UNIVERSITY AS A FORM OF LIFE (Uniwersytet jako forma zycia)

• Authors: Ostrowski Janusz
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Even Kant uses the concept of philosophy that stems from 'polis'; philosophy is therefore considered - as Pierre Hadot stresses - as exercise in wisdom, or practicing a certain way of life. It must be however stressed that'bios theoretikos' as 'praxis' is only one of the possible, among others, ways of life, yet undoubtedly the most perfect, as it is oriented on the very perfection as a regulative idea. Nevertheless, the concept of university has a different meaning: already the medieval university (especially in its prime, symbolized by Abelard) just because of its 'professional' utilitas becomes not only a certain way of functioning in a corporate community but also 'an universal form of life or of matter of social world as a whole'.

Keywords

EN

UNIVERSITY

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Warsaw University, Institute of Philosophy, Institute of Polish Literature and Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
• Journal: Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 4(25)
• Pages: 265-274
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Ostrowski Janusz

• Janusz Ostrowski, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Filozofii, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 3, 00-047 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA077012