Volume 62 (2007), 10

The Association for Scientific Synthesis (1937 – 1940, 1945 – 1950) gathered a group of Slovak intellectuals, who tried to introduce modern scientific attitudes and structural methods into Slovak culture. In their systematic effort for a coordinated and convergent scientific research, for an exact scientific language and methods they were inspired by logical… Read more

The paper offers a closer view on the main representative of the philosophical thinking, the founding father of the analytical philosophy and an innovator of Marxist philosophy in the 1950s and 1960s in Slovakia, who would have been 100 years old this year. Besides the account of the problems, with which Hrušovský has been concerned (such as being, structure,… Read more

The paper gives a survey of the early volumes of the journal, issued in 1889 – 1906. In this journal the changes the Catholic philosophy and theology underwent due to the publication of the Papal Encyclica Aeterni Patris has found their reflection. The contributions fall under several fundamental philosophical disciplines of the Neo-Scholasticism, such as… Read more

The common denominator of the contribution is the considerations of the future, which can be found, in a less or more condensate form, in the works of several Slovak intellectuals of the 20th century (J. Lajčiak, G. Vámoš, S. Štúr, D. Tatarka). Their views of the future vary heavily; some of them saw philosophy as „the way and the sense of life in the Universe“ (… Read more

It was the New School, which began systematically to pursue the problem of the vertical and horizontal forms of national integration. The views of the authors contributing to the newspaper Slovenské noviny, based on the idea of civic equality were an alternative to the pathetic elitism of the patriots of Štúrian kind. Political realism of the New School embodied… Read more