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Zagrożenie nauką bez cywilizacji: od wiedzy do mądrości

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Maxwell N.
Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa
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2011
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vol. 47
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issue 3(189)
269-295
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We are in a state of impending crisis. And the fault lies in part with academia. For two centuries or so, academia has been devoted to the pursuit of knowledge and technological know-how. This has enormously increased our power to act which has, in turn, brought us both all the great benefits of the modern world and the crises we now face. Modern science and technology have made possible modern industry and agriculture, the explosive growth of the world’s population, global warming, modern armaments and the lethal character of modern warfare, destruction of natural habitats and rapid extinction of species, immense inequalities of wealth and power across the globe, pollution of earth, sea and air, even the AIDS epidemic (AIDS being spread by modern travel). All these global problems have arisen because some of us have acquired unprecedented powers to act, via science and technology, without also acquiring the capacity to act wisely. We urgently need to bring about a revolution in universities so that the basic intellectual aim becomes, not knowledge merely, but rather wisdom – wisdom being the capacity to realize what is of value in life, for oneself and others, thus including knowledge and technological know-how, but much else besides. The revolution we require would put problems of living at the heart of the academic enterprise, the pursuit of knowledge emerging out of, and feeding back into, the fundamental intellectual activity of proposing and critically assessing possible actions, policies, political programmes, from the standpoint of their capacity to help solve problems of living. This revolution would affect almost every branch and aspect of academic inquiry.
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FEW NOTES ABOUT EXPERIENCE OF HISTORY, ON THE MARGINS OF THE POEM WRITTEN BY WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA, 'END AND BEGINNING' (Kilka uwag o doswiadczeniu historii na marginesie wiersza 'Koniec i poczatek' Wislawy Szymborskiej)

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Zmudzka-Brodnicka M.
Colloquium Wydziału Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych AMW
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2010
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issue 2
289-308
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The article is inspired by poem The End and the Beginning written by Wislawa Szymborska, who claims that history is constantly repeated emanation of evil and human suffering. So to live after tragic events, we need to forget about. The article analyses a change in the understanding of a category of experience and identity in humanities and social science. Modern understanding of human being in terms of temporal being, not in terms of substance, that develops over the whole period of its existence caused changes in the understanding category of memory and oblivion. Memory is narrative construction, and the oblivion is included in.
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Shared values? Civilisational sources of the current tensions between Europe and the United States

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Filipiak A.
Studia Polityczne (Political Studies)
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2006
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issue 18
7-28
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The article analyses transatlantic relations through the prism of civilisational difference. First, it suggests that the character of the current tensions between the United States and some European countries is primarily civilisational, and only secondarily political, diplomatic, military or economic. It is in this context that the central thesis of the civilisational difference is presented. This difference, it is claimed, springs from the dissimilar relation of the substantial part of Europe and that of America toward the classical and the Christian Great Tradition. The difference is then exemplified by the intersection of politics and economic life as well as the broadly understood issues of church and state, with special emphasis on the concepts of faith, reason, and freedom. The central part of the article analyses the very essence of the civilisational difference, juxtaposing American social and juridical dualism/pluralism and European monism. The difference is presented as the result of the essential continuity between the American tradition and the pre-modern heritage of the West on the one hand and the break with this heritage in the case of the absolutist and post-Enlightenment European tradition on the other. Finally, the article attempts to show how the category of civilisational difference may throw some new light upon current, difficult transatlantic relations. This is done, among other things, by the comparative analysis of selected excerpts from two famous declarations written by European and American intellectuals after September 11th, 2001.
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K PROBLEMATIKE INŠTITUCIONÁLNEJ ŠTRUKTÚRY KULTÚRY

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Lačný M.
Annales Scientia Politica
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2013
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vol. 2
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issue 1
56 – 62
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The article deals with the topic of institutional structure of the generic culture in the context of contemporary discourse among social sciences. The author reflects selected institutional models of culture (Lawless, Gažová), the general nature of man-made institutions as presented in cultural studies, pointing at the widening lag between ideal and real culture as a result of postmodern tensions in value sphere.
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Cywilizacja żydowska w ujęciu Feliksa Konecznego

