Volume 49 (1994), 4

The aim of the paper is to give an account of socialist and liberal strands in British social and political philosophy today against the background of the problems of particularity and globalization. Special attention is paid to the work of G. A. Cohen and of I. Gray.

The question „How should we react to the diversity of morals?“ is one of the most puzzling problems of contemporary philosophy. The author of the paper argues, that there is a surviving truth in moral relativism, if it is modestly construed in the spirit of Montaigne as a reguirement of caution on those, who make, and above all apply, moral judgements, especially… Read more

The aim of the paper is to discuss what reason can and cannot offer towards the resolution of disputes, and to consider whether it provides what its admirers claim. The commitment to reason is the commitment to building and rebuilding of both institutions and characters in ways that will minimize destruction and injury of agents and of their… Read more

The main idea of the paper is based upon the assumption that justice as it is embodied in the rule of law is an inevitable prerequisite of social cooperation. Against this background the problems of post-communist societies are discussed.

In the paper possibilietes of compatibility of market, state and welfare are scrutinized. The author hopes to show that the often discussed dichotomy between market and state is false. Unintended consequences of the assimilation of welfare to the welfare state are pointed out.

The main idea of the paper is that the basic dichotomy which presently confronts us is that between the inheritors of what remains of Western civilization and Western political thinking and those who think in terms of elementary dichotomies: left-right, communist-fascist, socialist-capitalist, e.t.c.

The paper presents the theme of the changing historical meanings of democracy. It recalls some of the key elements of Athenian democracy. Further, it explores the changing conception of democracy in the era of nation-states and considers the meaning of democracy in the context of the progressive enmeshment of states and societies in international and global… Read more

In the paper the right-wing conception of freedom as conceived by R. Nozick is discussed and analysed from the left. Nozick’s concept of freedom is consistent with equality, but the same may not be true of a freedom whose claims are less illusory.