Volume 49 (1994), 3

De nostri temporis studiorum ratione is Vico’s first work written after his abandonment of rationalism. It does not contain yet any idea of „eternal ideal history“ (storm ideále etema) ruled and controlled by God’s wisdom. Of importance is Vico’s intention to solve the crisis of rationalism by means of empiricism. Vico made use of the empirical idea of… Read more

Transcendentalism is an alternative for philosophy to justify its competence in examining knowledge in the era of science. In the first part of the paper attention is paid to several philosophical and scientific conceptions, which meet on the platform of transcendentalism. The second part deals with Kant’s understanding of transcendental knowledge and apriori… Read more

The paper is a contribution to revitalizing two Fink’s texts: The Intentional Analysis and the Problem of Speculative Thought (1952) and Phenomenology and Dialectics, first of all the idea of the „true encounter“ of phenomenological and „speculative“ thoughts. In its first part the tension between the revelating and producing aspects of the… Read more

The paper tries to show the basic differences in understanding and applying the concepts of space and time by I. Newton and G. W. Leibniz as documented by Leibniz's correspondence with Clarke. In its second part the background and the reasons of the dispute are briefly outlined. The third part is devoted to a closer examination of the concept of space. Parts 4 and… Read more