Volume 45 (1990), 5

Czech philosophers (J. Tvrdý, J. Král) contributed a great deal to propagation and popularization of Masaryk’s philosophy during their activity at the Philosophical Faculty of CU in Bratislava. Slovak authors wrote on Masaryk as a philosopher (P. Vajcik) as well as about his relation to Plato (J. Lacko). S. Štúr was… Read more

Realism and humanism are substantial characteristics of Masaryk’s thought. Realism, keeping at a distance both from historical conservatism and futuristic radicalism, was highly original formula of transforming reality. Masaryk refused revolutionary radicalism as a means of introducing social change and he built upon the concrete… Read more

In the paper the development of conceptions of a prominent Slovak theoretician, publicist and politician M. Hodža of the Czecho-Slovak issue in the period of first twenty years of this century is outlined. This period represents a second creative phase of Hodža’s theoretical activity. In the paper sources of ideas of Hodža’s… Read more

The paper inquires into the works of N. O. Losskij which cover his activity at Bratislava university during the period 1942 to 1945. The author examines general philosophical starting-points of Losskij’s intuitivism and the conception of noetical monism, built upon them, namely in the form in which it was elaborated in works written… Read more

In the paper the author gives characteristics of the mechanistic interpretation of the world in the works of three representatives of Slovak natural science at the turn of the 18th and 19th century – M. Panki, W. Kempelen, Š. Schimko. She defines the standing of their interpretations of the world among the scientists of that time.… Read more

In the paper different conceptions of Hegel’s social theory in the Essay on the Natural Law (Naturrechtaufsatz 1802) and in the Philosophy of Law are analyzed. In his conception of „ethical order“ (Sittlichkeit) in which Hegel criticizes the conception of society from the standpoint of the individual, Hegel, under Aristotle’s… Read more