Volume 51 (1996), 12

From the philosophical and historical stands the paper analyzes Peirce’s critical project of metaphysics. Peirce’s alternative names for metaphysics are phenomenology or phaneroscopy. Metaphysics, as the science of reality, rests on the absolute acceptance of logical principles as truths of being, and also on experience and facts (logic… Read more

The study is concerned with a distinquished representative of the modern (world) philosophy of metaphysic n.a. Whitehead. It deals with the interpretation of that part of Whitehead’s theory of metaphysic which had been exposed in his Adventures of Ideas. The author points out that some of the fundamental ideas of Whitehead’s conception are ambiguous and… Read more

The paper deals with those concepts of Hay den White, which concern the problem of historical interpretations and which are often taken as postmodern. In White’s historical interpretations three modes are involved: the mode of structuration (emplotment - romantic, comedial, tragic and ironic ones), the mode of explanation (formal idiographic, organistic,… Read more

The author focuses on the positive social consequences: humanity, justice, legality, responsibility and tolerance. He examines each of these principles and shows, that the ethics of social consequences can be accepted as an alternative way of considering contemporary moral problems as well as of looking for their optimal solutions.

The polemic between classical cognitive science and postmodernism with regard to domain of discourse is in the focus of this paper. Some basic characteristics of the two approaches are outlined. Their origin and objectives, presuppositions, consequences in human sciences as well as in administration of society are discussed. In conclusion neither universality nor… Read more