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Skorupka A.
Archeus. Studia z bioetyki i antropologii filozoficznej
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2011
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vol. 12
149-164
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The article discusses an opinion on the Jews formulated by Feliks Koneczny, an outstanding Polish historian and philosopher. Koneczny assumed that the Jews formed a separate civilization characterized by monolatrism, apriorism, sacralism, dual ethics, legalism, and the lack of historicism. However, other historians and philosophers, e.g. Spengler and Toynbee, claimed that the Jews did not form a separate civilisation, but constituted a part of magic culture or the Syrian civilisation respectively. Koneczny wrote that the Jews had influence on Latin (Western) civilisation through their morality, principles, and religion, and that the influence had disorganizing effect. He even considered Marxism and Hitlerism as manifestations of the Jewish civilisation. The author of the article indicates that Feliks Koneczny was an anti-Semite, though obviously he was far from Nazi-like hostility towards the Jews. The book under discussion, Cywilizacja żydowska [The Jewish Civilisation], expands our knowledge on the chosen nation, but it should also be a warning against racial hatred which consumes even outstanding scholars.
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THE CIVILISATIONAL IDENTITY OF THE BULGARIANS:TRADITIONAL AND CONTEMPORARY DILEMMAS (Cywilizacyjna tozsamosc Bulgarów: tradycyjne i wspólczesne dylematy)

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Valentin M.
Sprawy Narodowościowe
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2010
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issue 36
77-92
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The article deals with the civilisational identity of the Bulgarian people, and the place of the Bulgarians on the civilisation map of Europe. The main problem here is the nature of their civilisational identity: they do not have precise geographical coordinates but they are the result of subjective human perception. In addition, the issue of civilisational identity is a matter of political propaganda. From their historical traditions, the Bulgarians inherited several macro cultural elements, (proto)Bulgarian, Slavonic, Orthodox, Balkanic and European. Considered separately, each of them can form the base required to construct a framework of contemporary Bulgarian identity and its cultural relationship with other nations in Europe. Some of these elements form strong spiritual foci around which are formed their own cultural and civilisational circles. On this basis, the Bulgarian nation enters into various spatial and cultural-historical configurations. Among them, there is a hierarchy, which in today's open society primarily depends on the value and selfdetermination of each person. On the other hand, the interwoven cultural elements on the Bulgarian territory enable some researchers to talk about transitional identity structures - Bulgarian-Slavic, Slavic-Orthodox, Balkan-Slavic, Balkan-European and others. The author also investigates the geopolitical concept of the 'civilisational choice', which is supposed to determine the place of Bulgaria and the Bulgarians in Europe and in the world: is it in the West Euro-Atlantic sphere or in Eurasia?
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Rozwój moralności w ujęciu Feliksa Konecznego

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Skorupka A.
Archeus. Studia z bioetyki i antropologii filozoficznej
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2013
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vol. 14
199-215
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This article examines the concept of Russia as presented in the historiosophy of the Polish thinker Feliks Koneczny. He argues that Russia represents the Turan civilization, which is the lowest of all civilizations. Its characteristic features include treating the leader as a “half-god” whose whims replace the law, and focusing the community’s life on wars and conquests. The scholar refers to numerous events in Russia’s history which, in his view, support this claim. This article looks critically at Koneczny’s theory, pointing out the omission of culture in his research. It also makes reference to Samuel Huntington’s work and argues that Russia’s belonging to the Orthodox Civilization makes it a barrier to barbarity.
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A HISTORY OF A CERTAIN EXPLOSION, OR A SHORT HISTORY OF NATIONALISM (Dzieje pewnej eksplozji, czyli krótka historia nacjonalizmu)

