The paper deals with the issue of the nature of mathematical objects. The author discusses them in the perspective of intuition (as derived from Kant). The main issue consists in the presentation of these objects to human mind.
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A brief critique of the notion of sensorium (introduced to philosophy mainly by Newton) is presented. It is proved, that sources of that notion may be traced back in Descartes' philosophy, particularly in concept of knowledge of the subject's corporeality.
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The authoress presents an extraordinary critique of contemporary social relationships. This critique is based on mystical, philosophical (particularly on the idea of Anthropos), and literary premises.
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The author presents a criticism of the laws of metaphysics as were presented by Immanuel Kant in the so-called pre-critical phase of his activity. According to Kant, these laws constitute the so-called God's arrangement of the world.
The paper begins with some fundamental principles of philosophy of man and theory of values in the works of Karol Wojtyla. On this background the social philosophy of John Paul II has been analysed, as it was developed in four encyclicas: 'Redemptor hominis', 'Laborem exercens', 'Sollicitudo rei socialis' and 'Centesimus annus'.
The aim of the paper is to call attention to the opposition inherent in Hannah Arendt's work, and to demonstrate the relevance of the opposition for modern culture, education and pedagogical thought. Following Arendt, the authoress emphasizes on the constitutive colognes of human existence, life and the world, and traces the history of their complex relationship. Its history began at the end of antiquity, turning multifarious in the modern era having changed its character completely by now. The paper is concluded with a reference to the crisis of culture, due to the privileged status of life at the price of worldliness. Obviously, the crisis has also affected education. It turns out, however, that the education, specifically understood, may be not only subject to the crisis but also a chance for its overcoming.
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In the paper, the categories of aspect are discussed and two kinds of philosophical stance towards it are pointed out. Then criticism of them is performed in relationship to contemporary cognitive science.
The paper deals with Horkheimer’s view on the relation between philosophy and the sciences. It also presents his ideas concerning the aims of study as well as discusses his account of authentic education. These problems are addressed not abstractly, but in the context of Horkeimer’s social and historiosophic diagnosis and prognosis. Moreover, the authoress shows the difference between the results of the Critical Theory and the conceptions grounded in tradition. The main thesis of the paper manifests itself in statement that Horkheimer’s remedy for the crisis of the European culture is the philosophical self-reflection; in other words, he postulates the primacy of philosophy in respect to sciences, that is, wisdom in respect to knowledge.
The author discusses the problem of evil defined by Paul Ricoeur, Jean Nabert and Gabriel Marcel as the basic aspect of human existence. The aim of the article is to analyse the writers' definitions of evil, its origins, how it is possible, ways of reacting on evil and dealing with it. The author compares the viewpoints present in the works of the philosophers under discussion. Paul Ricoeur, the representative of existential phenomenology and hermeneutics, combines philosophical antropology and the analysis of human activity with the problem of human possibilities and weaknesses. He saw evil as the manifestation and result of an individual's freedom. Gabriel Marcel, philosopher and playwright, did an phenomenological analysis of an individual set against today's mass world with evil as one of its components. Jean Nabert, the representative of reflective philosophy, discussed human consciousness, especially an individual's negative experiences, sin and absolute evil. The three standpoints seem to make up one concept, as all of the writers understand an individual as the victim or cause of evil.
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Introducing the issue of the beginnings of life into the realm of scientific research posed a danger to 'valid' structures of knowledge (in particular, to the separation of philosophy and the sciences). For a couple of tens of years, (some) scientists have paid for dealing with this issue with ignoring the 'touchy' problem of its 'extra-scientific' groundings. This strategy proved to be erroneous. Similarly, the attempts at summarizing the whole discipline as one theory (although under different names) with the model of 'Darwin's small pond' (the model, as is shown, has been in many accounts substantially modified) are invalid. In the discipline, there is something common, and it is statement philosophical in character: that the life is an emergent feature of matter.
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This article deals with the issue of the spiritual roots of National Socialism in Germany. Coinciding with the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the study examines some views of Polish scholars Leon Halban and Bogdan Suchodolski, who authored several publications on this subject. Professor Leon Halban (whose works include 'Religia w Trzeciej Rzeszy' (Religion in the Third Reich), 1936; 'Problem kultury niemieckiej' (The Problem of German Culture), 1946; 'Religia starogermanska i jej aktualne znaczenie w Niemczech' (The Old German Religion and Its Current Significance in Germany), 1949), believed that the course of events in Germany was determined by a transformation of religious life in that country, which was connected with a crises within Christianity there. Professor Bogdan Suchodolski (author of 'Dusza niemiecka w swietle filozofii' (German Soul in the Light of Philosophy), 1945 and 1947) condemned all of German culture, which he evaluated through the prism of the philosophy of the German nation. In the opinion of the present author, the research undertaken by both scholars demands further investigation, as some of the issues which they discussed are still today of significance.
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In this article, the author ponders about an absence of treatises on God's attributes in modern monographs about God trinus and unus. The unquestionable importance of this area of theological reflection is connected with several problems that the author tries to solve for the present time. Firstly, it is necessary to prefer the way of negative theology, and we should be aware of God always transcending the being we think. The intellectual cipher in this world of the mystery of the living God is a paradoxicalness that we do not have to be afraid of. Secondly, we need to connect ontological utterances with the history of salvation, which is possible if we see them on the basis of the structures of systematic Christology as a point of the drama of revelation and salvation. The new ontotheology must not be used as something that precedes the experience of faith, but as a moment of intelligibility of mystery implicit to faith. As a consequence of it, the new ontotheology will be implicit, not only to faith and historicity, but also to spirituality. On the basis of confrontation with the biblical faith, the author traces a paradoxical polarisation necessity/freedom, which allows him to enter the area of Trinitarian ontology, as the immanent Trinity asserts a perfect mutual penetration of freedom and necessity: God is such as He wants to be, and He wants to be as He is. The given solutions have their importance mostly for the methodological field, and several given proposals call for a subsequent study, where the traced principles will be applied together with the principle of paradoxicalness in the presentation of individual attributes of God trinus and unus.
