Volume 72 (2017), 5

The article offers a comparison of two entirely contrapositive conceptions of technology: those of Martin Heidegger and José Ortega y Gasset. While Heidegger conceives of technology as one of the effects of metaphysical, i.e. failing thinking of being and world, Ortega y Gasset sees the technology as a means which enables the person to set himself/herself free… Čítať ďalej

This essay draws on texts not translated into English as yet, in particular Heidegger’s brilliant 1943 lecture course on Heraclitus, to show how Heidegger understood Pindar’s “gold” and Heraclitus’s “kosmos” as early Greek names for Being itself (Sein selbst). The “gleaming” and “adorning” “kosmos” − which the later Heidegger understood to be “world” (Welt) in the… Čítať ďalej

Heidegger has been concerned with Parmenides throughout his lifetime. It was for him a sort of philosophical program which yielded remarkable results. During 1922 – 1973 he aimed at a closely examination of Parmenides doctrine of being which for him was the milestone of the development of the Western ontology and logic. The paper is focused on Heidegger writing… Čítať ďalej

The aim of the paper is to show the meaning of the value-depended attitude to the world as well as the value creation or re-evaluation of values. This aim corresponds more with Nietzsche’s philosophy associated with the enacting of situational meaning than with Heidegger’s problem of Being which does not include value-thinking. In the first part I try to present… Čítať ďalej

The aim of this article is to clarify scientific realism in connection with a few key questions that have recently been brought up by Jaroslav Peregrin. I will try to provide a reaction to Peregrin on a number of issues, in particular, to explain in what sense we can talk about confirming or disconfirming realism. Next, I will focus on whether realism is a good,… Čítať ďalej