Volume 40 (1985), 1

In its effort to penetrate the dialectics of historical processes the Marxist-Leninist philosophy achieved the scientific interpretation of the principle of historicism. It became a constituent methodological component of the study of social development and it superseded qualitatively Hegel’s analysis of temporality. In the process of practice Man and society… Read more

An intensive development of scientific knowledge needs a formulation of the Marxist theory of thinking. The philosophic approach towards a theory of thinking is understood as a conception which explains the unity of social tasks, social practical activity and the internal conditions of the brain activity and the processes of thinking which are taking place in the… Read more

The paper is a polemic against both the conception of neoposFtivists that the issue of the existence of matter, independent of consciousness is a pseudoproblem as well as the existencialists who deny to think of being and existence isolated from Man. Contrary to conceptions like these the author argues that the material world had existed long before consciousness… Read more

In the paper several approaches to the study of the heuristic function of philosophy in scientific cognition (since the classics of Marxism-Leninism as long as the most important contemporary conceptions) are analyzed. As the most promising approaches are considered those ones which are oriented on the research of socio-cultural componentes and determinants of… Read more

Medicine as a science and practice developed in the variant space of human thought whose continuum begins with the immediate concrete generalization of the empirical experience of the doctor and goes on along the continual staircase of theoretical generalization and abstraction as far as the frontier positions of the worldview reflection of medical problems.… Read more