Volume 45 (1990), 4

In contrast to the traditional alternative of Reason v. experience, Kant set up „possible experience“, heuristically productive postulation of unification of Reason and experience, mutual correction of Reason and imagination which does not mean constitution of objects. With Husserl the shift from Kant’s transcendental questioning… Read more

In the paper some consequences following from the evolutionary theory of concepts which was analyzed in the paper The Evolution of Concepts (Filozofia 45, 1990, No. 3, p. 288-308) are examined. First the author points to a bizarre phenomenon to which no attention has been paid so far, namely: if concepts evolve really the fact must be taken… Read more

The paper examines some problems connected with the suggested and even realized measure to solve one of the gravest ecological problems – the problem of over-population. The author calls attention above all to relevant ethical problems following both from the introduction of laboratory reproduction techniques and also to possible… Read more

In the paper the idea of social order which was brought in social philosophy by Hobbes is discussed. The problems of order, its various interpretation (e.g. functionalism, the theory of alternation, of symbolic interaction, the theory of conflict) are analyzed and examined with accent on the institutional aspect of social integration (order… Read more

The papers deals with the analysis of the anthropological conception of E. Rothacker, one of the representatives of German philosophical anthropology of Scheler’s type. Based both on a detailed analysis of Rothacker’s category of the style of life and his understanding of culture (e. g. the law of polar tension between the basic… Read more