Volume 41 (1986), 6

The subject-matter of the paper is a critical analysis of one of the latest variants of Irrationalism in France — the „New Philosophy“. The author states that the group of intelectuals that appeared in Paris in the second half of the seventies under the head „new philosophers“ have been still exerting considerable ideologic and political influence in the West.… Read more

K. R. Popper is an influential representative of bourgeois philosophy, methodology and logic of science in the second half of this century. His intelectual development is motivated by critical relation to conceptions of logical empiricists. He created a conception of „critical rationalism“ in which he found a starting point for his dynamic methodological… Read more

In the contribution the author concentrates on Habermas’s attempt at overcoming the horizon of the classical „critical theory“ of the Frankfurt school in Habermas’s theory of social communication, in close relation with his project of „reconstruction“ of historical materialism. The problem of „reconstruction“ of historical materialism is brought in two aspects —… Read more

The suhject of the paper is the problem of the construction of the whole philosophical project of the world in the system of the „new ontology“ of N. Hartmann. It is concentrated on the way of the interpretation of categories as basic elements of the ontological structure and also on gnoseological consequencies of the ontological scheme. At last it illuminates the… Read more

In the article the myth on the culture-formative function of religion, elaborated within the framework of theology, philosophy of religion and bourgeois culturology, is characterized. Criticism of these views is based on the Marxist-Leninist solution of the relationship of religion and culture. Religion is a historical product of mankind, whose prerequisite is a… Read more

In the paper the author concentrates on the analysis of the latest development tendencies in German philosophical anthropology of Scheler’s type. When defining basic typological characteristics of, this form of bourgeois anthropology, she divides its to date development in two periods and shows some theoretical shifts and methodological innovations which have… Read more

In the paper the author analyzes elementary concepts which have been used to date by hermeneutics: the concepts „tradition“ and „understanding“. She lays stress on how the meaning of these concepts was changing during the development of hermeneutical philosophy and how it left marks on the character of the contemporary West German hermeneutics.

H. G.… Read more

The general crisis of the social-economic system of Imperialism pervades every sphere of material and spiritual life of the society today. Social-political climate conspicuously weakens the effectiveness of methods of social investigation and it gives rich opportunities for rise and influence of subjective-idealist conceptions. It has particularly harmful… Read more

The author argues that the apologetics of religion and of the historical heritage of Christian tradition in philosophical hermeneutics of H.-G. Gadamer is in its ontological foundations linked up with the initiations of the so called Christian Platonism, especially with Heidegger’s existentialist mythical conception of the dialogue, discourse („Gespräch“), which… Read more