W poszukiwaniu „dobrego życia”. U filozoficznych podstaw głównych orientacji politycznego myślenia. Wyd. 2
Searching „a good life”. Philosophical bases of the main orientations of a political thinking. Second edition

Author(s): Wojciech Kaute
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, History of ideas, Political history, Politics and society
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: state; history of ideas; political ideas; "good life"
Summary/Abstract: A human being gets organized in a nation, as Aristotle says, for “a good life”. However, according to him, one has to differentiate between “a good citizen” and “good man”. The history of philosophy has created various polis conceptions as a result of the fact that a human being, in its cognition, cannot situate itself in a position of the one who knows an “objective” good, “truth”. Each cognition is just a “vision” and interpretation of the world. Thus, one has to assume that a reflection on culture equals a reconstruction of these “visions”. This is a history of ideas. Such a reconstruction is also an interpretation. The situation gets complicated in the post-world. Traditional languages lose their significance in a global world of mass culture. And that means that the status of the history of ideas, this interpretation of interpretations, gets too unclear these days.

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