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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...

This study examines the development of civil law at the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University in Brno during the socialist period (1948–1989). It reflects on the ideological and political influences that shaped both t...

The legal regulation of the liability of civil servants for damage caused by them to the civil service contained in Act No. 234/2014 Sb., on the Civil Service, as amended, directly refers to Act No. 262/2006 Sb., the Lab...

Book review on Oľga Wrede (2020) Theoretisch-pragmatische Reflexionen zur interlingualen Übersetzung ausgewählter Textsorten des Strafprozessrechts, Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač.

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 ...

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 article analyses a selected text of the travelogue of Czech nobleman and humanist Christopher Harant of Polžice and Bezdružice (1564–1621). Harant’s information on the ancient Roman custom of punishing debtors ...

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...

Any attempt to reaffirm equality as a fundamental democratic value faces two tasks: it must respond to social and cultural changes accompanying the most recent phase of capitalist development, and it must reactivate the ...

The text examines the works of the representatives of the institutional critique, in particular the works of Hans Haacke, Marcel Broodthaers, Michael Asher and Daniel Buren. It starts with the discussion on the instituti...

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 ...

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...

It is often being promised nowadays that many things will be great again. Unfortunately, politicians’ pledges are almost never turned into reality. Is it the same case with European climate policies? Or will, thanks to...

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...

The contribution deals with the use of electronic tools for investigating the transfer of authorial style in literary translation. It first introduces a method of sentence length analysis of source texts and target texts...

The Bellum Hispaniense is for the most part considered in scholarship only with respect to textual and linguistic problems and in relation to its deficit in literary qualities. Through a close reading, the present paper ...

Recidivism is one of the measures that can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of sanctions imposed by the criminal justice system. The article summarizes findings from the most extensive research of this type in the C...

This paper deals with exchanges and misunderstandings between the German school of social history (most prominently represented by scholars from the University of Bielefeld (such as Hans-Ulrich Wehler) and Anglo-American...

The following text is based on the outcomes of a long-term field research carried out in eastern Slovakia, and it focuses on the character and specifics of religiosity of the Romany settlements inhabitants. One of the ch...

The paper focuses on books illustrated and written by the Czech artist Daisy Mrázková. It covers main inspirations and biographical information related to this segment of her artistic work. The paper is mainly focused ...

In the introduction of this study the author presents the most important personalities of the history the Czech Trinitarian Theology, who had written before Josef Pospišil started. The author explains the reasons of thi...

Christianization of the Rus’ is a subject of many existing articles and monographs. This article however deals it again from a somewhat untraditional perspective. It stresses the possible influence not only the center ...

This article focuses on discussions about the role of the public in the political sphere presented in the writings of philosophers and scholars examining public opinion and American democracy during the 19th and early 20...