Volume 55 (2000), 6

The paper draws on Sperber's thesis, according to which the social and historical sciences are a free alliance of various research programs with various objectives. One of the most expanded of these programs is interpretativism. Although the author acknowledges various interpretative approaches (the contextual interpretation and its thick and thin holistic… Read more

Concomitant to the renaissance of the concept of virtue in contemporary moral philosophy was the return to the traditional theories of virtue. The author offers a comparison of the theories of virtue with Aristotle, Spinoza and Hume, focusing on two questions: First, what do such diverse conceptions as Aristotle's eudaimonism, Spinoza's ethical rationalism and… Read more

The paper offers a survey of the views of the representatives of contemporary ethics concerned with the theory of values. It deals with Husserl's interpretation of ethical world and it examines also the problem of moral value in the work of M. Scheler, as well as the hierarchy of values and the notion of "ressentiment". Attention is paid also to the ethics of D.… Read more

The paper examines the dialectics of the sense of life and death. In the analysis three mutually dependent points of view are applied: existential (the consciouisness of mortality and the sense of life), moral (the consciousness of mortality and the moral value of human action) and psychological (the development of personality) ones. The author focuses on the… Read more

The paper examines the concept of "implicit philosophy" as used in the integrated psychotherapy, making clear its content as a "potential philosophy". The author sees its meaning as opposite to the meaning of "explicit philosophy". To use the relationship between implicit and explicit philosophy in an explanation involves a binary conception of philosophy in its… Read more