Volume 72 (2017), 7

The paper focuses on the fact that, in recent political philosophy, we have witnessed a critical overturning of an earlier philosophical idealism that invoked friendship as the destination of the political and, in its place, of what I will call a non-philosophical understanding that has determined a certain war (pólemos), and the “friend-enemy” relation, as the… Read more

The paper focuses on Derrida’s claim that “margins” of philosophy are made of aporias, which bring no solution to the problems that can be positively solved in the center of Western metaphysics. According to the paper’s hypothesis, Derrida’s work is characterized by a circular movement of subversive translation of idioms into aporias, operating as a gest of… Read more

The main aim of the paper is to analyze the role of the concept of “beast” and its relationship to political philosophy as well as Derrida’s deconstructive reading of Western philosophical tradition. The problematic significance of the concept of “beast” enables Derrida to re-articulate the relationship between the state, law, and justice. Justice seems to be… Read more

Antisthenes (444 – 365 BC.), a predecessor of the Cynic philosophical school, brings an original conception of temperance as a defence against the negative consequences of the excessive pursuit of delight. Antisthenes places an emphasis on experience; he refuses Plato’s attempts to define theories of ideas. He examines the power of the word and pursues moral… Read more

This article deals with the understanding of human beings in the project of human enhancement. It shows that, in the voices of some representatives of the latter, there is a naturalistic tendency to reduce human beings either to their environment or to virtual reality. In such cases, the resulting entity would lack interiority as well as the first-person… Read more

Possible worlds and propositions are the most fundamental building blocks of intensional semantics, as well as the most fundamental building blocks of modal logic. Within the standard possible-world semantics there are two prevailing approaches to the explication of possible worlds and propositions. The first approach treats possible worlds as primitive and… Read more

The contribution draws on the polemic on the issue in the journals Filozofia (1990 –1993) and Organon F (1995 – 2002) which seemed to be terminated by three articles published in 2002. The article focuses on several confusions and misunderstandings implied by this polemic. It also offers a stronger argument in support of the claim that abstract concepts do not… Read more

This article responds to the criticism of M. Zach, who challenges my view that it makes no sense to try to prove metaphysical realism. I argue that Zach's criticism is based on several confusions and that the conclusion he eventually reaches is not far from what I have been claiming from the beginning.