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The article presents several examples of different mathematical structures and interprets their properties related to the existence of universal functions. In this context, relations between the problem of totality of elements and possible forms of universal functions are analyzed. Furthermore, some global and local aspects of the mentioned functional systems are distinguished and compared. In addition, the paper attempts to link universality and totality with the dynamic and static properties of mathematical objects and to consider the problem of limitations in the construction of structures combining harmoniously the availability of information at the local and global level.
The Lawyer Quarterly
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2021
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vol. 11
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issue 3
506-517
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This paper aspires to defend the universality of human rights against cultural relativism. The relativism claims that human rights are not universal enough, but even if they were, it would not imply they should always prevail over other moral or legal norms. This paper advocates the opposite: the human right corpus is universal enough because it has been drafted and approved by representatives of all cultures which are dominant in the current globalized world in the context of actual or latent international political conflicts. The intercultural consensus on human rights is overlapping, i.e., the human rights corpus contributes to realizing the comprehensive doctrines of good that are held in all participating cultures. Although the consensus on human rights does not inevitably lead to a uniform moral and legal practice, it also plays a crucial role in a purely declaratory level – it creates a common language through which various cultures can conceptualize their different moral and legal attitudes. Therefore, the language of human rights should take at least prima facie precedence over other moral systems whether stemming from a religion or a particular moral or political philosophy.
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The article aims at revealing the historical reinterpretations of one of social sciences’ key concepts, namely that of ideology. Referring to the analyses of Étienne Balibar and Jacques Derrida, it tries, firstly, to clarify the main moments of the Marxian concept of ideology. In Karl Marx’s view ideology is an expression of the social deformations of consciousness in class divided bourgeois society, while in the works of his disciples, among others Louis Althusser, the ideological phenomenon is generalized and con-ceived of as a basic principle of all human practice and as a necessary condition for the social integration of individuals. Moving still further form Marx, Pierre Bourdieu deep-ens Louis Althusser’s line of interpretation and abandons the very concept of ideology substituting for it the concepts of “doxa,” which does not bind human sociality to con-sciousness, but to corporeal dispositions. Unlike ideology, doxa is not just an effect of an already constituted social reality, but rather a principle of its constitution, and, there-fore, a principle of constitution of social domination as well.
Human Affairs
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2014
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vol. 24
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issue 1
7-19
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In what senses can the academy be said to be a site of culture? Does that very idea bear much weight today? Perhaps the negative proposition has more substance, namely that the academy is no longer (if indeed it ever was) a place of culture. After all, we live in dark times-of unbridled power, tyranny, domination and manipulation. Some say that we have entered an age of the posthuman or even the inhuman. It just may be, however, that in such a world, the academic community is needed more than ever for it offers a culture of justified revelation. It is a culture that reveals the world to us in new ways, but in ways that are attested and contested; its judgements emerge out of a critical and unworldly pedantry. With some hesitancy, we can legitimately therefore speak of not just a culture of the academic community but, indeed, the culture of the academic community.
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Although the concept of human nature may seem problematic, its a-historical essentialism can be used to show the fall of modern European philosophy into the historical pit of unsolvable contradictions. This paper explores the problems of logical contradictions between the modern and universalistic concept of human nature and the discriminative model of inferior-superior humans, mainly illustrated by racism. First, this papershows that the concept of human nature is valid beyond the arguments related to evolution and social contexts, although the human nature is modelled by them, and that the concept is not opposed to the specific cultural peculiarities of different human communities. Furthermore, common elements of racism both at the moment of its creation and nowadays suggest a radical possibility for resolving the antagonisms between the thesisof universality in the human being and the thesis of the particularity of unique cultures.
