Volume 68 (2013), Mimoriadne číslo 1
Interiorita, exteriorita, responzivita

In spite of an ever growing interest in social cognition research many problematic and uncritically accepted prejudices still have their effect on the very basis of the developed theoretical approaches. Among the most influential is conceiving the human mind as something directly accessible exclusively to its subject, being totally hidden for the eyes of the… Read more

Human existence as dwelling – Phenomenal pattern of dwelling – From the analysis of the ways of dwelling to the delimitation of its constitutive relations – A critique of the reduction of the public character of human dwelling – A critique of the pathological changes in urban and social public spaces – The need for philosophy with its ability of differentiating… Read more

The aim of this study is to analyse the influence the models of space had on the conceptions of transcendence, in particular the shift in Heidegger’s explanation of God from the “last God” conception to “God as a part of fourfold” (Geviert). This shift is connected with the development of Heidegger’s conception of space from the between- space to the topological… Read more

The article introduces the transformation of the topology of the interior and the exterior due to long-term theatre-reflexive experience of the so-called authorial acting. The analysis of Plato’s dialog Sophistes shows where the philosophical potential to think on conscious level and passionately at the same time is blocked. The interpretation of the concept of… Read more

This article focuses on the concept of intimacy in painting. Based on pictorial examples of the 17th century, it explores two aspects of intimacy: the close relationship (shown by Poussin’s self-portraits) on one hand and the interiority (associated with Vermeer’s intimate genre scenes) on the other. It also aims to demonstrate that the concept of intimacy exceeds… Read more

The paper deals with apparence as conceived by A. Portmann. His understanding of appearence is not limited neither to the exteriorization of interirority, not to a sheer and simple exteriority. On the contrary, appearence in itself is a description of a unique dynamics of interiorization: The process of expression is not advancing from inside out; interiority is… Read more

The article offers an explication of the concepts of middle soul or middle man. The non-individual animal soul, being rather a capacity of feeling, is joined with individual rational human soul. From the connection of these heterogeneous souls imagination as a middle faculty arises. The lower imagination transcribes the desires of sensitive soul into images, while… Read more