Volume 58 (2003), 10

The history of Slovak philosophy can be reconstructed along two basic lines: along the line of the school (academic) philosophy, developed at existing high schools, colleges and universities, as well as along the other line - that of philosophical (social) thinking. The researches should focus not only on professional philosophy, but also on the forms of applied (… Read more

The paper examines that aspect of Slovak political thinking, which contributed to the building of the Slovak nation and the Slovak civil society. The memories of the past, the constituting of national memory were the crucial elements of the thinking, which contributed to the creation of Slovak nation. They initiated the project of constituting of national… Read more

The Slovak sociologist Alexander Hirner (1911 - 1987) has been practising in the 1940's and 1950's also philosophy (in projecting-organisational, historical-philosophical and axiological spheres). Thanks to him in the fisrt Slovak Catholic oriented philosophical journal (Filozofický zborník Matice slovenskej) the domination of the religious philosophy was… Read more

The paper deals with the approach to the so called psychophysical unity as developed by the Slovak philosopher Svätopluk Štúr in the 1940s. The approach is examined in the context of current conceptions of psychophysical reductionism, parallelism and interactionalism. The author shows S. Štúr as indicating the possible resolution in his philosophy of the "organic… Read more

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the birthday of the Slovak historian Jozef Jablonický the author shows the reception of his work in 1974 - 1989 especially among the Slovak philosophical dissidents. All her evidence and evaluations proof clearly Jablonickýś dedication to pure facts in his researches of civic resistance during Slovak National Uprising in… Read more

The paper deals with the school philosophy in the former Upper Hungary. Its starting point is the assumption, that the question of the receptive/creative character of the so called national philosophy can be resolved only by showing the nature of the institution, where the philosophy under consideration was practised. In Upper Hungary philosophy was practised in… Read more

The author analyses the development of the views of A. Sirácky from the second half of the 1960s on the role of philosophy and its relationship to the newly established sociology. It was a period, when the most part of the humanities felt themselves free and independent. During the normalisation period this process was violently interrupted. The authorś point is,… Read more

The paper deals with the phenomenon of mythicism of the history in the contemporary period of globalisation. It pays attention also to its roots in the history of Slovak nationalism in the first half of the 20th century. The author points to the importance of the mythicized history not only for nations involved in the processes of their national emancipation, in… Read more

The paper examines the project of applying the so called "philosophy of humanity" in Slovak political life, which was made public before the elections in 1946 by the follower of Lossski´s philosophy of intuitive realism, Slovak philosopher J. Dieška. He taught, that this philosophy of humanity is predestined to become a partisan philosophy of democracy, as it… Read more