Filozofia
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description: Filozofia is an academic journal publishing original articles in a wide range of areas including metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, history of philosophy, social and political philosophy, and related disciplines, such as logic, methodology and ethics. Filozofia is double-blind peer-reviewed journal and is open to all authors, independently of their methodology and/or theoretical background. Filozofia is published 6 times per year: in February (no. 1), April (no. 2), May (no. 3), September (no. 4), October (no. 5), and December (no. 6).
publisher: Filozofický ústav SAV, v.v.i.
language: en
publication name: Filozofia
issn: 0046-385X
copyright: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
items: Různorodé modernity a rozpadající se současnost: Rozhovor Milana Kreuzziegera s Jóhannem Pállem Árnasonem
items: In Memoriam Jürgen Habermas (1929 – 2026)
items: Introduction to the Monothematic Block: Heidegger, Daoism, and Intercultural Thinking Today
items: An Ethic of Empathy: Articulating the Normative Grounds of Dialogic Interpretation
items: 80 Years of the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences as an Integral Part of Filozofia’s History
items: K nevhodnosti dělení analytické a kontinentální filozofie: odpověď Dragounovi
items: Ondrej Marchevský a Lukáš Švaňa (eds.): Filozofické pokolenia: ich formovanie, vplyv a odkaz v slovenskom a českom prostredí 20. storočia a súčasnosti
items: The Emergence of the Concept of Existence: Schelling and Kierkegaard
items: Pojem úplne holého indivídua a parciálny esencializmus jednotlivín
items: Bergson, Heidegger, and the Temporality of Immortality
items: 200 rokov Maďarskej akadémie vied: Kontakty maďarskej a slovenskej vedy v dejinách a súčasnosti akadémie
items: Lea David: A Victim‘s Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles: Desire Objects and Human Rights
items: A Dialectic of Tension: Anthropology, Action, and Freedom in Luigi Pareyson
items: Between the Historical Region and the Central Europe of Novelists and Philosophers
items: Daoism, Heidegger, and AI: Reflections on Technology, Alienation, and the Case Hypnocracy
items: Object, System, and Culture: The Marburg Neo-Kantian Reception of Kant
items: Heidegger, Nothingness, and Presence: Between Parmenides and Laozi
items: The Genealogy of Bakunin’s Theory of Revolt
items: The Right Use of Reason in the Moral Theories of Aristotle and Habermas
items: Logika a idealizácie
items: Auseinandersetzung: Heidegger’s Black Notebooks and Intercultural Engagement
items: The Aesthetic Dimension of Philosophical Works (With an Emphasis on Describing the Classic and the Inverse Model of Functional Configuration in Philosophy)
items: Introduction to the Monothematic Block: The Human Being in the Coordinates of Symbolic Structures
items: FACUNDO BEY (Ed.): Hans-Georg Gadamer. Cuestiones abiertas / Open Questions
items: Michel Eltchaninoff: Lenin Walked on the Moon
items: Introduction to the Monothematic Block: Socrates in the 20th Century
items: Metapopulistická demokracia ako filozofia interregna
items: Hegel and Gombrich on the Particular Forms of Art and their Persistence
items: Could a Large Language Model be Conscious?
items: Vasil Gluchman: Podoby sekulárneho humanizmu na Slovensku v 20. storočí (do roku 1989)

Různorodé modernity a rozpadající se současnost: Rozhovor Milana Kreuzziegera s Jóhannem Pállem Árnasonem
type: item
description: Interview with Jóhann Páll Árnason.
subject: Interviews
  topic: section
subject: interview
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subject: Kreuzzieger
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subject: Árnason
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creator: Milan Kreuzzieger
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Milan Kreuzzieger https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-04-22
publication date: 2026-04-22

In Memoriam Jürgen Habermas (1929 – 2026)
type: item
description: An obituary for Jürgen Habermas.
subject: Miscellaneous (Scientific events, Critical notes, …)
  topic: section
subject: obituary
  topic: keywords
subject: Habermas
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creator: Dominik Kulcsár
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Dominik Kulcsár https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-04-22
publication date: 2026-04-22

