The Relevance of the Lublin Philosophical School to the Contemporary Intellectual Milieu

• Authors: Agnieszka Lekka-Kowalik

Abstracts

EN

The term „Lublin Philosophical School” refers to the mode of philosophizing devised in the 1950’s at the catholic University of lublin. After a brief history, the paper first discusses some methodological features of this mode and the social role of philosophy as a self-awareness of culture. Employing the School’s philosophy, the paper then considers the issue of post-truth and that of the value-ladenness of science. The post-truth approach replaces evidence with emotions, and in consequence, argumentation is replaced with power. This in turn threatens the human person, her rationality and freedom. Admitting that science is value-laden and values are subjective leads to denying the cognitive status of science. Lublin philosophy offers such a concept of value and scientific knowledge which allows one to solve the problem created by the valueladenness of science. Thus, the paper shows that the lublin School’s philosophy can provide answers to contemporary problems and evaluate intellectual developments of culture.

Keywords

EN

Lublin Philosophical School; Realism; Empiricism; Truth; Post-truth; Science; Values; Vocation of Philosophy

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 595-616

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Agnieszka Lekka-Kowalik

• John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.26385/SG.110422

Biblioteka Nauki

2168457