Volume 52 (1997), 8

The author of the paper underlines the importance of Patočka's interpretation of Aristotle, especially his searching for the basis of Aristotle's critical reception of the works of Plato and Socrates. Aristotle's contribution was first of all in his reconsideration of the relation between concept and reality and in his new conception of the relation between notion… Read more

The paper offers historical-philosophical examination of Kant's reception of the philosophy of J. J. Rousseau. A special attention is paid to the shift in Kant's philosophical argumentation and to his growing interest in the anthropological and ethical problematics. The author shows Kant as strongly deriving from Rousseau, pointing out at the same time Kant's… Read more

Power is often related to prohibition and repression. Theoretically this notion is articulated in the repressive theory of power or by what Foucault calls "the repressive hypothesis". In the 20th century the repressive hypothesis of power was applied especially by the psychoanalysts (Freud, Reich, Marcuse etc.) in the sphere of sexuality. Their argumentation is… Read more

The paper examins the origins of evil from two complementary points of view: systematic-structural, resp. ontic-ontological ones. From the first point of view evil is seen as the result of a system breaking due to which the system does not reach the expected level of development. The evil as such is then seen as the result of the ontic estrangement of its… Read more

The author examines the noetic legitimity of human consciousness of the inevitability of death on the background of Descartian rationality, indicated as "cogito". He shows, that the consciousness of the inevitability of death can be reached neither on the basis of one's own experience of death, because nobody can survive it, nor on the basis of the others'… Read more