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Articles by Panayotis Zamaros | Philosophy, Swiss Law, Management & Buddhist Art

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This page presents articles and written work by Panayotis Zamaros, covering organizational behavior, law, philosophy, and related fields with highlights from current research in Thai Buddhist Art.

Art

Constructing Connotative Meaning by Bridging the Impossible: Peirce, Barthes, and the εἰκών (2026)

This article proposes an original semiological framework nesting Peirce's trichotomy within Barthes' second-order connotation. It identifies three connotative types — conventional (symbol), existential (index), and morphological (icon) — and introduces the concept of compound connotation, with application to the εἰκών in Thai Buddhist art.

Beauty, the Beholder, and the Buddhist Artefact: Aesthetic Experience, Psychology of Art, and the Ontology of Beauty (2026)

What makes a Buddha image beautiful — and what does that beauty do to the beholder?

This article approaches beauty not as a property of objects nor a projection of the mind, but as something constituted in the encounter between the two. Drawing on the psychology of art — from Arnheim's perceptual forces and Gombrich's beholder's share to Vygotsky's social mediation and the processing fluency account of Reber, Schwarz and Winkielman — it traces the mechanisms by which the Buddhist artefact claims attention, holds it, and uses it. Worringer's opposition between empathy and abstraction provides the governing framework: canonical Buddhist sculpture recruits the beholder's empathic response in order, ultimately, to transform it — moving the encounter from worldly to transcendental beauty, from clinging to release. The artefact is a threshold object. Its beauty is its instrument.

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