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In his latest publication, Z. Bauman’s Retrotopia elaborates the ideas of S. Boym in the concept of a nostalgic society based on an imaginary effort to balance the values of freedom and security. Bauman points out that in this concept, for us, the past becomes the source of our presence, due to our resignation to the horizons of the future. This nostalgic orientation of contemporary society has, as...
The aim of this paper is to reflect the changing role of a university in relation to the contemporary society. Higher education is one of the key investments in the future of global society. Not only in the context of the Slovak society, there is an obvious need to transform the education system, which is, in its current form, not able to adequately respond to the problems of nowadays. We believe...
Problem dobrowolnej śmierci jest obecnie tematem szeroko omawianym nie tylko w naukach humanistycznych. Ten artykuł poświęcony będzie tej kwestii w kontekście teorii filozoficznej Jeana Paula Sartre'a i Jeana Améry’ego. Obaj, jako egzystencjonalni myśliciele, łączą kwestię dobrowolnej śmierci z kwestiami wartości życia i jego wyższości. Początki ich rozważań są naprawdę blisko, ale ich ostateczna...
Twentieth century was characteristic for dynamic development spurred also by the advances in research and science. However, the events of the twentieth century also showed the other side of science as a discipline able of compromising the values of our civilisation in the name of progress. The question posed in the paper may appear banal, even if far from being such: Is science and the scientific...
One of the basic questions of the applied ethics is the question: “How to successfully and efficiently implement ethics into the life of society or, in other words, how to “shape” ourselves?” We focus the central role of the value of freedom in the context of contemplations on innovation of the society, innovation in which ethics should play a key role. The value of freedom, as outlined by Sartre,...
Neosporosis is an infection of animals caused by an intracellular coccidian parasite, Neospora caninum, closely related to Toxoplasma gondii. The parasite is one of important abortifacient agents of bovine abortions worldwide. The aim of the study was to detect the prevalence of anti-Neospora antibodies in dairy aborting sheep from two eastern Slovak regions and to compare it with the occurrence of...
The aim of the study was the presentation and evaluation of the results of serological monitoring of ovine epididymitis in Slovakia in 1995-2005. The study was based on the results of serological examinations for Brucella ovis antibodies carried out in 6 veterinary institutes (Bratislava, Nitra, Dolný Kubín, Zvolen, Košice, Prešov, Žilina, and Michalovce. During 1995-2004, the laboratory in Zvolen...
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