The paper deals with the art of architecture in its philosophical dimension of expressing ideas, and with its ability to serve the whole realm of human and social needs, i.e. to help a person to find his/her orientation and identification in his/her existential situation. Starting with the relationship between a person and the world the paper outlines some fundamental existential processes that a person must assume in order to feel fulfilled in his/her life. It points to the affinity of person (...) and space and then outlines some historical modes of the relationship between architecture and territory. In conclusion it discusses the dialectics of space and the philosophical aspect of architecture: the architecture must understand the existential situation, perceive thoughtfully the question emerging from that situation and respond responsibly to the question. It must solve the existential issues of human dwelling in the world. (shrink)

The paper is an attempt at a definition of a common ground with its immanent potency as the founding force of various forms of the world common to all people. Its first part gives a brief outline of the conceptions of this common ground in the history of European thinking, such as Plato's case. Cusanus' community or joined unity and Whitehead's creativity. The second part derives from these conceptual schemes, reflecting on the domain of potency as the dynamics of being (...) and the ground of the original continuum, as the ultimate determination, in which the founding force of social forms of being has its roots. (shrink)

The paper is an attempt at a definition of a common ground with its immanent potency as the founding force of various forms of the world common to all people. Its first part gives a brief outline of the conceptions of this common ground in the history of European thinking, such as Plato's case. Cusanus' community or joined unity and Whitehead's creativity. The second part derives from these conceptual schemes, reflecting on the domain of potency as the dynamics of being (...) and the ground of the original continuum, as the ultimate determination, in which the founding force of social forms of being has its roots. (shrink)

The paper is a discussion of tragedy as an analogy to the tragism of life which has its roots in the conflicts between individual freedom and power, love and hatred. Further, it examines the constructive and destructive elements of tragedy, i.e. love and hatred, as well as the roles the law, necessity and the sublime play in tragedy. It also outlines the interconnection and mutual interdependence of freedom, necessity, immortality and the sublime It also shows, how the crisis is transformed (...) in the art of tragedy. (shrink)