RARIONALISM AND HUMANISM. BARBARA SKARGA'S PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS (Racjonalizm I humanizm. Wokól filozoficznych refleksji Barbary Skargi)

• Authors: Michalowski Damian
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The following article attempts to present Barbara Skarga's view on the problem of rationality. Having analyzed three main ideas of rationality - metaphysical, technological and scientistic - Skarga shows their hidden non-rational bases. Above all, however, she demystifies uncritically approved opinions about their current value. Apart from what is valuable, rationality also contains possible threats. The possible consequences of a narrowly understood rationality are the objectification of the subject, the expression of reality in quantitative categories, the elimination of oneness, narrow practicism, and a conception of utility that may lead to violence and rape. What Skarga opposes to this is the concept of humanism, with its respect for oneness and difference, a concept of humanism that includes broadly construed abstractness with room for intuition, feelings, value and what is nondiscursive.

Keywords

EN

HUMANISM; MAIN IDEAS OF RATIONALITY; NON-RATIONAL; SKARGA BARBARA ON RATIONALITY; VALUES AND THREATS OF RATIONALITY

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Umiejętności / Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 37
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 13-25
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Michalowski Damian

• Damian Michalowski, Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Poznaniu, Katedra Nauk Spolecznych, ul.Wojska Polskiego 28, 60-637 Poznan, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA074315