Morality of the Past from the Present Perspective

Picture of Morality in Slovakia in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Edited By: Vasil Gluchman

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This monograph explores morality in Slovakia during the first half of the 20th century. Set in its unique socio-political context, it examines the era's key philosophical, ethical, and professional aspects, and the reflection of morality in Slovak literature.

The monograph is divided into four parts. The work starts with Preface in which Vasil Gluchman presents socio-political, socio-cultural and ideological context of the first…

The monograph is divided into four parts. The work starts with Preface in which Vasil Gluchman presents socio-political, socio-cultural and ideological context of the first half of the twentieth century and the situation in Slovakia (and Central Europe) in this historical period, placing this monograph and the works of individual contributors into the context of the given era. The first part deals with philosophical and ethical issues arising from the examination of morality at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. This part creates the methodological starting point for the examinations presented in the next three parts of the monograph. The second part focuses on the development of philosophical and ethical reflection of morality in Slovakia in the given era. The third part examines socio-political and professional-ethical aspects of the development and functioning of morality in Slovakia in the first half of the 20th century. Reflections of morality in Slovakia in the Slovak literature of the first half of the 20th century are the object of interest in the fourth part of the monograph.

Vasil Gluchman is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics at the Institute of Philosophy and Ethics, Faculty of Arts, Prešov University in Prešov (Slovakia). He is the author of Human Being and Morality in Ethics of Social Consequences (2003), Slovak Lutheran Social Ethics (1997), Etika sociálnych dôsledkov v kontexte jej kritiky [Ethics of Social Consequences in Context of its Critique] (1999), Človek a morálka [Man and Morality] (1997), Etika sociálnych dôsledkov a jej kontexty [Ethics of Social Consequences and its Contexts] (1996), Etika konzekvencializmu [Consequentialist Ethics] (1995).