Volume 81 (2026), 5
Original Articles
(Original title: On the Hermeneutical Presuppositions of the Formation of Humanistic Knowledge)
Filozofia, 81 (2026), 5, 525 - 539.Abstract
The article is devoted to the question of the formation of humanistic knowledge, which cannot be replaced by an apology for the social role of the humanities, or by promoting the development of digital humanities. The key hermeneutic starting point in this regard is that humanistic knowledge, as Charles Taylor and Hans-Georg Gadamer state, is necessarily value-… Read more
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(Original title: The Carnist a Priori: Derrida’s Question of Eating Well and the Dilemma of Extermination or Assimilation in Animal Studies)
Filozofia, 81 (2026), 5, 540 - 553.Abstract
This paper focuses on the relationship between Derrida’s metonymy of “eating well” and the question of the animal in animal studies through the concept of the carnist a priori. For Derrida, since the interiorization of the other cannot be avoided, the question of how to relate to the other should be rethought according to the metonymy of “eating well.” However, the… Read more
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(Original title: Miesto morálky v koncepcii zmyslu podľa Susan Wolfovej)
Filozofia, 81 (2026), 5, 554 - 569.Abstract
This article examines the relationship between morality and the meaning of life in Susan Wolf’s work within contemporary analytic ethics. Starting from her critique of “moral saints,” the analysis explores a model where moral and non-moral values coexist. Wolf treats meaning as an independent dimension of a flourishing life, arising from the convergence of subjective… Read more
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Reflections
(Original title: Z pozostalosti Teodora Münza: Medzi vierou, ateizmom a bohohľadačstvom (K 100. výročiu narodenia Teodora Münza))
Filozofia, 81 (2026), 5, 570 - 585.Abstract
The paper examines some unpublished manuscripts from the literary estate of the renowned Slovak philosopher and translator, Teodor Münz (1926 – 2022). These manuscripts offer key insights into his spiritual and philosophical development. Through an analysis of two autobiographical fragments, the authors trace his journey from a profound Christian faith to atheism,… Read more
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Introduction
(Original title: Introduction to the Monothematic Block: Cultural Objects of Experience: A Symbolic Approach)
Filozofia, 81 (2026), 5, 586 - 587.File to download: PDF
Original Articles: Cultural Objects of Experience: A Symbolic Approach
(Original title: Body, Ritual, and Knowledge: A Symbolic Approach to the Experience of Vulnerability in the Rarámuri-pagótuame’s Self-Understanding)
Filozofia, 81 (2026), 5, 588 - 602.Abstract
This article analyzes how the Rarámuri-pagótuame – who constitute the vast majority of the Rarámuri population in Mexico’s Sierra Tarahumara but live in extreme geographical dispersion – articulate a symbolic system that transcends technical reductionism. Drawing on Ernst Cassirer’s symbolic forms, it argues that the foundation for symbolic relationships is… Read more
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(Original title: The Knowledge of Divine Fire in the Evangelical Worldview)
Filozofia, 81 (2026), 5, 603 - 617.Abstract
My aim in this paper is to examine, from the perspective of the philosophy of culture, the role that fire plays within the evangelical worldview. My analysis will focus on the sermons of the influential 19th-century preacher Charles Spurgeon. I wish to argue that this material shows that, for evangelicalism, fire is interpreted as an object that allows for direct… Read more
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(Original title: Beyond Representation: Cinema, History, and Forms of Knowledge in Paul Willemen)
Filozofia, 81 (2026), 5, 618 - 631.Abstract
This article examines the epistemological implications of Paul Willemen’s theory of cinema. Against approaches that understand film primarily as a system of representation, Willemen argues that cinema is a historically situated cultural practice in which history presents itself through the material and formal organization of filmic texts. His concepts of indexicality… Read more
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(Original title: “Das Unmögliche zu leisten”: On the Role of Mathematical Cognition in the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms)
Filozofia, 81 (2026), 5, 632 - 645.Abstract
Cassirer’s philosophy of symbolic forms affirms the autonomy and plurality of distinct modes of objectification, yet assigns mathematical cognition a distinctive systematic role. This paper reconstructs his functional conception of mathematics and argues that its privilege lies in the relation it establishes between spontaneity and the given. In pure mathematics,… Read more
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Book Reviews
(Original title: Jean Lassègue: Cassirer’s Transformation: From a Transcendental to a Semiotic Philosophy of Forms)
Filozofia, 81 (2026), 5, 646 - 649.File to download: PDF