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Author's Summary: "Philosophical Anthropology: Outline of Fundamental Problems," by Roman Darowski

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Darowski R.

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2014

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vol. 19

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issue 1

154–157

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The article summarizes the book "Philosophical Anthropology: Outline of Fundamental Problems," by Roman Darowski

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Review: "Philosophical Anthropology: Outline of Fundamental Problems," by Roman Darowski.

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Mazur P. S.

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2014

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vol. 19

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issue 2

251–254

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The article reviews the book "Philosophical Anthropology: Outline of Fundamental Problems," by Roman Darowski.

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Being Human Among Humans: Plurality in the Divided World

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Kaya Ö. D.

Dialogue and Universalism

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2015

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issue 1

216-221

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The main thesis I put forward in this article is that the democratic theory needs an anthropological perspective which defines the human in plurality and signifies the pos-sibility of achieving a fully inclusive rational consensus. I argue that a model of democ-racy in terms of cosmopolitan anthropology can help us to better envision the main challenge facing universal norms and principles today. How to create democratic forms of living together? I think we can answer this question by interpreting Hannah Arendt’s theory of political action on a philosophical anthropological basis. It is common knowledge that Hannah Arendt is suspicious of ethics and warns that ethics and con-science alone cannot produce the conditions for peace. In the present paper, I examine Arendt’s philosophical project together with Kant’s philosophical anthropology and try to demonstrate its importance for plurality and living together in peace.

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Alicja Kuczyńska’s Social Aesthetics

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Wojnar I.

Dialogue and Universalism

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2018

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issue 1

217-227

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The paper examines some rare specific features of Alicja Kuczyńska’s aesthetics. It is demonstrated that Kuczyńska connects the field of aesthetics to the realm of philosophical anthropology and social philosophy. Her interdisciplinary approach is based on postulated bonds between art, society, aesthetics and sociology.

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The Centered Reality. Helmuth Plessner’s Anti-naturalistic Account

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Pugliese A.

Dialogue and Universalism

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2016

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issue 3

95-108

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This paper discusses the criticism of naturalism based on the irreducibility of first-person-perspective facts. This critique considers naturalism insufficient since it propos-es the view of reality as a centerless dimension. However, simply reintegrating subjec-tive facts into a naturalistic view of reality we eventually produce a split situation in which conscious and self-conscious forms of life require a special consideration, thus appearing as separated from the whole of reality. In order to overcome what turns out to be a dualistic interpretation of reality, this paper considers Helmuth Plessner’s non-naturalistic approach. It elaborates the notion of positionality and aspectivity as charac-teristics of all natural forms of life, thus leading to the consideration of reality an essen-tially centered dimension and of humans as part of nature.

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The Human Difference: Beyond Nomotropism

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Bielik-Robson A.

Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture

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2017

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vol. 1

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issue 1

18–28

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The main theme of this essay is f i n i t e l i f e, which is the bedrock of modern biopolitics. In the series of lectures devoted to the ‘birth of biopolitics,’ Michel Foucault defines it as a new system of ‘governing the living’ based on the natural cycle of birth and death, and the law of genesis kai phtora, ‘becoming and perishing.’ Foucault’s answer to modern biopolitics is to accept its basic premise – that life is finite, and, consequently, reduced to the natural law of birth and death – and then slightly correct the naive liberal trust in the ‘naturalness’ of human existence by appropriating and internalizing the true essence of the biopolitical paradigm: the disciplining practices. This essay contests Foucault’s minimalist Neostoic program of the ‘care of the self’ by demonstrating that we can still hope for a n o t h e r f i n i t u d e that refrains from any renaturalization of human existence.

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Ideologiczne a filozoficzne odniesienie do istot żywych

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Ewertowski S.

Studia Elbląskie

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2014

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vol. 15

345-363

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In this article the author undertakes the issues regarding „the animal studies” and the undertaken attempts to grant animals „the personal” rights pari passu the human rights. In this analysis he takes into account both the difficulties connected with the d definition of the ontological status of living beings, as well as the question of identity and the difference between animals and humans. Historical applications illustrate constant attempts to define the place of a human being among living beings. Finally, the author stands in the position that biology itself will not serve, nor will the ecological movements based on the idea of elimination of the unique status of a human being. The author favors the approach to the animal rights protection in accordance with the anthropocentric philosophy. A full understandingof the human being’s place in the world eliminates the attitude of mindless exploitation of nature and the actions resulting in ecological catastrophes. The proposals of the animal rightsprotection and natural environment protection voiced by Christian theologians and lawyers fit into the worldwide ecological aspirations.

