GLOBAL CONVERSATIONS AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL IN CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE ISSN 2434-5687 VOLUME I, NUMBER 01 / 2018 Publisher Society for Philosophy as Global Conversation Editor Francesc Passani Executive Editor Tomokazu Baba Consulting Editors Jon Mahoney Rossen Roussev Issue Editor Rossen Roussev Art Director Monica Voykova Editorial correspondence:
[email protected] Cover image © Monica Voykova, Sailor ISSN 2434-5687 GLOBAL CONVERSATIONS AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL IN CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE VOLUME I, NUMBER 01, 2018 Inaugural Thematic Issue Converging Differences: Global Thinking and Local Existence To the sufferers of natural disasters around the globe in 2018 – from the earthquakes and tsunami in Indonesia, the volcanic eruption in Guatemala, the floods in India, Japan, Nigeria, North Korea, and Italy, the heat wave in Pakistan, the earthquake in Papua New Guinea, the wildfires in Greece and California, the hurricanes in North America, the landslides in Brazil and Italy, as well as all others... GLOBAL CONVERSATIONS AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL IN CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE Volume I, Number 01 (2018) Inaugural Thematic Issue Converging Differences: Global Thinking and Local Existence TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Global Conversations – A New Philosophical Outlet Rossen Roussev 7-10 Comparative Philosophy Global Conversation on the Spot: What Lao-tse, Heidegger, and Rorty Have in Common Rossen Roussev 11-38 Elemental Evil – Levinas Re-reading Hegel Tomokazu Baba 39-58 Ethics and Religion Religion,