Volume 60 (2005), 9

In the 1970s we witnessed a great revival of the interest in Greek moral thought initiated by many ethical thinkers who were inspired by Greek philosophical legacy. Among the fundamental themes, which became the subjects of the discussions and were influenced by this „come back“ to Aristotelian ethics, is also the problem of a good life. One stream of moral… Read more

The aim of the paper is to analyze the consequences of R. Rorty’s pragmatic cum linguistic turn for the understanding of natural and human sciences. The author analyzes first this turn and tries to show that it represents an intersubjectivist type of antirealism. Then he deals with Rorty’s approach to hermeneutics and his understanding of its place in natural and… Read more

The establishment of bioethics was determined by the necessity of profound examination of the problems of life, of its creation and the possibility to influence it in its various stages with the help of new technologies. There are many interpretations of the notion of bioethics and its content is also defined differently. The latter then determines the objective… Read more

The paper discusses the problematic of the nature of humankind in the context of „homo humanus“. So it does not see the problem from the perspective of some „naturalness“ of humankind, neither it tries to characterize it from the cultural point of view. It focuses on the possibilities of the humankinds’ unique and authentic self-expression. Thus it sees the human… Read more