Volume 61 (2006), 10

The arguments concerning modernity of Slovak thinking manifested themselves in the course of the 20th century in confrontations of two streams: traditionalistic and modernistic ones. The Hegelianism as the intellectual source of the national philosophy was rejected, while the conservatives criticized severly modern philosophy for its secularization tendencies.… Read more

The paper gives an analytical description of the ideology of Slavonic spirit as an essence of culture. The principles of this ideology, from which a pretension on historical mission has been derived, was articulated by Russian Slavophils. In his writing Slavism and the world of future Ľudovít Štúr outlines this ideology to Central-European Slavs as well… Read more

The paper depicts the complicated process of professionalizing the philosophy in Slovakia and the role an academic society (Slovak philosophical society) played in it. The establishment of this society reflected a rather high professional level of the philosophy in our country. During the normalization period (1970s and 1980s) this process was slowed down, but not… Read more

The paper gives an analysis of the 3rd, post-war period of the history of the first philosophical journal established in Slovakia. The publishing of the periodical was marked by the rapidly changing social conditions and ruptures. This resulted in the personal change on the position of the editor-in-chief and other changes, such as the new contentual orientation,… Read more

The paper deals with the process of marginalizing of Ján Čaplovič, a Slovak Enlightenment writer and defender of Slovak national concerns, in Hungarian culture of the 1st half of the 19th century. It examines the so called „Čaplovič’s paradoxes“, with the help of which Čaplovič ironized the natural right, natural philosophy, national philosophy and historiography… Read more

A constitutive part of the political opposition in Austria-Hungary in the second half of the 19th century against the political and philosophical stands of liberally oriented New school were also the pro-government newspapers Krajan and Vlastenec. Although their formal ground were the principles of civic liberalism, they in fact… Read more