Volume 44 (1989), 1

The paper deals with the problem of human subjectivity which is understood by the author as a component of philosophical problems of Man. In the centre of attention there stands the confrontation of Existentialist and Marxist approach to the problem of subjectivity. The author strives to criticize existentialism in a constructive way, to grasp the rational core of… Read more

The paper sketches one of the plausible typologies of theories of consciousness. It proceeds from the assumption that the key characteristics of consciousness are directness towards the objects as well as communicativeness. Consciousness is related to the objects in the two distinct ways or the two forms of intentionality. In this perspective it is needful to… Read more

Feyerabenďs philosopical thinking is characterized by expressive anthroplogical gravitation, though not apparent at first sight. He finds the source of alienation in the aplication of abstract, „situationally not-bound“ notions in the sphere of human affairs and relations, in such a form of cognition which does not reflect its relativity to other forms and which… Read more

In the paper author concentrated on the analysis of the problem of Man in the philosophical conception of R. G. Collingwood, one of the founders of modern Anglo-Saxon analytical philosophy of history who developed it on two levels: 1/on specific philosophical level, 2/within the framework of philosophical-historical reflections. R. G. Collingwood, influenced by… Read more

Following up Aristotle, Spinoza, Hegel and Marx, M. Heidegger reformulates the problem of Man as identity of spirit and body, laden with biologism, into the problem of differentiating Man as the thinking being (das denkende Wesen] from the non-thinking being. Contrary to Hegel and Marx, he cannot see the difference, in the fact that the thinking being is capable… Read more