Ročník 60 (2005), 10

In the midst of the 1960s some of the Slovak philosophers have appropriated the Yugoslavian variant of the praxis philosophy developed at Zagreb University. It was a critical reformist stream with the idea of humanism in its core. The basis of their approach was an understanding of humans as active beings changing the world as well as themselves, their nature… Čítať ďalej

Structuralism took part in the efforts to revive intellectual development in the former Czecho-Slovakia in the 1960s as an efficient methodological instrument, a scientific meta-theory, as well as an inovation in the field of philosophical theory (e.g. the structurology of I. Hrušovský). Open discussions were focused on the questions such as the relation between… Čítať ďalej

The paper focuses on the examination of political discussion carried out in the journal „Prúdy“ in the decades preceding and following the World war I. The aim of the examination is to indicate the fundamental topic of the discussion. According to the author it was the problematic of conservatism, which had been discussed in the referential frame of the Slovak… Čítať ďalej

The paper examines the origins and the development of the first philosophical journal – Filosofický sborník – established and published by the Philosophical department of the national cultural institution Matica slovenská. The specific character of the journal was determined also by the fact that its publishing house was the first philosophical non-… Čítať ďalej

The paper deals with the conceptions of national philosophy in Slovak thinking of the 19th and 20th centuries (mainly of the Slovak philosopher of that time J. Dieška). The author compares the Hungarian and Slovak interpretations of this issue. Taking into account the philosophical tradition present in the territory of contemporary Slovakia (former Upper Hungary)… Čítať ďalej

The papers deals with philosophical and methodological problems of natural scien-ces (physics, astronomy, cosmology) articulated in the writings of M. Zigo. In M. Zigo’s view one of the fundamental tasks of philosophy is analyze by philosophical means their conceptional and categorial apparatus, their attitudes and contribution to the conception and understanding… Čítať ďalej

The idea of Slavic solidarity served in the 19th century often as a means for rea-ching the cultural equality of particular Slavic nations. However, the representatives of the "New School" expanded its primarily cultural legacy (J. Kollár) also on the political collaboration of the Slavs. Their objective was a gradual national and civic emancipation within the… Čítať ďalej