Volume 24 (1969), 4

Papers and Discussions

Methodology as an Exact Science

(Original title: Metodológia ako exaktná veda)

Vojtech Filkorn

Filozofia, 24 (1969), 4, 351-367.

Abstract

In the present study the possibilities are investigated how the methodology o£ sciences, i. e., the theory of method can overcome the descriptive (empirical, intuitive) stage and become an exact science. Exact method may be defined by means of exact science, or exact science by means of exact method. If we use the former procedure, then the essential condition of… Read more

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On the Discussion on Structuralism

(Original title: K diskusii o štrukturalizme)

Igor Hrušovský

Filozofia, 24 (1969), 4, 368-377.

Abstract

The development of knowledge and a real progress of science has its source in the dialectic oscillation between the given system of empirical findings and empirical (empiricopractical) reality or empirical being. The scientific empiricism is no empty description; in fact, nothing at all can be described without any cognitive (although rudimentary) presuppositions.… Read more

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Synonymity and Extensional Isomorphism

(Original title: Synonymita a extenzionálna izomorfia)

Pavel Cmorej

Filozofia, 24 (1969), 4, 378-398.

Abstract

In this paper several definitions of synonymity are being constructed and analysed, according to which two arbitrary extensional isomorphic expressions are synonymous. The definitions and reflections connected with them are being relativized with regard to the extensional language / (and to the language J’ which is its extension) which is a language of a simple… Read more

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On One Version of Understanding Freedom

(Original title: O jednej verzii chápania slobody)

Andrej Hlávek

Filozofia, 24 (1969), 4, 399-408.

Abstract

Some contemporary representatives of the so-called real politics like to make use of the conception of freedom as a known inevitableness. By means of it, they characterize their politics as free and, at the same time, they demonstrate it as corresponding to the given reality, as the only possible and, consequently, inevitable and for the other people the most useful… Read more

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Herbert Marcuse and the Problems of the Advanced Industrial Society

(Original title: Herbert Marcuse a problémy vyspelej priemyselnej spoločnosti)

Andrej Sirácky

Filozofia, 24 (1969), 4, 409-419.

Abstract

Marcuse’s theory of advanced industrial society is dealt with in the present paper. In his early works (e. g., Zur Kritík des Hedonismus, 1938), Herbert Marcuse payed much attention to the problems of social development, freedom, humanism, and morals. It is true that modern society which is analysed by Marcuse especially in his work Der eindimensionale Mensch,… Read more

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