JEŚĆ CZY NIE JEŚĆ? PYTANIE NASZYCH CZASÓW
TO EAT OR NOT TO EAT? THE QUESTION OF OUR TIMES

Summary/Abstract: “To be or not to be – that is the question,” said Hamlet, summing up in his famous monologue the great questions that in the history of mankind have justified the existence of philosophy: those about being and non-being, about cognition and the accompanying reflection and the norm of morality determining the rules of decent conduct. Hamlet's dilemmas turn out to be so universal that they constantly return in various ways in the texts of culture, both in literature or film as well as in the history of ideas, taking the form of both direct and highly indirect references. However, the thought arises that Hamlet's monologue and the famous question would not be possible if it were not for philosophical questions as such, which people - consciously or unconsciously - have been asking since the beginning of time, and which in Western culture were for the first time unequivocally formulated in philosophy. and Greek. The Greeks asked primarily about the principle of reality, about the cause of being as such, about why there is something rather than nothing, and they tried to develop a system explaining the structure of reality, as well as to define the good and the meaning of morally good action.

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