Volume 61 (2006), 9

The objective of the paper is to examine the question, in what sense does the idea of humans as self-interpreting beings modify the understanding of ethics, namely, if the idea of self-interpretation changes the understanding humans as moral beings. Can the will to define oneself as a member of a moral community be seen as the background of moral behavior, or is… Read more

The aim of the paper is to analyze Dreyfus’ phenomenological conception of moral maturity in critical relation to Kantian tradition of ethics. A special attention is paid to the refutation of Cartesian subject and radical elimination of subject-object relationship. These two points make the starting point of Dreyfus’ philosophical reflection on the ideal of moral… Read more

The explanation of human nature exclusively from the perspective of biological evolution (as for example in sociobiology) faces two paradoxes. The core of the first one can be summarized as follows: The characteristics of the specifically human behavior, such as symbolic thinking, intentional and planned activity, cooperative work distribution, creation of… Read more

The paper is an attempt to shed light upon Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophical development from its early to its late periods. In the author’s view Wittgenstein’s philosophy can relatively sharply be divided into two periods with 1930 as a boundary line. He picks out some main events occurring around this line, which can be seen as the milestones on Wittgensteins… Read more