Volume 49 (1994), 2

The aim of the paper is to analyse Heidegger's conception of understanding as a constitutive moment of the being of „Dasein“. The attention is paid to the structure of anticipation as a core of the phenomenon of understanding. The last part of the paper deals with the relation of understanding to the theoretical attitude. Understanding is seen as a background… Read more

The contribution deals with the immanent dynamics of Kant’s philosophy of history, concentrating on the practical period of its development, during which Kant made use of his ideas comprised in his Elements of the Metaphysics of Morals and Critique of Practical Reason. On this background such problems as freedom in human action, the moralization of man… Read more

In the paper some problems of eidolons in posteleatic philosophy of nature are scrutinized on the background of several pluralistic explanations of reality reaching from that of Empedocles to epicurean atomism. Further, it shows the fundamental impact these explanations exercised on the conceptions of eidolons. The difficulties resulting from proclaimed nature of… Read more