Volume 52 (1997), 7

At the beginning of the forties of the 20th century the philosophy in Slovakia has reached a remarkable stage of its development. Its was pluralistic governed by professional philosophers, who often contributed original philosophical conceptions. It was supported by its own philosophical institutions and journals and the freedom of thinking made various… Read more

The paper discusses the conditions and circumstances of the origins of the first philosophical journal in Slovakia. Its first issue appeared in 1940 and was published by the contemporary cultural and educational institution Matica slovenská. The author examines the main spheres, on which the journal focused at that time: epistemology, ontology, history of… Read more

The paper is a continuation of the contribution in Filozofia 1997/6. It offers a discussion of so called negative experience, especially of negative existential one. In the author's view the negative experience results from subjectivization of an uncompleted positive experience. The objective absence of being is rendered subjectively as the presence of non-being,… Read more

In contemporary multicultural and radically pluralistic world the principle of tolerance becomes topical. The author sees the tolerance as the modus vivendi of modem pluralistic society, as an alternative to violence, based on the conception of human rights and closely related to democracy. Tolerance represents a rational way of communication. Procedural… Read more