Introduction to the Monothematic Block: Heidegger, Daoism, and Intercultural Thinking Today
type: item
subject: Miscellaneous (Scientific events, Critical notes, …)
  topic: section
subject: introduction
  topic: keywords
subject: Heidegger
  topic: keywords
subject: Daoism
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subject: intercultural philosophy
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subject: comparative philosophy
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creator: Kurt C.M. Mertel
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Kurt C.M. Mertel https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-02-19
publication date: 2026-02-19

An Ethic of Empathy: Articulating the Normative Grounds of Dialogic Interpretation
type: item
description: Contrary to concerns that grounding ethics in empathy fails to account for normative ideals like autonomy, respect, and universal equality, a viable path towards an empathetic ethic advancing those values is presented. In the first step, the normative entailments of dialogic interpretation are articulated and correlated with Kantian ideals to define the goalposts. Avoiding metaphysical or transcendental groundings, we then sketch the profile of a hermeneutic phenomenology revealing basic and morally impactful phenomena as normative sources. Finally, the conception of a dialogic self can be shown to entail the cognitive potential to rightly respond to such phenomena. Empathetic capabilities entail a set of normative ideals expressing the rich value-orientations of a culturally sensitive yet universalistic concept of moral agency.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: empathy
  topic: keywords
subject: Gadamer
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subject: Kant
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subject: Levinas
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subject: the face
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subject: hermeneutic phenomenology
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subject: dialogic self
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creator: Hans-Herbert Kögler
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Hans-Herbert Kögler https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-02-19
publication date: 2026-02-19
doi: 10.31577/filozofia.2026.81.1.1

80 Years of the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences as an Integral Part of Filozofia’s History
type: item
subject: Miscellaneous (Scientific events, Critical notes, …)
  topic: section
subject: Editorial
  topic: keywords
creator: Jon Stewart
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Jon Stewart https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-02-19
publication date: 2026-02-19

K nevhodnosti dělení analytické a kontinentální filozofie: odpověď Dragounovi
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description: This paper responds to the criticism raised by Ivo Dragoun against my earlier article on the division of philosophy into analytic and Continental. In the original paper, I argued that this division is problematic for factual, methodological, and power-related reasons. Dragoun attempts to challenge all three lines of argument. In this reply, I systematically reconstruct and critically assess his objections. I argue that the semantic defense of the notion of “Continental philosophy” remains unsatisfactory, that the methodological justification of the division faces persistent difficulties, and that the power dimension of the classification cannot be easily neutralized. I conclude that Dragoun’s critique does not undermine the original arguments and that the thesis concerning the inadvisability of the analytic–Continental division remains defensible.
subject: Discussions – Polemics
  topic: section
subject: division of philosophy
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subject: analytic philosophy
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subject: Continental philosophy
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subject: methodology
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creator: Karel Šebela
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Karel Šebela https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-04-22
publication date: 2026-04-22
doi: 10.31577/filozofia.2026.81.2.9

Ondrej Marchevský a Lukáš Švaňa (eds.): Filozofické pokolenia: ich formovanie, vplyv a odkaz v slovenskom a českom prostredí 20. storočia a súčasnosti
type: item
description: Book review
subject: Book reviews
  topic: section
subject: Ondrej Marchevský
  topic: keywords
subject: Lukáš Švaňa
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subject: book review
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creator: Andrea Miškocová
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Andrea Miškocová https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-04-22
publication date: 2026-04-22
doi: 10.31577/filozofia.2026.81.2.10

