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Comenius European Cultural Diversity is Our Common Wealth. Spain April 23rd- 27th, 2012

Comenius European Cultural Diversity is Our Common Wealth. Spain April 23rd- 27th, 2012. Kohtla-J ärve Vahtra põhikool, Estonia 2012. Estonian Philosophers- People of our century. (Barton and Booth, Stories in the Classroom , 1990). Uku Masing. Jaan Kaplinski. Ülo Kaevats.

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Comenius European Cultural Diversity is Our Common Wealth. Spain April 23rd- 27th, 2012

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  1. Comenius EuropeanCulturalDiversity is OurCommonWealth. Spain April 23rd- 27th, 2012 Kohtla-Järve Vahtra põhikool, Estonia 2012

  2. Estonian Philosophers- People of our century

  3. (Barton and Booth, Stories in the Classroom, 1990) UkuMasing JaanKaplinski Ülo Kaevats Madis Kõiv Vladimir Hütt Andres Luure Leonid NaumovitshStolovich EeroLoone Gustav Naan

  4. When was Estonian philosophy born? The Estonian philosophy was born in Soviet Estonia.

  5. UkuMasing(formerly Hugo Masing, 11.08.1909 - 25.04.1985) He was an Estonian philosopher, translator, theologist and folklorist. He developed Estonian analytical philosophy. Masing also wrote poetry, mostly on religious issues. Masing authored one novel, Liberation of Rapanui, or Seagulls at the Cemetery of Gods (Rapanui vabastamine ehk Kajakad jumalate kalmistul, written in the late 1930s but published posthumously in 1989). As a folklorist, he was a distinguished researcher of fairy tales, contributing to the international Enzyklopädie des Märchens. He was awarded the Righteous Among The Nations by Yad Vashem and the Israeli Supreme Court for his participation during the Holocaust in helping a Jew in Estonia escape capture from '39 until the end of the war. His actions exposed him to great danger during this period requiring him to meet with his friend as well as lying to the Gestapo.

  6. JaanKaplinski (born January 22, 1941, Tartu) He is an Estonian poet, philosopher, and culture critic. Kaplinski is known for his independent mind, focus on global issues and support for left-wing/liberal thinking. He has been deeply influenced by Eastern philosophical schools (taoism and especially buddhism). Kaplinski studied languages and linguistics at Tartu University, graduating as a French philologist in 1966, and has worked as a translator, editor, and sociologist, until the sociology laboratory was banned at the university by the Soviet authorities.

  7. realia • tradition • author • geography: • floor maps! ÜloKaevats He is an Estonian statesman, academic, and philosopher. Kaevats holds a PhD from Vilnius State University in Lithuania. He served for many years (1989-1992, 1995-2000) as Editor-in-Chief of the Estonian Encyclopaedia, the main national work of reference; earlier, he worked as a research fellow at the Estonian and the USSR Academies of Sciences, mostly in the History of Science field. He is now Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Tallinn University of Technology (TUT). As a scholar, Kaevats specialises in the Philosophy of Science and the Philosophy of Technology. Between 1992 and 1995, during the beginning and reestablishment of independent Estonia, he served as Secretary of State(Riigisekretär; the most senior civil servant with Constitutional rank) of the Republic.

  8. Leonid Naumovitsh Stolovich(Estonian: Leonid Stolovitš) (22.07.1929 Leningrad) He is a Russian – Estonian philosopher, Doctor of Philosophy (1966), professor (1967). Stolovich graduated from theLeningrad University in 1952, from 1953 on he has been working in Tartu University,Estonia, from 1994 on as a‘’professor emeritus’’. Above all, Stolovich has studied esthetics: its history, theories of esthetics and axiology. He is the author of more than forty books and 400 publications in 20 languages. During the Perestroika era, Stolovitsh took part in the pro-democracy movement (Popular Front of Estonia). Stolovich’s work “Pluralism in the Philosophy…”decovers 'systematic pluralism', a term coined by Stolovich, which means the unity of dialectical opposites pluralism and monism.

  9. Andres Luure (born 22 May 1959) He is an Estonian philosopher and translator, and a researcher at Tallinn University. Luure graduated from the Moscow State University in 1983, majoring in mathematics. In 1998, he successfully defended his MA thesis titled "A combinatorial model of referring". In 2006, he successfully defended his Ph. D. thesis titled "Duality and sextets: a new structure of categories". Luure has translated to Estonian language philosophical works, including titles by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jürgen Habermas and Gilbert Ryle.

  10. Vladimir Hütt (1936-1997) Specialized vocabulary: “el totumo” He was a Soviet philosopher of Estonian ethnicity. He was born in Russia and returned to Estonia after the annexation of Estonia by the USSR. Hütt, a physicist by education, mostly dealt with philosophy of physics, scientific world-view and the theory of cognition. His works followed the Marxistline of thought that was official in the USSR. Most of Hütt's works were published in Russian. In 1979 Hütt published a monographic overview entitled "Philosophical Problems of Physics in Soviet Estonia in 30 Years 1948–1978", where he expounded his philosophical ideas about the complementarity and objectivity in physical knowledge. During the Perestroika era, he remained a committed communist, supporting the pro-Soviet Intermovement after its founding in the late 1980s.

