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Volume 77 (2022), 2

Original Articles

(Original title: Metafyzické předpoklady liberální demokracie)
Filozofia, 77 (2022), 2, 71 - 84.
Abstract

The study deals with the concept of liberal democracy with regard to its heterogeneous character and inner contradictoriness. Liberal democracy is analysed in its historical and cultural situatedness, its metaphysical, natural-law-based roots (human rights, the material core of the constitution) being taken into consideration, both at the supranational and Czech… Read more

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(Original title: Pojem inakosti a environmentálna filozofia – Emmanuel Levinas a Martin Buber)
Filozofia, 77 (2022), 2, 85 - 96.
Abstract

This paper aims to compare the concept of otherness in Emmanuel Levinas and in Martin Buber. More precisely we would like to examine the possibility to apply the concept of otherness in environmental philosophy. The concept of otherness used by Levinas in his later work makes it complicated to apply this concept in the area of environmental philosophy. Buber on… Read more

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(Original title: Faking a Collision Course: When History Clashes with Populism)
Filozofia, 77 (2022), 2, 97 - 111.
Abstract

Over the last few years, philosophers and other researchers have been focus-ing on a post-truth era and its symptoms across society and various disciplines. One of the most glaring manifestations is the declining trust in science experts and the rise of populist attacks on professional communities. Historical sciences are encountering a similar onslaught as well.… Read more

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(Original title: Nikolay Berdyaev: The Dialectics of Sobornost)
Filozofia, 77 (2022), 2, 112 - 126.
Abstract

The subject of this research is the concept of sobornost in the philosophy of Nikolai Berdyaev. On the basis of the dialectical method, such stages of the development of sobornost are distinguished as being, essence, concept. The actualization of sobornost arises in the church community, the secular community, the church-secular community. The… Read more

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Review Studies

(Original title: What Can Social Sciences and Humanities Offer in the Situation of Global Pandemic? Short Reflection on the Book The Human Rights Controversies and the Covid-19 Pandemic)
Filozofia, 77 (2022), 2, 127 - 142.
Abstract

Slovak society has been facing the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus for two years. These two years have struck a social organism on a planetary scale in a way that no one could have ever imagined, not even in any dystopian Hollywood blockbuster movie. The situation resulted in the modification of social life, despite political regimes and social orders.… Read more

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Reviews

(Original title: WIKFORSS, Asa: Alternatívne fakty. O poznaní a jeho nepriateľoch)
Filozofia, 77 (2022), 2, 143 - 147.
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