Ročník 63 (2008), 3

The paper offers the first and the most comprehensive outline of perichronosophy, i.e. a theory of timelessness and its practicing, which are to be taken as a theoretical (perichronology) and practical (atemporalistics) grounds of syncriticism. The fundamental concept of perichronosophy is perichrony expressed by the term perichronosopheme. This concept… Čítať ďalej

The economic process called globalization brings about an extreme growing of global inequality. Problems of distributive justice and the possibilities of applying law become topical in our days. In the author’s view the globalization takes place in accordance with Marx’s intuitive comprehension of capitalism, whose development puts into operation its tacit… Čítať ďalej

The paper deals with the category of gender as an analytical tool used in the feminist critical reflection of the philosophical canon. It outlines the main streams of this criticism elucidating various ways via which women have been excluded from the philosophical domain. One particular kind this of exclusion is illustrated by the case of Harriet Taylor Mill,… Čítať ďalej

Duns Scotus argues that the will has a bent for the pleasant, by the help of which the humans want to reach some benefits for them, as well as a bent for justice, on the ground of which humans are able to love independently of their own benefits. It is the objective justice, which establishes the moral good of a practical act. The moral good is in full accordance… Čítať ďalej

The paper gives an outline of the history of the ancient scepticism, underlining the position of Sextus Empiricus in the ancient philosophical thought. The author argues that in antiquity there was a continuous sceptical reflection on reality and human being. He presents the ancient scepticism as a continuous struggle towards eudaimonia, the ethical aim rarely… Čítať ďalej

The contribution is intended to give an analysis of some key ideas of the ancient Greek political philosophy and their close relationships to myths. The paper focuses on the problems of the past, holism, etatism, close connections between ethics and political thinking, etc. At the same time the author pays attention to the simplifications occurring in the… Čítať ďalej