Volume 62 (2007), 8

First, the paper defines the basic characteristics of the historically prevailing conceptions of person; further it gives an outline of the current spiritual situation of the Western culture with its roots in humanist and Enlightenment tradition. It also shows the fortunes of humanist tradition from the Enlightenment to Romanticism and further to the… Čítať ďalej

The paper aims at a closer view at the most important aspects of somewhat radical, but enlightening response of J. Derrida (1930 – 2004) to V. Jankélévich’s (1903 – 1985) approach to the problem of forgiveness, articulated as related to the ex-emption from the statue of limitations, concerning the crimes against humanity. The author focuses on two topics in the… Čítať ďalej