E-LOGOS, 2021 (vol. 28), issue 1
Philosophy of Language
The Dictate of the Unconscious: The Latent Meaning of a Philosophical Text
Hynek Tippelt
E-LOGOS 2021, 28(1):50-59 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.483 
The aim of this study is to outline the psychoanalytic method of interpretation in its application to a philosophical text. The nature of philosophical creativity is illustrated by comparison with the laws of dream activity and the concept of primary process thinking. The concept of a “pride system” (Karen Horney) is used to interpret the specifically philosophical diction. The study shows the possibility of reading a philosophical text as a kind of declaration confirming the importance of its author, fulfilling their unconscious desire to prove the impossibility of "falling out of this world” (Sigmund Freud). The concept of the three...
Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy
The Social Contract Theory and Corporation Moral Obligation
Husein Inusah, Peter Sena Gawu
E-LOGOS 2021, 28(1):4-16 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.480
Contractual moralists, such as Bowie and Donaldson, have argued that contractual agreement explains why corporations have a moral obligation towards the society in which they operate. They argue that a corporation’s moral obligation emerges from a hypothetical social contract that establishes its legitimacy to operate in society. Their assumption appears to indicate a logically necessary relationship between a corporation’s moral obligation and contractual agreement that establishes the corporation. We argue that there is no such relationship: a corporation’s moral obligation does not necessarily emerge from a social contract....
Max Scheler – Critique of the Notion of Love
Štefan Tóth
E-LOGOS 2021, 28(1):17-32 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.481
Scheler argues in his work Wesen und Formen der Sympathie, that based on a specific manifestation of the phenomenon of love it is not possible to classify love as a feeling, that emerge as a reaction to some external stimulus. Love is not one of the feelings, of which the main reason is to motivate man to react adequately to the presence of some beneficial or harming object, and so to help organism to survive. Love is on the contrary independent and spontaneous act of spiritual part of man – Person. In my article I’m trying to analyse his most important arguments and to show, that in spite of his observances, it is not possible to completely...
On the implicit presence of the critical-idealistic phase of Marx´s thinking in the dialectical-historical materialistic phase
Luděk Toman
E-LOGOS 2021, 28(1):33-49 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.482
Karl Marx's thinking became the basis of dialectical-historical materialist philosophy and so-called scientific communism. Marx's philosophical development was complex and before the dialectical-historical materialist and communist phase Marx had gone through a phase of critical-idealism and had been one of the Young Hegelian philosophers who advocated a certain interpretation of the German philosopher Hegel and this interpretation justified the demands for radical social change. The paper shows that there is a deeper relationship between the younger, critical-idealistic, and older, dialectical-historical materialistic phases than the temporal-causal...
The Renaissance of the Main Goal of Economy and the Humanistic Approach to Human Resources – Prerequisites for the Humanization of Contemporary Economy
Eva Pechočiaková Svitačová
E-LOGOS 2021, 28(1):60-68 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.484
The quality of life of people in societies depends heavily on the economy, and in order to ensure the humane and socio-economic development of people and human society, the current economy needs to be humanized. In this context, the study focuses on two important assumptions – the renaissance of the main goal of the economy and a humane approach to human resources, which are increasingly taking a back seat in the current profit-oriented economy and economic prosperity. It draws on the views of the economist L. von Mises, but also outlines the views of contemporary economists and representatives of the social and human sciences, which provide...
The Concept of Non-Aggression of Murray N. Rothbard and Its Correction
Lukáš Augustin Máslo
E-LOGOS 2021, 28(1):69-79 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.485
The author of this paper attacks the concept of non-aggression of Murray N. Rothbard making use of the paradox of a non-aggressive murder as the author calls it. The author’s ambition is nothing less than to undermine the very foundations of Rothbard’s political philosophy. To this purpose, he makes use of the non-contradiction principle, i. e. the fact that a disproval of the contradictory opposite is - under a condition of a complete disjunction - equal to a proof of the truthfulness of the thesis in question. The thesis in question is: in some cases, positive rights and duties do exist, i. e. in some cases, rights and duties do exist...