Review article
PHILOSOPHICAL TOPICS IN THE FIRST QUARTER CENTURY OF POLEMOS
Stipe Buzar
orcid.org/0000-0003-3223-7259
; Libertas međunarodno sveučilište, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Karlo Seke
orcid.org/0000-0003-3771-1829
; Ministarstvo obrane Republike Hrvatske, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
Starting with publication 25 years ago, the editorial office of Polemos opened its first issue with the publication of the paper War as a Philosophical Topic by prof. dr. sc. Milan Galović (1942-2021), thus announcing a serious interest in philosophical papers. In the 50 issues of the journal published since 1998, however, only 15 papers have been published that can be more or less precisely defined as texts with topics in philosophy. The purpose of this paper is to offer an overview of the philosophical topics in the journal’s previous issues with references to the mentioned 15 texts. The published philosophical papers in question cover such topics as moral and religious norms in warfare, state and non-state terrorism, the fundamental nature of war, warrior honor, humanitarian interventions, appeals to conscience, and torture. In terms of belonging to certain philosophical disciplines, it is not easy to individually classify these papers, but in general it is possible to say that they belong to philosophical branches such as ethics, philosophical anthropology, epistemology, philosophy of law, philosophy of economics, philosophy of science, and even to general metaphysics. It is possible to conclude that despite the underrepresentation of philosophical texts in Polemos, a wide range of philosophical topics is present, and that the journal’s interest in philosophical topics has been greater than the interest which philosophers have shown for publishing in the journal.
Keywords
Polemos; philosophical topics; war; terrorism; security
Hrčak ID:
317506
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Publication date:
27.12.2023.
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