Proefschrift Maastricht. / Lit.opg. en samenvattingen in Engels en Duits.

Proefschrift Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. / Lit. opg.: p. [353]-384. - Reg. - Met een samenvatting in het Nederlands en Duits.

Philosophy is traditionally defined against rhetoric. The traditional difference between philosophy and rhetoric is based on a distinction between truthful and persuasive speech. The history of philosophy offers a number of examples how to approach the relationship between truth and persuasiveness. However, this relationship was traditionally taken in such a way so that philosophy could be defined against rhetoric. This approach can also be found in the texts of Immanuel Kant. From this point of view, Kant's project of critical philosophy can be interpreted as an attempt to purify philosophy and separate it from rhetoric. But when Kant defines the philosophy against rhetoric, he falls into obvious contradiction. As the critical philosophy helps to realize the ideas of the Enlightenment, thus, it also helps to spread the light of reason. However, the spread of general enlightenment requires an effective link between philosophy and rhetoric, i.e. between truth and persuasiveness. Since the critical philosophy is the instrument of enlightenment, it acquires its rhetorical dimension. A closer examination of the rhetorical dimension of Kant's critical philosophy, which still represents a certain desideratum of Kant Studies, thus opens up completely new research and interpretation possibilities.

Jindřich Bálek Constants and metamorphoses of Patočka's point of view of T. G. Masaryk SUMMARY This work describe all texts (articles, studies, lectures) by Jan Patočka, which comment and thing out works and personality of T. G. Massatyk. The first intention is description rich in detail and the second is reflexion and comentary of historical and philosophical kontext Patočka's life and works.

The present thesis deals with the concept of progress and faith in progress as well as changes of this notion in selected historical periods and philosophies. The topic of progress and perception thereof is extensive and problematic in many cases, e. g. with regards to the existence of this idea in the thought of Antique, or with regards to what might have been perceived as progress through the optics of Christianity. It becomes apparent that the concept of progress is even today fluid in it's interpretation, invested with political and economical connotation and, in somewhat unstable postmodern discourse, allows for many interpretations. At the same time it is becoming clearer and clearer that in the context of the current global situation, any discussion about progress whatsoever would be incomplete, unless it also adequately stressed ecological topics. A true progress for the future seems to be abandoning the set ways of consumerism and of exploitation of natural resources. Key words: progress, regress, procursus, faith in progress, myth

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1931. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 96-97.

Thesis--Hamburg. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-194).

Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam. / Met index, lit. opg. - Met samenvatting in het Nederlands.

Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam. / Omslagtitel: Mechanical reasoning: William Stanley Jevons and the making of modern economics. Met index, lit. opg. - Met samenvatting in het Nederlands.

Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam. / Auteursnaam op omslag: Asja Szafraniec. Met lit. opg. - Met samenvatting in het Nederlands.