Volume 58 (2003), 8

M. Tullius Cicero was the first among the Roman thinkers, who made the problematic of culture and civilization his serious concern. His investigations led him to the belief that the culture, seen as a whole of traditions, norms and values, is inseparable from artes, i. e. the spiritual phenomena in science and art. From his awarness of the necesssity to… Read more

The paper outlines the explicatory frame of Eco's understanding of the multiplicity of signs. Its starting point is the conception of truth as a multi-essence. The signs, however, do not have their origin in simple construction of the social world: it must be decoded by menas of multilayer signs, referring not only to themselves, but also to their connection with… Read more