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In this article the author argues that Nietzsche?s critique of morality is
based on his metaphysics in which the notion of will to power conceived in
the spirit of the Greek concept of physis plays a key role. He demonstrates
that the revaluation of all values as overcoming of Platonist-Christian
nihilism is aimed at the affirmation of ?living in accordance with nature?,
whereby nature is understood just as physis. He also shows why, for
Nietzsche, pretension to universality and objectivity of the dominant value
system is not justified. Finally, the author points to the difficulties of
Nietzsche?s (inverse) Platonism and concludes that the failure of modernity
to justify morality imposes the task of examining the possibilities of
rehabilitation of Aristotle?s practical philosophy.

In the article the author considers the relevance of intercultural
understanding in the age of globalization and points out the role which
Gadamer?s hermeneutics plays in this context. First, the author presents the
main characteristics of globalization, taking into account Giddens?
understanding of the contemporary epoch as a radicalization of modernity and
Heidegger?s interpretation of the contemporary era as the ending of
metaphysics as nihilism. The author emphasizes that the question about
conditions of possibility of intercultural understanding becomes an important
question of philosophy in the situation of intensification of cross-cultural
encounters. Then he argues that Gadamer?s philosophical hermeneutics,
especially its conception of effective-historical consciousness, provides an
acceptable ground for explanation of possibility of cross-cultural dialogue.
As the author concludes, the importance of the ethics of finality is affirmed
in that way by hermeneutics in the contemporary world.

In this paper, author deals with Heidegger's account of the modern age as the epoch based on Western metaphysics. In the first part of the paper, he shows that, according to Heidegger, modern interpretation of the reality as the world picture, is essentially determined by Descartes' philosophy. Then, author exposes Heidegger's interpretation of the turn which already took place in Plato's metaphysics and which made possible Descartes' metaphysics and modern epoch. In the second part of the paper, author explores Heidegger's interpretation of science and technology as shoots of very metaphysics. Heidegger emphasizes that the essence of technology corresponds to the essence of subjectivity and shows how the metaphysics of subjectivity subsequently finds its end in Nietzsche's metaphysics of the will to power, as the last word of Western philosophy. In the concluding part, author argues that the contemporary processes of globalization can be just understood as processes of completion of metaphysics. They can be identified as a global rule of the essence of technology. On the basis of Heidegger's vision of overcoming metaphysics, author concludes that it opens the possibility of a philosophy of finitude which points to dialogue with the Other as a way of resolving the key practical issues of the contemporary world.