In describing emotional statės, it is an essential leature to ascribe to all the languages concrete features of subjects and objects. By the way of language means, both the emotional impression and body reaction are reveaied, which are aroused by some definite relationship between the emotional state and person. The relationship between the two domains - concrete (source) domain and abstract (target) domain makes the essence of conceptual metaphor. The aim of the present paper is to explicate such word combinations as said with sadness, remembered with grief, described with nostalgia, met withjoy. After investigating the corpus, the conclusion is drawn that such cases of conceptualisation of emotional states may be treated as realisation of the conceptual metaphor EMOTIONAL STATE is PERSON.

Autoriai straipsnyje pateikia šiuolaikinius gerovės valstybės sampratos problematikos klausimus, kartu bandydami paanalizuoti dažniau pasitaikančius gerovės valstybių matavimų būdus. Straipsnis skiriamas jau kiek pasiruošusiems ir susipažinusiems su gerovės valstybę tyrinėjančia literatūra skaitytojams bei tiems specialistams, kurie nori drąsiu ir inovatyviu žvilgsniu pažvelgti į gerovės valstybės tyrinėjimo problematiką.

Straipsnyje aptariami du alternatyvūs žmogiškosios būtybės buvimo būdai: dalyvavimas proto sąvokoje ir dalyvavimas pasaulio įvykyje. Teigiama, kad tradicinė Vakarų filosofija nuo Parmenido ir Platono iki R. Descarteso, I. Kanto ir G. Hegelio gali būti apibūdinama kaip dalyvavimas proto sąvokoje. Šiai tradicijai būdingas siekis pasaulio daiktus pajungti proto sąvokai ir pagal jos projektą perdaryti, keisti pasaulį. Tai nulėmė ekologinę katastrofą. Šią katastrofą galima įveikti tik pakeitus paradigmą ir perėjus prie dalyvavimo pasaulio įvykyje paradigmos. Remiamasi A. Badiou įvykio samprata, kuri priešinama Descarteso įvykio sampratai. Rodoma B. Spinozos monistinės filosofijos svarba mūsų epochai, kurią ištiko ekologinė katastrofa. Šiai filosofijai nebūdingas karas tarp daiktų ir minčių, nes ir mintys, ir daiktai yra tą patį Dievą arba Gamtą išreiškiantys atributai, kurie nekonfliktuoja vienas su kitu.

The aim of article is to discuss the concept of modern supervision. This discussion is introduced with respect to historical context of country in which supervision is proceeded. The author raises a question – does supervision, understanding, reasoning and conflict, toleration of frustration, emancipation and self-realization, leadership have the same meaning in different contexts. Is it that supervisors understand these concepts in the same way as in Lithuania as in Germany? Author stresses challenges which arise from multicultural practice when supervision formed by West European context is implemented in Lithuania and presents discussion towards modern supervision in Germany. Supervisor in modernity acts as an architect of the respective setting, also he/she broadens the understanding of consultancy. Intuition and permanent reflexivity is expected from supervisor. In the article essential canon of supervision and responsibility for organization are discussed. Insurance of equilibrium between organization and profession is emphasized because in modern time organizational and primary economical necessity defines conditions and resources, while specialists become more and more dependent on that. The concept of permanent supervisor in organization is introduced as a creator of additional value of service’s result and relationships. These and some other concepts are discussed with an illustration of one actual case form supervision practice. Finally, author concludes that consultancy as art isn’t the tool to change a world, but it is a trial to live therein.

The article concentrates on the concept of body in the essay “The Roadside Dog” (1998) by Czesław Miłosz, the Nobel Prize winner, considering corporeal from the postructuralist perspective of deanthropologisation and subject decentration. Essayism is a special quality of contemporary culture. The union of philosophy, literature and science can be argued to be present here. “There is nothing beyond text” – this idea of Jacques Derrida is the fundament for the novel reflection of text. Essay is a convenient genre space for the competition of reality and relativity, for the introduction of text into life and vice versa. The space of text unites cultural, social, linguistic and mental features of a creator. Text strives to the achievement of two goals – the dialogue with the reader and the monologue of the author with himself and the search for the inner I. In the genre of essay, these relationships are directed to the self-revelation and the self-identification of a personality. The authorial I in this genre is treated as being located beyond the common, the norm, and the boundaries. The human “exits from oneself and arrives to oneself ”. Czeslaw Miłosz could not fail to avoid the issue of man. He concentrates on the integral features allowing to present the mankind as a single unit and the most various aspects of individual human’s existence. The postmodern aesthetics criticizes the traditional representation and focuses on the idea of the subject’s death. The subject of contemporary world cannot be identified to itSELF. It loses its metaphysical stability and can only be described through reflection, difference and self-expression. Its identity can change with every new perception of its own body, for it is the body that allows new forms of representation. The used strategy of text analysis is deconstruction.[...].

This article presents an analysis of the main challenges that the paradigm of realism experiences in its security approach and introduces a theoretical basis for deepening and widening the security studies. The article also touches upon a significant impact that globalization has on changing security concept, especially in distinguishing transnational security threats. The changes in security studies have occurred in 20th century 70’s and 80’s, when realism theory comes to lose the dominant position. The state centric approach, exclusively based on external military threats was challenged by various post-structural, post-postmodern, and pluralist approaches that suggested to widen and to deepen security concept. Realism was not capable anymore to explain a range of security processes, and later, to predict the end of the Cold War. The other approaches that discussed new security threats, paid more attention to other analysis levels than national. Gradually non military security threats were included into security agendas of different states. Very soon security studies faced the problem that deepening and widening security concept can lead to an empty idea, that contains everything and at the same time nothing, and which can make security concept impossible for analysis. Transnational security threats are defined as non military threats that cross borders and either threatens the political and social integrity of a nation or the health of that nation’s inhabitants.[...]

The usage of the concept of “Baltic region” and the topic of geographical coverage is still relevant to nowadays people. To know, what it actually means, you need to make a research on this concept and geographical coverage, on the reasons of their existence during the period of different political processes from its beginning till nowadays approach. Czar of Russia Nicolas I was influenced by Germans who lived in the territory of Russian Empire and approved self-government of Estonia and Livonia in German living lands. It was approved in 1845 and was called “Pre- Baltic”, from the year 1860 people started calling it by the name of “Baltic”. During Ist World War, the same historical and political situation of creating a country appeared in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Poland. For this reason, politicians of these countries fought in Western Europe for recognition and separation form their countries from Russian Empire. These countries planed to establish The Great Baltic League, which would have been a political and economical unity and would have protected the freedom of Baltic Sea: 1. Scandinavian: Denmark, Norway and Sweden; 2. Estraen Baltic: Finland, Estonia, Latvia; 3. Southern Baltic: Lithuania and Poland. It should by mentioned that such division of counties during this period identifies those days concept of “Baltic” because it was realised as a part of Russian Empire, which reached the Baltic Sea and as a result of Ist World War, freed from its yoke. Because of constant disagreements between Lithuania and Poland (the problem of Vilnius county) and agreement between Sweden and Finland (the problem of the Aland islands). The parliament of Finland ruined plans of Poland of becoming of the one who unites Baltic countries by denying this plan and idea of union.[...].