The Emergence of the Concept of Existence: Schelling and Kierkegaard
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description: In philosophy, the term ὑποκείμενον literally means “underlying thing,” which in Latin is “subiectus,” but in fact it means something which can predicate other things but cannot be a predicate of others, which in German philosophy corresponds to Schelling’s “Unbedingtes.” Contrary to the opinion of many interpreters, there is a very close link between German idealism and twentieth-century existentialism. Kierkegaard attended Schelling’s lectures in Berlin in 1841 – 1842, where he became familiar with Schelling’s late philosophy in detail, and from this he developed his own concept of existentialism. The paper will show how, by transcending the notions of ὑποκείμενον and the subject, an existential philosophy emerges that will become a dominant feature of European culture in the twentieth century.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: existence
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subject: ὑποκείμενον
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subject: German Idealism
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subject: subjectivity
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subject: existentialism
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creator: Zoltán Gyenge
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Zoltán Gyenge https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-04-22
publication date: 2026-04-22
doi: 10.31577/filozofia.2026.81.2.1

Pojem úplne holého indivídua a parciálny esencializmus jednotlivín
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description: In his works Pavel Tichý relied on the concept of the empirically bare individual, which was based on the denial of empirical omniscience. A critical discussion developed among his followers, in which various proposals were put forward: bare individuals do not exist; instead, they are a concept, a construct, or a property. In 1991, Robert Stalnaker, in his critique of anti-essentialism, came up with the concept of analytical essentialism. The identity of the individual and its cognition remained a neuralgic point. We propose the hypothesis that if we reject the assumption of analytical omniscience, a non-contradictory solution is to distinguish between completely bare individuals as bearers of identity on the one hand and space-time particulars on the other, which are rich in properties. Complete anti-essentialism applies to individuals, and partial essentialism with the application of supplementary conventions relating to their empirical identity applies to their counterparts – particulars.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: bare individual
  topic: keywords
subject: particular, empirical omniscience
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subject: analytical omniscience
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subject: empirical essentialism
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subject: analytical essentialism
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creator: František Gahér
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 František Gahér https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-04-22
publication date: 2026-04-22
doi: 10.31577/filozofia.2026.81.2.7

Bergson, Heidegger, and the Temporality of Immortality
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description: Many transhumanists hope near-future developments in various medical and engineering fields will eventually lead to the end of human mortality. There are numerous practical obstacles, moral conundrums, and conceptual issues here that must be addressed, but a more fundamental problem for visions of something approximating immortality concerns the enthusiasm for these visions itself. Even if it were possible to extend human lives indefinitely, are lives that last (potentially) forever really worth wanting? We consider some key arguments in what has come to be known as the “desirability of immortality” debate. The arguments of greatest interest are those focusing on the relationship between time and value. After briefly sketching them out, we contrast them with Henri Bergson’s account of time as duration. When one relies on Bergson, and related ideas in Martin Heidegger’s work, it becomes clear that the absence of death need not render an immortal life meaningless, as some philosophers believe.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Henri Bergson
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subject: Martin Heidegger
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subject: risk
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subject: Samuel Scheffler
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subject: transhumanism
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subject: urgency
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subject: value
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creator: S. E. Oskam
creator: Adam Buben
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 S. E. Oskam, Adam Buben https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-04-22
publication date: 2026-04-22
doi: 10.31577/filozofia.2026.81.2.4

200 rokov Maďarskej akadémie vied: Kontakty maďarskej a slovenskej vedy v dejinách a súčasnosti akadémie
type: item
subject: Miscellaneous (Scientific events, Critical notes, …)
  topic: section
subject: conference
  topic: keywords
subject: Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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creator: Laura Kladeková
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Laura Kladeková https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-12
publication date: 2025-12-12

Lea David: A Victim‘s Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles: Desire Objects and Human Rights
type: item
description: A book review of Lea David's A Victim‘s Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles: Desire Objects and Human Rights. New York: Columbia University Press 2025, 328pp.
subject: Book reviews
  topic: section
subject: book review
  topic: keywords
subject: Lea David
  topic: keywords
creator: Tatiana Sedová
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Tatiana Sedová https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-12
publication date: 2025-12-12
doi: 10.31577/filozofia.2025.80.6.10