  11. Madis Kõiv (born December 1929) He is an Estonian writer and physicist. His first published work was a play called Küüni täitmine (Filling the Hay Barn) written as a collaboration between Kõiv (using his pseudonym, Jaanus Andreus Nooremb) and Hando Runnel in 1978. In 1999, the play was successfully produced for the first time. Kõiv then wrote two pieces with Vaino Vahing. The first was a play titled Faehlmann. Keskpäev. Õhtuselgus. (Faehlmann. Noon. Evening Clarity.) The two also wrote the dialogue novel Endspiel. Laskumine orgu. (Endspiel. Descent into the Valley.) Just before the end of the decade, Kõiv began to publish works he had previously written for his own amusement under his own name. Kõiv became the most essential Estonian playwright of the 1950s and 1960s.

  12. Madis Kõiv (born December 1929) In the early 1990s, Kõiv began to gain fame. In 1991 and 1993, he won the Tuglas short story award for Film and The Life of an Eternal Physicus, respectively. He won the annual Estonian literary award in 1991 for The Meeting. He won the annual Estonian literary award again in 1995 for The Philosopher's Day and Return to Father. Kõiv won the award a third time in 1999 for Scenes From the Hundred Years' War. Kõiv has released only 22 of the plays he has written and has said that these comprise half of the dramatic literature he has created.Kõiv is also the author of several novels. Widow and Aporia of Attica, Tragedy of Elea are two of his best known.

  13. EeroLoone (born 26 May 1935) He is an Estonian philosopher. He is son of NigolasLoone and LeidaLoone. EeroLoone graduated from the Moscow State University in 1958 (he studied history). From 1958 to 1960, Loone worked as junior researcher at the USSR institute of Global Economy and International Relations. Since 1966, he has been lecturer of philosophy (specializing in practical philosophy) at the University of Tartu (became a professor in 1988). He became Doctor of Philosophy in 1984.From 1989 to 1990 EeroLoone worked at Clare Hall, Cambridge (he became life-long member of the college). He has been particularly influenced by analytical philosophy.

  14. EeroLoone (born 26 May 1935) Loone's views on Marxism and historical materialism have found resonance in the West.Loone's verdict (as evident in Soviet Marxism and Analytical Philosophies of History) on Soviet Communism is arguably "devastating and coincides with that of many Western scholars Marxist (e.g. Alex Callinicos) and non-Marxist (e.g. Alec Nove) alike″ Since 2000, Loone has been professo emeritus at the University of Tartu. EeroLoone is married to LeikiLoone and has two daughters: PiretLoone and OudekkiLoone (a politologist).

  15. Gustav Naan 17.05.1919 near Vladivostok – 12.01.1994 in Tallinn) He was an Estonian physicist and philosopher. He graduated from the Leningrad State University in 1941. He took part in World War II and joined the CPSU in 1943. Having returned to Estonia after the USSR annexed Estonia, Gustav Naan, a loyal communist and graduate of the Higher Party School of the AUCP(b) (1946), published a number of Stalinist-oriented polemic pieces (treating Estonian history and politics from the pro-Soviet perspective.

  16. Gustav Naan 17.05.1919 near Vladivostok – 12.01.1994 in Tallinn) Naan was the director of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR (1950–1951), Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR (1951–1964). From 1964, Naan worked at the Institute of Astrophysics and Atmosphere Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR. Having turned to theorizing on cosmology, cybernetics and demography he often rejected taboos of both the 'traditional' world-view and orthodox communist opinions on such matters. He later claimed to have been one of the promoters of the theory of relativity at the time this was still considered pseudoscience by the Soviet authorities. He also proposed the Symmetric Universe hypothesis, according to which, side by side with the ordinary world, there is an anti-world.

  17. Naan was editor-in-chief of Estonian Soviet Encyclopedia, the first edition of which started in late 1960s. In terms of political affiliations, Naan remained a staunch supporter of the communist system and was a devote opponent of Estonia's pro-independence movement; Naan supported the (pro-Moscow) Internationalist Movement. Having gained much public support in 1970s for opinion pieces on topics like family, morals and sex, he soon became a despised figurefor his anti-independence stance, which was reflected in his newspaper articles of the time e.g. his article 'From standing on Feet to standing on Head', condemning the Estonian Sovereignty Declaration passed by the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR, was published in Pravda, 23. November 1988.). Gustav Naan was despised by many who considered him a careerist and schemer, thus his name was subject to one of the greatest puns of Soviet Estonia involving his name.

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