Volume 54 (1999), 7

The contribution examines the reflections of European philosophy at Prešov Evangelical college in the 17th century. In author's view there were three dominant philosophical conceptions in the 17th century: Bayer's baconism, Caban's atomism and Ladiver's evangelical aristotelism. The different ways of assimilating the European philosophy (especially that of… Read more

The origins of the philosophy of the history of philosophy as an organic part of philosophy is to be searched for in the developmnets of the philosophical thinking in the 19th century Germany. Its founding father was G. W. F. Hegel with his famous lectures on the history of philosophy. Parallel to his conception there were several other attempts at a philosophical… Read more

The paper examines Kant's understanding of the Enlightenment. It derives from Kant's ideas embodied in his writing A response to the question: What is Enlightenment? The latter was followed by other writings, in which Kant examnined what he called the ability to think independently as an important characteristic of Enlightenment. In this sense the author… Read more

Philosophy and its transformation at the end of the century and millenium - a specific problem of the present time, or a normal stage of the dynamic development of philosophical thinking? Philosophy usually dissolves in the web of culture at large. By all indications, western philosophy is now experiencing another selfquestioning phase in its history. From various… Read more

The paper is based on the assumption of practical relevance of an incommensurable model of choice in a pluralistic world. It points out the significance of the issue in question in terms of modernism and post-modernism, and attempts at its delimitation. The author refers to research projects into value-ranking and conflictsolving whose results indicate that ontic… Read more

Consequentialism is seen by Philip Pettit mainly as a theory of the appropriate; in his conception of virtual consequentialism he is much less concerned with the theory of Good. Nevertheless, he pays attention to values such as rights, freedom, loyalty, confidence, dignity and love, although his analyses are isolated, and the connections with other values are not… Read more