Volume 79 (2024), 5
Original Articles
(Original title: Cesta k inteligencii: Nadmerné zjednodušenie a samokontrola)
Filozofia, 79 (2024), 5, 471 - 482.Abstract
This article offers some reflections on some features of human consciousness that are in need of an explanation. I wish to see if these features could be understood as solutions to design problems, solutions arrived at by evolution, but also, in the individual, as a result of a process of unconscious self-design. I consider this issue in the context of work in AI on… Read more
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(Original title: How is Self-Fashioning Possible? Nietzsche on Agency and Freedom)
Filozofia, 79 (2024), 5, 538 - 552.Abstract
In this paper I shall explore how self-fashioning, as conceived by Friedrich Nietzsche, is possible. My goal is to show that self-fashioning is not jeopardized by Nietzsche’s determinism and his rejection of traditional ideas of selfhood, agency, and freedom. First, I shall clarify why the abandonment of this traditional conception of human beings is seen by some as… Read more
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