Volume 42 (1987), 3
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Papers - The Problem of Methodology of Social Sciences
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In the paper the social reconstruction is characterized to which the strategy of acceleration of the social-economic development of socialist countries as well as the reconstruction of social sciences (the turn of social sciences towards practice, the turn of practice towards social sciences, substantial changes of the relationship of natural, social and technical… Read more
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In the paper the author shows that the classification of fundamental methodological conceptions, based on the criteria of the type of laws and methods, makes it possible to compare the given conceptions.
These classifications reflect certain stages in the development of the methodologies of sciences, their subject-matter, various problems and ways of their… Read more
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In the paper the relationship between explanation and interpretation in the theories of social sciences is studied. The specific character of these two functions is viewed from the aspect of the possibility to exploit practically the theory in the activity of social subjects. The author underlines that the scientific cognition in itself is not an instruction for a… Read more
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In the paper some aspects of explanation and understanding in the historical and social cognition are investigated. The author draws attention to various interpretations of „explanation“ and indicates a way how to differ between explanation and simple description.
In the paper the fact is emphasized that various conceptions of intentional explanation of… Read more
Papers - Contradiction as a Category of the History of Philosophy
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The author presents the question of several relevant distinctions of the category of dialectical contradiction in the history of Marxist philosophy (contradiction as an objective source of development of the historical-philosophical process and as a subjective category of cognition, the qualitative discrimination of the levels of contradictions, the distinct grade of… Read more
Papers - Problems of Marxist Ethics
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In the paper some aspects of the relationship of the social and individual moral consciousness are analyzed whereby methodological starting point is the dialectics of the two forms of human being — the individual and social one through which man exists in the given structure of social relationships. This fact makes it possible for the two forms of moral… Read more
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The materialization of the strategy of acceleration . of the economic and social development posits the question of moving forces, capable to enforce a constructive solution of tasks which follow from this strategy. It concerns the formation of worldview attitudes, value orientation and moral norms. It means also the rising of the efficiency and importance of the… Read more
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In the contemporary socialist society the role of morale as a social regulator and simultaneously as value determination of human being as such is increasing. In connection with this process the need of theoretical explanation of professional ethics is its subject-matter — professional moral rises. Based on the dialectics of the individual, particular and general… Read more
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The paper delineates fundamental methodological starting-points of the materialistic scientific ethics which are formed by these most important regions of concepts: 1. the applicability of social determinism to moral doings of the individual, 2. the conceptualisation of a new type of racionality (the connection of racionality and practice), 3. the Marxist theory… Read more