The article undertakes the matter of the existence and the part of the intellectual intuition in the cognition of the reality at Heraclitus from Ephesus. It explains the specificity of the understanding of the intellectual intuition in the connection from Heralitus the understanding of the being, shows the role of intuition in the recognition of the reality. The analyses are led according to questions: What is the act of the intuition? What is the object of the intuition? What is the subject of the intuition? Heraclitus binds the understanding of the intuition with the „phronesis”. The characteristic moments of the act of “fronesis”: internal insight, visuality, intelectuality. The intuition is indispensable to reading of the solid Law – Logos.
Religia nie jest cywilizacją, ale jednym z jej nośników, który ukazuje etos danej cywilizacji, tworzy kodeks moralny i system wartości dla jej uczestników, formułuje normy społeczne, kształtuje mentalność i porządek społeczny. Nie da się odpowiedzieć na pytanie, czy to religia wytwarza cywilizację czy odwrotnie – cywilizacja przyczynia się do powstania religii. Nie ma w tym regularności. Każda konkretny przypadek powinien być zawsze badany oddzielnie, a wówczas będziemy mogli dostrzec cywilizacje tworzące religie lub religie, które budują cywilizacje przez podciąganie wszystkich aspektów życia indywidualnego i społecznego do sfery sacrum.
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Religion is not civilization, but one of its vehicles which shows the ethos of a given civilization, creates a moral code and a value system for its participants, formulates social norms, and shapes its mentality and social order. It is impossible to answer the question whether it is religion which produces civilization, or vice versa—it is civilization which contributes to the emergence of a religion. There is no regularity in it. Each specific case should always be studied separately and, then, we will be able to discern civilizations that make up religions, or religions that create civilizations by pulling all the aspects of individual and social life into the sacred sphere.
European countries share certain features, roots and, to a large extent, history. In the present article attention is paid to the Greek and Roman influence on European civilisation, or “Western Civilisation.” To this day Europeans refer to broadly understood models of ancient culture contained in the concept of polis as a community of equal citizens, in promoting representative bodies, appreciation of elements of merchant culture, rationality and emancipation, the concept of Roman Law that together represent the signa specifica of the Western civilisation. If one adds to this the contribution of Christianity and barbarian tribes, one may reconstruct an adequate representation of the “roots of Europe.”
The article addresses the problems of the sources of the expansion of European civilization. They are essential to understand why it were the Europeans who managed to impose their civilization on the whole world, although other cultural circles, such as the Empire of the Steppes, China or the Islamic world, were equally able to do so. The answer involves a set of factors specific to Europe and non-existent in the same configuration elsewhere; the factors include geographic diversity, political pluralism and free trade, military revolution, transoceanic shipping and accumulation of capital, science, technology and printing, ship and rational explorer.
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Artykuł podejmuje problematykę źródeł ekspansji cywilizacji europejskiej. Jest to istotne dla zrozumienia, dlaczego to właśnie Europejczykom udało się narzucić swoją cywilizację całemu światu, choć przecież w równym stopniu mogły to uczynić inne kręgi kulturowe, jak choćby Imperium Wielkiego Stepu, Chiny czy świat islamu. W odpowiedzi uwzględniono zestaw czynników specyficznych dla Europy i nigdzie indziej niewystępujących w tej konfiguracji, takich jak: zróżnicowanie geograficzne, pluralizm polityczny i wolny handel, rewolucja militarna, transoceaniczna żegluga i akumulacja kapitału, nauka technika i druk, okręt i racjonalny odkrywca.
Philosophy of culture as a discipline exploring the way of human existence in the world is based on general metaphysics and philosophical anthropology. Taking into account the formal subject and the method, philosophy of culture is a type of metaphysical explanation that aims to indicate the final ontological reasons for the existence of culture, and therefore it is called the “metaphysics of culture.” The metaphysical perspective of explaining the phenomenon of culture is an original contribution to the contemporary discourse on culture. The understanding of culture requires solving the dispute about the understanding of the world, and above all about the understanding of human being. It is only in such a broad perspective that a fact of culture can be justified by pointing to its causative, exemplary and deliberate cause. in this context, the special attractiveness of the metaphysics of culture is revealed, which, paradoxically, manifests itself in the lack of autonomy in relation to general metaphysics and philosophical anthropology. Thanks to this, explanation of a fact of culture is placed in the field of cognitive realism, pluralism and in the context of understanding human being as a person. in this way, the metaphysics of culture provides a final justification (in the ontic order) of a fact of culture, while culture, as an intellectualization of nature, can form the basis for the particular aspects present in such rich forms in the area of the particular sciences.
The article underlines the moments that define the metaphysical understanding of culture. According to this conception, culture in its most basic meaning is rationalization (intellectualization) of nature. The article is focused on the following areas: genetic-exemplarist analysis of cultural works and definition of culture from the perspective of realistic philosophy.
The paper discusses the problem of a basic understanding of culture that functions in realistic philosophy. The paper consists of two parts: the first considers the issue of culture from the historical side, including the etymological context of the concepts of „culture” and „civilization”; the second analyzes the issue of culture for a system side. The human being-person (rational and free) is then indicated as the subject (creator) of culture. Through referring to human acts connected to the workings of reason and will one makes a genetic analysis of cultural creative activity and delineates realms of culture. The paper also analyzes essential moments of culture-creative activity and determines a general understanding of culture which in its primary sense consists in intellectualization (rationalization) of nature. It is then argued that an analogical understanding of culture is consistent with those particular understandings of culture which occur in various fields of cultural studies.
The evolutionism was the first attempt to synthesize and build theory of the culture in cultural anthropology as a science. Later generations refer to this theoretical direction by making adjustments and additions. Evolutionists have given first attempt of theoretical approach. They envisioned the unity of human psyche and using comparative studies. They have developed a conceptual apparatus, which entered into the composition of each anthropologist (endo-and egzogamia, totemism, tabu, animism, mana, etc.). Today the evolutionism is rather a history of cultural anthropology.
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Ewolucjonizm klasyczny był pierwszą próbą syntezy oraz budowy teorii kultury w antropologii społecznej jako nauce. Do tego kierunku odnosiły się późniejsze pokolenia dokonując korekt i uzupełnień. Ewolucjoniści dali pierwsze próby ujęć teoretycznych zakładając jedność psychiki ludzkiej jako punkt wyjścia do badań porównawczych. Wypracowali aparaturę pojęciową, która weszła w skład wyposażenia każdego antropologa (endo- i egzogamia, totemizm, tabu, animizm, mana itd.). Ewolucjonizm stanowi dziś niewątpliwie historię antropologii i nikt na serio nie mógłby uprawiać tej nauki w oparciu o hipotezy, jakimi posługiwali się jego przedstawiciele.
The article undertakes the matter of the existence and the part of the intellectual intuition in the cognition of the reality at Heraclitus from Ephesus. It explains the specificity of the understanding of the intellectual intuition in the connection from Heralitus the understanding of the being, shows the role of intuition in the recognition of the reality. The analyses are led according to questions: What is the act of the intuition? What is the object of the intuition? What is the subject of the intuition? Heraclitus binds the understanding of the intuition with the „phronesis”. The characteristic moments of the act of “fronesis”: internal insight, visuality, intellectuality. The intuition is indispensable to reading of the solid Law – Logos.
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