Volume 57 (2002), 3

The paper examines the relationship between reason and faith. It aims at the justification of faith not as the rival of reason, but rather as its constitutive element, which not only does not deny it, but is, on the contrary, its original foundation. This claim is seen as resulting from the dismissal of the naive realism through the examination of human… Read more

The paper deals with the role of assent (in Latine assentio, assensus) and instinct (in Latine appetitio) in the process of cognition. The author shows, that the Stoic instinct is a dynamic aspect in the processes of cognition, decision making and (free) action, its consequence being at the same time the assent, i. e. the approval of a given… Read more

The author shows through the analysis of the texts of The Old Testament that in the texts included in it "the end of the world" is not taken in its absolute, but rather in its relative sense, as the end of a particular era in human history. It was only as late as in Jewish apokalyptics, that the metaphorical language of these texts started to be taken literally… Read more