Electronic Library of Scientific Literature
Electronic Library of Scientific Literature
Volume 51 / No. 1 / 1996
“Partner-like”, or “Domination-like” Model of Being as a More Profound Reflection of Ontological Reality?
MARINA CARNOGURSKA, Kabinet orientalistiky SAV, Bratislava
The paper tries to outline one alternative of modern European postheideggerian
ontology as tending to nonessentialist concepcion of being. This theory
grows out of a „partner-like“ model of the mutually related antitheses
(opposite poles) of the substantial energy of the Universe. The autor’s
hypotheses are based on a comparative synthesis of scientific knowledge
concerning the basic structure of DNA molecule, on sociological knowledge,
on classical Chinese Ying-Yang concepcion of being, on mathematical knowledge
of non-linear dynamics of structural processes of so called atractors,
i. e. their crucial points of bifurcation, and last, but not least, on
the ideas of American femninist Riana Eisler.
FILOZOFIA 51, 1996, No 1, p. 1
The Postmodern Conception of Order on the Background of Foucault’s Analysis of Power.
IVAN BURAJ, Katedra filozofie a dejin filozofie FiF UK, Bratislava
The paper delas with one of the most original current conceptions of
power – that of M. Foucault as one of leading representatives of philosophical
postmodernism. In its first part the problematic is outlined, to which
Foucault’s conception of power is a response. The second part of the paper
gives an analysis of the basic charactersi-tics of power and power relations,
as defined by Foucault, sepecially in his Will to Knowledge. Through these
characteristics the postmodern vision of order is offered (e. g. antiessentialist
relational nature of order, its dynamics, variety and diffusion etc.).
FILOZOFIA 51, 1996, No 1, p. 8.
The Dimensions of Selfinterpetativeness
FRANTISEK NOVOSAD, Filozoficky ustav SAV, Bratislava
One among such all-pervasive motifs – even perhaps something of a dominant
of contemporary philosophizing on man and culture – is an attempt at appreciating
man as a self-interpreting being.
Self-interpretativeness is a complex, multi-level phenomenon embracing,
on the one hand, explicit, theoretically systemized „images“ of human being
as articulated by science and philosophy; on the other, implicit, spontaneous,
and „gut“ self-perception as an ingredient constitutive for human existence.
The stretch between the two poles is the sophisticated and densely structured
sphere populated by life ideologies.
The idea of human self-interpretativeness was in classic philosophy
circumscribed by the idea of the warrantor of the adequateness of meaning
or the ultimate instance corrector (proof-reader) – be it God, historical
regularities, or the transcendental norm.
Concurrently, however, classic philosophy comes up – I am first of
all referring to G. W. F. Hegel – with the many so far but partially tapped
into motifs and insights. After all, the motif of Hegel’s fundamental ontology
– if applicable to him – is the problem of the relationship between facticity
and (historic) existence.
FILOZOFIA 51, 1996, No 1, p. 16