The crisis of modernity is a fundamental crisis for, as Józef Tischner claims, in its core it is a crisis of hope. To overcome this crisis is a task of contemporary man, and philosophy serves its role within this effort – thinking can arrive at the original experience of hope and reach to those layers of reality which enable the renewal of hope. From this perspective, both Tischner’s philosophy of drama and agathology – thinking aimed at the description of drama salvation and damnation, as well as engaged in the proces of revealing the peculiar logic of what is beyond beings and Being – open up to the possibility of overcoming the crisis-marked situation of contemporary man. Eventually, there seems to be an irreducible element of good within the reality.
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Kryzys nowoczesności jest kryzysem fundamentalnym, jest bowiem, jak uważa Józef Tischner, kryzysem nadziei. Zadaniem współczesnego człowieka jest przezwyciężenie tego kryzysu, a filozofia może w tym dopomóc – ponieważ myśl może sięgnąć do źródłowego doświadczenia nadziei, może odnaleźć te pokłady rzeczywistości, które umożliwiają odnowienie nadziei. W takiej perspektywie Tischnerowska filozofia dramatu i agatologia – a więc myślenie skupione na analizie i interpretacji dramatu ocalenia i zguby, a także na ujawieniu swoistej logiki tego, co ponad bytem i byciem – prowadzą do możliwości przezwyciężenia naznaczonej kryzysem sytuacji współczesnego człowieka. W rzeczywistości wydaje się nieusuwalnie tkwić nieredukowalny element dobra.
Amalgam: POLAND AS CHRIST OF NATIONSThis article applies the conceptual blending theory designed by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner to an analysis of Adam Mickiewicz’s early messianic ideas, presented in Dziady (Forefathers’ Eve) and Księgi narodu i pielgrzymstwa polskiego”(The Book and the Pilgrimage of the the Polish Nation). The article concentrates on the influences from christian concepts of passion and the messianism presented in the bible which is understood as one of the input spaces. The author claims that messianism created by Mickiewicz is not poetic fiction, but rather a religious statement about the true nature of Polish nation. Furthermore the fate of Poland has an eschatological meaning for the history of the world because Poland is seen as an agent completing the eschatological work of Jesus Christ. Therefore creating a millenaristic kingdom within history is Poland’s final destination.
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