Electronic Library of Scientific Literature

FILOZOFIA

Volume 58 / No. 02 / 2003

• P a l o v i č o v á, Z.: The Ethics of Virtue and the Problem of Moral Character
  pages 75-86
• P a u e r, J.: Is a Common World Still Possible? On a Unity in Diversity and On a Common Ground in Potentiality I
  pages 87-97

• D e s a n t i, J. - T.: An Introduction to Phenomenology. An Introduction
  pages 98-114
• S i v á k, J.: In memoriam Jean - Toussaint Dessanti
  pages 115-118

RESPONSES

• G l u c h m a n, V.: The Biological and the Social in the Ethics of Social Consequences (On Determination and Free Will or Moral Freedom)
  pages 119-137
• M a n d o v á, T.: Who was N .O. Lossski? (A Response to One Contribution)
  pages 138-142

REVIEWS

• S m o l k o v á, E.: Letters to Philosophers (T. Munz)
  pages 143-146

The Ethics of Virtue and the Problem of Moral Character

ZUZANA PALOVIČOVÁ, Filozofický ústav SAV, Bratislava

FILOZOFIA 58, 2003, No 2, p. 75

The ethics of virtue made the problem of moral character topical. Due to concentrating rather on the question "How should we live?" instead of the question "What should we do?" attention became to be paid also to such questions as "What our character should be? ", "To what extent is man responsible for his own character?", "Can he change it?", "What is the connection between the character and habits?" The examination of the problem of moral character led to further question, such as "Is the moral character, as the incentive for action sufficient to explain the action?", "What is the relationship between moral character and moral rules in action?", "Is it sufficient in moral assessment to resort to the moral character of the agent, or are there also other determining elements?" The author outlines the discussions of these question in contemporary moral theory.

Is a Common World Still Possible? On a Unity in Diversity and On a Common Ground in Potency I

JOZEF PAUER, Filozofický ústav SAV, Bratislava

FILOZOFIA 58, 2003, No 2, p. 87

The paper is an attempt at a definition of a common ground with its immanent potency as the founding force of various forms of the world common to all people. Its first part gives a brief outline of the conceptions of this common ground in the history of European thinking, such as Plato's case. Cusanus' community or joined unity and Whitehead's creativity. The second part derives from these conceptual schemes, reflecting on the domain of potency as the dynamics of being and the ground of the original continuum, as the ultimate determination, in which the founding force of social forms of being has its roots.