Volume 58 (2003), 2

Papers

The Ethics of Virtue and the Problem of Moral Character

(Original title: Etika cnosti a problém morálneho charakteru)

Zuzana Palovičová

Filozofia, 58 (2003), 2, 75-86.

Abstract

The ethics of virtue made the problem of moral character topical. Due to concentrating rather on the question "How should we live?" instead of the question "What should we do?" attention became to be paid also to such questions as "What our character should be? ", "To what extent is man responsible for his own character?", "Can he change it?", "What is the… Read more

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Is a Common World Still Possible? On a Unity in Diversity and On a Common Ground in Potency I

(Original title: Je ešte možný spoločný svet? Alebo o jednote v mnohosti a o spoločnom základe v potencii (I. časť))

Jozef Pauer

Filozofia, 58 (2003), 2, 87-97.

Abstract

The paper is an attempt at a definition of a common ground with its immanent potency as the founding force of various forms of the world common to all people. Its first part gives a brief outline of the conceptions of this common ground in the history of European thinking, such as Plato's case. Cusanus' community or joined unity and Whitehead's creativity. The… Read more

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