Volume 50 (1995), 12
Z dejín filozofie na Slovensku

The background of the author’s defining the ideological and political orientation of Kollár’s works as cultural nationalism is E. Gellner’s idea, that „the social units, which are not inclined to use culture to define political actions, are not apt to nationalism". Kollár’s position has been articulated in his Idea of Slavic Mutuality, the latter being… Read more

The paper discusses the Slovak national ideology, initiated and outlined by Ľudovít Štúr and his addherents. It focusses on the basic characteristics of their thinking and on their further development determined by external conditions. Attention is paid to the terminology of national thinking as well as to its development from defending the nation as something… Read more

The paper offers a comparison of two political concepts of nation: those of Havlíček and Štúr. Whereas Havlíček emphasises the national element (on the background of the collaboration of equal Slavic nations, in Štúr there still prevails the dialectic relation between the Slavic and the Slovak elements, between tribalism (nationality) and the Slavic (spiritual)… Read more

The paper deals with so called aesthethical-religious worldview of two Fries’ followers: Andrej Vandrák and Samuel Steiner. Influenced by Fries, they both highly appreciated the ability of presentiment, which makes the insight into the hidden essence of things possible. This involves, however, the elimination of the dividing line between the subjective and the… Read more

The paper is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of František Skyčák Jr., an outstanding Slovak neothomist thinker’s death. In the author’s view Skyčák as a philosopher of culture was cretaive in sythetising Štúr’s philosophy of life with the neothomist tradition. He poits out, that Skyčák’s ideas are intellectually valide even in present Slovakia. Skyčák, drawing… Read more

The paper discusses the conception of nationalism in the works of M. Hodža, an outstanding Slovak thinker an politician of the first four decades of the 20th century. As the analysis shows, he always saw the problems of nationalism as closely related to the position of Slovak nation in particular political conditions. His approach to nationalism changed from a… Read more

Although the philosophies of life of the two philosophers shared many characteristics, there was a substantial difference between them: Polakovič was a catholic and a totalitarian, while Štúr was an atheist and a democrat. Their conceptions differed mainly in the assessment of the political oreintation in war times. Postwar and current events in Slovak republic… Read more

The author concentrates on the main points of Štefan Polakovič’s theory of nation, which he himself has named „natiology“ The natiology is intended as an ontology of nation and it concerns many of relevant problems, some of them more, the other less precisely; the most important of them are 1. the essence of nation, which he sees in the sphere of culture, and 2.… Read more

The paper delas with the early period of the philosophy of prominent Slovak neothomist Ladislav Hanuš, who was widely influenced by R. Guardini. Hanus as the only Guardini’s Slovak follower in the thirties and the fourties of this century calls for a closer relation between Slovak culture and modern European thinking. The positive traditions as the basis of every… Read more

The discussions and controversies of the fifties and the sixties, concerning the history of philosophy, show the controversial and miscellaneous character of the marxist philosophy even in the period of its domination. They instantiate the resitance of the critical reasoning to the simplifications of the history of philosophy in the Soviet marxist-leninist… Read more

The paper offers a critical analysis of Hrušovský’s conception of being, which he himself in 1974 presented as the „ontological foundation“ of his dialectical structural theory, outlined already in his first work Invention and development (1935) and further articulated in following works. Attention is paid mainly to the basic notion of this conception,… Read more