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The Christian philosophy of man in Poland in the face of the challenges of the 20th and 21st centuries

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Mazur P. S.

Logos i Ethos

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2020

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vol. 54

95-113

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According to the author of the article, Christian anthropology is characterized by an affirmative approach to Christianity and personalism in the understanding of man. During the last century in Poland it faced four key challenges for its development which were: 1) searching for a proper model of social life connected with the rejection of individualism and collectivism; 2) the clash with collectivist totalitarianism (communism) which imposes an erroneous concept on man; 3) resignation of the Church in her teaching from the domination of the Thomistic model of understanding the world and man; 4) establishment of a naturalistic and transhumanistic model of man in the culture of the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. Christian anthropology responded to the first three calls with a specific type of personalism: social – in the first case, metaphysical – in the second, liberalist and ethical – in the third. At present time, it must seek a personalistic response to the fourth challenge, while the author believes that Christian anthropology is threatened by fideistic personalism resulting from the acceptance of the naturalistic image of man coming from detailed sciences and the abandonment of attempts to philosophically justify his personal status.

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Wcielenie, historia i postludzki sposób produkcji.

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Kuźniarz B.

Praktyka Teoretyczna

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2020

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vol. 37

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issue 3

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Author’s response to the polemical review of the book Król liczb. Szkice z metafizyki kapitalizmu, by prof. Andrzej Leder and published in this issue of Praktyka Teoretyczna, 189–196

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Niniejszy tekst stanowi odpowiedź autora na opublikowaną również w niniejszym numerze Praktyki Teoretycznej (189–196) polemiczną recenzję książki Król liczb. Szkice z metafizyki kapitalizmu, autorstwa prof. Andrzeja Ledera.

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Przeciw zamykaniu przyszłości

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Leder A.

Praktyka Teoretyczna

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2020

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vol. 37

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issue 3

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The book review: Bartosz Kuźniarz. 2020. Król Liczb. Szkice z metafizyki kapitalizmu. Warszawa: Fundacja Augusta Hrabiego Cieszkowskiego.

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Niniejszy artykuł recenzyjny jest dyskusją z książką Bartosza Kuźniarza Król Liczb. Szkice z metafizyki kapitalizmu (Warszawa: Fundacja Augusta Hrabiego Cieszkowskiego, 2020).

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Philosophy of Sport in Poland: Observations

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Kosiewicz J.

Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research

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2012

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vol. 54

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issue 1

86-102

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The presented paper has a polemic and an explanatory nature. It refers to some of the inaccuracies contained in the text authored by Ivo Jirásek and Peter Hopsicker. The aforementioned authors presented the achievements of various prominent philosophers of sport from Slavic countries, including the achievements of some Polish thinkers. My observations are focused mainly on issues related to the birth and development of the philosophy of sport in Poland. I would like to thank Professor Ivo Jirásek and Professor Peter Hopsicker for addressing the topic of Polish philosophy and for their research efforts. I also would like to ask the authors to receive my comments with the good intentions with which I composed them, and hope my comments may enrich their cognitive project.

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Mortality as a Philosophical-Anthropological Issue: Thanatology, Normativity, and "Human Nature"

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Pihlström S.

Human Affairs

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2007

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vol. 17

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issue 1

54-70

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This paper examines mortality-the fact that we humans are all going to die-as an issue in philosophical anthropology, by applying a fourfold typology of some key forms of philosophical anthropology to the topic of death and mortality. First, this typology, originally suggested by Heikki Kannisto, is outlined; the mortality issue is, then, viewed from the perspective it opens. Finally, the challenges to our understanding of death and mortality that this perspective may help us meet are discussed. The treatment of mortality from the perspective of philosophical anthropology may make it more understandable in a manner that will highlight the importance of the concept of normativity in the philosophical examination of any such humanly relevant issue.

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Proekologiczna metanoia współczesnego człowieka jako warunek przetrwania cywilizacji ludzkiej

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Gawor L.

