Volume 54 (1999), 3

The contribution focuses on two productive relations between philosophy and psychology - the first one connected with methodology and the second one with the therapeutic function of philosophy. The relations are examined in the frame of four paradigms, two of them being classical: positivistic and post-positivistic, and the other two being alternative: critical… Read more

The paper examines various forms of functionalism seen from the perspective of its effectiveness in social knowledge. The essenatial characteristics of the functionalist perspective in sociology are shortly outlined (É. Durkheim. T. Parsons, Robert K. Meiton) and the distinction between functioanlism as a mehod and functionalism as a theory is made. Nevertheless,… Read more

The paper focuses on questions such as "What is business ethics?", "Business ethics: its status, nature and subject", "The essential problems of business ethics and its practical effectivness". It is the status of business ethics, which makes it an applied ethics, while its nature makes it a normative science. The basic question is, how to span the antagonism… Read more