialogue with the classic and modern canons for the formation of literary genres that distance themselves from the poetics in force in order to establish their own aesthetics since the contemporary is in maintaining this gaze fixed on the present by returning to the past to deny or affirm it as the tradition of the new or the new of tradition (PAZ, 2000). The present study is justified in raising the reflection on the form of the epic and the lyric based on the transformations that occurred over the centuries to found an epic-lyric poetry as a renewing style of contemporary Brazilian poetry, the object of this research, which is based on the works Invention of the sea and Os peãs, by Gerardo Mello Mourão. The objective is to demonstrate the resistance of the epic in the current world by the hybrid composition that is established in the act of its production by the exteriority of the real along with the narrator's subjectivity. The problem of intergeneric hybridism is developed through bibliographic and qualitative research with intermediation of the deductive method and through the aesthetic-philosophical bias to demonstrate that it becomes the guiding element of this avant-garde style capable of establishing historical events through the temporality built by the world text. This whole discussion is centered on Aristotle (1992) and Boileau (1990), going through Hegel (1997), Lukacs (2000) and Bakhtin (2010) until arriving at Staiger (1997), Lima (2002), Greenfield (2006) and Kristeva (1995), showing that the epic-lyric poem is supported by the pluridiscursive dialogism maintained between the nature of the stylization of the lyric and epos as a style and not as a novelized process.