We defend a view that in the modern world old models of solving conflicts and divisions in place are no longer appropriate and therefore a need for dialogue to solve the problems of human communities. We point to burdens and sediments of the past, which function as inhibitory mechanisms in the process of finding an open and constructive dialogic space. It is important to change the mentality (mindset) towards an awareness of the necessity of cooperation and increased awareness of the spiritual foundations. We base our arguments on the presupposition that integrative processes are not only complex and long-term political process but also ideological, cultural, national, religious and social process. We highlight the fact that people of the former totalitarian systems are most vulnerable to a variety of manipulations and other negative transitional phenomena. We must go beyond one-dimensional understanding of identity and move to the multi-layered and multi-faceted view of human identity. It is also necessary to build a collaborative, dedicated and thoroughly dialogical politics. The consciousness of belonging together requires a continuous exchange in social dialogue as an art of personal and common life.
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The book »Unity and Multiplicity as a Metaphysical Problem« comprises ten studies, which deal with some key-philosophers of the past and of the contemporary time, who made important contribution to this subject (Parmenides, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, Meister Echkart, Nicholas of Cusa, Kant, Hegel, Levinas, Henrichs). The authors of the articles can be counted among the leading experts in the German speaking world. The book was published by the renowned publisher Mohr Siebeck in Tübingen in the series »Collegium Metaphysicum«, which has an ISSN (2191-6683) and is directed similarly to the reviewed journals (with an international advisory board). In his contribution about Levinas Klun gives a concise presentation of Levinas's conception of unity and alterity and he also critically points to the limits of Levinasian approach.
COBISS.SI-ID: 5622106
This original article offers a critical view of the question of gender hierarchy within the Catholic Church, calling into question and putting under a microscope the patriarchal-tinted character of the Church’s system. The article deals with the issue of gradual patriarchalisation of Christianity from the standpoint of Christian feminist theology. In this sense it represents a significant contribution not only to the Slovene social-research sphere, but also to international circles. The article is thus the basis for an understanding and classification of the phenomenon of theological ecofeminism and the phenomenon of women's spirituality and one of the most important elements within the context of women' s inter-religious dialogue.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1979091