A Dialectic of Tension: Anthropology, Action, and Freedom in Luigi Pareyson
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description: This paper explores Pareyson’s constant drive toward an ontological dimension, despite the presence of a “dialectic of tension” that shifts heterogeneously throughout his entire work. To support this thesis, we first demonstrate how his philosophy, while rooted in Gentile’s actualism, functions as a critique of Hegelianism, aligning itself with the tradition of Italian personalism and the legacy of European existentialism. Within Pareyson’s ontological personalism, the person’s intimate existential bond with truth is not restricted to a theoretical framework based on a “dialectic of necessity”; rather, it is characterized by a participatory relationship with being. By showing that the foundation of his philosophy of action lies in the specific phenomenological structure of “initiative,” we argue that this dialectic of tension culminates in an ontology of freedom: a concept that, until the very end, preserves its ethical and anthropological essence alongside its purely speculative value.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Pareyson
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subject: dialectic
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subject: Italian personalism
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subject: philosophical anthropology
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subject: action
  topic: keywords
subject: freedom
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creator: Emanuele Curcio
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Emanuele Curcio https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-04-22
publication date: 2026-04-22
doi: 10.31577/filozofia.2026.81.2.3

Between the Historical Region and the Central Europe of Novelists and Philosophers
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description: Following Jóhann Páll Árnason’s occasional distinction between the imaginative Central Europe of novelists and philosophers and the historical region of East-Central Europe, this article uses the example of this region to discuss the relationship between public debates (including essays and novels) about the past and professional historical discourse. It explains the irreducibility of the diverse polycentric perspectives of Central Europe and the risks of its originally Westerncentric construction in the 19th century, as manifested in the present day.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Árnason
  topic: keywords
subject: Milan Kundera
  topic: keywords
subject: Karel Kosík
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subject: Eastern Central Europe
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subject: historical region
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subject: historical polycentric perspectives
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subject: translatability of historical works
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creator: Martin Profant
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Martin Profant https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-04-22
publication date: 2026-04-22
doi: 10.31577/filozofia.2026.81.2.6

Daoism, Heidegger, and AI: Reflections on Technology, Alienation, and the Case Hypnocracy
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description: This article offers some comparative reflections on technology and the alienating potential of AI. These reflections are inspired by theoretical affinities between Daoism and Heidegger’s philosophy. In particular, I focus on the work Hypnocracy that recently sparked an international debate about the notion of authorship and the problematic relationship between AI-generated textual content and creative writing. The main thesis is that Daoism and Heidegger’s philosophy encourage a critical use of technology that rejects a reason dominated by sheer instrumental usefulness without rejecting technology as a whole. Ultimately, both philosophies favor the passage from the uncritical exploitation of technological affordances as mere means-to-ends to a deeper awareness characterized by an end-to-means, i.e., the equanimous releasement of purposive action expressing an ethics of relationality.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Daoism
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subject: Heidegger
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subject: Alienation
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subject: AI
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subject: Hypnocracy
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creator: Rudi Capra
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Rudi Capra https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-02-19
publication date: 2026-02-19
doi: 10.31577/filozofia.2026.81.1.7

Object, System, and Culture: The Marburg Neo-Kantian Reception of Kant
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description: This paper argues that the Neo-Kantian reception of Kant’s concept of the object – particularly within the Marburg School – culminates in Ernst Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms as the legitimate completion of the critical project. It traces this development by showing how Hermann Cohen’s focus on the infinitesimal (dx) as an isolated unit of thought, together with Paul Natorp’s shift towards relational synthesis (dx/dy) within a systematic framework, paved the way for Cassirer’s decisive expansion. For Cassirer, the object is constituted within dynamic systems of meaning that extend beyond the exact sciences to encompass the full spectrum of cultural forms, including myth, language, and art. Thus, the article demonstrates how Cassirer transforms Kant’s critique of reason into a critique of culture. This reconciles the interpretations of Marburg Neo-Kantianism put forth by Cohen and Natorp within this broader framework.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: transcendental philosophy
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subject: object
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subject: system
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subject: science
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subject: critique of culture
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subject: Kant
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subject: Marburg Neo-Kantianism
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creator: Gustavo Esparza
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gustavo Esparza https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-04-22
publication date: 2026-04-22
doi: 10.31577/filozofia.2026.81.2.2