Kultura i Wartości

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2012

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issue 4

45-59

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An intensifying megatrend of ecological threats has in dicated that human civilization is heading towards its own self-destruction. As a result, one must understand the need for radical change in the current global strategy of humankind, and to rebuild the current model of civilization progress. This is the core of sustainable development. From this point of view, it is only possible to rescue modern civilization through the vast and determined reconstruction of a traditional, anthropocentric worldview which favours environmental awareness. This mental change must be profound and groundbreaking, hence the use of the Greek notion of metanoia. In leaving the anthropocentric position and ascension to a level where there is a holistic sense of oneness with nature, a new way is opened up through which the contemporary human being can perceive the world. It allows her to climb to a higher level of species evolution, evolving into homo ecologicus. Without such a metanoia there will come “the end of the world as we know it”.

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Megatrend nasilającego się zagrożenia ekologicznego wskazuje na to, że cywilizacja ludzka prostą drogą zmierza do samozagłady. Jest to przyczyną zrozumienia konieczności radykalnej zmiany dotychczasowej globalnej strategii ludzkości i przebudowania aktualnego modelu cywilizacyjnego postępu. Stanowi to motyw przewodni idei zrównoważonego rozwoju. Z tego punktu widzenia warunkiem uratowania współczesnej cywilizacji jest powszechna i zdecydowana przebudowa tradycyjnego, antropocentrycznego światopoglądu na rzecz świadomości ekologicznej. Owa zmiana mentalna musi być głęboka i w perspektywie dziejowej przełomowa, stąd też jest określana greckim pojęciem metanoi. Opuszczenie antropocentrycznych pozycji i wstąpienie na poziom poczucia holistycznej jedności z naturą otwiera przed współczesnym człowiekiem nowy sposób percepcji świata. Pozwala mu on wspiąć się na wyższy szczebel gatunkowej ewolucji; przekształcić się w homo ecologicus. Bez takiej metanoi nastąpi „koniec świata takiego, jaki znamy”.

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Kim są uczestnicy Buberowskiego dialogu?

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Glinkowski W. P.

Analiza i Egzystencja. Czasopismo Filozoficzne

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2014

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issue 26

43 - 59

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This article tries to explain the meaning of „I” and „Thou” as categories essential for Martin Buber’s philosophy of dialogue. I consider these categories in a context of human’s origin and interpersonal existence. Buber’s statement of ‘dialogity’ as a specific quality of human existence has, first of all, descriptive status, and then – indirectly and secondarily – prescriptive one. I take special notice of a transcendent position of Thou towards I and distance between them. I also take under consideration „nominal” matter of I and Thou, which decides on one’s individuality and their ability to listen and answer. The result of I and Thou meeting is recognizing in I a fellow-man towards Thou. Being I and being Thou can be identified only if they are able to cross immanent cultural sphere. This is because addressing I by Thou had its beginning in transcendentalism of divine Thou and can not be interpreted in immanent context of culture as autonomous cultural area.

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FAMILY IN THE CONTEXT OF RELATIONS BETWEEN FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY: CRISIS OR EVOLUTION?

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Janicka J.

Forum Teologiczne

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2021

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vol. 22

51-60

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At the beginning of the twenty first century, Chantal Delsol wrote that the man of late modernity is characterized by his attempt to regress to a period in history before his attainment of autonomy and subjectivity, both of which Delsol associates, among other things, with the essential and formative role of the family. Turning to a society or a group with which he could identify, man – in her opinion – takes a step back towards a tribal form of existence, which deprives him of the right to self-government. Demographic data seem to confirm the tendencies which Delsol has described: the rising number of divorces, the dropping number of marriages, and the increasing presence of the welfare state in the life of an individual. We might tend to think that reality bears out the pessimistic vision of the man of late modernity Delsol puts forth. Yet it is the role of philosophy to call into doubt all that seems obvious and to ask questions where to all appearances there is no room for doubt. This article proposes this kind of undertaking as an attempt to examine Delsol’s diagnosis through the lens of Kołakowski’s philosophy. With the help of Kołakowski’s treatment of the relationship between freedom and responsibility, and by applying his thoughts on the irremovable tension between the individual and the collective man, a motif distinctly present in his considerations, this article poses anew the question of whether we indeed are facing a crisis or an evolution of the family. Are the changes which we are observing a threat to our culture and civilization, or evidence of progress?

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Leszek Kołakowski o religii

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Pencuła M.

Edukacja Filozoficzna

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2016

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issue 61

77-105

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Leszek Kołakowski’s views on religion, while widely known, have not yet seen an adequate explenation. The main purpose of the article is to show how Kołakowski’s thoughts have evolved over time and what led this fierce critic of religion to become one of the most ardent advocate of Christianity

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The Problem of Autonomy of the Philosophy of Culture

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Daszkiewicz W.

