SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Direction:Philosophy
Position:Associate Professor





Maka Lashkhia received Master’s degree from the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University in 1998. During 2008-2015 she was a researcher of the Institute of Philosophy, at the University of Ruhr, within the framework of Volkswagen and Catholic Academy exchange programme. In 2013 she defenced her PhD thesis at Ilia State University. During 2013-2014 she did her post-doctoral study at University Paris-Est Creteil, within the framework of Erasmus+. She has been working at Ilia State University since 2001. Since 2014 she is working in a position of Acting Head of Quality Assurance Service of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Scientific interests / research interests

  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Rennaisance Philosophy
  • Contemporary French Philosophy

  • Plato’s Language of Dialogue as Topos of Human Existence, Série monographique en sciences humaines, St. Lawrence  University, Canada, 2016
  • Ästhetische Kultur – vom Surrealismus bis zum Hyperrealismus, in: Symposionsbeiträge, Wien, 2016. P. 139-144
  • Socrates – Enlightener of the Ancient Period, in co-authorship with Mamuka Beriashvili, editors: Mamuka Beriashvili, Johannes Weiss, in a collection: Religiosity and Freedom of Religion, Tbilisi, Publishing house: Meridiani, 2014. pages 27-43
  • From the consciousness of the imagination to the consciousness of the freedom (Jean-Paul Sartre, Imagination-1936; Situation X, 1976), dans: Classiques Garnier, “Première œuvre”, 2013, Paris, p. 225-232
  • Love Theory: Loving Other and Love of God, Comparative Literature Collection 2, Ilia State University Publishing, 2013
  • Defining Eros in Plato’s Philosophy, Semiotics, Tbilisi, 9/2011, pages 105-122
  • Aristotle, co-authorship with Mamuka Beriashvili, Collection: Classicists of Philosophy of Freedom from Plato to Heideger (editors: M. Beriashvili Udo Reinhold Jeck, Burkhard Mojsisch), Merdiani Publishing, Tbilisi 2011, pages 41-60.
  • Essence of Virtue and Principle of Justice in Plato’s Works; with M. Beriashvili, Christian Democracy No 4, 2002; pages 51-74
  • An extensive list of publications
  • Me and Other: Presence of Ethical Maxims Among Us, Intercultural Dialogues, III, Works, Telavi, 2015; pages 323-328
  • Review – Classicists of Philosophy of Freedom from Plato to Heideger; Kadmos, Ilia State University Publishing, 2014
  • Human Existence – Choice and Responsibility, Comparative Literature Collection 1, Ilia State University Publishing, 2013, pages 409-417
  • From Consciousness of Imagination to the Consciousness of Freedom, Journal Semiotics No 12, Tbilisi 2012
  • Human Rights, Genesis, Value and Present, Kadmos, Ilia State University Publishing, 3/2011, pages 492-501
  • Bernhard Valdenfels and his Philosophy – Christian Democracy, No 1, 2003, pages 79-102
  • Aspects of Others Being – Philosophical Studies, Vol. VI, Tbilisi, 2002, pages 50-61
  • Die Stufe des Erkennens in Plato’s Lehre in: Bochumer Philosophischen Jahrbuch fuer Antike und Mittelalter. (under publication)
  • La Nature Philosophique d’eros, in Thought in Science and Fiction edited by Dr. S. Cem Karadeli, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI) (under publication)
  • Absurdity Drama Aesthetics – in a collection of Sokhumi Academician I. Vekua Intitute “Works”, vol. 4, pages 112-116
  • Speech, Letter, Being – New Paradigms, # 2, 1999, pages 228-231
  • Language as a Tool for Understanding in Plato’s Philosophy, Collection of Comparative Literature (accepted for publishing)
  • Justice as a Supreme Kindness and a Pre-condition of State Existence in Plato’s Works, collection: T. Tskhadadze, D. Gabelaia Logic and Philosophy, Tbilisi, 2015 (accepted for publication)

Current Courses

Course Catalog

Aesthetics; Introduction to Contemporary Thought II

Aesthetics; Bachelor Thesis (Philosophy); Introduction to Contemporary Thought I

  1. Introduction to Contemporary Thought 1 – BA level
  2. History ofg Ancient Philosophy – BA level
  3. Classical Esthetic Paradigms: History of Arts Philosphy from Hegel to Nowadays – BA level
  4. Philosophy of Renaissance Period – BA level
  5. History of Philosophy 1 – BA level
  6. Love Phylosophy – BA level
  7. Existencialism: From Absdurdity of Existence  to Freedom – BA level
  8. Fashion as a Dynamics and Logic of Culture – BA level

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