Heidegger, Nothingness, and Presence: Between Parmenides and Laozi
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description: This contribution reconsiders standard accounts of Heidegger’s concept of being as presence by tracing other moments revealed in his thinking of nothingness, emptiness, and the clearing in the context of his European and East Asian sources. Heidegger’s interpretations of Parmenides, early Greek philosophy, and of being as presencing (Anwesenheit) appear to assert the primordiality of “the one” and a hypostatized, monistic “metaphysics of presence.” This paper sketches a pivotal alternative thread within Heidegger’s thinking, most evident in his interactions with East Asian discourses, by outlining how a distinctive interpretation of nothingness, emptiness, absence, darkness, hiddenness, and mystery emerged in his readings of Laozi and Zhuangzi and in his dialogue with a Japanese interlocutor. Heidegger’s East Asian sources informed a key thread and model of his thinking that refused to reduce constitutive absence, emptiness, and nothingness to givenness, positivity, and presence or the logic of affirmation.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: nothingness
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subject: presence
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subject: emptiness
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subject: clearing
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subject: being
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subject: Laozi
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subject: Parmenides
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creator: Eric S. Nelson
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Eric S. Nelson https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-02-19
publication date: 2026-02-19
doi: 10.31577/filozofia.2026.81.1.5

The Genealogy of Bakunin’s Theory of Revolt
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description: This review study critically engages with Felipe Corrêa’s Freedom or Death: The Theory and Practice of Mikhail Bakunin. Although Corrêa works with the entirety of Bakunin’s corpus, he fails to adequately examine the double-negative aspect of revolt in Bakunin’s philosophical anthropology. My aim with this paper is to remedy this, vis-à-vis an exegesis of Bakunin’s appropriation of Hegel’s concept of negation, and its naturalized reemergence in a theory of revolt.
subject: Review studies
  topic: section
subject: Bakunin
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subject: revolt
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subject: dialectic
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subject: Hegel
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subject: negation
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creator: Dominik Kulcsár
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Dominik Kulcsár https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-02-19
publication date: 2026-02-19
doi: 10.31577/filozofia.2026.81.1.8

The Right Use of Reason in the Moral Theories of Aristotle and Habermas
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description: The Aristotelian distinction between technical and moral reason, production and interaction permeates Habermas’s thought. But in moral theory, Habermas’s main emphasis is on the decontextualized justification of moral norms, while Aristotle’s focus is on contextualized judgment. The paper argues that Aristotle’s theory of practical wisdom could be instructive for discourse ethics. Habermas has not been open to this possibility because he has appropriated the neo-Aristotelian interpretation of Aristotle, in which practical wisdom is subordinated to traditional norms, an interpretation that neglects the role of reason in moral deliberation. Moreover, the contemporary ethos is impregnated with universal moral demands which, it is supposed, should guide our moral judgments. It is further argued that there are elements in Habermas’s theory of moral and social development which can serve a role comparable to that of teleology in Aristotle. The paper maintains that a possible way to strengthen discourse ethics by incorporating practical wisdom is to tease out the implications of the fact that both Habermas and Aristotle build their views on the human capacity for speech and reasoning.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: application
  topic: keywords
subject: discourse ethics
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subject: justification
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subject: neo-Aristotelianism
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subject: moral reasoning
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subject: practical wisdom
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creator: Vilhjálmur Árnason
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Vilhjálmur Árnason https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-12
publication date: 2025-12-12
doi: 10.31577/filozofia.2025.80.6.1

