Autonomy of science and art is an ideal of every civilized society. The distance between a certain society and this ideal depends on a large number of parameters, among which cultural enlightenment and consciousness of the main protagonists in realization of these two areas seem to be most important. Unfortunately, Serbia cannot boast with a high level of independency of creative processes. Nowadays, in formal sense, they enjoy a higher level of autonomy in terms of the state ideology; however, at the same time, they are essentially and basically restricted by it. The very notion of autonomy here is related to financial and, more than this, to ideological independence of free and creative thought, that is to the question to which extent scientific creativity manage to transcend current cultural-historical-social context and to find universal regularities of human civilization in it. Intensity of social changes and postmodern market ideologies are reflected both at official scientific policy and at internal determination of context and concept of ethnological/anthropological researching which quite often become trapped in the shallow of topicality.
A systematical exposition of the concept of number cannot be found in Aquinas’ works. Nevertheless, there are many places where the problem is touched. The problem is encountered on the one hand within the discussion of the category of quantity and on the other hand when Aquinas speaks about transcendental concepts and deals with the problem of numerical statements concerning God. The aim of the paper is to reconstruct, on the basis of Aquinas more or less fragmentary ideas, his concept of number., Systematický výklad pojmu čísla nelze nalézt v dílech Akvinů. Existuje však mnoho míst, kde se problém dotýká. Problém se objevuje na jedné straně v rámci diskuse o kategorii kvantity a na druhé straně, když Aquinas hovoří o transcendentálních pojmech a zabývá se problémem číselných tvrzení o Bohu. Cílem příspěvku je rekonstruovat na základě Akvinů více či méně fragmentární myšlenky, jeho koncept čísla., and David Svoboda , Prokop Sousedík