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Tłumaczenie z wydania: Immanuelis Kantii Opera ad philosophiam criticam.Volumen primum cui inest „Critica rationis Purae”, latine vertit F. G. Born, Lipsiae 1796, s. 411-418.
Twenty-first century scholarship is replete with studies on the effect of globalization on indigenous culture in less developed countries. Such studies have accorded the African world ample space because globalization has fostered epochal changes in Africa’s cultural terrain. Though more subtle in recent times, in comparison to the hegemonic tendencies of the colonial past, it has created monumental...
This paper reflected on the need to address the problem of human co-existence and the need for ensuring that political instability is simply addressed. The normative foundation of human democratic society has never been on a solid bedrock due to human frailties. This paper seeks the need to address this human impasse from a more phenomenological and hermeneutical approach by using Habermas’s communicative...
Recenzja książki: Ideologia, teoria, edukacja. Myśl Ericha Fromma jako inspiracja dla pedagogiki współczesnej, Oficyna Wydawnicza „Impuls”, Kraków 2016, s. 329.
That thing, called nothing, is, in the least, something. It is something because everything, indeed, anything has a name; and it doesn’t matter whether what is being referred to is membered (true), or non-membered (false). This means that there actually are two senses of existence: something- ness and no-thing-ness; whether it is some or none, the central being is thing or thing-ness. This could be...
The paper focuses on al-Kindī’s Treatise on definitions - the oldest surviving Arabic glossary of philosophical and scientific terms. Its author presents more than one definition of the term falsafa (philosophy). Does this mean that he was not sure how to explain to his coreligionists what philosophy really is? In this article I aim to focus on the content of all six definitions of philosophy presented...
Violence exists in every facet of life and it is amazing that it is found in the Holy Bible. Also, in every ethnic group, violence is seen. The results produced by biblical and ethnic violence in Nigeria are very enormous. It is discovered that violence leads to death, displacement, restricts movements amongst people in contest. This research addressed several arguments for and against violence, violence...
This study is an epistemological investigation into death state and some ways people are put to death in error due to misunderstanding of actual state of death. The study probes in philosophic mannerism into existing conditions under which people are certified dead and into understanding when someone is actually dead. It holds that there are no univocal conceptions about these conditions since their...
This paper deals with critical analysis of western hedonism in the light of Indian theory of peace. Indian Philosophers have made ‘peace’ the goal of worldly human life, which is keeping equidistance from pleasure and pain. Attachment is the reason behind the presence of these two ‘sovereign masters’ of Human life. External thing or any other human being is not capable of indulging us either of them;...
We do not understand the movement that we experience continually. On the other hand, we understand constancy that we cannot experience. In my opinion, it is a prime reason for apparent and unsolvable philosophical problems. Language cannot describe empirical experience adequately. This gap between rational thinking and sensual data can be bridged with the help of metaphor.
The paper is an attempt to show the specificity of human knowledge and also its insufficiency when contrasted with the feeling that we still know very little or almost nothing. The presented problem is discussed from the perspective of hermeneutics. According to the view of Socrates, only by being true to themselves can humans know their nature and actually their insignificance to the universe. Theologians...
Concepts of reality in the political philosophy of conservatism were defined in opposition to philosophical movements of Enlightenment and liberal social movements of XVII and XVIII century. Those ideas were anti-rational and anti-individualistic, they sought their very foundation in the lack of physical and intellectual self-sufficiency of a human being. The concepts of the social contract, the material...
Masaryk is primarily known as the first president of Czechoslovakia. While completely concealed his activity as a philosopher. In the article I would like to present his scientific work as philosopher and sociologist. Interesting especially here is a phenomenological concept of ethics, which scratch Masaryk is looking for in the philosophy of Hume. He believes that the ethics has to rely on inductive...
The article addresses the problem of possible rights for superintelligent systems by using a distinction between moral dimension and rational dimension in human beings and proposing to endow artificial systems only with rational dimension.
The article focuses on the non-places – areas occurring in the real and virtual worlds. In the case of non-places itself the significance of the place disappears in the motion of travelers. Nowadays, the migration of people, objects and information has reached historical akme. It is related to the change of the paradigm. As long as the twentieth century manifested itself – in philosophy, literaturę,...
The topic of presentation is life and teachings of three less known, but important, modern mystics: Russian Sufi Irina Tweedie (1907-1999), and two non-confessional mystics: Indian U.G. Krishnamurti (1918-2007), and Romanian Ilie Cioara (1916-2004). It shows that method of permanent, silent contemplation, being non-sectarian, is essence of spiritual life. It gives lively alternative for both religious...
The article “In Your Synthesis the Signal Condenses:” The Plastic Poetics of the Contemporary Organic Poem” examines contemporary poets’ revisionary engagements with the concept of the organic form. For the analysis I have chosen Adam Dickinson’s Polymers (2013) and Kacper Bartczak’s Wiersze organiczne [Organic poems] (2015) – the two recent innovative volumes of poetry which approach the notion of...
According to Stanley Cavell, in Shakespeare’s Othello Desdemona plays a similar role to that of God in Descartes famous skeptical thought experiment. For Descartes, God is a guarantee of the existence of the external world including the body of thinking subject himself. The subject looks for a reference point in the world but does not find it, only God can be such a point of reference. Othello is...
The aim of this article was the reconstruction and critical analysis of the concept of religion, faith and theology that can be extracted from selected works of Bochenski, coming mainly from an analytical period of his activity. Religion is a complex phenomenon for Bochenski. There are the pre-analytical (relation to the Absolute, the virtue of justice, or the form of answers to existential questions)...
The article attempts to present a project of Martin Heidegger’s other philosophy, which he presented in his book "Contributions to Philosophy". Heidegger proposes a return to true philosophy in which revealed Being itself. According to Heidegger, Being is the basis and the beginning of everything, but in the history of philosophy being was shrouded by entity, that is, since Plato's time...
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