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Volume 74 (2019), 5

Articles

(Original title: Lovelockov koncept udržateľného ústupu a jeho konzekvencie)
Filozofia, 74 (2019), 5, 352-365.
Abstract

The aim of this study is to identify the key terms and arguments of J. Lovelock՚s sustainable retreat concept and their analysis with emphasize on the consequences of this concept for political, social and environmental thinking. J. Lovelock points out that considering rapid and complex changes in global environment, marked by the term Anthropocene; we do not have… Read more

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(Original title: Od sociálních a environmentálních konfliktů k pozitivnímu alarmismu)
Filozofia, 74 (2019), 5, 366-377.
Abstract

An article addresses the issue of positive alarmism as the first step to articulate an alarming topic of interconnected social and ecological conflicts. While the social and environmental conflicts are in practice interlinked, analyses of them are usually separated in theory. The article stresses the interconnections. It reflects the fact that civilizations, and… Read more

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(Original title: Yasuní ITT Initiative and the Reinventing Sovereignty over Natural Resources)
Filozofia, 74 (2019), 5, 378-393.
Abstract

This paper discusses the Yasuní ITT Initiative through which a sovereign state (Ecuador) proposed it would forgo oil extraction in an area overlapping with a global biodiversity reserve and indigenous territory in exchange for financial compensation from the global community. This paper argues that the ITT Initiative provides an excellent opportunity for a much… Read more

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Reflections

(Original title: Utrpení aktuálnosti)
Filozofia, 74 (2019), 5, 394-404.
Abstract

Essay describes the various opportunities in which to use the word timeliness. On the basis of three historically different opinions it shows how different and situationally dependent is the timeliness speech of philosophy. The aims of this speech do not come from the philosophy itself, but from the side purposes. Claims about the topicality of philosophy do not… Read more

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(Original title: Zodpovednosť naplnená obavami i nádejou z budúcnosti – Jonasov a Skolimowského prínos k environmentálnemu mysleniu)
Filozofia, 74 (2019), 5, 405-413.
Abstract

The main subject of this essay is philosophic-ethical principle of responsibility in environ-mental context. Particularly it is concerned to the contribution of H. Jonas and H. Skolimowski in this area. Skolimowski derives the environmental responsibility from the principle of sanctity of life. From this principle result of the ethical imperative of reverence from… Read more

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Reviews

(Original title: SŤAHEL, R.: Pojem krízy v environmentálnom myslení)
Filozofia, 74 (2019), 5, 414-418.
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(Original title: GARVEY, J.: Etika klimatické změny. Co je a co není správné ve světě, který se otepluje)
Filozofia, 74 (2019), 5, 419-424.
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