Volume 57 (2002), 1

V. Jankélévitch is one of the significant, even though not duly appreciated French philosophers of the 20th century. Among Slovak itellectuals his works are almost unknown. The aim of the paper is to examnine Jankélévichś ethical vision presented in his work A Treatise on Virtues, to shed light on its essential issues, sources and the main arguments of… Read more

The Slovak political thought of the 19th century mingles with the nation-building efforts. According to the author the nationalists were one of the intellectual elites of Central Europe, which based their nation-building on ethnic ideology. This ideology embodied various elements, such as passive historicism, "prilepenectvo" (being an appendage) and the will to… Read more

The paper focuses on so far neglected problematics concerning the political views of the founder of modern philosophy R. Descartes. The analysis is based on his interpretation of Machiavelli's Prince as embodied in his correspondence with Elisabeth, Daughter of Frederick the Vth. The author points out the essential characteristics of Descartes' political… Read more

The Milesian protophilosophy was an important phase in the development of Western thought. The first philosophical ideas of the origin and the nature of the world arose from the mythological images. The author tries to show, that the Milesian conceptions do not draw on the particular Greek myths, but on the archaic mythology embodying various mythological motives… Read more