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O pięknie nauk ekonomicznych
About the Beauty of Economic Sciences

Author(s): Marian Gorynia
Subject(s): Philosophy, Economy
Published by: Instytut Nauk Ekonomicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: economic sciences; beauty as a philosophical category; beauty of the subject of economic sciences; beauty of the method of economic sciences

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to identify the manifestations (aspects) of the beauty of economic sciences. By economic sciences, in this text, we mean four disciplines of Polish classifcation of disciplines which was in force until September 2018. In the feld of economic sciences this classifcation included (in alphabetical order): economics, fnance, commodity science and management sciences. The basis for the conceptual search for the beauty of economic sciences is to be found in philosophy, and more specifcally in its fragment, which constitutes aesthetics. The text essentially uses two ways of comprehending beauty: Apollonian beauty and Dionysian beauty, the frst way being treated as traditional and the other as an alternative. Both of these ways were used to identify the manifestations of the beauty of economic sciences due to the subject of the study and due to the applied research method. 166 Marian Gorynia The basic research method used in the preparation of this study was the analysis of the literature on the subject.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 142-166
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Polish
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