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2022

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vol. 11

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issue 1

89-117

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Philosophy of culture as a discipline exploring the way of human existence in the world is based on general metaphysics and philosophical anthropology. Taking into account the formal subject and the method, philosophy of culture is a type of metaphysical explanation that aims to indicate the final ontological reasons for the existence of culture, and therefore it is called the “metaphysics of culture.” The metaphysical perspective of explaining the phenomenon of culture is an original contribution to the contemporary discourse on culture. The understanding of culture requires solving the dispute about the understanding of the world, and above all about the understanding of human being. It is only in such a broad perspective that a fact of culture can be justified by pointing to its causative, exemplary and deliberate cause. in this context, the special attractiveness of the metaphysics of culture is revealed, which, paradoxically, manifests itself in the lack of autonomy in relation to general metaphysics and philosophical anthropology. Thanks to this, explanation of a fact of culture is placed in the field of cognitive realism, pluralism and in the context of understanding human being as a person. in this way, the metaphysics of culture provides a final justification (in the ontic order) of a fact of culture, while culture, as an intellectualization of nature, can form the basis for the particular aspects present in such rich forms in the area of the particular sciences.

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Philosophical Anthropology and Ethics in the Thought of Karol Wojtyła

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Hołub G.

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2022

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vol. 11

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issue 1

145-161

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This article concerns the way of philosophizing by Karol Wojtyła; a special emphasis is put on the relation between philosophical anthropology and ethics in his thought. The Polish thinker was active in both of them and it seems initially that ethics was his main area of expertise. However, a close examination of select works of Wojtyła confirms that philosophical anthropology was his main field. He was interested in how the person is revealed in his acts, including moral acts. Thus, the person as such remains at the center of attention and reflection of the thinker and his involvement in ethics was to demonstrate how that person matures on the dynamic level. Karol Wojtyła is pre-eminently a philosopher of the human person.

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Problema corporalităţii în proza lui Max Blecher şi a lui Bruno Schulz din perspectiva antropologiei filosofice

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Teodorowicz J.

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia

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2020

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vol. 47

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issue 3

123-138

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The article discusses the problem of corporality in Max Blecher’s novels and Bruno Schulz’s short stories from the perspective of philosophical anthropology. The motifs of body and matter, predominant in both authors’ work, are a means of presenting the place of man in the universe and dealing with such questions as identity or ontology. Through the use of somatic metaphors all the elements of the fictional world are anthropomorphised or given human characteristics, which leads to the lack of hierarchy. Whereas philosophical anthropology presents humans as active and rational beings, Blecher and Schulz stress the illusion of man’s individuality and question his privileged position in the world.

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Człowiek w fantomatycznej rzeczywistości. (Według Summa Technologiae Stanisława Lema)

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Wojewoda B.

ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

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2018

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issue 36

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(Abstrakt w języku polskim poniżej)Beata WojewodaPedagogical CollegeTechnical University of SilesiaPolandMan in a Phantomatic World(Summa Technologiae by Stanisław Lem)Abstract: Among other motifs recurring in Stanisław Lem's futurological essays written in the 1960s and later collected in his Summa Technologiae, the motif of a future man immersed in an artificially created reality, in which a number of otherwise impossible experiences become his share, looms particularly large. Lem explores ways to introduce the human to the space of cybernetic illusions and reflects upon the possibilities of a wide scale multiplication or reduplication of impressions, experiences and information to eventually point to the gravity of potential consequences of the above. The author of the article analyses the futuristic visions of the writer, which, collectively, turn out to be the building blocks of the latter's technological dystopia. The process of perfecting the machine is unstoppable, and thus - next to the positive prospects of the future related to the evolution of knowledge, communications, entertainment - what emerges from Lem’s observations is a warning which stresses the need to warrant the preservation of human freedom by safeguarding it in the world of new technologies.Keywords: philosophical anthropology, 20th century Polish literature, futurology Człowiek w fantomatycznej rzeczywistości (Według Summa Technologiae Stanisława Lema) Streszczenie: W esejach futurologicznych Stanisława Lema z lat sześćdziesiątych, zebranych w Summie Technologiae, obok innych wątków pojawia się opis człowieka przyszłości zanurzonego w sztucznie wykreowanej rzeczywistości, w której wiele rzeczy niemożliwych staje się jego udziałem. Lem rozważa sposoby wprowadzania człowieka w cybernetyczne złudzenia, możliwości powielania wrażeń, doświadczeń i informacji na szeroką skalę oraz wynikające stąd konsekwencje. Autorka artykułu poddaje analizie technologiczne wizje pisarza, które składają się na antyutopię technologiczną. Udoskonalanie się maszyn jest procesem niemożliwym do zatrzymania. Obok pozytywnych perspektyw związanych dostępem do informacji, komunikacją i rozrywką, z wypowiedzi Lema wyłania się również przestroga dotycząca konieczności zadbania o zachowanie wolności w świecie nowych technologii.Słowa kluczowe: antropologia filozoficzna, literatura polska XX w., futurologia

