Volume 67 (2012), 4

Heller deals with the problem of responsibility explicitly and implicitly as well in all her works on ethics and morals. The author tries to show the relatedness of these two approaches. Attention is also paid to various contexts in which responsibility might appear, first of all to the responsibility for consequences which steadily attracts philosophers and… Čítať ďalej

The paper discusses presuppositions of the so-called trademark argument for the existence of God presented by René Descartes (1596 – 1650) in his Meditations on First Philosophy. The author explores the interpretation of Descartes’s idea of God as the infinite that provides a response to a difficult philosophical and theological question: How can the human mind… Čítať ďalej

Locke’s conception of private property as developed mainly in his Two Treatises on Government is still being discussed among philosophers. The paper is intended as a contribution to the historical-logical interpretation of some aspects of his concept of property. Contrary to most interpreters who underline the external determinations the author tries to see the… Čítať ďalej

The paper is based on the assumption that in Kant’s system of morality is not rooted in religion – just the opposite, the religion is rooted in morality. According to Kant, morality necessarily leads to religion by which he understands the knowledge of all our duties, not only as categorical commands of our own reason but also as commands of God. The author… Čítať ďalej

The paper tries to shed light on the development of the phenomenological thinking of two founding fathers of phenomenology: Brentano and Husserl. Through the criticism of psychologism it approaches the classical modern thesis articulated already by Descartes in his Meditations, namely that our inner being and consciousness are given to us more directly than the… Čítať ďalej

The paper offers an overview of the work of Edward S. Casey focusing on his phenomenological approach to peripheral and interconnected phenomena such as place and glance. Casey shows how the glance enters the world as well as how the world responds to it. Focusing on glance therefore reveals a possible articulation of how the place becomes a phenomenon within a… Čítať ďalej

The paper deals with von Mises’ metaphysics and argues that his methodological dualism concerns only his epistemology. The framework of Mises´s ontology is materialistic monism. Although Mises strongly criticizes materialism, his critique does not concern metaphysical ontological materialism as long as it does not try to eliminate the specific method of the social… Čítať ďalej