e-Pedagogium, 2003 (vol. 3), Suppl. 2
Předmluva
Petr Zima, Dušan Špiner
e-Pedagogium 2003, 3(89):3-4 
The Ideals of Calocagathia
Jarmila Riegerová
e-Pedagogium 2003, 3(89):5-8
The author of this contribution depicts the current state of man's living out in which the imbalance between his spirituality and corporeity reflecting in his overall health figures. The author describes the biological consequences of stress situations climaxing in lashing of the organism into an action and the following sinister reaction the compensation of which is not easy for the contemporary man at all. The importance of this contribution consists in the indication of the inevitability of keeping a joyful and harmonizing life of motional activity releasing the dynamics of spirit.
Everydayness is the story of our values
Peter Križan
e-Pedagogium 2003, 3(89):9-13
In this contribution, the author depicts the man's position in the society, pointing out his participation in creating and survival of values making it more worthful.The author says that the evolution of values not only can be, but actually is an everyday experience of common human stories leading to the change of thinking and value composition of our personality.The contribution is a challenge to surpassing of self leading to the victory of dauntless life forming a barrierless world.
The Enlightenment - a crisis, but also a challenge
Imrich Sklenka
e-Pedagogium 2003, 3(89):14-23
The paper titled "The Enlightenment - a crisis, but also a challenge" is a remarkable contribution in which its author points out the recomprehension of the idea representing the Enlightenment that emphasizes the man's emancipation from the firmly stated structures and traditions. At the same time the author searches for a dignified solution of the crisis caused partly by a one-sided fixation on the scientific and technological rationality as well as by the descent of the civil society based on the freedom and the cognition of spirit.The solution of this crisis is outlined in the realization of the possibility of understanding of self by the means...
Bleak Culture
Dušan Špiner
e-Pedagogium 2003, 3(89):24-30
In his contribution "Bleak Culture" the author discusses the predominating imbalance the today's modern man full of prejudices who cannot listen to the symphony of life due to his wrongly gained programming. He points out the idea that a free and universal culture is effaced by the governing and politicized bourgeois culture that wrings the man and does not let him grow freely on behalf of the "social welfare". He finds a solution in the recognition and demystification of the "ostensible" culture - but this must be preceded by ceasing, contemplating and listening to the conscience that will allow extricating from the bleak dirt and creating a life...
From the loss of meaning and orientation to the "bricolage of religion"
Jitka Skopalová
e-Pedagogium 2003, 3(89):31-38
In her contribution, the author points out the necessity of the man's right orientation when searching for the answers to the questions about the meaning of his life.She emphasize the absurdity of variously created interpretative models prompted as the only possible and, above all, prepared answer to his essential questions.She finds the solution in comprehending the situations which man faces every day, in which he participates and in which he finally discovers his role, and thus creates the space exposing the spiritual value carrying the life respecting freedom.
A Discursus with Albert Schweitzer
Dušan Špiner
e-Pedagogium 2003, 3(89):39-42
The source of this discursus is the philosophical work "Culture and Ethic" by Albert Schweitzer. The author of the discursus asks this work a question related to the essence of the ethical culture; the circumstances hobbling the development of this culture; he asks about the way of its regeneration, proceeding from the general and basic moral principles of ethic up to the issue of realization of these principles through the man's spirit. The answer to all these questions is searched for in the work "Culture and Ethic" what climaxes by Albert Schweitzer's reference to the meaning of life, understanding that is able to define and realize the ideal of...