Volume 60 (2005), 6

The aim of the paper is to find out, whether in situation of several competitive concepts, when the traditional justification of morals and the validity of conventional moral concepts are questioned, an ethical theory acceptable for everybody is possible. Which should be the ground of such theory, uniting (and not excluding) the particular ethical approaches?… Read more

The paper deals with the standpoint as the epistemological and methodological strategy in the process of the production of knowledge. The author highlights some issues in contemporary debates on the feminist epistemologies (standpoint theories), she focuses on the nature, source, and functions of the standpoint – in the context of the conception of a situated… Read more

The paper examines the problems of the indexical reference and the semantics of the indexical expressions. The basis of its approach is David Kaplan’s theory of indexicals, according to which the meaning of the indexical expression is constituted by two units: one of them is constant – so called character of the indexical expression, the other is changeable – so… Read more

The experience of human fragility and factual human failing found its response also in the writings of Paul Ricœur. The result of his reflecting on this issue is the corres-ponding philosophical concept answering the question of the possible failing from the perspective of the intrinsic structure of humans. The problem of human failing is discussed on the… Read more

„The principle is nothing of what it is the principle“ – this applies for Plotinos’ One. It is neither the consciousness, nor the affectivity, neither the light, nor the life, neither the presence, nor the heaven. The paper show this on the text of Plotinos’ Treatise 38 [VI, 7]. It attributes, however, all these determinations, or processes not to the One… Read more