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The question which we want to find the answer for is: what caused that F. Dostoyevsky was considered a philosopher and his novels were acknowledged as expressing his philosophical views? This is possible by finding in his writings typically philosophical content which includes metaphysical, epistemological and axiological issues; with paying attention to historical specificity of Russian philosophy,...
The commencement of a reflection on the nature and genealogy of the discussion on the crisis of civilization which took place in the Polish school of philosophy should be preceded by a few remarks. Firstly, Polish scholars who wrote about the crisis of civilization were fully independent as regards their ideas. Their voices were not only repetitions of the considerations undertaken in the circles...
Cassirer thought that religion is one of the main fundamental rule of a human society and cultural order, mainly because it is able to guarantee moral laws being the main grounds of our civilization. But religion could not have been existed if it had not been preceded by mythical thinking. The myth is a real condition of religion. Religious interpretation is permeated by mythical metaphors, but the...
In this paper I write about two counterculture utopias: the vision contained in the songs of Lennon's Imagine and an extremely extensive synthesis Jeremy Rifkin, in which mirror neurons and – based on them – empathy play a leading role. I start with a presentation and a comparative analysis of these utopias. The first can be seen as a version of "mini", other than as a version of "maxi"...
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)...
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