Electronic Library of Scientific Literature
Electronic Library of Scientific Literature
Volume 51 / No. 6 / 1996
Henri Poincaré or the Crisis in Physics and Philosophy
MICHAL BARTKO, Bratislava
The paper deals with Henri Poincaré’s approach to 19th century crisis
in physics and philosophy. In the time, when old inquiries, especially
in physics, were relativized by the new, especially physical ones, when
new non-Euclidean geometry has been articulated and when the absolutistic
theories of the universe were no more valid, Poincaré labeled scientific
and philosophical truths conventions applying this notion to all human
knowledge. We live than in the world of scientific, physical and philosophical
conventionalism, all our thruths being just conventions, depending on the
development of our knowledge.
FILOZOFIA 51, 1996, No. 6, p. 355
Operative Approach in the Theory of Thruth
PETER VOLEK, CMBF UK Bratislava, Teologicky institut Banska Bystrica – Badin
The operative approach in the theory of truth in Kamlah’s and Lorenzen’s
Logische Propädeutik was an attempt to create a scientific language by
means of critical reconstruction of ordinary language. In Kamlah’s and
Lorenzen’s opinion, the proposition is true only when it is interpersonally
verified: the predicator „true“ helps to introduce the predicator „real“.
The criterion of truth based on interpersonal verification seems to be
insufficient compared with O. Muck’s operative criterion of assertability.
Kamlah’s and Lorenzen’s conception of the ontic comprehension offers no
sufficient basis for their criticism of ontology.
FILOZOFIA 51, 1996, No. 6, p. 362
The Reflexion of the Crisis in German Higher Education System in Kant’s Analysis of the University Education
PETER ZIGMAN, Katedra filozofie a dejin filozofie FFUK, Bratislava
The paper focuses on Kant’s analysis of university education system
on the background of the historical condition of the 2nd half of the 18th
century. Kant’s conception assumes an autonomous status of a university
with no rights of the state power to intervene. He questiones the traditional
organization of the university. He is in search for an answer to the question
„What for philosophy?“ after the propedeutical role of philosophy has been
overcome. The leading position is assigned to a „new“ philosophical faculty,
which together with philosophy becomes the guarantee of truth. The precondition
of this is its publicity.
FILOZOFIA 51, 1996, No. 6, p. 373
Subject as Affection and Passivness
ROBERT KARUL, Filozoficky ustav SAV, Bratislava
In Levinas’ conception of the subject affection appears as a new, essential
element. This affection is closely related to the „idea“ of the absolute
separation of the Other. It is an affection generated by the Other’s impact
on the Same, i. e. it is the Other-in-the Same condition. The separation
of the Other is related to the Same through the fellow-man or the other,
through the pressing responsibility for his aging, for his suffering, for
his faults, and his death. By menas of non-phenomenological description
the paper tries to show the development of the subjectivity of this sort.
FILOZOFIA 51, 1996, No 6, p. 386
The Fortunes of the Word „Janisary“
MARTIN GOLEMA, Banska Bystrica
The paper offers a semantic analysis of the word „janisary“, which has
recently, due to new attempts at a definition of of nation and its enemies,
has shifted from the periphery of Slovak language to the centre of the
discourse. Inspired by Wittgenstein, the author calls for a more appropriate
understanding of the word, which, in his view, should not refer only to
„an enemy of the nation“, as it embodies also other meanings, such as heterodoxy
etc.. The author refers to „personal correctness“ movement, which could
be inspirative for our responses to the invasion of such words into Slovak
language in order to avoid its transformation into a sort of „newspeak“.
FILOZOFIA 51, 1996, No 6, p. 396