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Krawiec A.
Sprawy Narodowościowe
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2011
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issue 39
175-190
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The article is a survey of some of numerous paradoxes connected with the history of the notion 'nation.' In its contemporary meaning, this notion transferred, in a relatively short time, from a vague idea known to some eccentric thinkers into an indispensable component of the identity of each and every inhabitant of our continent. In a relatively short period the people inhabiting Europe were first classified according to many flexible criteria (such as residence, belonging to particular social strata, confessed religion, respected authority, language spoken, etc.), and later divided into multimillion national communities, apparently existing from time immemorial and separated by eternal barriers of contradictory national interests. Attempts to cross these barriers made by a human being - i.e., transferring from one community to another - are now treated as a rejection and betrayal of one's own identity. The article tries to present how such a violent change could have happened, to what extent national ideology was a by-product of economic and social processes initiated in Europe as early as the Middle Ages, and to what degree this ideology was a stimulus for these processes, and, last but not least, to what extent this ideology contributed to the creation of the contemporary shape of the world, in which western civilization managed to win primacy and maintain it till the present day, and, moreover, impose its standards on other cultures - among them the dogma about a necessary division into rival nations, which is apparently an effect of human nature itself.
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THE BARBARITY OF INTERPRETATION

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Rambu N.
Filozofia (Philosophy)
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2010
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vol. 65
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issue 5
477-484
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The barbarian of interpretation, in his barbarity, cannot be omitted from the line of 'the new barbarians'. In the following, the author will underline not only the threatening side of the barbarian of interpretation, but also the fact that the entirety of modern hermeneutics appeared in order to offer a certain protection from 'the invasion' of these strange barbarians disguised as gentle scholars, commentators and interpreters. As an irony of fate, hermeneutics, the science that was supposed to protect civilization from the barbarity of interpretation, has become a terrible weapon used by these barbarians to intensify their attacks, as has always happened in history with the weapons captured by the barbarian hoards from the protectors of civilization.
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Kult kultury

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Kosowska E.
Prace Kulturoznawcze
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2011
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vol. 12
87-99
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European thought, built on the respect for hierarchy and on binary value judgement, generated two competing ideas of culture, ideas forming various alliances with one another. The notion of a broadly defined culture took over the old functions of the “human world;” a narrow definition was used to describe all that was intellectually and artistically creative in this world. Both approaches are children of their time and contain traces of conceptualisation determined by convictions, experiences and state of knowledge at the time. The contemporary cult of change, reducing cultural traditions to their ludic, pragmatic or ornamental functions, may cause either an inconceivable change in the social relations we know or a radicalisation of conservative attitudes.
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Wielokulturowosc jako atut i atrakcja turystyczna

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Jarnecki M.
Turystyka Kulturowa
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2011
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issue 10
4-24
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The idea of multiculturalism or of cultural and ethnic variety is not only an intriguing phenomenon of the present but it may also be, and it is, attractive enough to become the motive for a tourist trip. The best spot to observe the phenomenon are big modern cities, often cosmopolitan and multicultural melting pots, where people of different races and civilizations meet. The particular example of the phenomenon are the so called megalopolis. There are also the whole countries (e.g. India, the USA, Great Britain) and regions of some countries (Transylvania in Romania) where the phenomenon of the above mentioned variety is so common and visible that it can become the motive for a trip of a cultural or quasi cultural character (e.g. pilgrimages of hippies to India).
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FILOZOFIA DEJÍN BEZ HISTORICKEJ NEVYHNUTNOSTI (?)

