Electronic Library of Scientific Literature
Electronic Library of Scientific Literature
Volume 58 / No. 07 / 2003
PAPERS
ORIENTATIONS
ANNA REMIŠOVÁ, Katedra kulturológie FiF UK, Bratislava
FILOZOFIA 58, 2003, No 7, p. 437
In her analysis the author comes to the conclusion, that Wittgenstein's conception of ethics in the end of 1920s was marked by: 1. an ambiguous and confusing explanation of the term "ethics"; 2. continuously putting stress on fact/value diffe_rence as well as on the ethical being beyond the expression; 3. introducing the difference between the relative and the absolute (ethical) use of the words "good" and "right", "value" and differentiating between relative and absolute value judgments; 4. claiming the first person discourse as the only possible ethical discourse, The shift in Wittgenstein's views of ethics consists in that 1. Wittgenstein started to use the word "ethics" in its traditional meaning; 2. in his discussions of ethics he deals with moral problems of everyday life; 3. he makes his views on the absolute judgments´ being beyond expression more accurate; 4. he takes ethics as an theoretical system; 5. he sees ethics not as one doctrine, but rather as a whole consisting of several theoretical systems; 6. the influence of language game on ethical system becomes visible. Nevertheless, considering ethics in its traditional meaning did not depress his understanding of ethics as something higher, transcendent and God related.
VLADIMÍR BAKOŠ, Filozofický ústav SAV, Bratislava
FILOZOFIA 58, 2003, No 7, p. 450
The paper was written on the occasion of the 25th aniversary of the death of the most important representative of modern Slovak philosophy, scientist and teacher Igor Hrušovský. The author outlines the main periods of his life and professional activities: beginning with his membership in the association Scientific Sythesis, organizing the scientific research and the research of Slovak intellectual heritage, followed by his participation in utopian endeavours at a radical social change and his coming to terms with marxism-leninism, up to his coming back to founding a scientific philosophy and developing his own conception of dialectical structurology, which in the times of so called normalization he had to defend in controversions and polemics against dogmatics.
RADOSLAV GLOZNEK, Pezinok
FILOZOFIA 58, 2003, No 7, p. 462
The paper's aim is an analytical analysis of the basic characteristics of the Sellarsian myth of the Given. The author shows, why the story about the Given is a myth, examinating at the same time Sellar's arguments and his opinions on sensations, knowledge and the relationship between noninferential and inferential beliefs. The author also tries to show the significance of Sellar's works, full of examples and written in relieving style, for philosophical thinking.
EVA SMOLKOVÁ, Filozofický ústav SAV, Bratislava
FILOZOFIA 58, 2003, No 7, p. 471
Recently the problematic of values and value orientations became one of the most frequently addressed. Social changes are directly and also indirectly related to values and the latter seem to be directly implied by the cultural and social changes connected with changing value orientations and thus also the changing norms. The changes concern the target values, as well as particular ones and make both the affirmation of existing values system and the rise of the system social changes possible. These can be - and most often also are - thought as a part of the learning process and change. Integral to these changes are also processes concerning the rise and acceptance of the environmental value orientations and value structures. The need of the acceptance of the environmental values led to reconsideration of the incorporation of the new arising values into existing value systems.
PETER ŠAJDA, Bratislava
FILOZOFIA 58, 2003, No 7, p. 484
Kierkegaard developed his concept of love in his pseudonym works as well as in works published under his own name. The works, in which love has been made a more explicit subject (as in Works of Love), were incessantly criticized. The criticism of M. Buber, T. W. Adorno and K E. LŘgstrup focused on the social dimension of Kierkegaard s concept of love and on the phenomenon of the absence of the neighbour. They criticize Kierkegaard´s interpretation of Christian love, which they consider individualistic and acosmic. In the same terms they criticize his concept of unboundness and inwardness. The paper examines the basic motives of this critique and sets forth several relevant counterarguments.
MÁRIA BEDNÁRIKOVÁ, Filozofický ústav SAV, Bratislava
FILOZOFIA 58, 2003, No 7, p. 494
The problem of the relationship between the subjective and the objective appears in its most distinctive form in the explanation of the phenomenon of consciousness. Is consciousness explicable in the frame of physicalist picture of the world? Does the existence of a subjective phenomenal experience imply a non-material aspect of consciousness? These are the fundamental questions of the presented paper. Its main aim is to answer the question, whether the subjective experience can be explained in reductive manner. In conclusion it inclines to the opinion, that a reductive explanation of experience, which does not deal with two autonomous entities - material and non-material ones -, but rather aims at a unified account of conscious experience in the frame of the physicalist theory, is possible.
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