The Conspiracy Revealed

Spisek odtajemniczony

Author(s): Jacek Lejman / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2004

Book Review: Lech Zdybel, Idea spisku i teorie spiskowe w świetle analiz krytycznych i badań historycznych, Wydawnictwo UMCS, Lublin 2002, ss. 602

The European Illness – Decline of Utopist Thinking

Europejskie schorzenie - uwiąd myślenia utopijnego

Author(s): Stefan Symotiuk / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2004

The Round Table of The Philosophers of Slav Countries (30 V 2003)

Was Central Europe Culturally Vacuous?

Czy Europa Środkowa była pustką kulturową?

Author(s): Jacek Breczko / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2004

The Round Table of The Philosophers of Slav Countries (30 V 2003)

„Europe” as a Problem of Philosophical Reflection (8 IV 2003)

„Europa” jako problem filozoficznego namysłu (8 IV 2003 r.)

Author(s): Włodzimierz Zięba / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2004

To our Readers and Authors

To our Readers and Authors

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2004

Keywords: Translation from Polish into English - Aleksy Mołczanow

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

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THEORIA CUM PRAXI. A Contribution to the Characteristic of Polish Philosophy

THEORIA CUM PRAXI. Przyczynek do charakterystyki filozofii polskiej

Author(s): Bolesław Andrzejewski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2004

The aim of this essay is to give some indication of the practical, sometimes even pragmatic character of Polish thought, ever since its beginnings in the Middle Ages. However, we will endevour to substantiate that Polish philosophy differs from radical practicality, especially from its pragmatic version. Rejecting, as we are going to show, extreme (most frequently, German) rationalism, it did not accept without reservations the postulates of British-American philosophy either. Resting its hierarchy of values on the practical criterion, Polish philosophy did not get lost in an uncritical way in pragmatic relativism and subjectivism. Since the 19th century it exercised, in a conscious and studied way, its own specific character, whose crowning achievement was "Polish humanism", the marking method of which was that of "theoria cum praxi". The argument will be substantiated using the examples of selected and shortly presented personalities and moments of Polish philosophy, from the Middle Ages to the 2th century.

Against Negation of Pagan Values

Przeciwko negowaniu wartości pogańskich

Author(s): Stefan Symotiuk / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2004

Polemics about Values of United Europe

Byelorussian Culture: the 18th and the 19th Centuries and the Making of Identity

Беларуская культура: Уплывы ХVIII і ХIХ стагоддзяў і фарміраванне самабытнасці

Author(s): Vadim A. Saleej / Language(s): Ukrainian / Issue: 4/2004

Jan Legowicz – The Philosopher and the Teacher

Jan Legowicz – filozof i nauczyciel

Author(s): Wojciech Słomski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2004

To our Readers and Authors

K čitateľom a autorom

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 4/2004

Keywords: Translation from Polish into Slovak - Jana Udičová

The Values of Killing

Wartości zabijania

Author(s): Dionizy Tanalski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2004

The history of mankind is divided into two periods. The first period is that of the culture of love and killing. The second period is the period of the culture of love. Since times immemorial human culture exerts proscriptions of killing and prescriptions of love. Ever since then, however, we have been killing incessantly, furnishing this killing with lofty substantiations. Here they are: killing in necessary self-defense, killing arising from the "nature" (physical and social) of man, killing in the name of justice, killing in the name of freedom, equality, brotherhood and democracy, terrorist killing, killing for punishment, killing in the name of virtue and for immortality, mission killing, killing for love (caritas, pietas and amor), killing in sacrifice, martyrdom killing. In the perspective of these substantiations, killing acquires the highest value, mutually implemented by both the one who is killing and the one who is being killed. We are constantly and continuously in the first period. The second period does not exist.

God in the Boundaries of Philosophical Reflection

Bóg w granicach refleksji filozoficznej

Author(s): Andrzej Sołtys / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2004

Book Review: Stanisław Kowalczyk, Filozofia Boga, Wydawnictwo KUL, Lublin 2001 , ss. 352

Man in the Context of Cultural Change

Človek v kontexte kultúrnych zmien

Author(s): Erika Lalíková / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 4/2004

Book Review: Sabina Tolnaiová a Slavomír Gálik (ed.), Zbornfk, Človek, kultúra, hodnoty Vydavatel'stvo IRIS, Bratislava 2002

The Lithuanians in the Face of the European Union

Литовцы перед лицом Европейского Союза

Author(s): Basia Nikiforova / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 4/2004

The Round Table of The Philosophers of Slav Countries (30 V 2003)

Slovenian and Polish National Religious Mythologies. The Comparative Analysis. Part II

Słoweńskie i polskie mitologie religijno-narodowe. Analiza porównawcza. Cześć II

Author(s): Mitja Velikonja / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2004

The text focuses on one specyfic aspeet of contemporary Slovenian and Polish political construction of reality: their religious-national mythologies. Both nations are paleed in "Latin (or Catholie) religio-cultural pattern", therefore some common characteristic can be observed, but on the other side also considerable differenees. In first part of the text some theoretical considerations - like the definition of "Christoslavism" - are presented, and after this the complex background of its historical formation among Slovenes and Poles is discussed. In the second part of the text, this Christoslavic structure and mythological features of Slovenian and Polish religious -national mythologies are analysed: the "immanent Catholicism" of both nations, religious differences with the neighbours, religious-national messianism, mythic interpretation of historic events, demonisation of the adversaries, strong popular devotion to the Roly Virgin; and folk religiosity. In the conclusion, some main similarities as well as differences between the two religious-national mythologies are summarized.

Axiology and the Idea of Perfectionism in the Treatment of Bolesław J. Gawecki

Aksjologia a idea perfekcjonizmu w ujęciu Bolesława J. Gaweckiego

Author(s): Ewa Kilian / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2004

As the basic principle of action, the ethical position of Bolesław Józef Gawecki known as perfectionism recognizes the strive for the ideal of moral perfection. Perfectionism, as an ethical doctrine, remains in harmony with the general character of the philosophy of development. Perfectionism is based on the notions of virtues and their assessment, values, norms, progress, and inner order. The type of being to which as an ideal the man should strive is the synthesis of geniality and sanctity. Man's portliness is based on the consciousness of this ideal.

On the Necessity of the Slav Institute in the United Europe

O niezbędności Instytutu Słowiańskiego w Zjednoczonej Europie

Author(s): Stafan Król / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2004

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The Crisis of Manhood

Kryzys męskości

Author(s): Monika Ksieniewicz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2004

Book Review: Zbyszka Melosik, Kryzys męskości w kulturze współczesnej, Wydawnictwo Wolumin, Poznań 2002, ss. 200

To our Readers and Authors

До читачів та Авторів

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Ukrainian / Issue: 4/2004

Keywords: Translation from Polish into Ukrainian - Natalia Derewińska