The dominate theme of the article is the motif of death in literature for children and youth. The goal is to present the existence of physical dimension in understanding of literary work as self living connected with the meaning of death in our lives and existence of death in literary works. Interconnection of these aspects, confrontation of body and its death in spiritual and physical way bring many questions and interesting themes which go into wild spectral areas. The contribution contains basic knowledge from theological, mythological, philosophic, literature and pedagogic aspect. I paid attention to historical determination of the problem and its interconnection with present literature. I connected this gained knowledge with practical research in elementary and preschool institutions. I based our research on a fairy-tale by Hans Christian Andersen — The little match seller. Death is a frequent motif in author’s fairy-tales and as fairy-tales are close to child’s understanding, this form of death education is the most suitable for them, at the same time it is important to make provision for recipient’s age to whom we offer this literature.
The author discusses philosophical context of arts on the example of natural sign and painting, underlying the fact that today, when aesthetics is a well grounded philosophical discipline, one tends to forget that before this discipline emerged in an explicit way, intersections between visual arts and philosophy had been rare.
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Metaphysics and Ethics as natural dispositions of the human being are - in a mutually opposite way - the expression of the transcendentality of human spirit. The transcendentality is, as such, not comprehendible by our conceptions. It can be demonstrated as unavoidable only by an indirect and negative argument, in that it is necessarily presupposed in each attempt of contesting it. But from this argument cannot be deducted any content of Metaphysics and Ethics. When we attempt a positive argument by the reflection of self-awareness or by the necessity of self-assertion, we fall in an endless regress. According to Kant, Ethics is grounded in the 'pure fact of reason'. But any fact itself requires a ground. Metaphysics cannot yield this ground, according to Hume's 'razor'. On the other hand, Metaphysics cannot be founded in Ethics, as Levinas thinks, for the relation to the 'face' of an Other has no theoretical evidence. Ethics as universally obligatory is nevertheless bounded on the principle of non-contradiction of thinking, and the principle of non-contradiction can be justified only by the ethical duty to participate in the dialogue concerning the existence of truth. This mutual necessity refers to the mutual foundation of Metaphysics and Ethics. In this mutual foundation of the unconditioned principles there is the 'utopian place' of the absolute truth of Metaphysics and the absolute validity of Ethics.
Movements never emerge spontaneously; rather, they are formed cautiously, framed artistically, faceted systemically, bred by the curious brains constantly and patronized with the powerful determination perpetually. The momentum of the movements depends upon the devotional vigour of their mobilizers, the intellectual fertility of their founders and their appeal to the followers. Judging on that criteria, a study is being carried out with the aim of enlightening the readers and researchers with the factors of vitality that gave a spur to the nourishment of transcendentalism that saw its adolescence on the Fruit lands of New England during the early years of nineteenth century and in the years to come transformed into a global movement.
To what extent could the limits of imagination be of help in elucidating our relationship to the sense of our experience? Is it the imagination that produces the sense of our living, or does it have some another function that comes into play with the sense? To what extent the imaginable and the meaningful overlap and what are the consequences of this overlapping? If the sense of experience is produced by imagination, the unimaginable then has to be understood as a sheer experience of the absence of sense, as its momentary crisis or interruption. However, if the relationship between the sense and experience is of another sort, the investigation of the limits of imagination could unveil the nature of sense. We try to find the answers to these questions, which would be informed by the analyses of the aesthetic theories inspired by social philosophy and phenomenology.
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The aim of the paper is to clarify the interdisciplinary and methodological nature of the relationship between philosophy and the digital humanities. The examination process consists of an analysis of five modes of engagement of IT and humanities elaborated by Svensson and of their specifications in terms of digital research in philosophy. Firstly, we introduce the issue of digital humanities and their definitions; then we define Svensson’s modes of engagement of IT and humanities (IT as a tool, study object, expressive medium, experimental laboratory, activist venue); and we exemplify each of them with digital philosophical projects and their methodological assumptions (the first mode is analysed in detail). The intention is to offer a systematic overview of the relationship between philosophy and the digital humanities.
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Saint Gregory Palamas belonged among the greatest fathers of Eastern Church of the 14th century. His intellectual and spiritual potential was cultivated already when he was a student, as he received elaborate education in Constantinople. The intense use of philosophers, among whom Aristotle and Plato were mostly used, and of classical writers, mostly Homer, Sophocles etc., in the writings of Palamas comes as no surprise. In this study, we present an outline of Saint Gregory’s classical education with indicative examples drawn from his writings. Through these examples we aim to analyse Palama’s method of development and promotion of the national literature ideals to the extent that it led to the definition of true faith, to the knowledge of God and human salvation.
This article is an attempt to answer the question 'how the teaching theory can benefit from such disciplines as cognitivistics and epistemology?' These two disciplines provide interesting answers to the following questions: 'what is the process of cognition?' and 'what is causality and intentionalism?' Theory of teaching can introduce to its range of interest these categories on the basis of cognition research. It would be an important thread improving our understanding of the process of learning and building knowledge.
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