Logika a idealizácie
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description: The article examines the nature and functions of certain idealizations in logic. It compares them with idealizations that appear in theories and models of empirical sciences. Building on the work of Colyvan (2013) and Russell (2023), it shows in what sense idealizations of logic are deliberately accepted false statements. One source of the falsity of idealization assumptions in logic is the representational inconsistency with the reality of the empirical system. The second source of falsity is the comparison of the epistemic status of a statement (formula) in one logical system with its status in another logical system. The article also notes the idealizations that we (implicitly) accept when applying a certain logical apparatus to natural language.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: logic
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subject: logical analysis
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subject: logical systems
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subject: idealizations
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subject: models
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subject: natural language
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creator: Lukáš Bielik
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Lukáš Bielik https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-04-22
publication date: 2026-04-22
doi: 10.31577/filozofia.2026.81.2.5

Auseinandersetzung: Heidegger’s Black Notebooks and Intercultural Engagement
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description: Heidegger’s relation to Asian philosophy should be guided by the notion of Auseinandersetzung. Often translated as con-frontation, this term plays a pivotal role in understanding Heidegger’s engagements with Asian philosophy. Auseinandersetzung (and related terms) can help us realise the changed perspectives on our own thinking that we derive from engagements with culturally and/or historically other types of thinking. Heidegger warns us against facile endeavours of comparing and contrasting, which, as a form of comparative philosophy, he sees as a kind of dialectics unworthy of true thinking. Thinking through the term Auseinandersetzung allows us to reflect more meaningfully on comparative philosophy.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Heidegger
  topic: keywords
subject: Auseinandersetzung
  topic: keywords
subject: engagement
  topic: keywords
subject: comparative philosophy
  topic: keywords
subject: Daoism
  topic: keywords
subject: Black Notebooks
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creator: Steven Burik
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Steven Burik https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-02-19
publication date: 2026-02-19
doi: 10.31577/filozofia.2026.81.1.6

The Aesthetic Dimension of Philosophical Works (With an Emphasis on Describing the Classic and the Inverse Model of Functional Configuration in Philosophy)
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description: This paper describes the classic, contamination, and inverse models of functional configuration in philosophical works. Methodologically and terminologically, it draws on ideas from Czech structural aesthetics, which can systematically explain the aesthetic dimension of philosophical works without bringing them into the realm of art. Through the interpretation of texts by Martin Heidegger and Friedrich Nietzsche, the study demonstrates how philosophical works can functionally activate the aesthetic principle to promote philosophical goals.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: philosophy
  topic: keywords
subject: aesthetic function
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subject: Czech structuralism
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subject: Martin Heidegger
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subject: Friedrich Nietzsche
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creator: Marcel Forgáč
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Marcel Forgáč https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-02-19
publication date: 2026-02-19
doi: 10.31577/filozofia.2026.81.1.4

Introduction to the Monothematic Block: The Human Being in the Coordinates of Symbolic Structures
type: item
subject: Miscellaneous (Scientific events, Critical notes, …)
  topic: section
subject: introduction
  topic: keywords
subject: monothematic block
  topic: keywords
subject: human being
  topic: keywords
subject: symbolic structures
  topic: keywords
creator: Jaroslava Vydrová
creator: Jon Stewart
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Jaroslava Vydrová, Jon Stewart https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-16
publication date: 2025-10-16

FACUNDO BEY (Ed.): Hans-Georg Gadamer. Cuestiones abiertas / Open Questions
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description: A book review of Facundo Bey's (ed.): Hans-Georg Gadamer. Cuestiones abiertas / Open Questions. Quito: Filosófica Editorial 2025, 476 pp.
subject: Book reviews
  topic: section
subject: Hermeneutics
  topic: keywords
subject: Gadamer
  topic: keywords
subject: book review
  topic: keywords
creator: Martín Prestía
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Martín Prestía https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-16
publication date: 2025-10-16
doi: 10.31577/filozofia.2025.80.5.11

