The Army is a stabilizing factor for any country that operates well defined by the rules, which leaves no room for interpretation, with a well-established hierarchy. Factors leading to the motivation of soldiers are: social cohesion, ideology, coercion and, last but not least, financial reward....

The present paper represents our attempt to decipher the literary ideas that Henry James, Northrop Frye and David Lodge brought in criticism, therefore our main focus is on The Art of Fiction and The Art of the Novel, both belonging to Henry James, The Anatomy of Criticism-by Northrop Frye and...

Ethnicity and interethnicity in ethnopsychology, similarities, differences, complementarities, criteria and approaches, the personalistic perspective, research tools, field investigation: design and action, the processing and interpretation of data, the descriptive and explanatory elaboration of...

The paper attempts at sketching a portrait of an ethical expert adapted to the Romanian context. Departing from an analysis of various roles of the ethical expert from the Western context, the paper will evaluate the diverse competence that are necessary for performing these roles. Admitting the...

The metaphor of gift (“the gift of life”) has represented a dominant topic in transplantation ethics. It is based on the act of donating altruistically an organ, either after one’s death, or during one’s life. However, taking into account the current organ shortage, the idea of gift and...

Apart from the practical problems that we are faced with in the case of organ donation, there lay a series of terminological issues in need of a thorough clarification. Recently, the ELPAT group on living donors (Ethical, Legal and Psychological Aspects of Organ Transplantation) has proposed a...

The researches carried out in the last two decades and a half on the philosophical works of Lucian Blaga have pointed out the exceptional importance of his epistemology, theory of knowledge and philosophy of science. All these fields are both traits of singularity for Blaga’s metaphysical...

The measures of reforming the educational system brought additional pressure on the educators that work in kindergartens with prolonged program in Iasi, not to mention the stress caused by the huge number of children and lack of places and space in kindergarten. In order to highlight the...

Contemporary means of communication, and especially television have the capacity to fully exploit the primary passions. However, instead of becoming instruments of democracy they turned frequently into instruments of symbolic exploitation. Symbolic violence is that particular type of violence...

The problem of defining the concept of intelligence has constituted the starting point for psychologists and not only. Are we born intelligent? Does intelligence acquire over time? These are only some of the questions they have asked themselves. The vagueness of the term’s significance has...