Reflections of European philosophy in the philosophy taught at the Evangelical College in Presov in the 17th century

The contribution examines the reflections of European philosophy at Presov Evangelical college in the 17th century. In the author's view there were th ree dominant philosophical conceptions in the 17th century: Bayer's baconis m, Caban's atomism and Ladiver's evangelical aristotelism. The different wa ys of assimilating the European philosophy (especially that of Aristotle, B acon, Descartes and Gassendi) provoked continual tension and conflicts. A s pecial attention is paid to the conflict between Ladiver and Caban, concern ing the existence of atoms, to Bayer's reception of Bacon's teaching on the ideals and to the approaches of all the above mentioned professors at Pres ov Evangelical college to logic or to Aristotle's metaphysics. The works by J. Bayer, I. Caban and E. Ladiver are characterized by the author as a dom inant component of the most important traditions or philosophical thinking in Slovakia.