Volume 61 (2006), 3

The paper first depictures the hell according to the traditional doctrines of churches as a place of eternal reprobation. Then it points out that many contemporary Christian believers question the doctrine of eternal tortures to be in accordance with the unconditioned divine love, proclaimed by Jesus of the Gospels. The author’s question is: What was the role the… Read more

Long before multiculturalism and globalization became the controversial buzzwords of our times, Michel Foucault, in a brief and little remarked interview, made the bold suggestion that the future of philosophy, now in grave crisis, may depend on its encounter with Asian thinking. „It is the end of the era of occidental philosophy," Foucault declared to his… Read more

Many of our contemporary concepts are already outdated. We need new ones in order to grasp the world which we ourselves created. According to the author cosmocracy is one of such concepts through which we could look at the new worlds. In a sense, cosmocracy precedes the historical-political systems including democracy. After the people became unbound from nature,… Read more

The problem of distributive justice has been widely discussed by Western and Chinese students of Marxism. This interest results from the historical transformation of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s, and also from the crucial transition in China beginning in the late 1970s. Taking the basic principle of distributive justice as a reward… Read more