Volume 20 (1965), 2

Papers and Discussions

The Phenomenological Ontology of Jean-Paul Sartre

(Original title: Fenomenologická ontológia Jean-Paul Sartra)

Ján Bodnár

Otázky marxistickej filozofie, 20 (1965), 2, 113-124.

Abstract

The study is an attempt to expound the basical parts of Sartre’s phenomenological ontology, elaborated particularly in his work „ĽÉtre et le Néant“, essentially, however, accepted also inthe last philosophical work of Sartre, the „Critique de la raison dialectique“. The author endeavours to demonstrate that it is based on these three assumptions: 1. The assumption of… Read more

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The Philosophical Importance of the Principle of the Conservation of Energy

(Original title: К filozofickému významu zákona zachovania energie)

Milan Zigo

Otázky marxistickej filozofie, 20 (1965), 2, 125-137.

Abstract

lbe paper criticizes some deficiencies arising by the use of the principle of the conservation of energy as an argument in Marxian philosophy: vagueness of the contents of this law, mistaking Engels's interpretation of the principle as a physical law for itself, making no difference between the physical law anf the philosophical principle, and the like. These… Read more

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Alienation in Relationship to the Goal of Human Acting

(Original title: Odcizení ve vztahu k cíli lidského jednání)

Jaroslav Jebavý

Otázky marxistickej filozofie, 20 (1965), 2, 138-150.

Abstract

Man creates goals in order to appropriate the objective world and himself. The goal attained confirms this appropriation; however, by becoming an objective reality and containing objectivized abilities of the subject there is still the possibility of alienation. The subject deals with its realized goal objectively, thus promoting its alienation. The alienation of the… Read more

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Stanislav Felber and his Contribution to the Development of Marxian Thought in Slovakia

(Original title: Stanislav Felber a jeho prínos k rozvoju marxistického myslenia na Slovensku)

Ján Uher

Otázky marxistickej filozofie, 20 (1965), 2, 151-166.

Abstract

The paper is concerned, with the activity of one of the well known representants and propagators of Marxian philosophy in Slovakia after 1945, Stanislav Felber (1905 — 1956). He was out of before his time, at an age of 51; this year he would be 60. The study deals with his work and philosophical activity in Slovakia beginning with the Forties until his death in 1956… Read more

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Information and Psychical Activity

(Original title: Informace a psychická činnost)

Jiří Zeman

Otázky marxistickej filozofie, 20 (1965), 2, 167-178.

Abstract

Human brain can be conceived as a specific transformation-channel. In brain activity external objects are being transformed into concepts, and concepts in their turn into language signs (i. e., physiological processes become processes of consciousness, and these are turned into processes of language). Psychical transformation can be examined on gnoseological,… Read more

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Quantity, Quality and Cybernetical Mechanicism

(Original title: Kvantita, kvalita a kybernetický mechanicizmus)

Juraj Bober

Otázky marxistickej filozofie, 20 (1965), 2, 179-186.

Abstract

To draw an analogy between the cybernetical comprehension of a system and the comprehension of quality distorted in a stalinistic way, and then — based on this analogy — to brand cybernetics with the mark of mechanicism can be done only by one who did not grasp the theoretical and methodological foundation of cybernetics. Cybernetics itself in its essence is not… Read more

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Some Metasociological Comments

(Original title: Niekoľko metasociologických poznámok)

Vojtech Wagner

Otázky marxistickej filozofie, 20 (1965), 2, 186-191.

Abstract

Problems of sociology, sociological research and methods attract the attention of scientists working in other disciplines of social sciences, too. There is even a tendency of sociologization of the other social sciences. Empirical sociological research has an object of research of his own which is part of the object of sociology. Empirical sociological research is… Read more

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