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Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism

Etyka protestancka i duch kapitalizmu

Author(s): Max Weber / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: protestantism; capitalism; ethics; sociology of Max Weber

The publication contains the basics of the sociology of Max Weber and belongs to the classics of social research. From it derives the Weberian theory of capitalism, rationality, ethics, and domination. The thesis put forward here – that the birth and continuation of capitalism can be understood by referring to its ethical foundations, or Protestantism – is still vividly debated today.

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Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary

Eseje z dziedziny moralności, polityki i literatury

Author(s): David Hume / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Hume; conservatism; political philosophy; freedom of speech; civil liberties; political parties and factions; authority

A selection of D. Hume’s works presents the achievements and opinions of the Scottish author, mainly in the domain of political philosophy. Despite more than two and half centuries passing since the original publication of these works, the modern reader can find in them ever valid and inspiring deliberations on the freedom of speech and civil liberties, the boundaries of political conflict, political parties and factions or the conditions of obedience to authority. Most of the essays collected in the book – today counted among the classics of the genre – appear in Polish for the first time.

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The Battle of the Books. A Tale of a Tub

Bitwa książek. Opowieść balii

Author(s): Jonathan Swift / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Swift; ancients; moderns

The Battle of the Books and A Tale of a Tub are the most important works in the early satirical writings of Jonathan Swift. They were written between 1695 and 1704. They appear in Polish translation for the first time. In the dispute between the Ancients and the Moderns Swift was a staunch supporter of the Ancients. Their followers believed that classical and biblical thought is continuously influencing us. Swift ridiculed his contemporaries for their cult of science, their religious hypocrisy, for following literary trends, and he did it by brilliantly applying irony and grotesques, creatively construing multi-layered absurdities.

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From Enlightenment to revolution

Od oświecenia do rewolucji

Author(s): Eric Voegelin / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: history of ideas; Enlightenment; positivism; Bossuet; Voltaire; Helvétius; Comte; Bakunin; Marx

A cross section of the most important philosophical and intellectual trends from the 17th to the 20th century. Among others, the author puts together the thought of J.-B. Bossuet and the views of Voltaire, confronts the reflections of B. Pascal and Helvétius, presents the key elements of the positivist vision of A. Comte, the concepts of M. Bakunin and K. Marx. He is concerned with key 19th-century categories of political thought, such as progress or political durability.

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St. Petersburg Dialogues. On the Earthly Rule of Providence

Wieczory petersburskie. O doczesnym panowaniu Opatrzności

Author(s): Joseph de Maistre / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Joseph de Maistre; aristocratic conservatism; anti-enlightenment philippics; Freemasonry; political philosopher of the French Revolution era

A philosophical dialogue written by the creator of traditionalist conservatism on the earthly rule of Providence, which combines literary qualities with great polemic passion. Famous for their controversiality and often quoted Joseph de Maistre’s arguments: praise of the executioner, apology of war, anti-enlightenment philippics. The age of revolution seen through the eyes of a conservative aristocrat – a devout jacobine, whose works astonish and drives to despair his admirers and opponents.

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Without limitation

Bez przedawnienia

Author(s): Vladimir Jankélévitch / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Second World War; forgiveness; Nazism; Holocaust; French resistance

The book consists of two essays: “To forgive?” and “With honour and dignity.” Both deal with the issue of forgiveness for the wrongs committed by Nazi Germany during the period of the Second World War. “To forgive?” – an essay devoted to the Holocaust in which the author openly opposes the attitude of those who not only wish to forget about the crimes committed by the Nazi criminals but also more or less consciously belittle their significance. “With honour and dignity” – a polemical analysis of French society whose attitude and choices resulted in France playing the role it played during the Second World War.

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Series:Kolory idei

Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism

Etyka protestancka i duch kapitalizmu

Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary

Eseje z dziedziny moralności, polityki i literatury

The Battle of the Books. A Tale of a Tub

Bitwa książek. Opowieść balii

From Enlightenment to revolution

Od oświecenia do rewolucji

St. Petersburg Dialogues. On the Earthly Rule of Providence

Wieczory petersburskie. O doczesnym panowaniu Opatrzności

Without limitation

Bez przedawnienia