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Words and images of the Republic: Italian political propaganda (1946–1948)

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Caffarena F., Caffarena F.

Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny

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2019

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issue 2

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Polityczne, historyczne i kulturowe aspekty unii polsko-litewskiej w twórczości Józefa Weyssenhoffa

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Demkowicz A.

Tematy i Konteksty

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2019

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vol. 14

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issue 9

327-347

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Józef Weyssenhoff was a highly popular and widely read author at the end of the 19th and in the early 20th century. He was active as a writer, literary critic, and journalist during the time of the Young Poland movement and in the interwar period. He wrote his works at the turn of the two centuries and in the first decades of the new century. Throughout the later stage of his literary activity, i.e. from 1905 until his death, Weyssenhoff was greatly interested in politics. His contacts, reads, own observations and experiences in this matter gave rise to his tendentious political novels. The subjects he raised and reflected upon include the issue of the Polish-Lithuanian conflict, which caused a huge controversy in the first decades of the 20th century. Weyssenhoff demonstrated his own stance on the matter in his novel Union, published in 1910, which he wrote during the period of intensification of the national movement in Lithuania, particularly in Vilnius. The author regarded the movement to be politically dangerous, propagating hatred towards Poland, and able to cause the common cultural, historical, and political heritage of Poland and Lithuania to be destroyed. Young Lithuanian activists were acting to the detriment of the Polish language, depreciating the value of anything Polish. The conflict between Poland and Lithuania increased the risk of russification. The author suggested that what should be done in those circumstances was seek to restore the Polish-Lithuanian alliance. He showed the readers of his book how that process should be initiated. The marriage between the protagonists of Union: Kazimierz Rokszycki, a Pole, and Krystyna Sołomerecka, a Lithuanian, who loved their common motherland, serves as a symbol of a new, revived relationship between Poland and Lithuania.

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Władza i racja stanu w czasach Renesansu włoskiego i hiszpańskiego

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Buchner W.

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2020

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vol. 11

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issue 35

89-103

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RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The goal of this article is to present a specific character of the Renaissance political thinking in Italy and its influence on the Spanish political thought at XVIth century. THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The article presents two – in the opinion of author – principal components of the Renaissance politi‑ cal thought in Italy: the ideas of the reason of State and the balance of powers. It reveals theirs influence on the minds of the Florentine humanists of Quattrocento and Cinquecento, and analyses also theirs effect on the Spanish Habsburgs aspiration to the hegemony. The method applied is the history of ideas. THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: The article consists of the two parts: the first is dedicated to the political thought of the Italian Renaissance, the second one – to the an analysis of its impact on the political strategies of Spain at the time of its hegemony in Europe as the main power, which defended the catholic reason of State. RESEARCH RESULTS: The principal result of analyses is to take notice of the substantial Renaissance concept of the reason of State, which was taking shape in Italy at the epoch before the Council of Trent, and which was focused mainly on the politics limited to the political strategies of the Appenine Peninsula States. In the second part appears a thesis that there were attempts to implant this concept to the Iberic Peninsula, but – owing to the new geopolitical situation and after Italian wars and revival of Thomism – this concept could not be either understood or applicable. CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS: The intention of the article is to show an important moment of the epoch of the late Renaissance, when – owing to the change of geopolitical situation in Europe and to the evangelization of the New World – the Italian ideas of reason of State and of balance of powers have to make room for reasons resulting from the necessity of defending the catholic world against the Protestantism.

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CEL NAUKOWY: Celem artykułu jest prezentacja specyfiki myśli politycznej Renesansu w Italii i jej oddziaływania na myśl polityczną w Hiszpanii XVI stulecia. PROBLEM I METODY BADAWCZE: Artykuł prezentuje dwie zasadnicze zdaniem autora komponenty myśli politycznej Renesansu włoskiego: idee racji stanu oraz równowagi sił. Ukazuje ich oddziaływanie na umysły zwłaszcza florenckich humanistów Quattrocento i Cinquecento, a także analizuje wpływ na dążenia do hegemonii hiszpańskich Habsburgów. Metodą w nim zastosowaną jest historia idei. PROCES WYWODU: Artykuł składa się z dwóch części – pierwsza poświęcona jest myśli politycznej Renesansu włoskiego, druga – analizie jej wpływu na strategie polityczne przyjęte w Hiszpanii w okresie jej hegemonii w Europie jako głównej potęgi broniącej katolickiej racji stanu. WYNIKI ANALIZY NAUKOWEJ: Zasadniczą konkluzją płynącą z analizy jest zwrócenie uwagi na istotny dla Renesansu koncept racji stanu, który krystalizuje się w Italii w epoce przedtrydenckiej, ogniskując się głównie na polityce ograniczonej do strategii politycznych państw Półwyspu Apenińskiego. W części drugiej pojawia się teza o próbach przeszczepienia tego konceptu na Półwysep Iberyjski, gdzie jednak – w obliczu nowej sytuacji geopolitycznej po wojnach włoskich oraz odrodzenia się tomizmu – nie znajduje on ani zrozumienia, ani zastosowania. WNIOSKI, INNOWACJE, REKOMENDACJE: W zamyśle artykułu leży podkreślenie ważnego momentu epoki późnego Renesansu, w którym – wskutek zmiany sytuacji geopolitycznej w Europie i ewangelizacji Nowego Świata – włoskie idee racji stanu oraz równowagi sił muszą ustąpić miejsca racjom wynikającym z konieczności obrony świata katolickiego przed protestantyzmem.

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Finding a Reasonable Foundation for Peace

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Bayer R.

Studia Gilsoniana

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2017

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vol. 6

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issue 1

7-30

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Can world peace come about through a world federation of governments? Is growing agreement and appreciation for, throughout the world, the doctrine of equal human rights inevitable? Such questions are raised by Mortimer Adler in How to Think about War and Peace. Adler argues in this book that both are possible, and in doing so he argues that the insights of liberal contract thinkers, particularly Immanuel Kant, are essentially true. Kant argues that each person has the capacity to discover within himself the foundation for human rights because they are self-evident. It follows that over time inequalities and prejudices will disappear, and people will gain the freedom to advance the cause of peace. About this account of the possibility of world peace I ask the question: is it indeed reasonable? For if it is reasonable, it is not reasonable for the reasons that would have been advanced by Aristotle or Plato or their medieval followers. In older political philosophy it is agreement about the unchanging truth of things that can bring peace. To seek the unchanging truth of things, philosophical speculation about God and things divine, is the highest human activity. It is that end to which life in this world is directed, and upon which human flourishing depends. Freedom depends upon our openness to unchanging eternal truth, even more than self-evident rights; the exercise of speculative reasoning allows for political discourse and an open society.

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Words and images of the Republic: Italian political propaganda (1946–1948)

Polityczne, historyczne i kulturowe aspekty unii polsko-litewskiej w twórczości Józefa Weyssenhoffa

Władza i racja stanu w czasach Renesansu włoskiego i hiszpańskiego

Finding a Reasonable Foundation for Peace