Assessment of judges in itself is one of the criteria in relation to the establishment of specific rules for the career of judges, creation of a healthy judicial system and a proper one. Professional Assessment process of judges based on objective, clear and transparent criteria, has a great importa…

A pragmatist thinker like Nicholas Rescher deems the idea that social harmony must be predicated in consensus to be both dangerous and misleading. An essential problem of our time is the creation of political and social institutions that enable people to live together in peaceful and productive ways…

Shekulli XVIII nisi me një ngjarje historike-epokale për shqiptarët: pikërisht në vitin 1700, për herë të parë qysh prej fillimeve të Krishterimit, në krye të Selisë së Shenjtë u zgjodh një Papë me origjinë shqiptare: Giovanni Francesco Albani, i njohur gjerësisht si Papa Clemente XI, i cili apostul…

Përkujtimi i një jubileu si ky për 50-vjetorin e revistës “Studime filologjike” natyrisht do të ketë edhe frymë festive, por krahas kësaj do të shpërfaqë vlerat e ndihmesat që ka sjellë ky organ shkencor qendror në kaq vite, si laborator kryesor i përpunimit të mendimit shkencor shqiptar, nga fusha…

Fillimet e filologjisë shqipe të tekstit shenjohen në dekadat e para të shekullit XX. Imzot Paolo Schirò, me një transkriptim të plotë të Mesharit të Gjon Buzukut, që pritet të botohet së shpejti; mund të konsiderohet themeluesi i filologjisë moderne shqiptare. Àt Justin Rrota, me Monumenti mâ i vje…

The concept and the term “industrial revolution” are far from being universally accepted. Historians and economists with a conservative inclination tend to criticize them more or less severely. My general theses is that the “industrial revolution” has been, in the first place, a true revolution, tha…

If it were possible, just for an instant, to forget the sufferings and worries of the everyday, if, in other words, it were possible to distance ourselves and somehow see ourselves from outside, I think we should have to agree with Goethe’s confession: «I have the great advantage of being born in an…

A curious paradox must be faced at the very outset: nothing is perhaps more culturally inclined than the various counter-culture movements. In other words, writing and working against the prevailing culture amount to an essentially cultural enterprise. Culture seems to be inescapable. A supposedly d…

At the basis of the lasting, even growing, fascination of Max Weber as man and thinker there are probably two reasons. First, there is an essential reason: Weber tackles a central theme, still today at the heart of our concerns, and to which he returns in all his works, more or less directly - the n…

In July 1973, at the age of 78, Max Horkheimer passed away In the Swiss town of Montagnola. If not the founder, he has at least the most important director of the Institute of Social Research at the University of Frankfurt, from which the famous name “Frankfurt School” is derived. Actually, if we ca…

Since its inception, the governments of 29 European countries (member states of the Bologna Declaration in 1999) had as their main target the creation of a common and coherent system of Higher Education Area in Europe (EHEA). The main intention for the creation of a ‘European Education Area’ was the…

According to the Constitution or laws, individuals today have extensive political rights closely associated with the right to vote. Here is meant the active and passive right of voting. Membership in a party is not only because of the desire, but also for the fact that the party gives individuals th…