Grigol Robakidze University Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences

Georgian National Academy of Sciences Ioane Petritsi Philosophical Society

On Friday, July 13th, 2012

In Shota Rustaveli Central Library of Mtskheta will be held international scientific conference − “East and West” dedicated to the 60-year anniversary of the famous German philosopher, distinguished scholar of eastern and western Platonism, Aristotelianism and Neo-Platonism

Professor Dr. Udo Reinhold Jeck

Professors of Grigol Robakidze University, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Shota Rustaveli State University, Georgian Technical University, Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University, University of Kassel (Germany), University of Bonn (Germany), also the members of GeorgianNational Academy of Sciences (Ioane Petritsi Philosophical Society) participate in the mentioned conference.

The organizer of the conference is Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences of Grigol Robakidze University and Ioane Petritsi Philosophical Society of Georgian National Academy of Sciences

Beginning: 12:00 pm

12:00 -12:10 – Opening of the Conference – Professor Tengiz Iremadze, Director of the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences of Grigol Robakidze University

Scientific Papers

12:10 -12:30 – Professor Tengiz Iremadze, Director of the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences of Grigol Robakidze University

Udo Reinhold Jeck and Georgian Philosophical Thought

12:30 -12:50 – Academician Guram Tevzadze, Vice-President of Georgian National Academy of Sciences, Professor at Ilia State University

1 Udo Reinhold Jeck on Shalva Nucubidze`s Aletheiology

12:50 -13:10 – Professor Lali Zakaradze, Shota Rustaveli State University (Batumi); Head of the Department of Cultural Studies of the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences of Grigol Robakidze University

The Criticism of Euro-centrism in Shalva Nucubidze`s and Udo Reinhold Jeck`s Thought

13:10 -13:30 – Professor Giorgi Baramidze, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

The Fallen Phenomenon and the “Inner Man” (According to Jewish and European Traditions)

13:30 -13:50 – Professor Nodar Belqania, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Dean of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences

Eastern and Western Christianity in Vladimir Solovyov`s Worldviews

13:50 -14:10 – Assistant-Professor Konstantine Bregadze, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

Western and Eastern Dialectics in Grigol Robakidze`s Creative Work

14:10 -14:30 – Professor Mikheil Gogatishvili, Grigol Robakidze University, Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences

East and West – Edward Said and His Model of Two Worlds

14:30-14:50 – Giorgi Khuroshvili, Grigol Robakidze University, Research Fellow at the Department of Political Sciences of the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences

Between Plato an Biblical Prophets – Hermann Cohen and Leo Strauss on Jerusalem and Athens

14:50-15:10 – Professor Dodo Labuchidze, Grigol Robakidze University, Head of the Department of Translation of Philosophical and Sociological Thought at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences

Law in the East and West (Charles-Louis Montesquieu on Natural Preconditions of Law)

15:10-15:30 – Professor Revaz Gordeziani, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

Martin Heidegger’s “Fundamental Ontology” and Eastern Zen-Buddhism

15:30-15:50 – Assistant-Professor Giorgi Tavadze, Grigol Robakidze University, Assistant Director of the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences

2 Martin Heidegger and Watsuji Tetsurō: Place, Space, and Climate

15:50-16:10 – Doctor of Philological Sciences, Indologist Nikoloz Kenchoshvili, Ilia State University, Giorgi Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies

Contemporary India and the Western World (Historical and Culturologycal Aspects)

16:10-16:30 – Professor Helmut Schneider, University of Kassel (Germany), Grigol Robakidze University, Head of the Department of History of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences

Aesthetics of Zen-Buddhism. Wabi-Sabi and the European Idea of Beauty

16:30-17:00 – The Final Discussion

17:00 – 20:00 – Sightseeing in Mtskheta

20:00 – The End

3 Conference Organizing Committee

Professor Dr. Tengiz Iremadze (Director of the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences of Grigol Robakidze University)

Academician Guram Tevzadze (Vice-president Georgian National Academy of Sciences, Professor at Ilia State University)

Professor Dr. Helmut Schneider (University of Kassel, Germany; Grigol Robakidze University, Head of the Department of History of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences.)

Professor Dr. Nodar Belqania (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Dean of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences)

Professor Dr. Lali Zakaradze (Shota Rustaveli State University, Batumi; Head of the Department of Cultural Studies of the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences of Grigol Robakidze University.)

Professor Dr. Giorgi Baramidze (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Ioane Petritsi Philosophical Society of Georgian National Academy of Sciences)

Professor Dr. Mikheil Gogatishvili (Grigol Robakidze University, Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences)

Assistant-Professor Dr. Konstantine Bregadze, (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University)

Giorgi Khuroshvili (Grigol Robakidze University, Research Fellow at the Department of Political Sciences of the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences)

Address:

Shota Rustaveli Central Library of Mtskheta

Floor I Mamulashvili Street 12

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