The present diagnosis of the bodily identity of a contemporary man is discussed in the philosophical and cultural perspective. The author of the paper analyses symptoms of various relationships and attitudes of the modem ...

The article is an outline of the process of socialization in the context of a certain image of co-existence of the system of culture and the social system. Assuming the interactive nature of the relationship between these ...

Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn do not seem to fundamentally differ in their evaluation of truthfulness of academic statements. The conflict apparently concerns the goal of science and its cumulative nature. In Kuhn’s ...

Arcadian myth occurs in the European culture in various forms. For example, it can express longing after life not affected by culture and civilisation (which is a tradition originating in Theocritus and Virgil), or on ...

The article presents Karl Jaspers’ idea of truth, which is linked with communicating and the temporal being of the man. “To be oneself and to be genuinely so, does not mean anything else but unconditional being in ...

The article comprises translations of selected authentic fragments from Heraclitus’s work. In the recent translation of those fragments the emphasis is put on the literary aspect of language, which in the critical edition ...

Utopia undergoes constant evolution, and when we consider the work by leading utopian philosophers we can draw certain generalisations within the genre, and we can determine the main objective which is self-knowledge in ...

The article presents some aspects of transcendental deduction of category and against this background it demonstrates the role of imagination. Imagination, which is mentioned by Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason as one ...

The article deals with the key concept of noumenon in Kant’s philosophy and consequences of its transposition by philosophers from Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, especially Cohen and Natorp. Assuming the existence of ...

Solitude arises from an individual character of the human being: to be oneself means to be alone. Jaspers considers, however, that being oneself genuinely is possible only thanks to other and together with him. Jaspers ...