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(Abstrakt w języku polskim poniżej)Beata WojewodaPedagogical CollegeTechnical University of SilesiaMan in a Phantomatic World(Summa Technologiae by Stanisław Lem)Abstract: Among other motifs recurring in Stanisław Lem's futurological essays written in the 1960s and later collected in his Summa Technologiae, the motif of a future man immersed in an artificially created reality, in which a number of otherwise impossible experiences become his share, looms particularly large. Lem explores ways to introduce the human to the space of cybernetic illusions and reflects upon the possibilities of a wide scale multiplication or reduplication of impressions, experiences and information to eventually point to the gravity of potential consequences of the above. The author of the article analyses the futuristic visions of the writer, which, collectively, turn out to be the building blocks of the latter's technological dystopia. The process of perfecting the machine is unstoppable, and thus - next to the positive prospects of the future related to the evolution of knowledge, communications, entertainment - what emerges from Lem’s observations is a warning which stresses the need to warrant the preservation of human freedom by safeguarding it in the world of new technologies.Keywords: philosophical anthropology, 20th century Polish literature, futurology Człowiek w fantomatycznej rzeczywistości (Według Summa Technologiae Stanisława Lema) Streszczenie: W esejach futurologicznych Stanisława Lema z lat sześćdziesiątych, zebranych w Summie Technologiae, obok innych wątków pojawia się opis człowieka przyszłości zanurzonego w sztucznie wykreowanej rzeczywistości, w której wiele rzeczy niemożliwych staje się jego udziałem. Lem rozważa sposoby wprowadzania człowieka w cybernetyczne złudzenia, możliwości powielania wrażeń, doświadczeń i informacji na szeroką skalę oraz wynikające stąd konsekwencje. Autorka artykułu poddaje analizie technologiczne wizje pisarza, które składają się na antyutopię technologiczną. Udoskonalanie się maszyn jest procesem niemożliwym do zatrzymania. Obok pozytywnych perspektyw związanych dostępem do informacji, komunikacją i rozrywką, z wypowiedzi Lema wyłania się również przestroga dotycząca konieczności zadbania o zachowanie wolności w świecie nowych technologii.Słowa kluczowe: antropologia filozoficzna, literatura polska XX w., futurologia

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Author's Summary: "Philosophical Anthropology: Outline of Fundamental Problems," by Roman Darowski

Review: "Philosophical Anthropology: Outline of Fundamental Problems," by Roman Darowski.

Being Human Among Humans: Plurality in the Divided World

Alicja Kuczyńska’s Social Aesthetics

The Centered Reality. Helmuth Plessner’s Anti-naturalistic Account

The Human Difference: Beyond Nomotropism

Ideologiczne a filozoficzne odniesienie do istot żywych

The Christian philosophy of man in Poland in the face of the challenges of the 20th and 21st centuries

Wcielenie, historia i postludzki sposób produkcji.

Przeciw zamykaniu przyszłości

Philosophy of Sport in Poland: Observations

Mortality as a Philosophical-Anthropological Issue: Thanatology, Normativity, and "Human Nature"

Proekologiczna metanoia współczesnego człowieka jako warunek przetrwania cywilizacji ludzkiej

Kim są uczestnicy Buberowskiego dialogu?

FAMILY IN THE CONTEXT OF RELATIONS BETWEEN FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY: CRISIS OR EVOLUTION?

Leszek Kołakowski o religii

The Problem of Autonomy of the Philosophy of Culture

Philosophical Anthropology and Ethics in the Thought of Karol Wojtyła

Problema corporalităţii în proza lui Max Blecher şi a lui Bruno Schulz din perspectiva antropologiei filosofice

Człowiek w fantomatycznej rzeczywistości. (Według Summa Technologiae Stanisława Lema)