The unsustainable consumption has many negative effects which should be reduced. The ecologization of consumption is one of the available solution. It is achieved for example by organic products purchasing. It turns out that “organic product” term is not clearly understood. Referring to the research results, author points out the differences in understanding of the “organic product” term depending on the socio-demographic characteristics of the research participants. Responses stressed the various features of organic product – free of chemical substances, natural production, safety for the environment, safety for human health, biodegradable nature and marketing trick. The author presents also the results of frequency and motives of organic products buying.
Artykuł koncentruje się na rozważaniach dotyczących pojęć „strachu” i „lęku” dokonywanych z perspektywy wybranych nauk humanistycznych. Zagadnienie to jest m.in. przedmiotem zainteresowania lozoi, teologii, psychologii, historii, a także socjologii. Przegląd koncepcji wybranych przedstawicieli tych poszczególnych nauk wskazuje na ważność zagadnienia i różnorodność ujęć. Osią porządkującą przedstawianą charakterystykę jest zwrócenie uwagi na wprowadzane przez autorów rozróżnienia na strach i lęk jako kategorie o odmiennych cechach. Najczęściej wskazywana różnica odnosi się do stwierdzenia, iż strach jest reakcją na konkretne zagrożenie, lęk zaś ma charakter bezprzedmiotowy.
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The feeling of fear and anxiety is one of the constitutive characteristic of human being. The fear is deemed as a basic emotion, which means that it is universal for everyone. It is also regarded as a negative emotion, because its appearance is connected with undesirable mental or somatic reactions. However we can point out many positive functions of fear. The fear/anxiety issue is treated as an object of study by many humanistic sciences – philosophy, theology, psychology, history and sociology. The article presents a review of arbitrarily chosen theories from the mentioned disciplines. The variety of approaches can be treated as the sign of the importance of the issue. It is worth to emphasize that the majority of analyzed theories (e.g. Kierkegaard’s, Tillich’s, Freud’s, Delumeau’s theories) distinguish fear from anxiety. Many authors dene fear as a reaction to particular threat, that is the way its object can be – firstly – identified and after that – eliminated. The situation looks different in the case of anxiety, because it is an unclear feeling without specific object, so it is diqcult or even impossible to exclude it.
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