Volume 76 (2021), 3

The paper discusses the topic of democracy contained in the philosophical concept of Josef Ludvík Fischer (1894 – 1973). The starting point is the idea of respect to the Order of Reality flowing into the theory of structural democracy. J. L. Fisher eventually arrives at the questions of freedom, the topic of our options to re-create reality, depending on our… Read more

The paper deals with the analysis of specific social and ethical consequences of neuro-enhancement. In the first part of the paper, we will present some of the basic methods and technologies that allow to improve cognitive and emotional abilities. In the following sections, we will subsequently analyze the three most serious areas of socio-ethical problems related… Read more

The aim of the paper is to outline the development of later Foucault’s thought concerning the study of power. Foucault often changed his approaches to power, and this investigation changed his thinking about power. At the beginning he dealt with the microphysics of power, later he focused on the study of governmentality as the art of governing, which includes both… Read more

The aim of this article is to elucidate Nietzsche’s idea of the necessity of social decadence. It is discussed that the necessity indicates an inevitable or necessary historical process, on the one hand, and the decadent being necessarily produced in society, on the other. Nietzsche presents a seemingly contradictory idea regarding this necessity. While he… Read more