The main goal of this study is to explain the historical context of origins and the place of international auxiliary languages among planned, perfect, philosophical, artificial, a priori, created, world, universal, and vehicular (contact) languages. Our contribution shows that although historical...

Following text focuses on the literary adaptation of one event of the World War II, that is the atomic bomb literature and its taxonomy. The goal of this text is to present a variability of the topics accented in literature and views on the atomic bomb attack on...

The submitted thesis discuss philosophical thinking of María Zambrano. María Zambrano represents an original philosophical system and terminology. A very significant part of her philosophy is the so called poetic reason concept ( la razón poética). This concept is – besides Gasset’s vit...

A pedagogical experiment, which I describe in this text and whose partial yet considerably significant outcomes I present, revealed a number of problems considering how students are able to deal with a philosophical example (or rather a sophism), though at a simple lev...

The study deals with the main tenets of the Elizabethan Poetics, as 1) the concept of poesy as creating fictional worlds and the concept of poet as a “maker”, 2) moral and social role of poetry and the concept of “doctrine by ensample”, 3) unity of poetic...

Is there any kind of justification for a belief that the future will be largely like the past? In the eighteenth century David Hume formulated the problem of induction in a similar spirit, and his version is now conventional. Even two hun- dred and...

This study focuses on the origins of A. N. Whitehead’s metaphysical thought. First, the basic features of Whitehead’s pan-physics project and its differences from the metaphysical synthesis are described. It is shown what pos- sible motives led Whitehead to the const...

In this article the process of denominalization (reduction of tension between the main society and the new religious society) is described. As an illustrative example the Mormon Church and its development were used.

In years 1869-1870 the First Vatican Council took place. In that article is shortly described the situation in the Catholic Church before that council. Furthermore the course and results of this council and the birth of Old Catholic Church are described.