Volume 49 (1994), 10

Conceiving the world as order is certainly the basic condition of our life in general, giving at the same time meaning to all our existential activities, to all our efforts to understand our experience. Only an ordered world is an understandable one, in which we are able to live. Only in an ordered world our knowledge is possible. Social order means first of all… Read more

The status of ethics in economic behavior is a new issue in our philosophy. In the countries with a developed market economy it is, however, one of the most burning questions of the discussion. The aim of the paper in its first part is to approach moral norms as a specific way of the economic behavior regulation. In its second part the mainstream modern theories… Read more

The paper consists of three parts. In the first one several sociological theories of time are briefly outlined. In the second and the substantial one the author's hypothesis of the three levels of social time is presented: those of historicity, temporality and transcendence. Social time is conceived as an organic unity of these three levels, permanently… Read more