Volume 52 (1997), 9

Has the Catholic modernism of the first decades of the 20th century contributed to the revitalization of the authentic meaning of the Christianity, or has it been just a further distortion of the latter? The paper tries to answer the question on the background of the recent developments in the Catholic thought. It suggests, that there is an analogy between the… Read more

The relationships between philosophy and psychology have their history and complexity. The author gives an account of the so called philosophical psychologies I and II (before and after the rise of scientific psychology), based on the identification of the psychological issues within philosophy itself, as well as on the outline of the main tracks of the… Read more

The paper deals with Wittgenstein's articulation of the internal, subjective, which is called "the soul" by the author. She questions the behavioristic interpretation of Wittgenstein's conception of the internal, trying to show, how his conception of the unutterable from Tractatus still persists in Philosophical Investigations. She argues further that Wittgenstein… Read more

The author gives an account of human being's attitude towards the phenomenon of death. He distinguishes two basic kinds of mental states concerning death: a) the so called "forgetting about death", and b) conscious acceptance of death. The paper focuses on the former and describes the mechanisms of its building up and maintenance. It is seen as an elementary form… Read more

The author's aim is to examine an alternative approach to the exploration of mind. In this respect he focuses on the paradigm of discursive psychology, where the discourse is seen not only as its theoretical basis, but mainly as a methodological means for grasping human nature. His question is, whether the reinterpretation of the psychological approaches employed… Read more

The contribution is a pilot contemplation on the relatioship between psychology and philosophy from the perspective of the exploration of the mental. Historical and conceptual resources of their mutual impacts, theoretical bases and determinations of psychology by Marxist philosophy are discussed.