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Hohoš L.
Filozofia (Philosophy)
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2016
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vol. 71
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issue 3
186 – 196
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In his article the author justifies a critical attitude towards both the Enlightenment concept of progress and the European philosophy of history based on teleology. Adorno’s negative dialectics provides an inspiration in getting rid of the monster of historical necessity in philosophy of history. Adorno’s attitude is overtime due to his using the concept of dominance to anticipate the need to rethink the relation between civilization (culture) and nature. Instead of growth fetishism a new economic paradigm of degrowth is postulated, performed by N. Georgescu-Roegen. The vision of a new civilization is embodied in the vision of a society of sustainable degrowth. This new civilization is able to sustain homeostasis-like negentropia in the form of a feedback through culture.
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Stefan Pawlicki o filozoficznych aspektach antropogenezy

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Bulaczek A.
Archeus. Studia z bioetyki i antropologii filozoficznej
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2013
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vol. 14
97-108
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The article analyzes very interesting but forgotten work of Stefan Pawlicki, Przemiany człowieka („Metamorphoses of Man”; 1866). First of all, it focuses on Pawlicki’s understanding of history of the human race and evolutionary process leading up to the appearance of civilization and its manifestations, e. g. education and religion. Pawlicki supported a notion of anthropogenesis i.e. description of human history through the theory of evolution and anthropology. This way of thought forced to consider a man as a being which constantly develops and improves himself, not only physically but also spiritually. According Pawlicki, human being is dominated by two elements, spiritual and physical, which form a full human existence and affect the formation of a strong civilization.
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OD SOCIÁLNÍCH A ENVIRONMENTÁLNÍCH KONFLIKTŮ K POZITIVNÍMU ALARMISMU

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Hrubec M.
Filozofia (Philosophy)
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2019
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vol. 74
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issue 5
366 – 377
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The article addresses the issue of positive alarmism as the first step to articulate an alarming topic of interconnected social and ecological conflicts. While the social and environmental concflicts are in practice interlinked, analyses of them are usually separated in theory. The article stresses the interconnections. It reflects the fact that civilizations, and especially modern societies in the West, created both development as well as destruction. In order to formulate a normative solution from a perspective of global critical thinking based on the specific macroregional civilizations, the article articulates a methodological move from the dialectic of enlightenment to intersubjective relations among human beings and the nature to overcome the threats of global capitalism and a potential collapse.
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KULTURNÍ ROZPORY, NOVÁ MÉDIA A ELEKTRONICKÝ BOJ

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Kopecký P.
Studia Politica Slovaca: časopis pre politické vedy, najnovšie politické dejiny a medzinárodné vzťahy
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2009
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vol. 2
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issue 1
70 – 76
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Our time has become a time of many fascinating but also disquieting culture conflicts. It is an era of instantaneous transformations of mental maps. This is especially due to such metamorphoses of means of communication that had been inconceivable until recently and yet that ultimately challenge the very essence of communication. New modes of dissemination of information have emerged whose sources or anchoring in time and space trigger numerous culture-political reflections such as those of a danger of new ways of enslavement of man or at least menace to individual freedom through new forms of mass-media propaganda, or of the risks of homogenization of different civilizations, or of waging wars by means whose primary implementation is not lethal and which in some sense are even intangible though ubiquitous, which, however, have potential tantamount to arms of mass destruction.
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REINTERPRETÁCIE KANTOVEJ A HEGELOVEJ FILOZOFIE VO FUKUYAMOVEJ VÍZII O GLOBÁLNEJ DOMINANCII LIBERÁLNEJ DEMOKRACIE

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Stasiak M. K., Dupkala R.
Annales Scientia Politica
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2023
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vol. 12
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issue 1
29-36
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Reinterpretations of Kant’s and Hegel’s philosophy in Fukuyama’s vision of global dominance of neoliberalism comprise the leitmotif of the submission. Utilizing the method of comparing source texts, authors of the submission call attention to the fact that Fukuyama’s references to social and political attitudes of Kant and Hegel are misrepresented and even misleading. This fact is demonstrated through Kant’s and Hegel’s understanding of freedom and democracy, which is clearly discrepant with Fukuyama’s, and also through differing visions of the ‘final point’ (goal) of social and political development of humanity around the globe. Special attention is given to the issue of understanding the phenomenon and term ‘civilization’ in a Euro-Atlantic and global context.
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Problem Zagłady w ujęciu Giorgio Agambena

