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The submitted article concerns the topic of administrative punishment in the field of Slovak financial market regulations, placing emphasis on punishing the so-called “administrative procedural offences”. The article...

Friedrich Ratzel (1844–1904) is often portrayed in the Czech context as a controversial figure in the development of political-geographical or geopolitical thought. This is probably a consequence of the lack of attenti...

The principle of the state of law is undoubtedly one of the most important and essential principles for any state and democratic society. Its fullest realisation in everyday life is the best guarantee for the development...

The article explores the Bible’s relationship to immigrants and people perceived by society as foreigners. The topic is addressed against the backdrop of ongoing society-wide discussions about helping people who have b...

Martin Heidegger’s thought is often seen in the context of its opposition to the traditional notion of religion as expressed especially in Christianity. Since Heidegger became not only estranged from, but even inimical...

The article explores Jiang Menglin’s philosophy of life and his notion of rensheng guan (“view on life”) in the period between his studies in the USA and the year of the May Fourth events in 1919. In the first part...

The article explores Latin comparatives, both of adjectives and adverbs, which are not accompanied by an explicit standard (basis of comparison) in the form of the ablative of comparison or quam + NP/SENT. Such cases are...

Virtual currencies have been part of economic reality for more than a decade but have only become the subject of legal regulation at European and national level in recent years. This is in a sense natural, since law as a...

This study examines Feng Zikai’s essays from 1956 to 1965 as products of his attempts to come to terms with the social, political, and cultural situation of the era through writing literary pieces and essays. This anal...

This article focuses on the question of pious legacy in the testaments of the members of the Olomouc bourgeoisie. The main research problem of the thesis is the question whether the events of the observed period were ref...

After a brief presentation of basic forms of spiritual direction and after stressing the importance of personal spiritual experience, the article describes Ignatian concept of human being in relation with God and God’s...

The study deals with an important figure of 19th-century Hungarian legal science, who also had Czech roots. Professor Anton Virozsil (1792–1868) was born into a simple family in Banská Štiavnica. He originally prepar...

Dealing with a so far unknown part of Czech translation history, the paper uncovers traces of communist ideology in Czech translations of poems written by a Russian and Soviet poet Sergey Jesenin (1895–1925). First, it...

This study represents the life and work of the Spanish Catholic natural scientist and theologian Juan T. González de Arintero o.p. (1860–1928), who is very little known in the Czech environment. The focus of the study...

Attenuating devices are frequently employed in both spoken and written language to weaken the illocutionary force of utterances as well as their directness. In this way, they are associated with expressing linguistic pol...

Following the book Lucifer Effect (2007) written by the American social psychologist Philip Zimbardo, the study explores his central idea that human character can be easily manipulated and corrupted by force of ‘total ...

The paper analyses data contained in the questionnaire completed by the Roman Catholic priests of the Litoměřice diocesis in 1973 when bishop Štěpán Trochta was once again its head. This source gives evidence of a s...

The article deals with the question of a potential connection between August Gottlieb Meißner’s short story “Mord aus Schwärmerey” (Murder out of Zealotry), also known as “Die geopferten Kinder” (The Sacrific...

Stále více a častěji se fotografie objevují v expozicích galerií výtvarného umění, pořádají se autorské výstavy, fotografické festivaly, autoři fotografií spolupracují s významnými deníky a časopi...

The paper presents an overview of the situation of the biblical scholarship after the beginning of the 21th century. After a brief historical introduction the factors are specified that have influenced a present-day posi...

Book review: BRTKO, R. Kontroverzie medzi prokuliánmi a sabiniánmi. Levoča: MTM, 2020, 165 s.

The article describes the role of the Chicago School of Sociology in the development of empirical social research. It traces the increase in the significance of the education of doctoral students on American universities...

The EU legislator has modified once again the so-called Brussels 2 bis Regulation. The new regulation 2019/1111 adds new provisions on parental responsibility and child abduction, but leaves those on divorce largely unto...

The paper examines the forming of national academic communities in successor states and in the situation after the First World War when scholars (mainly those working in life sciences) participated in the scientific legi...