philosophy(119)

Smrt

Man knows that he must one day die and this awareness represents one of the main characteristics of humanity; the aim of religion, metaph...

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Spinoza a politika

Étienne Balibar (1942), Louise Althusser’s student, is one of the most significant contemporary political thinkers. His book, Spinoza and...

Spravedlnost

The book version of Professor Michael Sandel’s (Harvard) popular TV show offers briskly paced, amusing chapters illustrated by current ex...

Co je správné dělat

Svoboda a neklid zvířecího života

The phenomenology of animality, whose basic points are presented in Florence Burgat’s book, does not strive for ethical solutions of the ...

Svobodný čas: pedagogika volného času jako výchova ke svobodě

Tázání po dějinném

The book consists of ten chapters. The first four texts include a Heideggerian comprehensive quest for meaning, in this case history (tim...

The Defence of Constitutionalism

More than a century after the publication of Czech politician Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk’s study The Czech Question, Czech politics has becom...

The Czech Question in Post-national Europe

The Philosophy of Living Nature

The Philosophy of Living Nature is an English translation of Zdeněk Kratochvíl’s revised and updated book published in 1994 in Czech, a c...

Thinking About Ordinary Things

How to teach philosophy to young dissidents, excluded from higher education by the communist regime? The author of this book, Czech philo...

A Short Invitation to Philosophy

Ticho

When trying to perceive silence, we find ourselves in a paradoxical situation – the harder we try to listen, the more intensive feeling w...

John Cage, filozofia absencií a skúsenosť ticha

Traktát o kritickém rozumu

Hans Albert (* 1921) builds on Karl Popper’s critical rationalism, developing his principles (criticism, fallibilism, realism, pluralism ...

Tyranie zásluh

These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already for...

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