Volume 44 (1989), 2

The paper offers alternative solutions of problem of totalization. The optimization of "specific functional forms" as moments carrying the dual character of social being is accentuated in this model of totality. Specific functional forms are considered to be real demonstrating of functions and the optimization as heading most perfect forms of objectification of… Read more

ldeological processes ought to be examiflecl also in connection with funcltioning of dilstributive systems wirthin whose framework the decisions are made concerning alternatives of disposing of rneans of production, politicai power, access to education and information. Distributive systems work differently according to whether they are a component of the market or… Read more

Among the inevitable aspects ol philosophical reflection of the real state of consciousness of the particular socialist society is the examination of its historical making by the time past, present and future in their dialectical interconnection and determinacy. Only the objective and true cognizing of the past, aware of its sense and significance, makes it… Read more

In the paper the problems of criteria of rational action are analyzed. By exploiting initiations from the theory of effective doing the dlffelence between the rationailty of action in the methodological sense and in the matter-of-fact one is made. The differentiation between the rationality, connected with relationships between the end and the means and that… Read more

Having specified the concept „cultural anthropology“ and fixed its typologic characteristics which make out its differrence from other forms of anthropology, the author concentrates on the conception of Michael Landmann, one of its distinguished representatives. Based on detail analysis of his work, she brings out some positive issues of his conception of Man and… Read more

The subject of this contribution are some negative phenomena of our time, signified in many philosophical analyses by Marx’s concept ”perverted consciousness“. By comparing the meaning which was put into this term by Marx himself, with the character of contemporary phenomena and the objective social processes, the author attempts to point out that from the point… Read more

It is the aim of the paper to sketch the methodological and philosophical—theoretical linkage of the theory of consciousness and semiotics. The point in question is transformed into the framework of the analysis of the relationship of the concepts „ideology (ideological life of society) and sign-significance structures“. The fonudation and starting point of… Read more