Volume 59 (2004), 6
Papers
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The interest in the philosophical past in the frame of the national cultures arose in Hungary at the beginning of the 19th century. The paper examines mainly on the theoretical background of the elaboration of this tradition in Hungarian and Slovak historiographies. The key question is, whether there is any foundation of the basic concepts of this historiography… Read more
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The paper presents the moral conception of Charles Taylor as developed in his fundamental work Sources of the Self. The Making of Modern Identity, in which he tries from the perspective of modernized aristotelism to transform several assumptions of modern moral philosophy. Taylorś conception is based on ontologically rooted human action, putting stress at… Read more
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The paper examines the essence of mathematical natural science from various aspects. The fires of them ist the uncovering of the beingness of science through its intrinsic reason of its existence, through its entelecheia as its inner active principle. The fundamental question then is: What is the bytostné what, i. e. the essence of… Read more
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The author examines the role of war in international politics. His conclusion is, that the war is an inseparable part of international relationships, it is an a priori part of their nature, i. e. of a system, where the subjects are mutually independent, not subjected to any superior power and where everybody has to defend his/her rights himself/herself.… Read more
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The attempts at introducing so called "value neutrality" into social sciences (Weber) did not approve to be the sufficient means against their ideological deformations, which still are a challenge requiring a new complex system of the critique of new ideologies. A more detailed examination of the ancient philosophy could be useful in resolving this task. The works… Read more