The paper focuses on the mutual interaction as well as the impact of the Scottish Enlightenment on the formation of the Enlightenment in Russia during the reign of Catherine the Great. It focuses on the relationship between the work of Adam Smith and Semyon Efimovich Desnitskii, who, thanks to Desnitskii’s studies at the University of Glasgow, got to know each other as teacher and student. The central point of their interaction is the issues of the philosophy of history based on (...) natural-law assumptions and focus on understanding the formation of history, culture, citizenship, and social transformations through morality and law. The paper examines Desnitskii’s ideas on the stages of human coexistence in which Smith’s concept is projected. The paper is not only an attempt to compare these concepts, but it also characterizes Desnitskii’s interest in adapting the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment to Russian reality and needs and using them in the environment of the advancing feudal empire, to which Desnitskii wants to contribute with his work. (shrink)

The monographic section of Con-Textos Kantianos No. 4 entitled Kant in Eastern Europe provides an insight into the work of authors dealing with Kant’s philosophy in Russia and other Eastern European countries.

Kvokačka, A. – Migašová, J.: Súradnice estetiky, umenia a kultúry IV: Študovať estetiku: koncepcie, stratégie a súvislosti štúdia estetiky na Slovensku a v zahraničí. Prešov: Filozofická fakulta PU v Prešove 2019. ISBN 978-80-555-2310-1. 198 s.

Kvokačka, A. – Migašová, J.: Súradnice estetiky, umenia a kultúry IV: Študovať estetiku: koncepcie, stratégie a súvislosti štúdia estetiky na Slovensku a v zahraničí. Prešov: Filozofická fakulta PU v Prešove 2019. ISBN 978-80-555-2310-1. 198 s.

Kvokačka, A. – Migašová, J.: Súradnice estetiky, umenia a kultúry IV: Študovať estetiku: koncepcie, stratégie a súvislosti štúdia estetiky na Slovensku a v zahraničí. Prešov: Filozofická fakulta PU v Prešove 2019. ISBN 978-80-555-2310-1. 198 s.

Kvokačka, A. – Migašová, J.: Súradnice estetiky, umenia a kultúry IV: Študovať estetiku: koncepcie, stratégie a súvislosti štúdia estetiky na Slovensku a v zahraničí. Prešov: Filozofická fakulta PU v Prešove 2019. ISBN 978-80-555-2310-1. 198 s.

Kvokačka, A. – Migašová, J.: Súradnice estetiky, umenia a kultúry IV: Študovať estetiku: koncepcie, stratégie a súvislosti štúdia estetiky na Slovensku a v zahraničí. Prešov: Filozofická fakulta PU v Prešove 2019. ISBN 978-80-555-2310-1. 198 s.

This short paper is a reply to Sanna Lehtinen’s article Living with Urban Everyday Technologies whose aim is to introduce the complexity of the problem of everyday technologies in contemporary aesthetics. Thanks to most recent information, computing, and communication technologies, urban technologies have indeed become an indispensable part of human living standards. In connection with Lehtinen’s primary interest in visible technologies with invisible effects, my reply appeals to W. Welsch’s use of the term anaesthetics, which refers to the absence of (...) the ability to feel, as a parallel to this group of technologies. The reply also emphasises that it is necessary to study urban technologies together with a focus on human privacy, social justice, and human wellbeing and that everyday aesthetics has to be ready to reflect on the extremely fast development of these technologies. (shrink)