Volume 24 (1969), 1

Papers and Discussions

The Meaning of History and our History

(Original title: Zmysel dejín a naše dejiny)

Elena Várossová

Filozofia, 24 (1969), 1, 3-14.

Abstract

The present study arose as a lecture given for the Slovak Philosophical Association on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Czechoslovak Republic and of philosophical reflection of another contemporary problems of the Slovak nation. First of all, the author raises the general question of the sense of history, as solved by the philosophy of history conceived… Read more

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Man and the Dialectics of History

(Original title: Človek a dialektika dejín)

Igor Hrušovský

Filozofia, 24 (1969), 1, 15-25.

Abstract

Universal dialectical laws of history are being concretely realized in the framework of the whole scale according to the creation of active human subject. It is the very historic human practice, which determines the concrete form of the immanent flow of history. Man is an active creator and factor of historical progression. Historical progression is contradictive… Read more

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Czechoslovak Philosophy of History

(Original title: Československá filozofia dejín)

Svätopluk Štúr

Filozofia, 24 (1969), 1, 26-35.

Abstract

The progressive parts of the philosophy of the 18th and 19th century struggle with the church and state absolutism of the 17th century for the new age of reason and morals which become fundamental pillars of modern Europe: reason as the highest knowing capacity, morals as the highest structure of our doing with all democratizing, economic and social consequences.… Read more

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Universalism of Spiritual Culture

(Original title: Univerzalizmus duchovní kultury)

Jiří Suchý

Filozofia, 24 (1969), 1, 36-53.

Abstract

Universalistic tendencies of the contemporary cultural developments, mediated by the accelerating convergence, integration and accumulation of cultural values, meet today with the main obstacle in the form of contradictory world ideologies. Plurality of the particular cultural systems found in the antagonism of socialistic and capitalistic culture a new significant… Read more

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The Development of Ethical and Anthropological Views Indian Philosophy

(Original title: Vývin eticko-antropologických názorov v ranej filozofii Indov)

Dalimír Hajko

Filozofia, 24 (1969), 1, 53-64.

Abstract

The actualness of the problem of European or Asian centrism makes us study the possibility of all-round, harmonic unfoldment of man’s personality by means of a synthesis of the spiritual cultures of East and West. These tendencies manifest themselves clearly even in the contemporary Indian philosophy (S. Radhakrishnan, P. T. Raju, R. Mukerjee, A. K. Coomaraswamy, S.… Read more

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On the Problem of Sensory Perceptibility in Physics

(Original title: O probléme názornosti vo fyzike)

Rudolf Zajac

Filozofia, 24 (1969), 1, 65-74.

Abstract

The latest physical theories, especially quantum mechanics, are characterized by the majority of physicists as imperceivable by senses. The concept of sensory perceptibility of a theory is not sharp enough; most authors, however, assent to the standpoint that in this context sensory perceptibility cannot be identified with vivid insight. Sensory perceptibility of a… Read more

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The Freedom of Thinking and the Principle of Causality

(Original title: Sloboda myslenia a princíp kauzality)

Pavel Nemec

Filozofia, 24 (1969), 1, 75-82.

Abstract

Natural, biological as well as nonbiological sciences and from them rising technical sciences are not thinkable without the consequentially valid principle of causality. The principle of causality is the standpoint that nothing in the world happens without cause, and that the momentary state of things and phenomena is the necessary consequence of the previous state… Read more

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