The paper discusses the relationship of the global responsibility crisis with values. The author shows that the source of this crisis is the loss of perspective defined by universal values. She uses the European concept of creativity and the Chinese concept of crisis /wej-dżi/ to show the ethical dimension of the crisis. She draws attention to the usefulness of the crisis for creative crossing the limits of what is possible as set by the current situation.
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W artykule omówiono związek kryzysu globalnej odpowiedzialności z wartościami. Autorka pokazuje, że źródłem tego kryzysu jest utrata perspektywy określonej przez uniwersalne wartości. Korzystając przy tym z europejskiego pojęcia twórczości i z chińskiego pojęcia kryzysu wej-dżi, odsłania etyczny wymiar kryzysu. Zwraca uwagę na przydatność kryzysu do twórczego przekraczania granic możliwości wyznaczonych przez aktualną sytuację.
Interesting for the debate on human security is the concept of coexistence of culture and civilization. According to Albert Schweitzer, civilization and culture were not mu-tually exclusive and did not compete against each other. However, if civilizational growth began to dominate over cultural development, or, in other words, if culture be-gan to lag behind civilization, human life would be reduced to its biological aspect and man would become unable to take the adequate care of his natural and social eco-systems. He/she, dominated by the impersonal forces of nature and economy, would be reduced by them to an object. That is what Schweitzer called the neoprimitive man. Contemporary man is in danger of becoming the neoprimitive man. Culture adapted to contemporary technological civilization grows out of a thought paradigm ordered by a metaphor rooted in the eco-system concept, which replaces the modern machine metaphor. In thinking based on eco-systemic relations the difference between them does not antagonize but enriches, and rivalry is replaced by synergy. In this new paradigm the axiological aspect of the modern-day development concept be-comes very complicated and needs the qualifier “sustained,” thanks to which develop-ment ceases to threaten the coincidental and ruthless change. The application of the term “sustained development” to the relation between technological civilization and culture forces the discourse on human security to take stock of the human capacity for metanoia and existence within the ethical dimension, and make room for education in formulating creative responses to danger.
This article fits into the discourse concerning the safety of modern man and seeks to find a wise response to the emerging threats. The author reflects upon the specific character of ethics as a domain of knowledge that came into being in order to gather truths, which would help human beings to take care of themselves wisely. She points out that security is an issue in the field of ethics and writes about the relationship between security and subjectivity. This article describes the problems that are associated with the loss of subjectivity and consequently, security, understood as the ability to stand up to threats.
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Artykuł wpisuje się w dyskurs o bezpieczeństwie współczesnego człowieka i w poszukiwania mądrych odpowiedzi na pojawiające się zagrożenia. Autorka ukazuje specyfikę etyki jako nauki, która powstała, by odkrywać i zbierać prawdy potrzebne człowiekowi do mądrego troszczenia się o siebie. Zwraca uwagę na to, że bezpieczeństwo jest zagadnieniem z zakresu etyki. Pokazuje jego relacje z podmiotowością. Zwraca uwagę na problemy, które mają związek z utratą podmiotowości i w konsekwencji bezpieczeństwa rozumianego jako możliwość przeciwstawienia się zagrożeniom.
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