Volume 44 (1989), 6

Scientific-technological revolution changes the quality and proportions of participation of material and spiritual elements in the production of use values of human life and thus it substantially influences the motivation structures of social attitudes of people and their social relationships.

The constitution of social ethics necessarily enters the… Read more

Normative regulations may be considered as a specific way of forming and controlling social relationships and man’s activities, as a process in which determination of man’s doings by means of social norms takes place. The model of this phenomenon contains three elements: the object of regulation, the method of compulsion, the system of normatives, whereby the… Read more

The author examines the problem of the relationship of values and needs which is one of the controversial questions in solving problems of values from the standpoint of Marxist philosophy. She stresses the need to differentiate between the material bearer of the value and the value itself. She does not hold that the reason why reality assumes values is that its… Read more

The author understands moral choice as the point of intersection of moral life. When defining the role of reason, intuition and belief in moral choice, she starts from differentiating its two levels (deciding in well-known schemes and in new problematic situations). It follows from the analysis that the key moment of deciding is the choice of the person. This… Read more

It is the aim of the paper to analyze some points of the historical-philosophical conception of one of the most important representatives of the French Neo-Thomism, Etienne Gilson. The author’s intention was to point out that Gilson’s existentialism was also projected into his historical-philosophical conception when he analyzed important thinkers of the Antiquity… Read more

The paper is an attempt at confrontation of categories of materialist dialectics, namely the law of dialectical contradiction and some biological conceptions of development of the living nature. As the living system is a hierarchically ordered system, the author draws his attention to the level of the population/kind and to the level of the ecosystem (biocenosis… Read more