Books in the Uni Slovakia series

This textbook offers a brief overview of the main philosophical schools of ancient India and China. It acquaints readers with concepts like holistic or ceremonial approach to reality, openness to transcendence, pluralism of opinions, behaviour leading by a sense of harmony.

This book is an introduction to the main representatives of presocratic philosophical thought, namely Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, atomists and sophists. The author sketches main issues concerning problems of being, appearance, perception and mind.

This book is an introduction to key issues in philosophical thought of Plato and Aristotle. Therefore it aims to provide prefatory orientation in their complex thought and addresses problems of dialogue, ontological hierarchy, metaphysics, knowledge and practical philosophy.

The reflective critical thinking of philosophy tries to embrace each side of human reality, even the matters and themes which arise out of the religious experience. This auxiliary textbook intends to present several selected topics of the philosophy of religion and it is primarily intended for bachelor students of philosophy.

The text presents boundaries and concepts of the Middle Ages and its philosophical and theological thinking. It follows the selected characters of scholastic tradition from 5th to 13th century: Boethius, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Johannes Scotus Eriugena, Anselm of Canterbury, Peter Abelard, Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas.

Readers will become familiar with basic terms (metaphysics, ontology, existence, being), with the metaphysics of archaic nations, Parmenides's approach to understand being, the understanding of time and events of the Greeks, the problem of categories according to Aristotle and Kant, the problem of intuition and fundamental ontology.

Introduction to Philosophy presents various disciplines of philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, philosophy of mind etc. The second part maps the understanding of history, or the philosophical reflection of history in the history of philosophy.

What is a self? What is the relation between phenomenal consciousness and the self? What are we talking about when we speak of conscious experience, the self, an inner mental world? In order to answer these questions, the author reconsiders the "turn to the self" in contemporary philosophy of mind.

The text concentrates on selected topics and problematic aspects in preparing a cohesive and well-organised academic paper, such as: the relation between thinking and writing, establishing arguments, using logic and appropriate language in argumentative writing.

The text presents nine basic types of the classical philosophical perception of the problem of knowledge: the atomistic and causal theory of perception, Platonism, Aristotle's doctrine, scepticism, rationalism, sensualism, Kant's theory of knowledge, phenomenological-existential, pragmatic, and (post)analytical perceptions of knowledge.

The text presents basic problems of the modern philosophy: the understanding of God, the question of the individual, the ideal state arrangement and the question of freedom and history, the issue of cognition, the question of reason and sense, as well as language and the issue of a system in philosophy.