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Volume 79 (2024), 9

Original Articles

(Original title: The Human Being as ‘Compound’: Aquinas versus Descartes on Human Nature)
Filozofia, 79 (2024), 9, 955 - 969.
Abstract
The intuitively right answer to the question ‘What am I?’ is not ‘an incorporeal spirit’, but ‘a human being’. Aquinas reflects this common-sense view when he says that ‘the human is no mere soul, but a compound of soul and body.’ And Descartes, despite his notorious dualistic thesis that I am a substance that does not need anything material in order to exist,… Read more
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(Original title: Prístupy k dejinnosti vo fenomenológii: československá skúsenosť)
Filozofia, 79 (2024), 9, 970 - 984.
Abstract
In the paper I examine selected local phenomena related to the history of phenomenology in Central-Eastern Europe and especially in the former Czechoslovakia during the communist period. I use these to show that a specific mode of thinking developed here as a distinctive phenomenological practice. I provide examples from the fields of art history, theory of art,… Read more
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(Original title: Komplikovaný vzťah filozofie Clauda Romana a Martina Heideggera)
Filozofia, 79 (2024), 9, 985 - 999.
Abstract
The study attempts to interpret the work of the French phenomenologist Claude Romano in the context of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. The text tries to point out the differences and connections between their thinking, connect and confront their individual concepts and theses, and point out the important structural moments that are common for both philosophers.… Read more
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