Michel Eltchaninoff: Lenin Walked on the Moon
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description: A review of the book of Michel Eltchaninoff: Lenin Walked on the Moon, trans. by Tina Kover. London: Europa Editions, 2023, pp. 256.
subject: Book reviews
  topic: section
subject: a book review
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subject: Eltchaninoff
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subject: cosmism
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creator: Mark Coeckelbergh
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Mark Coeckelbergh https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-09-24
publication date: 2025-09-24
doi: 10.31577/filozofia.2025.80.4.9

Introduction to the Monothematic Block: Socrates in the 20th Century
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subject: Miscellaneous (Scientific events, Critical notes, …)
  topic: section
subject: introduction
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subject: Socrates
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creator: Jozef Majerník
creator: Refik Güremen
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Jozef Majerník, Refik Güremen https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-09-24
publication date: 2025-09-24

Metapopulistická demokracia ako filozofia interregna
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description: The review study focuses on the philosophical interpretation and critical reflection of the concept of metapopulist democracy as developed by Michael Hauser. Against the backdrop of the crisis of the liberal order and the transformation of political rationality, it examines how Hauser redefines the concepts of the people, representation, and human rights in the conditions of interregnum. The text uses a hermeneutic-critical approach and shows that metapopulism can be understood as an attempt to renew emancipatory politics in an era of exhausted modern ideals. The study also evaluates the theoretical and methodological contributions of Hauser’s concept to contemporary political philosophy and its Central European context.
subject: Review studies
  topic: section
subject: critical theory
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subject: interregnum
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subject: liberal democracy
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subject: metamodernism
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subject: metapopulism
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creator: Anna Mravcová
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Anna Mravcová https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-12
publication date: 2025-12-12
doi: 10.31577/filozofia.2025.80.6.8

Hegel and Gombrich on the Particular Forms of Art and their Persistence
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description: Hegel’s aesthetics is not only organized around a developed account of the differing artistic genres (from architecture to poetry) but also articulates the importance of the particular forms of art (i.e., the symbolic, classical and romantic). The oppositions involved in Hegel’s treatment of the particular forms of art – particularly that between the symbolic and the classical – also have an importance for the twentieth-century art historian E. H. Gombrich, who frames their relation as an opposition between what he called the “incarnational” side of art and the “challenge to the senses” that he thought the symbolic art form posed. This paper compares Gombrich’s and Hegel’s views of these art forms and turns in a final section to an exploration of the post- Hegelian, post-Gombrichian legacy of these issues.
subject: Articles
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subject: Gombrich
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subject: Hegel
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subject: artistic form
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subject: Moritz
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subject: symbol
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subject: beauty
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subject: absolute spirit
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creator: Allen Speight
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Allen Speight https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-16
publication date: 2025-10-16
doi: 10.31577/filozofia.2025.80.5.1

Could a Large Language Model be Conscious?
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description: There has recently been widespread discussion of whether large language models such as the GPT systems might be sentient or conscious. Should we take this idea seriously? I will discuss the underlying issue and will break down the strongest reasons for and against.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: consciousness
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subject: artificial intelligence
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subject: Turing test
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creator: David J. Chalmers
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 David J. Chalmers https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-09-24
publication date: 2025-09-24
doi: 10.31577/filozofia.2025.80.4.1

Vasil Gluchman: Podoby sekulárneho humanizmu na Slovensku v 20. storočí (do roku 1989)
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description: A review of the book of Vasil Gluchman: Podoby sekulárneho humanizmu na Slovensku v 20. storočí (do roku 1989). Prešov: Prešovská univerzita v Prešove 2024, 228 pp.
subject: Book reviews
  topic: section
subject: a book review
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subject: Gluchman
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subject: humanism
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creator: Dmytro Tomakh
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Dmytro Tomakh https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-09-24
publication date: 2025-09-24
doi: 10.31577/filozofia.2025.80.4.10