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This article presents biographical writings as the oldest type of historical writing and draws attention to its enormous role in understanding the entire humanities. It shows the unmistakable influence of this doctrine as a source of news for understanding contemporary Europe as well as distant history and biographies of various persons who may become role models for many contemporary European leaders.
In the article entitled ‘On Lem’s humanism’, the author in a synthetic way presents consideration to the following aspects of Stanislaw Lem’s oeuvre: artificial intelligence versus ethics, God, evolution versus moral philosophy, culture (civilization) and Reason. The text of this article was delivered at a conference ‘Horizons of the Imagination’ in march 2007 (one year of Stanislaw Lem’s death)....
In this article ‘Lem and Goethe’, the author compares the figure of Stanislaw Lem to J.W. Goethe, whereas Lem’s oeuvre to ‘Faust’. There are two reasons for such a comparison. First, the scope of subjects raised by the Polish writer is perhaps even wider than the German one’s. The second thing is their great insight into these subjects. When Lem and Goethe are compared, it should be noticed that both...
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