Pub Date : 2010-03-15DOI: 10.3846/COACTIVITY.2010.07
V. Pruskus
The article deals with the freedom and safety of an individual under market conditions and ethical limits of market expression in the attitude of liberalism and Christian social science.Liberalism and Christian social teaching admits that market and its mechanism gives an individual and society an opportunity to fulfil their needs better, but differently estimates ethical limits of market expression. It is shown that in the attitude of Christian social teaching the goal of economic action is not only to create welfare for society and the individual but also to secure its safety. In its turn, creation of safety is associated with the necessity to overcome the single-acting dominance of economic values in the market society: ethic values by which economic action of the individual and society should be measured have to penetrate into economic space.
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Pub Date : 2010-03-15DOI: 10.3846/COACTIVITY.2010.01
Elizabeth A. Behnke
This paper reflects on certain working assumptions of Husserlian phenomenological practice (notably, critique of presuppositions, retrieval from anonymity, and the radical reduction to the living present), using an investigation of interkinaesthetic affectivity as an example. I suggest that in some cases, Husserl’s “stratificational” model (where “higher” levels are founded on “lower” ones, or “later” achievements rest on “earlier” ones) should be replaced with the notion of the ongoing dynamic efficacy of mutually co-founding, interpenetrating, and interfunctioning moments-“through”-which experience proceeds. Finally, I relate the latter model to Patocka’s call for a genuine (re)integration of the three movements of embodied human life.
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Pub Date : 2010-03-15DOI: 10.3846/COACTIVITY.2010.06
Janez Vodičar
Hermeneutical circle needs encouragement. Could that be religiosity? Paul Ricoeur insists on some kind of philosophical agnosticism, although in everyday practice he is consciously bound to Christianity. His poetical approach in Biblical hermeneutics when he confronts his position with his non-believing contemporaries, very clearly shows that religious dimension of man, especially in its openness to new meanings, makes the understanding more prolific. This opens the way for new attempts of repeated search for the human need for religious dimension at Luc Ferry and Gianni Vattimo as well. It is not necessary there to be a very certain form of religiosity; the important thing is openness towards these questions. In such a way we liberate the science to seriously confront with religious dimension of a man. This is especially important in a globalized world where religiosity, on the one hand, can be a cause for the clash of civilizations and, on the other, it can be a possibility of a common search for a world ethos.
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Pub Date : 2010-03-15DOI: 10.3846/COACTIVITY.2010.02
Rashmi Pandya
The importance of Levinas’ notions of sensibility and subjectivity are evident in the revision of phenomenological method by current phenomenologists such as Jean-Luc Marion and Michel Henry. The criticisms of key tenants of classical phenomenology, intentionality and reduction, are of a particular note. However, there are problems with Levinas’ characterization of subjectivity as essentially sensible. In “Totality and Infinity” and “Otherwise than Being”, Levinas criticizes and recasts a traditional notion of subjectivity, particularly the notion of the subject as the first and foremost rational subject. The subject in Levinas’ works is characterized more by its sensibility and affectedness than by its capacity to reason or affect its world. Levinas ties rationality to economy and suggests an alternative notion of reason that leads to his analysis of the ethical relation as the face-to-face encounter. The ‘origin’ of the social relation is located not in our capacity to know but rather in a sensibility that is diametrically opposed to the reason understood as economy. I argue that the opposition in Levinas’ thought between reason and sensibility is problematic and essentially leads to a self-conflicted subject. In fact, it would seem that violence characterizes the subject’s self-relation and, thus, is also inscribed at the base of the social relation. Rather than overcoming a problematic tendency to dualistic thought in philosophy Levinas merely reverses traditional hierarchies of reason/emotion, subject/object and self/other.
