Volume 80 (2025), 2
Original Articles
(Original title: “Art Has No Power over Schein through Its Abolition”)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 2, 149 - 162.Abstract
Theodor Adorno’s aesthetics takes up the German Idealist and Romantic idea of “Schein” – the “beautiful illusion” characteristic of authentic art – and reinterprets it through the lens of his own very particular kind of dialectical Marxism. Unlike his friend, Walter Benjamin, who welcomed the overcoming of so-called auratic art, Adorno believed that Schein can thus… Read more
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(Original title: “An Automaton of Duty”? Some Remarks on Nietzsche’s Kant-Critique)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 2, 163 - 177.Abstract
Friedrich Nietzsche belongs to the sharpest opponents of Kant’s practical philosophy. From his naturalistic perspective he subjects Kant to an uncompromising, gradually sharpening critique. The paper concentrates on selected aspects of this critique and asks a simple question, namely whether Nietzsche’s direct anti-Kantian passages contribute anything relevant to a… Read more
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(Original title: The Concept of Eschatology in the Late Thought of Martin Heidegger)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 2, 178 - 192.Abstract
The aim of this study is to analyze the Christian heritage in the late philosophy of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger. My hypothesis is that behind the concept of the “history of being” (Seinsgeschichte) there is an influence of the concepts of Christian eschatology and parousia that Heidegger dealt with in his early days as a professor in Freiburg. Although… Read more
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(Original title: Fundamentálny význam lásky v Spinozovom Krátkom traktáte)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 2, 193 - 207.Abstract
The aim of this study is to examine the concept of love in one of Spinoza’s early writings, the Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well- Being, in order to explore its origins and significance for Spinoza’s theory as a whole. The starting point of the investigation is to explore the relationship between love and intellect originating in this work and later completed… Read more
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(Original title: K otázke významu ľudskej prirodzenosti pri presadzovaní transhumanistických ideí)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 2, 208 - 222.Abstract
The aim of the paper is to reflect on the issue of human nature as a necessary response to transhumanist notions of the need to overcome evolutionary limits. The possibility of influencing human nature by technological methods and means is a theme that is communicated as a change “from humanism to posthumanism.” The purpose is to reflect on whether and why we need… Read more
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(Original title: Bůh po smrti Boha: Badiou a rekonstrukce pojmu Boha)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 2, 223 - 237.Abstract
In this article, I pose the question of how to formulate a positive conception of God after the death of God. I propose to reconstruct the concept of God through Badiou’s concept of the absolute from his book The Immanence of Truths. I proceed in three steps. In the first step, I conceive of God as the real as being different from the symbolic and the imaginary. In… Read more
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(Original title: Democracy and Resilience: From Neoliberal Governance to Post-Liberal Democracy?)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 2, 238 - 251.Abstract
The paper explores the relationship between resilience thinking and democratic theory, a topic often overlooked in both fields. While resilience thinking shares ontological and epistemological commitments with neoliberal governance, it should not be equated with neoliberalism, particularly in its critical form. The paper examines David Chandler’s concept of post-… Read more
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