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In the history (of philosophy, art) there have been different ideas of the body and soul and their mutual relations. First opinions appeared in antiquity, continued in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the modern age, until the present time. The body was mostly the object of investigation, it was examined as a whole and so were studied its parts. In Plato´s philosophy, the body was considered material and the soul intangible. Although he found the soul to be more important, it was not possible to separate them. Ar...

Never before was sociocultural communication as complex as it is these days. Natural character of man represented by his sociability, on the one hand, and curiousity, which make him explore and want to see and understand what is there beyond any border, on the other hand, intertwines with the deconstruction of original physical limitations and great time-space compression of our time. This creates a major common platform (and particular platforms) where plentiful and diverse cultures and their representatives meet...

The time - when people lived fixed within their traditional local communities; with a great complex of plentiful values, norms, believes of different types, superstitions and mythology, so meaningful for them, dominantly controlling their lives and reflecting the profound human-nature connection and local specifics; - has gone for most of us until the present time. There are very few traditionally organised and traditions-driven communities left, untouched by the fast-running process of progress and globalisation....