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This book is a study in philosophy of religion, which proposes a new inversion model of self-transcendence. It examines the relation between self-transcendence and prosociality in order to broaden our understanding of self-transcendence also as a moral concept.

The text presents nine basic types of the classical philosophical perception of the problem of knowledge: the atomistic and causal theory of perception, Platonism, Aristotle's doctrine, scepticism, rationalism, sensualism, Kant's theory of knowledge, phenomenological-existential, pragmatic, and (post)analytical perceptions of knowledge.

Introduction to Philosophy presents various disciplines of philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, philosophy of mind etc. The second part maps the understanding of history, or the philosophical reflection of history in the history of philosophy.

The text presents boundaries and concepts of the Middle Ages and its philosophical and theological thinking. It follows the selected characters of scholastic tradition from 5th to 13th century: Boethius, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Johannes Scotus Eriugena, Anselm of Canterbury, Peter Abelard, Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas.

This auxiliary textbook discusses and systemises several selected topics of philosophical anthropology. The problem of man is grasped through the specific aspects which essentially characterize human beings (such as rationality, formation of culture, freedom, personality and interpersonality). The text is intended for bachelor students.

This book is an introduction to key issues in philosophical thought of Plato and Aristotle. Therefore it aims to provide prefatory orientation in their complex thought and addresses problems of dialogue, ontological hierarchy, metaphysics, knowledge and practical philosophy.

This book is an introduction to the main representatives of presocratic philosophical thought, namely Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, atomists and sophists. The author sketches main issues concerning problems of being, appearance, perception and mind.