Volume 62 (2007), 6

The paper offers a comparison of the achievements, conceptions and fortunes of two of the most important personalities of Czech and Slovak philosophies. They both were deeply convinced of the possibility and necessity of philosophical knowledge. What played a decisive role in their lives, were their convictions: on the side of Hrušovský it was scientific-… Read more

The paper deals with several aspects of Patočka’s reflections on the role and mission of intellectuals in times, when science becomes „the central productive power“ and when the self-identifications of philosophy and philosophers become necessary. These requirements are due to various past and present „shakes“ (e.g. the extraordinery experience of participating in… Read more

The disputes the paper deals with concerned the adherents of intuitive realism, who defended the epistemological position of direct cognition, and those philosophers, who enforced the position of critical realism. The attention is paid especially to the views and attitudes of Igor Hrušovský, which he articulated in his polemics with intuitive realists. According… Read more

The paper is an attempt to show how Patočka has come to terms with Husserl on a critical basis. His metaphysical criticism concerns Husserl’s system represented by his concept of the living world, as well as by his method, the phenomenological reduction. On one side Patočka’s criticism discovers the less known side of Husserl, on the other side it shows Patočka’s… Read more

The paper sees the core of Hrušovský’s philosophical legacy in his contribution to the philosophy of being. Its central category is co called plain being or being as such. According to the author plain being refers to timeless being. In author’s terminology the latter is perichrony, connecting the synchrony with the diachrony. The doctrine of perichrony… Read more