The research programme comprised the following fields: the history of philosophy, phenomenology, systematic philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and philosophical anthropology. The research focused on five topics: ancient Greek philosophy, hermeneutics, phenomenology, the philosophy of religion, and aesthetics. Researchers from all these fields participated in international scholars' meetings, testing their conclusions at a number of philosophical colloquia and symposia. In the field of Greek philosophy, the following themes were presented: Plato's issue of Being as the starting point of Heidegger's work Being and Time, the beginnings of Greek philosophy, the aesthetic in Platonism and today, Plato's theory of logos, and philosophical hermeneutics. Plato's philosophy was examined primarily in regard to his theory of science, cosmology, his theory of Being, and his political philosophy, with an emphasis on the idea of justice. Aristotle's philosophy was examined in the following aspects: the aesthetics of music, the theory of truth in the light of the relationship between physics and metaphysics, and the theories of the imagination and of the practical mind. His metaphysics and rhetoric were presented from a new perspective, taking into particular consideration the relationship between rhetoric, ethics, and "first philosophy". Research on modern philosophy has yielded widely acclaimed contributions about Malebranche's, La Mettrie's, and Bentham's theories of the world and man. Of particular importance is the monograph An Utterly Dark Spot: Gaze and Body in Early Modern Philosophy (2000). Research on hermeneutics and phenomenology evaluated the hermeneutic breakthrough in 20th century philosophy, which has proved valuable chiefly in examining the historical determination of human communication. Another line of research addressed the philosophical aspects of the concept of Europeanhood, introducing some new aspects of the philosophy of culture. With its phenomenological research, Slovene philosophy has won recognition at the European level. Research on phenomenology and the philosophy of religion has yielded three monographs. The monograph The Gospel According to Nietzsche (2002) offers a modern discussion on several issues: the problem of atheism in philosophy; theory and revelation; the onto-theological structure of metaphysics; and personal religious faith. The monograph Controlling the World and a World Ethos describes the philosophical premises of the contemporary worldwide process of globalisation, addressing the relationship between the divine and sacred. It examines how man's attitude to the sacredness of life today helps to shape the concept of his dignity, basic rights and obligations. The monograph The Gift of Being examines the fundamental determinants of European historical existence from the perspective of the latest discussions in contemporary philosophy, theology, ethics, and social sciences. Systematic philosophy has produced important researches on the 20th century relationship between metaphysics, religion, and world views from the perspective of neo-Kantian philosophy, which used to dominate the Slovene schools of thought. Research on anthropology has combined anthropological and ethical problems, producing the monograph Homo Diaphoricus - An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology (2000), which presents Plessner's anthropological criticism of traditional metaphysics. Research on aesthetics has yielded new insights into the relationship of art to the state, shed new light on the vocation of art in a globalised world, and used an innovative approach in presenting the complex relationship between art, ethics, and politics.