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Miniszewski M.
Archeus. Studia z bioetyki i antropologii filozoficznej
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2011
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vol. 12
235-257
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In my paper I present Giorgio Agamben’s critical approach to state of emergency which is the paradigm of modern politics. Concentration camps are a special case of State of Emergency as areas where, by law, the rules of law are not applicable anymore. It causes a paradoxical situation which allows for the exclusion of people placed in camps from any order of rules of law. Agamben writes that the process of formation of concentration camps lasted throughout all the Western Civilization. The instance of excluding (bando) and its manifestation as concentration camps is constitutive for this process. This generates a contaminated notion of “Bandit” (bandito) and “Outlaw” (bannitus) in one. This conceptual conjunction causes political indistinguishability of excluded human being from an ordinary criminal because of his political or biological uselessness. Agamben’s considerations lead to the conclusion that formation of State of Emergency in an area of political state is an attempt to reconstruct “State of Nature” within Hobbes’ understanding. This is possible because of ambivalence of human life understood as Political Life (βιοc) and Biological Life (ζωή) – this division originates from Ancient Greece. Agamben calls the procedure of splitting “The Antropological Machine”. Agambenian analyses are for me a starting point not only for reflection upon events of mass extermination, but, in the first place, for a critical approach towards the colonial era which allowed for mass extermination in the modern era at all, but first authorizing itself within ideological concepts of Western civilization, and legitimizing itself by means of Western civilization.
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TRADE AND CIVILIZATION IN THE HISTORY AND THE EVOLUTION OF CIVILIZATIONS (PROLOGOMENA)

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Vorel P.
Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)
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2011
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vol. 109
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issue 2
193-217
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Trade relations played always a substantial role in the historical development. Often, these were present in the background of major war conflicts and social unrests. This paper traces the mechanism of mutual civilization influencing of various cultures that possess different hierarchies of value, however, at the period researched, these came to a comparable level of social and technical development. Bilaterally advantageous trade relations acted as a form of transmission of civilization models into other cultures.
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KRITICKÁ MIERA ROZPOROV CIVILIZÁCIE A GLOBÁLNA EKONOMICKÁ KRÍZA

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Šikula M.
Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
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2009
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vol. 57
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issue 8
732-755
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Intention of this article is to contribute to overcoming the simplifications about the character of ongoing global crisis. The author is arguing the consideration that it is qualitatively new process, which main causes are derived mainly from the fact that two crucial discrepancies of civilization came into critical magnitude. It is the contradiction between the economy and humans, let us say, between society and economy and natural environment, which are causing increasingly dire polarization of earnings and wealth, limiting global demand, building up abundant production capacities and constraining investments to the real economy. Growing surplus of capital can not find adequate space for gains in the real economy. On the example of data evaluation for US Economy the author documents long-term indefensibility of real demand substitution for virtual demand, generated by extreme expansion of financial sector and growing ruinous indebtedness. Logic of these processes had inevitably ended in crisis, solution of which requires systemic character.
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NÁČRT KU VNÍMANIU PRÍŤAŽLIVOSTI POLITIKY

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Herec O.
Studia Politica Slovaca: časopis pre politické vedy, najnovšie politické dejiny a medzinárodné vzťahy
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2013
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vol. 6
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issue 2
64 – 80
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A power since ever belongs to the central topics of social thought. Sovereignty, military and economic rule, influence, wealth, fame are universally attractive. People want to possess the power but the power possesses the people: both individual and societal consciousness refers to the ratio; nonetheless, both power and erotic upsurge from the unconsciousness directing the culture, civilization and technique. Nietzsche´s “will to power” corresponds to the theories accentuating the interdependence of power and erotic. The mechanisms of power are gradually developing in the course of history by the progress of knowledge and social organization. Intellect, emotion, language, art – no fundamental values can elude neither the functions of the instruments of power nor the violence of power. Embodiment of power and erotic in human being therefore is the target of organizational efforts to control the individual and the society.
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