Volume 80 (2025), 6
Original articles
(Original title: The Right Use of Reason in the Moral Theories of Aristotle and Habermas)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 6, 761 - 779.Abstract
The Aristotelian distinction between technical and moral reason, production and interaction permeates Habermas’s thought. But in moral theory, Habermas’s main emphasis is on the decontextualized justification of moral norms, while Aristotle’s focus is on contextualized judgment. The paper argues that Aristotle’s theory of practical wisdom could be instructive for… Read more
File to download: PDF
(Original title: K autonómii a ľudským právam: je autonómia nevyhnutná?)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 6, 780 - 794.Abstract
The paper deals with the distinction between different aspects of autonomy. Kant’s two kinds of freedom are discussed. Regarding human rights there are interpreters who claim that autonomy and human rights are barely distinguishable and, by contrast, other thinkers who deny any relevance of autonomy for human rights. The author tries to propose a middle ground… Read more
File to download: PDF
(Original title: Problém autonómie subjektu v Nussbaumovej teórii spôsobilostí)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 6, 795 - 809.Abstract
This paper deals with autonomy in political philosophy and theories of justice. The starting point is a critique of traditional, abstract concepts of autonomy (stoicism, social contract theory), which, according to Martha C. Nussbaum, fail to adequately respond to real human vulnerability and inequality. It presents an alternative – the capabilities approach, which… Read more
File to download: PDF
(Original title: Neofregeovská reinterpretácia Traktátu a pojem holého indivídua)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 6, 810 - 825.Abstract
In the article “Frege’s Der Gedanke as a Rival Project to Wittgenstein’s Tractatus ,” we considered the question of the explication of the concepts of fact and world to be the key difference between these projects. Tichý proposed reconciling the two by reinterpreting Wittgenstein’s complexes as abstract procedures that rely on the modal concept of the bare individual… Read more
File to download: PDF
(Original title: Dispoziční predikáty a lingvistická relativita)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 6, 826 - 840.Abstract
Dispositions are unobserved properties of objects that may or may not manifest under certain conditions. These properties can be described using dispositional predicates, which typically require the use of conditional clauses. In this paper, I focus on the confounding nature of indicative and counterfactual conditionals. The first part addresses terminological issues… Read more
File to download: PDF
(Original title: Desire as a Way of Knowing What Is Good in the Ethics of J. S. Mill (and Some Other Philosophers))
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 6, 841 - 854.Abstract
John Stuart Mill asks in Utilitarianism how we know the first principles of morality. He answers that desire, which he compares to sensory faculties, is how we know that something is desirable. I suggest we take him at his word – desire is the faculty, or something very similar, of moral perception – and I give some provisional analysis of this idea. In assigning… Read more
File to download: PDF
(Original title: Kant on the Political Obligation of Philosophers: Reading the Secret Article in Toward Perpetual Peace)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 6, 855 - 868.Abstract
This paper offers an interpretive framework for understanding Kant’s “secret article” in Toward Perpetual Peace as contributing to a three-step transition toward a republican constitution. First, rulers permit philosophers to speak freely and publicly and learn from them in secret. Second, rulers extend this freedom of public reason to all citizens, reflecting Kant’s… Read more
File to download: PDF
Review Study
(Original title: Metapopulistická demokracia ako filozofia interregna)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 6, 869 - 882.Abstract
The review study focuses on the philosophical interpretation and critical reflection of the concept of metapopulist democracy as developed by Michael Hauser. Against the backdrop of the crisis of the liberal order and the transformation of political rationality, it examines how Hauser redefines the concepts of the people, representation, and human rights in the… Read more
File to download: PDF
Discussion
(Original title: Spor o definici argumentace)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 6, 883 - 894.Abstract
Zouhar (2020) offers a critique of the pragma-dialectical definition of argumentation, drawing on model dialogues between cooperative speakers. I argue that this critique is unfounded. The dialogues in question do not constitute counterexamples, as the pragma-dialectical definition does not require the presence of an opponent, the controversiality of the defended… Read more
File to download: PDF
Book review
(Original title: Lea David: A Victim‘s Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles: Desire Objects and Human Rights)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 6, 895 - 898.Abstract
A book review of Lea David's A Victim‘s Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles: Desire Objects and Human Rights. New York: Columbia University Press 2025, 328pp.
File to download: PDF
Scientific Events
(Original title: 200 rokov Maďarskej akadémie vied: Kontakty maďarskej a slovenskej vedy v dejinách a súčasnosti akadémie)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 6, 899 - 902.File to download: PDF