Volume 51 (1996), 8

The paper focuses on three problems. First, Derrida's vocabulary is there of help in describing Heidegger as one of the characters, which Nietzsche called “ascetic priests”. The revolt against the culural hegemony of these ascetic priests is exemplified by L. Durrell's novel Alexandrian Quartet.-Finally, attention is paid to R. Rorty in order to retell… Read more

The theory of religion draws on the researches in various close related disciplines. In spite of this fact no universally accepted theory of religion has been presented up to now. S. E. Guthrie’s attempt at such a theory is based mainly on ethnology. His remarkable book makes us to rethink the antropomorphism not only in religion, but also in language and in the… Read more

From the seventies of this century on we witness an unprecedent development of ethics within the frame of philosophy. The question is, which definition of ethics should be taken as decisive: the descriptive, or the normative one? The paper is concerned with the normativness of ethics. Attention is paid to a fundamental shift in normative ethics, which becomes… Read more