Volume 62 (2007), 8

The request of recognition is nowadays being raised under strongly varying conditions, as in the name of minorities, collective identities or within feminism. Still growing emphasis on the need of recognition is based on the assumption of certain links existing between recognition and identity, where the identity is used to specify human self-understanding. The… Read more

There are more forms of intersubjectivity or more ways of how we experience the overlaps of our subjectivity to the other, to the alter in his different forms. The paper focuses on some selected aspects of this problem, which are related to the phenomenological reduction and situated at the intersection point of two theses: Subjectivity is… Read more

The article deals with human values and ethical aspects as related to the sustainability and quality of life. Sustainability and higher quality of life should not only mean the simple biological survival, reducing human being to a spiritless creature or a materialistic, pragmatic and/or technocratic construct. Being inspired by the ideal of humanism and influenced… Read more

First, the paper defines the basic characteristics of the historically prevailing conceptions of person; further it gives an outline of the current spiritual situation of the Western culture with its roots in humanist and Enlightenment tradition. It also shows the fortunes of humanist tradition from the Enlightenment to Romanticism and further to the… Read more

The paper aims at a closer view at the most important aspects of somewhat radical, but enlightening response of J. Derrida (1930 – 2004) to V. Jankélévich’s (1903 – 1985) approach to the problem of forgiveness, articulated as related to the ex-emption from the statue of limitations, concerning the crimes against humanity. The author focuses on two topics in the… Read more

The aim of the article is to investigate the relationship between the consciousness of one’s own death, of the death of others, as well as the mode of existence which is commonly called authentic in the existential philosophy. The core of the investigation is the ‘dispute’ of Martin Heidegger and Emanuel Levinas concerning death, which is complemented by the… Read more