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Pub Date : 2010-03-15DOI: 10.3846/COACTIVITY.2010.05
Agnieška Juzefovič
The article deals with the question of intersubjectivity in Daoists’ treatise Zhuangzi and shows how in Daoism a skeptical approach towards rationality and reasonable, logical understanding is reflected in the very topic of inter-human understanding. The author argues that in Zhuangzi “self ” is treated as uncertain and contextual; thus, according to a situation, it can suddenly transform and take totally different features. A popular and often interpreted dialogue between Zhuangzi and his opponent Huizi about joy of the fish is analyzed from the point of view of intersubjectivity – the author shows how the possibility of mutual understanding between two interlocutors as well as between human being and the fish or the nature in general is treated. The author argues that intersubjective relation according to Zhuangzi is possible not on a rational or empirical level but on a deeper intuitive, empathetic level. Finally, the author shows how this topic is treated in western phenomenology and dialogical philosophy.
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Pub Date : 2010-03-15DOI: 10.3846/COACTIVITY.2010.04
Arūnas Mickevičius
The article gives an account of the encounter between Jacques Derrida and Hans-Georg Gadamer at the Goethe Institute in Paris in April 1981. The article discusses disagreement between Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics and Derrida’s deconstruction. The main aim is to show why hermeneutical “good will to understand” cannot be reduced to “metaphysics of presence”. Another aim is to explicate possible interconnections between hermeneutics and deconstruction strategies. Keywords: hermeneutics; dialectics of question and answer; deconstruction; good will to understand; meaning; metaphysics of presence. DOI: 10.3846/coactivity.2010.04
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Pub Date : 2009-10-09DOI: 10.3846/1822-430X.2009.17.4.52-61
Pavel Skorupa, Tatjana Bosulajeva
The paper presents the survey of idiomatic English business terms and their Lithuanian equivalents. The study was based on the theory of idioms and idiomaticity, highlighting the idea that idiomaticity can affect single words, word combinations, and longer text passages. Idiomatic business terms were taken from different English and Lithuanian general and special dictionaries, course books, as well as business texts. The analyzed terms were classified into distinct groups according to their meaning. The key problem encountered was the lack of Lithuanian translation equivalents to certain idiomatic English business terms. Possible Lithuanian translation was provided.
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Pub Date : 2009-10-09DOI: 10.3846/1822-430X.2009.17.4.32-37
Alvyda Liuolienė, Regina Metiūnienė
The aim of the article is to get acquainted with the types of journals used in education to help students to learn. The paper presents some ways of fostering student’s learning through reflective journaling. It also describes the key aspects of a new method ARRIVE cycle in connection with teachers preparation to use reflective journals in a classroom. The article also presents self-assessment in reflective journaling and students’ need to self-evaluate their learning process. Reflective journaling as central to students’ self-evaluation is described as a means of fostering metacognition.
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Pub Date : 2009-10-09DOI: 10.3846/1822-430X.2009.17.4.26-31
Regina Juškienė
The long and complex development of teaching methods of foreign languages from the 17th century to the present times is analysed in the article. Methodologists constantly searched for better and more effective methods of teaching, they created teaching methods and teaching systems. Some teaching systems and methods are described in the work, their advantages and drawbacks are revealed. Methodologists and linguists have tried to create a universal teaching system; however, as the authors state, it is possible to implement this only by eliminating shortcomings of the present teaching systems and methods. The article is valuable from the theoretical point of view, first of all.
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Pub Date : 2009-10-09DOI: 10.3846/1822-430X.2009.17.4.11-18
Nijolė Burkšaitienė
The use of metacognitive strategies of learning in universities has been identified as a key factor in learning and teaching; however, little known research has focused on the influence of portfolio method on students’ use of metacognitive learning strategies in ESP courses. This study was aimed at discussing the role of portfolio use in university studies and examining the impact of the learning portfolio on students’ use of metacognitive learning strategies while studying English for Law. The results indicate a positive influence of the learning portfolio on the use of the metacognitive strategy of organising, assessing, controlling and planning one’s learning.
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