E-LOGOS, 2018 (vol. 25), issue 2

History of Philosophy

Nietzsche and War

Jan Krist

E-LOGOS 2018, 25(2):4-14 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.456  

In general consciousness, Friedrich Nietzsche is considered one of the greatest apologists of the war in the history of human thought. However, the fact is different if we understand the phenomenon of war at Nietzsche in the overall context of his thinking. Nietzsche understand war in three levels. Through the motive of will to power, the struggle is generally understood as a metaphysical principle; in the motive of superman, war appears as man's struggle with himself, as a self-creation; only in the motive of the confrontation of two types of morals (the master and slave) treats war as an important means - only here he adores it to some extent as...

About the Origin of Dreams (The First Czech Translation of Letter, which B. Spinoza Wrote to His Friend P. Balling in Summer of 1663 or 1664.)

Martin Hemelík

E-LOGOS 2018, 25(2):15-21 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.457  

In the frame of this paper is published the first czech translation of letter, which B.Spinoza wrote to his friend P. Balling in summer of 1663 or 1664. The content of letter which is Spinoza's explication of the origin of human dreams and imaginations. He explicates this problem in the connection with death of friend's son.

A Study in Language Analysis of Francis Bacon and Johan Amos Comenius III: Bacon, Comenius and Their Legacy in Swift and Sheridan

Jitka Kuncová

E-LOGOS 2018, 25(2):48-60 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.459  

Presented paper is considered as the third and final part of a series dedicated to understanding of language in selected works of Francis Bacon and Johannes Amos Comenius. The first section is of a comparative nature followed by the second section on Swift's idea of an academy for the reform/correction of English language reflecting at least indirect influence of Bacon's idea of learned society. Final section is dedicated to a new observation about similarity of late Comenius' ideas of Latin college with the ones of Dr Thomas Sheridan, the 18th century Irish schoolmaster, philosopher and linguist from Dublin, entitled "the second Solomon" by Jonathan Swift.

Philosophy of Mind

Kim on Causation and Mental Causation

Panu Raatikainen

E-LOGOS 2018, 25(2):22-47 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.458  

Jaegwon Kim's views on mental causation and the exclusion argument are evaluated systematically. Particular attention is paid to different theories of causation. It is argued that the exclusion argument and its premises do not cohere well with any systematic view of causation.