E-LOGOS, 2017 (vol. 24), issue 2

History of Philosophy

About the diversity of things. (The first czech translations of letters, which were changed between B. Spinoza and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhausen in summer of 1675 and 1676.)

Martin Hemelík

E-LOGOS 2017, 24(2):24-32 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.445  

In the frame of this paper are published the first czech translations of letters, which were changed between B. Spinoza and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhausen in summer of 1675 and 1676. The content of letters are Spinoza's answers and explications of some questions, which German learned man propounded to philosopher in the connection with the attributes of God and the origin of diversity of things.

Philosophy of Science

The Rational Expectations Hypothesis: Theoretical Critique

Tomáš Frömmel

E-LOGOS 2017, 24(2):4-12 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.443  

The rational expectations hypothesis as one of the building blocks of modern macroeconomic theory is analyzed critically in this paper. It is concluded that expectations may be rather backward-looking and adaptive since man does not search for all possible pieces of information and his learning by experience from previous mistakes may be imperfect and quite slow. Instead, mixed expectations are evaluated as a reasonable compromise.

Commentary of Engliš's Critique of Jindřich Zelený

Jitka Špeciánová

E-LOGOS 2017, 24(2):45-61 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.448  

An extensive masterpiece containing Karel Englis’s life-long work not only in the field of cognition theory represents an unpublished manuscript called The Great Logic. One of the results of the effort for its gradual publication is now published transcript of Englis’s study “Zeleny’s Critique of My Teleologyˮ. The transcript of the part of the manuscript is provided with author’s explanatory notes contextualizing the statements to the original systems of the ways of thinking. Englis had to deal with the critique of his teleological approach, which he preferred in economic science, as he had to defend his three-way...

Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

The order and rules in Hayek's concept of freedom

Magdaléna Steinhauser Wesserlová

E-LOGOS 2017, 24(2):13-24 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.444  

The paper is focused on the problem of freedom in F. A. Hayek. Content of the work is targeted for analysis of order in society. Te paper is trying to define, describe and analyze two kinds of order, and that spontaneous and created, and then find and break down first and most fundamental prerequisite for defining a need for a clearer grasp of negative liberty. The aim of this work is also to analyze a set of rules in general, because the rules of human behavior stopped in Hayek's idea produced equally significant position as the order. In this context, it wants the text to highlight the causal connection of order with the rules, which built so to...

Miscellany

From the Meaning of Meaning to Radical Hermeneutics

Ricardo Gil Soeiro

E-LOGOS 2017, 24(2):33-44 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.447  

Primarily focusing on Steiner's Real Presences (1989) and Caputo's Radical Hermeneutics: Repetition, Deconstruction, and the Hermeneutic Project (1987), the present article wishes to come to an understanding of the relationship between Steiner's hermeneutics of transcendence and John Caputo's radical hermeneutics. Faced with the XXth century inhumanity, Steiner seems to be embracing the most radical move in hermeneutics, and he does so by wagering on transcendence, in which the meaning of meaning peacefully rests on the arms of God, thus rejecting the negative semiotics of Derrida. However, when looked upon by the demanding eye of radical hermeneutics...