University study can be a life period of heightened psychological distress for many students. The development of new preventive and intervention programs to support well-being in university students is a fundamental challenge for mental health professionals. We designed an 8-week online mindfulness-based program combining a face-to-face approach, text, audio, video components, and support psychotherapy principles with a unique intensive reminder system using the Facebook Messenger and Slack applications in two separate runs. We assessed the program’s effect on mindful experiencing, perceived (...) stress, emotion regulation strategies, self-compassion, negative affect, and quality of life. The results of the presented pilot study confirmed that eMBP is a feasible and effective tool in university students’ mental health support. The students who completed the eMBP reported a reduction of perceived stress with a large effect size as well as a decrease of negative affect experience frequency and intensity, an increase of being mindful in their life, and a higher rate of self-compassion with a medium effect size. A small effect size was found in the frequency of using a cognitive reappraisal strategy. One new result is the observation of an eMBP effect on the decrease in attributed importance to the quality-of-life components replicated in two consecutive runs of the program. The study affirms that mindfulness-based interventions can be effectively delivered in an eHealth form to university students. (shrink)

Cieľom textu je nadviazať na diskusiu o spore realizmu a konštruktivizmu, ktorá prebehla medzi Jaroslavom Peregrinom a Tomášom Marvanom na stránkach časopisu Filosofie dnes. Samotná diskusia vznikla ako reakcia na Marvanom publikovanú knihu Realismus a relativismus. Marvan v nej zastáva špecifické stanovisko realizmu, z ktorého vedie kritiku relativizujúcich postojov. Peregrin tvrdí, že spor nie je možné riešiť, lebo obe súperiace strany sú v konečnom dôsledku nevyvrátiteľné a argumenty pre a proti sa držia v patovej situácii. Marvan tvrdí, že spor je (...) možné riešiť v prospech realizmu. Predkladaný text sa voči obom názorom vymedzuje a predstavuje návrh ako daný spor riešiť. Riešenie spočíva v rozpustení samotného sporu a v predstavení hybridnej koncepcie, ktorá problémy realizmu a konštruktivizmu prekonáva. Text je rozdelený na tri časti, v prvej je uvedená kritika Marvanom zastávaného realizmu, v druhej časti je predstavená stručná analýza zdroju sporu a v záverečnej časti je načrtnutá koncepcia, ktorá spor prekonáva. (shrink)

The article is devoted to the theme of the moral condition during the Black Death epidemic in Florence within Boccaccio’s group of young people in his Decameron. The disease in the region of Florence caused many existential and moral tragedies. A group of young people transferred the joy of life and moral principles to the gardens outside the city of the disease. They describe different moral and philosophical thoughts in their songs at the end of each day.2 These songs represent (...) ten parts of nature and form the basis on which the allegorical character of the works is further developed. They are also carriers of the laws of nature and natural wisdom. (shrink)

The author focuses on two different approaches in philosophical hermeneutics: those of Gadamer and Whitehead, which have some very important points in common. For example, Gadamer’s fusion of horizons is very close to Whitehead’s conception of symbolical reference.

The paper describes W. Ockham’s theory of signification on the background of the classical medieval philosophy, with which Ockham comes to terms by the help of an original metaphysical-logical theory of sign having its effects also on the theory of universals. There are two approaches rejected by Ockham: First, the Aquinas’s theory of species which in Ockham’s view can not correspond to the really perceived world; secondly, from the metaphysical perspective he also rejects Scot’s metaphy- sics and epistemology, whose terminology (...) in his view was too detailed and expanded. Ockham’s logic and metaphysics intertwine in his theory of signification, which, seen from the semantic perspective, makes the resolution of the relationship between world and language reflecting the former possible. (shrink)

Rozvoj a vzdělávání provozních pracovníků v retailovém segmentu v ČR.

The author studies the role of Christianity in two forms of 9th century political ethics in the history of Great Moravia, represented by the Great Moravian rulers Rastislav and Svatopluk. Rastislav’s conception predominantly uses the pre-Erasmian model of political ethics based on the pursuit of welfare for the country and its inhabitants by achieving the clerical-political independence of Great Moravia from the Frankish kingdom and, moreover, by utilising Christianity for the advancement of culture, education, literature, law and legality, (...) as well as by spreading Christian ethics and morality in the form of the Christian code of ethics expressed in ethicallegal documents. Svatopluk’s political conception was a prototype of Machiavellian political ethics, according to which one is, in the interest of the country and its power and fame, allowed to be a lion and/or a fox. Svatopluk abused Christianity in the name of achieving his power-oriented goals. Great Moravia outlived Rastislav; it did not, however, outlive Svatopluk, as, shortly after his death, it broke up and ceased to exist. The author came to the conclusion that Rastislav’s conception was more viable, as its cultural heritage lives on in the form of works by Constantine and Methodius. (shrink)

This paper is a review of the book 'Náčrt Whiteheadovej procesuálnej filozofie' by Rastislav Nemec.