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Book review on Claudio Antonio Testi, La Logica di Tommaso d';Aquino: Dimostrazione, induzione e metafisica, Bologna: Edizioni Studio Domenicano, 2018, 255 p., ISBN: 8870949737.

Principles of legal ethics, whether written or unwritten, not only regulate the conduct of legal practice but also reflect the basic assumptions, premises, and methods of the legal system within which the lawyer operates...

The article questions real theological character of some streams of the older Czech moral theological thought which ended in 1948 (beginning of the communist regime) and after 1989 has never been quoted or mentioned. It ...

The French Revolution was central to the emergence of modern society, and by extension, modern social science. However, not only French scientists contributed to the invention of sociology, nor for that matter did scienc...

The Book of Isaiah clearly played a key role for Paul, especially when writing (or dictating) his Letter to the Romans, and especially with respect to two fundamental and mutually connected subjects: (i) the composition ...

The paper focuses on the Roman sumptuary legislation during the republican period, moving away from the traditional point of view which relates the leges sumptuariae to the crisis of the mores and the general decline of ...

In contemporary Biblical Hermeneutics, the perception of a gulf between past and present mind-set has led scholars to seek for a transcending and universal moment within authoritative scriptures of Christianity (Schneide...

The article analyzed the first part of the work of Nicolas Losskij Mystical’s intuition in the context of current research in the spiritual theology. Negation is – according to Losskij – the first natural step for ...

This text aims to trace the thematisation of death and dying in Sociology, which in the 1990’ evolves into constituion of independent sociological sub-discipline: “sociology of dying and death”. The main intention ...

The preoccupation with the processes of globalization, which has become a key concept in the analysis of the sociocultural condition of postmodernity, has led to a decreased interest in the theory of civilization. The id...

The first attempt of the GDR to enact a new Civil Code started in September 1952 and failed with the revolution in June 1953. The old laws were thought to disturb the consolidation of socialist legal order and hinder the...

The article describes the work of František Xaver Hodač, a prominent Czechoslovak politician and representative of employers in the International Labor Organization in years 1919–1924. It deals with the activities of...

The cross-cultural application of happiness studies has led to many interesting results over the last few decades. The merits of this field of research are widely recognized, resulting for instance in government strategi...

The article presents the current state of knowledge regarding the use of analogy in domestic jurisprudence, with the aim of outlining its place and role in the process of finding the law. The performed analysis makes it ...

This paper is concerned with the transformations of the understanding of documentary photography in the historical and social context. Every photograph, as a recording, is by its nature documentary in the original meanin...

Article describes the books of two authors, who try to compare Russian and Iranian revolutions and political development generally. Whereas Ghoncheh Tazmini uses Hegelian structuralist approach, that sees these revolutio...

The perception of the Stations of the Cross is constantly oscillating between visual perception and the acceptance of a verbal description. In the beginning, people taking part in historical events (Jesus Christ went to ...

Given the unique position of credit institutions and their systemic importance for the financial stability, their resolution has been traditionally entrusted to supervisory authorities rather than courts. As a result, cr...

What is the relation between ethical discernment and liturgy? Do Christian rituals provide enough space for ethical thinking? What is the nature of the certainty that discernment in ritual is correct? This study explores...

The recent document of the Congregation for Catholic Education on the question of gender ‘Male and Female He Created Them’ emphasises the importance of the sexual difference for the masculine and feminine identity. O...

This study focuses on the modalities of transmission of history-related knowledge to a current young generation (12–25 years old). Data from 11 focus groups with pupils and students of schools at the primary, secondary...

Second half of the 19th century saw a number of national attempts to revise the Baroque values. Czech Neo-Baroque sculpture represents a style-expressive tendency, which reflected this nationally motivated interest and a...

This historical essay describes Emperor Franz Joseph’s visits to the Czech lands. Both the Monarch’s image and the people’s attitude to his stays in Bohemia and Moravia during his long reign (1848–1916) were pron...

The reference to Descartes in modern scientific literature on emotions is either missing or negative. And yet, one can show that the theories of emotions laid out by William James in the 1890 ’ or by Antonio Damasio on...