Volume 80 (2025), 4
Original Articles
(Original title: Mohol by byť veľký jazykový model (LLM) vedomý?)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 4, 459 - 481.Abstract
There has recently been widespread discussion of whether large language models such as the GPT systems might be sentient or conscious. Should we take this idea seriously? I will discuss the underlying issue and will break down the strongest reasons for and against.
File to download: PDF
(Original title: The Conflict between the Old and the New Soap-Cellars and Kierkegaard’s Relation with Speculative Thought)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 4, 482 - 496.Abstract
In this article I offer a historical analysis of Kierkegaard’s early, unpublished theatrical work, The Conflict between the Old and the New Soap-Cellars. In this comedy, it is possible to trace a number of expressions that ridicule the philosophical view of Martensen, which in turn is associated with Hegelianism and speculative thought. However, I wish to argue that… Read more
File to download: PDF
(Original title: H. L. A. Hart’s Liability-Responsibility in F. A. von Hayek’s Thought)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 4, 497 - 511.Abstract
This study delves into Hayek’s treatment of liability-responsibility. Although Hayek does not systematically classify concepts of responsibility, his observations align closely with Hart’s typology, which includes liability-responsibility. This type is invoked when the violation of established norms is associated with a specific sanction. Among the types… Read more
File to download: PDF
Introduction
(Original title: Introduction to the Monothematic Block: Socrates in the 20th Century)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 4, 512 - 514.File to download: PDF
Original Articles: Socrates in the 20th Century
(Original title: Gadamer’s Socratic Plato)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 4, 515 - 529.Abstract
Socrates provides the model for philosophy for Gadamer, who follows Plato and the example of Socrates with the claim that philosophy is dialectic and that dialectic is carried out through dialogue. The Socratic dialogues are exemplary in their open-endedness and their embrace of finitude. Gadamer is influenced by Heidegger’s thought, yet he resists Heidegger’s… Read more
File to download: PDF
(Original title: Truth, Plurality, and Political Phenomenology: Hannah Arendt’s Socrates)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 4, 530 - 544.Abstract
This paper examines Hannah Arendt’s Socrates. I argue that Arendt construes Socrates as a model of the compatibility of philosophy and politics. This model uniquely articulates this compatibility through a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach, where truth is conceived as a perspectival disclosure of meaning in the plural and discursive world of politics. I further… Read more
File to download: PDF
(Original title: Patočka’s Socrates and His Socratic Politics)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 4, 545 - 558.Abstract
This paper gives an account of Jan Patočka’s reception of the figure of Socrates. Patočka sees as Socrates’ most important insight his knowledge of ignorance – the fact that we lack knowledge of the most important things in life, but we merely have opinions of them. Socrates then questions and examines such opinions, his own as well as those of others, and this… Read more
File to download: PDF
(Original title: The Other of the Other: Seth Benardete’s View of Socrates)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 4, 559 - 573.Abstract
Following in the footsteps of his teacher Leo Strauss, Seth Benardete devoted his life to understanding “the problem of Socrates”: Plato’s complex and enigmatic portrayal of the ironic Socrates’ embodiment of the philosophic life. This paper introduces Benardete’s rich and dense interpretive work by focusing on his understanding of two of Socrates’ most distinctive… Read more
File to download: PDF
(Original title: A Precursor to Dialogical Philosophy? Buber’s Ambiguous View of Socrates)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 4, 574 - 587.Abstract
Martin Buber’s reception of Socrates is complex and its emphases shifted over time. In the present article I first demonstrate how Buber included Socrates in his project of dialogical philosophy and depicted him as an ally in his confrontation with monological philosophical paradigms. Subsequently, I highlight those aspects of Socrates’ doctrine which Buber… Read more
File to download: PDF
Book Reviews
(Original title: Michel Eltchaninoff: Lenin Walked on the Moon)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 4, 588 - 591.Abstract
A review of the book of Michel Eltchaninoff: Lenin Walked on the Moon, trans. by Tina Kover. London: Europa Editions, 2023, pp. 256.
File to download: PDF
(Original title: Vasil Gluchman: Podoby sekulárneho humanizmu na Slovensku v 20. storočí (do roku 1989))
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 4, 592 - 598.Abstract
A review of the book of Vasil Gluchman: Podoby sekulárneho humanizmu na Slovensku v 20. storočí (do roku 1989). Prešov: Prešovská univerzita v Prešove 2024, 228 pp.
File to download: PDF