I am glad that I can contribute to the commemoration of professor Lubomir Novy and I appreciate that I had the chance to be one of his many students. Lubomir Novy was, together with his other colleagues, able to create a very friendly environment for us students. He stood out with his dynamism. His exams were not easy, because it was always a lesson in creating questions and searching for answers. I think that this "creating questions and searching for answers" was his lifelong attitude. Thanks to this, he was one of the main personalities of philosophical thought in this country in the sixties. He remained creative even in the nineties when he returned to his profession after an enforced break.

This paper was written on the occasion of Lubomír Nový's jubilee and introduces him as a member of the Faculty of Arts of the Masaryk (J. E. Purkyně) University, where he participated in informal interdisciplinary discussions on social and scientific topics in the 1960s. We follow him then during the renewal process in the end of the 60s and in the following period of so called normalisation, when he was forced to deal with rather sociological topics. Finally, we bring some remarks about his monographs.

Nový's book Philosopher T G. Masaryk (1994) has three layers, which naturally contact and merge: Firstly, Nový reviews existing literature on TGM with an emphasis on the most recent contributions. Secondly, he attempts to arrange and systematize Masaryk's work, map its internal logic and classify it in European context (Brentano, Husserl). Finally, he asks and answers questions that can be, in a narrower sense of the words, called problematic and topical. Nový shows how Masaryk's thought helps to revive the question of the meaning and order of our endeavour and creativity.

First, I have to mention a medallion of Josef Zumr for Luboš's sixtieth birthday, published Filosofický časopis in 1995, as a proof that our former head of the department was respected not only by philosophers from Brno. Luboš was born in the same year as me, but managed to finish his secondary school studies one year earlier. So it happened that in 1950 I met him at the Faculty of Arts as an assistant professor (in his lecture on ethics); and he met me as one of his first philosophy students. Since we worked at the same department since, and we were meeting not only as colleagues, but also as friends outside the university. What remains unforgettable are for instance our tours to the Slovak cottage to visit Pavel Pácl where I was fortifying my knowledge of how naturally Lubos could be an excellent companion in such an environment (not just during card games, but even when we tried to contribute to the maintenance of Pavel's cottage and its preparation for the winter). I tried to say a few words about Luboš's relation to the family to which he was born, to his own family, to his native region, and indeed about Luboš as a teacher who was popular and esteemed among all students. Unfortunately, it had to come eventually to the words of admiration for his valiant struggle with a disease that eventually succumbed

What is being analyzed and subsequently interpreted in our study, is Simone de Beauvoir's conception of freedom and its bodily determination. Because we are using Beauvoir's first novel, She Came to Stay (ĽInvitée), where her first conceptualization of these fenomenons can be found. Although this novel is strongly based on dialogues between three main characters, we are convinced, that it is precisely their dialogue, what allows specificity of Beauvoir's conceptions. Therefore, by interpreting some of these dialogues we are trying to make clear, where according to Beauvoir freedom begins and how it is being limited.

Professor of philosophy and psychology, native Slovenian, Mihajlo Rostohar (1878-1966) is known primarily as the founder of the Institute of Psychology at Masaryk University in Brno and as the founder of the holistic and experimental psychological school in Brno. Less frequently it has been remembered that in the years 1923-1926 he was the head of the Seminar of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University and that his transition from Charles University, where he received a habilitation in philosophy in 1911, to Brno was also influenced by the fact that he was considered as Otakar Zich's successor in the leadership of the Seminar of Philosophy (he lectured psychology, sometimes epistemology there until 1939). This article focuses on philosophical topics, mostly connected with his conception of psychology, through which he had disputes with the positivist oriented Frantisek Krejčí. The author's attention is focused on, besides Rostohar's opinion on religion, his psychological analyses of the process of cognition, the individual sensory and rational elements (Rostohar was awarded by his habilitation degree with the work on hypothetical judgments), the role of language in thinking, and not least the responsibility of researchers for their opinions, which they present to the public. The final part, which discuss Rostohar's (still up to date) book Nationality and its moral significance, recalls Rostohar's rich; public, social and educational activities.

The aim of the paper is rethinking the activity of one of the most famous ancient women philosophers, Hipparchia of Maroneia and showing why she – compared to other women of Antiquity – became so significant in development of women’s emancipation. The main testimony for us is the fragment SSR V I 1 by Diogenes Laertius, which we put in context with other ancient reports concerning Antisthenes and early Cynics. The two main themes of Diogenes’ testimony are Crates’ “marriage” to Hipparchia, and the controversy of Hipparchia with Theodorus. We reveal the aspect of Hipparchia’s personality, which could be inspiring for modern era, as well.

The paper presents Čapek’s conception of truth from the point of view of philosophy and standard epistemology. Based on Čapek’s theoretical and artistic texts, the paper tries to find an answer to the question “what is truth” and subordinate it to the correspondence theory of truth.