The Philosophy of the Twilight of Humanism or the Twilight of Philosophy?  Cover Image

Filozofia zmierzchu humanizmu czy zmierzch filozofii?
The Philosophy of the Twilight of Humanism or the Twilight of Philosophy?

Author(s): Andrzej Leszek Zachariasz
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Filozofów Krajów Słowiańskich
Keywords: humanism; practical materialism; marginalization; crisis; philosophy

Summary/Abstract: The modern philosophy enabled the formation of the mechanistic materialism. It took the form of the practical materialism. It allowed the rejection of the dualistic vision of human being and its idealistic axiology. As the result, the human being, humanism and humanities have lost their metaphysical justification. A man in his being is recognizing himself as physical and empirical existence, as accidental being in accidental world. Axiological thinking is replaced by thinking “from an event”, and practicalism. The consequence of this process is the marginalization of philosophy and the idea of philosophy of the dawn of humanism.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 15-34
  • Page Count: 20