The book focuses on European Integration in the Field of Higher Education and Research, as well as the Implementation of the Bologna Process in Slovenia. The common policy of higher education and research belongs to the most important fields in the process of European integration and to the constitutive elements of the European Union. The authors analyse the process constituting the framework of higher education and research policy in Poland and Slovenia. The book analyses the political process of transformation within these two member states of the EU and exemplifies their plurality and specificity which are integrated in the genuine European idea of education, science and the research community.

Confronted with the accelerated development of science and technology the presented analyses are focusing on three predominant theoretical approaches in the philosophy of science and technology: technoscience (STS), technology assessment (TA) and converging technologies (NBIC). On this base are extrapolated the coordinates of the heuristics of technosciences which are recognized as the platform of understanding but also dealing with technoscientific innovations. This concerns especially nanotechnology and the emerging theoretical, methodological, ethical, socio-political controversies and dilemmas. In this manner the book epitomizes the elaborated to date approaches and designs the heuristic turn as the strategy of comprehensive understanding of technosciences.

This book is presented by two authors who worked in close cooperation. The first part is written by Ewa Binczyk and discusses various postulates that have been formulated in response to the problem of the unwanted side-effects of the practical success of technoscience which derive from two theoretical perspectives: the study of risk and science and technology studies (STS), inspired by actor-network theory (ANT). In the second part of the book Tomasz Stepien analyses and characterizes the nano-domain as an example of the development of techno-sciences. Generally, in the case of nanotechnology this book calibrates reciprocally to each other the indeed familiar but also slightly different theoretical approaches established in the philosophy of science and technology.

What can man know about God? This question became one of the main problems during the 4th-century Trinitarian controversy, which is the focus of this book. Especially during the second phase of the conflict, the claims of Anomean Eunomius caused an emphatic response of Orthodox writers, mainly Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nyssa. Eunomius formulated two ways of theology to show that we can know both the substance (ousia) and activities (energeiai) of God. The Orthodox Fathers demonstrated that we can know only the external activities of God, while the essence is entirely incomprehensible. Therefore the 4th-century discussion on whether the Father and the Son are of the same substance was the turning point in the development of negative theology and shaping the Christian conception of God.

Die Frage nach der politischen Verfassung der Gesellschaft als Leitmotiv der politischen Theorie gehoert neben Kulturwissenschaft und Philosophie zu den Hauptthemen im Gesamtwerk von Anton Hilckman. Den Hintergrund dafur bilden die dramatischen Ereignisse in Deutschland und Europa des 20. Jahrhunderts. Anton Hilckman als politisch engagierter Zeitzeuge nahm direkt an diesen Auseinandersetzungen teil. In diesem Zusammenhang entwickelt er die Theorie des politischen Foederalismus als eine Alternative fur Deutschland und Europa gegenuber den totalitaren Ideologien des Kommunismus und Nationalsozialismus, die er als die eigentlichen politischen Pseudo-Religionen herausstellt. Gleichzeitig pladiert er fur eine politische Bildung der Burgergesellschaft als Grundlage politischer Mundigkeit.

Inwiefern koennen wir von einer christlichen Philosophie und Bildung, Kultur und Politik sprechen? Diese grundlegende Frage bildet den eigentlichen Ausgangspunkt der philosophischen Reflexion von Anton Hilckman. Den Hintergrund der Auseinandersetzung um die Philosophie und das Christentum macht die geistige und politische Situation in Europa, insbesondere in Deutschland und Italien der Zwischenkriegszeit, aus. Hilckman zeichnet in seinen Schriften ein spannungsvolles Bild des damaligen philosophischen Diskurses, der zwischen der thomistischen Neuscholastik und dem Neuidealismus italienischer Pragung oszillierte und direkt Einfluss auf die gesellschaftlichen und politischen Ereignisse hatte und gleichzeitig die Aktualitat fur die gegenwartigen Probleme der Gesellschaft und Kultur bewahrt.