Volume 29 (1974), 2

Papers and Discussions

A Philosopher Connected with Life (The Academician Ladislav Szántó 80 Years Old)

(Original title: Filozof spätý so životom (Akademik Ladislav Szántó 80-ročný))

Andrej Sirácky

Filozofia, 29 (1974), 2, 117-128.

Abstract

In his article dedicated to the SO1!1 birthday of the academician Ladislav Szántó the author evaluates his lifetime work. In the first part he depicts the interesting life path of Ladislav Szántó, who, formerly a prisoner of war in the World War I, became a revolutionary, a Marxist and a member of the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolshevicks). In the second part the… Read more

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Philosophical Presuppositions of Science

(Original title: Filozofické predpoklady vedy (K Szántóovej kritike „čistej vedy”))

Ján Bodnár

Filozofia, 29 (1974), 2, 129-139.

Abstract

The paper is a contribution to the evaluation of the academician L. Szántó’s participation in the development of Marxist thinking in Slovakia. It has been written at the occasion of his 80,th birthday. The author first of all points at the academician L. Szántó’s attitudes in the key question of the relation of philosophy and science. He investigates and evaluates… Read more

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Creative Thinker and Fighter against Revisionism

(Original title: Tvorivý mysliteľ a bojovník proti revizionizmu)

Lev Hanzel

Filozofia, 29 (1974), 2, 140-151.

Abstract

Dialectical materialism — not only a "synthesis of being“, but also a "teaching on thinking”, i. e. on the theory of cognition and dialectics. The fundamental importance for the policy of the Communist Party. Criticism of the bourgeois and revisionist term of "objectivism” and "above-party-character”. The difference in the grades and immediateness of the class-… Read more

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On the Way of the Philosophical Struggles and Achievements of L. Szántó

(Original title: Nad cestou myšlienkových zápasov a úspechov L. Szántóa)

Michal Topoľský

Filozofia, 29 (1974), 2, 152-157.

Abstract

From his philosophical beginnings L. Szántó has been standing firmly on the positions of Marxism-Leninism and scientific socialism. Where does L. Szántó's certitude stem from and which is the cause that he has not yet penetrated more deeply into the consciousness of the Slovak philosophers, namely the young ones — this is just the problem that is the object of the… Read more

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L. Szántó and the Materialist Dialectics

(Original title: L. Szántó a materialistická dialektika)

Tibor Halečka

Filozofia, 29 (1974), 2, 158-169.

Abstract

The author points out that Szántó has comprehended the materialist dialectics creatively first of all because he comprehended its nucleus, the teaching on contradictions as a unity and on mutual elimination of contradictions. In this sense Szántó was, in the Czechoslovak conditions, the first and the most consequential propagator of the Leninist conception of… Read more

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The Problems of the Philosophy of Natural Sciences in the Work of L. Szántó

(Original title: Problémy filozofie prírodných vied v diele L. Szántóa)

Ján Dubnička

Filozofia, 29 (1974), 2, 170-175.

Abstract

The discovery of new forms of existence of matter, of its new deeper structural components evoked a sharp contradiction in the sphere of the theories of natural sciences. This aspect, characterized as a crisis of science, stemmed, however, as V. I. Lenin proved, from the mechanistic and metaphysical approach to these facts and thus even many foremost natural… Read more

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L. Szántó’s Contribution to the Spreading of Lenin’s Philosophy in Czechoslovakia in the Years 1918 —1938

(Original title: Prínos L. Szántóa k šíreniu Leninovej filozofie u nás v rokoch 1918-1938)

Viera Hudečková

Filozofia, 29 (1974), 2, 176-182.

Abstract

In the progressive press of the period between the wars it was L. Szántó who had an outstanding merit in seeing Leninism through to be understood as an organic part, as a stage in the development of Marxistn. Evaluating the character of Lenin's work he takes the scientific substantiation of the class-character and the party-character of philosophy, science and art… Read more

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