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This essay is about Wolfgang Köhler’s philosophical ideas expressed in his The Place of Value in a World of Facts of 1938. Köhler, who strongly supports a scientific worldview, considers the question if science is able to cope with human values, besides natural facts. Relying upon phenomenological analyses, and on his previous researches in the field of natural philosophy, Köhler introduces his doctrine of epistemological dualism. From a historical point of view, this theory shows some similarities with the philosophical ideas expressed by Köhler’s Berlin mentor, Carl Stumpf. It is argued that Köhler’s epistemological dualism actually supports ontological monism and aims at offering a unified view of natural facts and human values.
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Zbigniew Herbert’s poem “To Marcus Aurelius” bears dramatic witness to the imprisonment of the contemporary Western consciousness in the outdated, mechanistic, scientific worldview. Visions of an endless dead desert, a universe devoid of any meaning or point of reference, deepen Herbert’s existential pessimism, conditioned by his youthful experiences during the Second World War. In the poem, Herbert appears to be seeking solace in the harmony of ancient culture, embodied by the stoic emperor Marcus Aurelius. But this attempt is doomed to failure, because Herbert is actually faithful to the mechanistic worldview, the only legitimate one in our modern, technological civilization. By treating the ancient animistic worldview as a great illusion, we cease to understand not only Marcus Aurelius, but his entire era. At the same time, the poet is left helpless with his existential angst, for which there is no place in a world devoid of subjectivity. We can only “tremble …gnaw our fingers seek vain words drag off the fallen shades behind us”.
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The article describes the organization, procedure and analysis of results of pedagogical experiment. The author gave the main results of an experimental study. Based on these conclusions he determined the shortcomings in mastering the materials of Theoretical Physics course by students using traditional schemes of training, and key factors which ensure effective mastery of their physical knowledge and skills at the level of planned educational outcomes after implementing in pedagogical universities designed methodology system of this discipline training. Experimental study was carried out during 2005 – 2015 years. It had multipurpose nature and carried out in three stages (ascertaining experiment, search, and organization), each had the purpose, objectives, means and methods of implementation. The experimental work involved 16 teachers of pedagogical universities of Ukraine, 8 school physics teachers, 415 university students and 216 students of secondary schools. During the teaching experiment, special attention was drawn to finding effective ways of mastering the main provisions of fundamental physical theories in theoretical physics course in accordance with the standards and methodology of modern science. Based on the systematization and mathematical processing of the obtained results of current, thematic and final module control using criteria by Pearson and Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney the author made statistical probability data and significant differences of students in the experimental and control groups for the main components of subject competence (in the level of motivation and cognitive activity, value terms, techniques and approaches to learning, activity and independence to classroom sessions, awareness and systematic subject knowledge on the basics of fundamental physical theories, organization, responsibility, self-acquired knowledge and effectiveness). The conducted pedagogical research showed that implementation of the proposed theoretical and methodological foundations of theoretical physics teaching of future physics teachers contributes to acquiring subject competence, their personal and professional growth, self-realization and self-affirmation.
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Artykuł porusza zagadnienie wpływu spopularyzowanych ustaleń nauk ścisłych na funkcjonujące w obrębie cywilizacji zachodniej wyobrażenia o kosmosie i o człowieku przed nowożytną rewolucją naukową kształtowane w przeważającej mierze przez religię chrześcijańską. Autor omawia najpierw zaczerpnięte z Ziemi Ulro Czesława Miłosza pojęcie „światopoglądu naukowego”, opisujące potoczny sposób postrzegania rzeczywistości, opierający się na daleko posuniętym zaufaniu do możliwości wyjaśniających nauki i powiązany z Weberowskim pojęciem „odczarowania świata”. Następnie przedstawia zarys historyczny procesu rozchodzenia się wizji rzeczywistości ukształtowanej na łonie religii chrześcijańskiej z prawdami nowożytnych nauk przyrodniczych, a także opisuje najbardziej fundamentalne z przemian zbiorowych wyobrażeń o kosmosie, do jakich to rozejście doprowadziło. Na koniec autor omawia wpływ, jaki powyższe przemiany wywarły na wyobrażenie człowieka o sobie samym, odwołując się m.in. do twórczości Samuela Becketta i Williama Blake’a.
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This article discusses the influence of popularised findings of the natural sciences on Western images of the cosmos and the human being, which before the modern scientific revolution were shaped mostly by the Christian religion. The author first analyses the notion of a “scientific worldview” in Czesław Miłosz’s The Land of Ulro, which describes a common way of perceiving reality that is based on a profound trust in the explanatory capacity of science and is linked to the Weberian notion of the “disenchantment of the world.” The author then presents a historical outline of the growing distance between the vision of reality shaped by Christian religion and the truths of the modern natural sciences; he describes the most fundamental changes in the vision of the cosmos caused by this separation. Finally, he discusses the influence of these changes on the human being’s image of himself, referring, inter alia, to the work of Samuel Beckett and William Blake.
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