Volume 63 (2008), 9

More often than not, Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche are considered to be antagonists. For K. Marx the analysis of the material conditions of life provides the key to the interpretation of human history. F. Nietzsche sees the analysis of values as the key to the understanding of the development of societal forms. Marx defends egalitarianism; Nietzsche is an… Read more

In the second part of his study the author analyzes Kierkegaard´s thesis of the suspension of ethics on three levels: firstly, in its relation to Kant, who insists on the universal self-understanding of every individual; secondly, in its relation to the post-metaphysical interpretation of Kant, in which ethics is a matter of inter-subjective relations; and thirdly… Read more

Due to remarkable transformations of the social reality, the concept of justice has been rediscovered in political discussions at the beginning of the 21st century. One of the objectives of the paper is to present Miller’s model of a fair distribution as articulated in his book Principles of Social Justice (1999). In this model the communitarian… Read more

On the background of several examples of the demolishing of historical sites in Bratislava the article deals with the structure of human existence as habitation. It examines various kinds of habitation as well as its constitutive relationships. The decrescent public mode of human habitation calls for attention to be paid to pathological changes in public sector… Read more