Volume 69 (2014), 10

The paper questions the modern approach to ancient philosophy as a linear movement from mythos to logos and analyzes the circumstances of „the beginning“ of ancient philosophical thinking. It tempts to see the whole movement of the Pre-Socratic philosophy as a literary undercurrent of the Homeric schools, the Homeridae. Crucial for this type of argumentation is… Read more

The basic author’s assumption is that the common characteristic of the corpus of Socratic literature is its therapeutic function. Accepting this assumption means that in the interpretation of Socratic dialogues the dramatic structure of the text and the analysis of the ethical problems would be equally important. The paper elucidates Socratesʼ own explaining his… Read more

The paper deals with parrhesiastic practices of the Cynic Diogenes of Sinope. Cynic parrhēsia, the freedom of speech, works on two inseparable levels: on the individual-ethical level as the practice of truth-telling aiming at truthful and frank relationship to oneself; and as an educational practice on the level of social criticism. First, we analyze parrhēsia as… Read more

Phenomenological approach is not only a matter of academic philosophy; it is also effectively applied in the field of psychotherapeutic practice. Technology of selfawareness – in the sense of self-experiencing of our existence in the world – developed on the phenomenological grounds aims primarily at the integration of behavior observed and experiencing deeper… Read more

The contribution deals with one of the problematizations of the care of the selfconception on the background of the anthropology and ethics of P. Sloterdijk, who has been exploring the issues since 1977. In 1999 his Elmau lecture Rules for the Human ZOO motivated one of the two most relevant discussions in 20th century philosophical anthropology. He proved to be… Read more

The aim of this paper is to compare five different translations of Diogenes Laertiusʼ chapter on Antisthenes and his philosophy. To be more specific, we try to draw a comparison among the translations of one original text, accomplished by Kalaš, Okál, Kolář, Hicks and Σκουτερόπουλος. To begin with, some necessary semantic concepts are explained: truth… Read more