Volume 51 (1996), 10

After 1918 the introduction to philosophy was one of the subjects taught in the last, eighth year on Slovak high schools according to official school teaching programs of 1933 and 1939. The Czech versions and their Slovak translations (e. g. that of F. Krejčí and first of all AÍbína Dratvová’s handbooks) were followed in the early fourties by a handbook of a… Read more

The paper offers a whole picture of the intuitive realism in Slovakia represented by the work of J. Dieška and N. O. Lossky. In its first part the epistemological foundations of this philosophy are examined on the background of the basic ideas of Lossky’s metaphysical personalism. In the second part the comparison of intuitive realism with the ideas of English and… Read more

The development of Slovak philosophy from 1970 to 1990 was predeterminated by the military intervention against the process od democratization initiated by A. Dubček. After the personal and bureaucratic restrictions of the activities of so called revisionists the political and the ideological role of philosophy have been reestablished. Many Soviet handbooks were… Read more

The paper outlines the period of political, economic and social revival in Slovak society of the sixties of the 20th century, in the course of which the restrictions of philosophical thought were removed as well. It was a spontaneous initiative of the Slovak philosophers, whose aim was the reestablishment of philosophical antropology, ecology and ontology on one… Read more

The theory of relativity brought about important changes not only in the development of scientific theories, but also in ontology and epistemology. The author (she) examines the impact of this theory on philosophical thought in Slovakia. Attention is paid especially to the twenties of the 20th century when the discussions about the theory of relativity in physics… Read more