2026-01Forum
Who Deserves Deliverance? The Ideal Refugee and Proximate Humanitarianism: Comparing Syrian and Ukrainian Refugee Reception in Poland

15/08/2026  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2026.0009

Abstract: This article argues that a normative figure of an “ideal refugee” operates as a Weberian ideal type in contemporary refugee governance, hierarchically ordering displaced people according to standards of conduct, affect, and political identity. Drawing on critical citizenship studies, the article traces how acts of citizenship and rightful presence produce legible and illegible refugee subjects…

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2026-01Forum
Religion, Progress, and Intellectual Freedom: John Stuart Mill, Abraham Kuyper, and the Shape of a Plural Society

15/08/2026  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2026.0008

Abstract: John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty is typically regarded as the key defense of free discussion in nineteenth-century Europe, and thus it remains relevant to contemporary concerns about free speech. It is also often seen as the fruit of its author’s secular mindset, suggesting a substantive link between that mindset and free discussion. This article examines…

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2025-04Forum
Understanding this Dire Historical Moment – an Essay

31/05/2026  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2025.0039

Abstract: The purpose of this essay is to explain this extraordinary historical moment – through the crises that constitute the malaise of modernity and the root cause of this malaise – modernity’s flight from the ascetic norms. But although worthy, this historical method cannot explain why history appears to be hastening. To explain this,…

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2025-04Forum
Music as a Model of Aesthetic Experience in Arnold Berleant’s Environmental Aesthetics

31/05/2026  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2025.0038

Abstract: This article explores Arnold Berleant’s environmental aesthetics with a focus on his innovative use of music as a model for aesthetic experience. Berleant challenges the dominant Kantian framework of disinterested contemplation by proposing an aesthetics of engagement – an immersive, participatory, and multisensory approach rooted in the everyday. Music, in Berleant’s theory, does not exist as a fixed…

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2025-03Forum
Between Myth and Fantasy: On the Application of Psychoanalytic Tools to the Analysis of Political Discourse

31/01/2026  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2025.0028

Abstract: This article is a critique of the research perspective that analyzes political myths based on the methods of the study of myths. The author points to the need to supplement this perspective with the Lacanian theory of fantasy, which allows for capture of subjective desire manifested in myths. Theories in the study of myths (of…

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2025-03Forum
Philosophical Historiography, Military History, and 2020s Crisis War

31/01/2026  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2025.0027

Abstract: Military history has to date shown little interest in war periodicity. It will soon witness the confirmation or disproof of a war forecast made over thirty years ago, by a socio-political model of Anglo-American culture that predicted a major civic and war crisis for the 2020s. Extending that model beyond the scope of original authors, Neil…

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2025-03Forum
The End of the Will to Power: From Aesthetics to Theology

31/01/2026  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2025.0026

Abstract: In a critical commentary on the final paragraph of The Will to Power (Der Wille zur Macht, ¶1067 (1885)) it is argued that Nietzsche ironically presupposes the metaphysics, and even the theology, he putatively eschews and repudiates. Nietzsche’s anti-realism about aesthetics, in its broadest extension, is refuted by showing that the Apollonian is not an illusion but a fundamental…

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2025-02Forum
On the Second-Person Perspective in Schopenhauer’s Moral Philosophy

30/11/2025  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2025.0020

Abstract: In this paper, the author reflects on the concept of second-person perspective in Schopenhauer’s moral philosophy, with a special emphasis on his ethics of compassion and moral psychology. By referring to some of the pioneers who introduced the concept of second-person perspective into philosophy, the author first tries to define the terms: second-person perspective and second-person relatedness….

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2025-02Forum
Is Gastronomy a Medium for Artistic Expression? The Problem of Consumption and the Purported Asymmetry Between Aesthetic Judgments and Judgments of Personal Preference

30/11/2025  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2025.0019

Abstract: This paper defends that gastronomy is a medium for artistic expression. It explores two arguments frequently used to defend that gastronomy is not an artistic medium: the problem of consumption and the asymmetry between aesthetic judgments and judgments of personal preference. The former defends that gastronomy and fine arts are fundamentally…

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2025-02Forum
Anarchist-Socialist Praxis and Embodied Human Nature

30/11/2025  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2025.0018

Abstract: The idea of human nature can be wielded to justify exploitation and domination, but drawing on the work of Noam Chomsky, Murray Bookchin and others, I argue consideration of our embodied nature can help humans thrive. The anarchist tradition encompasses people’s tendency to reject unnecessary authority, and it invokes the sociality inseparable from human…

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