Volume 57 (2002), 4

The rational conceptual philosophical thinking originated in ancient Greece on the basis of mythical imaginary thinking. The bipolar-complementary thinking still had its place in Miletian philosophy, although not in the form of images, but in the form of conceptual variants and archetypal representations of archaic ontology. The Dyonisian cult and orfism… Read more

In the last decades of the XXth century we have witnessed a still growing interest in applied ethics, among them also bioethics, which in Slovak ethical literature was paid only a little attention as yet. The paper tries to examine the needs that led to the rise of bioethics, analyzing at the same time the concept of bioethics, its substance and subject. It deals… Read more

The paper tries to introduce the substantial terms used by the traditionalist authors. In its first part a short characteristic of the French counter-revolutionary thought is given. The second, substantial part of the paper offers an interpretation of the basic concepts used by the traditionalists, such as "revolution", "society", "humans", "reason", "power" and "… Read more