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Richard Rorty postulates that we relinquish relying on the “Platonic” idea of something common to us all, something uniting us with others, and cease the search for both universal justifications and truths. Rorty fears, and backs his fears with examples from history, that referring to something uniting us may serve those who shall state that there is some right, true model of living, of collective cooperation, and that only one form of social and political organization is right for us. Because if there is a truth about human beings, about relations with others, then in accordance with the traditional way of thinking, we should act on it, and any opposing action, freethinking, should not take place. Each and every human being should act according to fixed – uncovered – standards, and those who disobey should be directed onto the right path. In short, one of Rorty’s firm beliefs is that the idea of human being, of truth, particular perspectives determine our choices – perhaps this is how Rorty’s intuition may be expressed within one sentence. But is such an opinion justified? In the hereby article I shall say it is not; whether we are universalists or constructivists, our choices may be of the same kind. At the same time, having the same metaphysical or constructivist beliefs, we may arrive at quite different choices.
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Should we be afraid of the truth? This question is important not only for the world of philosophy, but also politics. Reluctance to fixed and immutable foundation used to characterize the left . This right has traditionally appealed to what is permanent, unchanging, universal, in what social order should be rooted. And for that it is criticized. It has been suggested that we should reject the right-wing chains, reject universalism, to become free and head toward postmodernism. Postmodernism today seems to give hope for further development, including policy based on new narratives – particularly left-wing. Postmodernism, as it is seen by Grzegorz Lewicki, seems to be close to the critical theory that can help us in the liberation and emancipation. Closer analysis, however, allows us to see that also in critical theory there is a desire to discover the truth about what is reality. It also allows to see that the category of truth is not as bad as it is painted. It is not necessary to get rid of the reference to the category of truth, because truth is not the problem in itself. We can still keep it without sacrificing what was the best in postmodernism. If we are successful, then there might be the chance to reconcile the left with the right.
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2020
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vol. 21
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issue 36
99-114
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This is the second of a pair of articles addressing the relationship between Dostoevsky’s novella Notes from the Underground and Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The first article considered the similarities between the two texts, using David Magarshack’s 1968 English translation of the Notes, before discussing the wider phenomenon of Hamletism in nineteenth-century Russia. In this article, the author focuses on the problem of translation, identifying a handful of instances in the Magarshack translation that directly ‘insert’ Shakespeare, and Hamlet in particular, into Dostoevsky’s text. It is argued that these allusions or citations overdetermine the English reader’s experience of Shakespeare-and-Dostoevsky, or Shakespeare-in-Dostoevsky. Returning to the question of Shakespeare’s status in Europe in the nineteenth century, the article concludes with a critique of Shakespearean ‘universality’ as it manifests through the nuances of translation.
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The article analyzes political and epistemological limitations of postmoderncritique of justice in the midst of an economic and ideological rule of freemarket universalism. Interpreting the lack of political response to a fire of chickenprocessing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, which took 25 victims, the authordiscusses questions of identity politics, multiculturalism, situatedness, othernessand difference. It is impossible, in Harvey’s opinion, to discuss them apart frompolitical environment and material conditions. The return to economic issues (includingquestion of exploitation, class and accumulation), neglected by postmodernists,and epistemology based on historical and geographical materialism provideus with an opportunity for the recovery of concepts of universality (in dialecticalrelation with particularity) and social justice as a powerful mobilizing discourse forpolitical action.
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Artykuł analizuje polityczne i epistemologiczne ograniczenia postmodernistycznej krytyki sprawiedliwości w dobie ekonomicznychi ideologicznych rządów uniwersalizmu wolnorynkowego.Interpretując brak politycznej odpowiedzi na pochłaniający 25 ofiar pożar zakładu przetwórstwa drobiu w Hamlet w Karolinie Północnej, autor podejmuje dyskusję nad kwestiami polityki tożsamości, wielokulturowości, usytuowania, inności i różnicy. Zdaniem Harveya nie sposób o nich argumentować w oderwaniu od otoczenia politycznego i warunków materialnych. To właśnie powrót do zaniedbywanej przez postmodernistów problematyki ekonomicznej (w tym kwestii wyzysku, klasy czy akumulacji) oraz epistemologia oparta na materializmie historyczno-geograficznym pozwalają na odzyskanie pojęć uniwersalności (w dialektycznej relacji z partykularnością) i sprawiedliwości społecznej jako potężnego dyskursu mobilizującego działania polityczne.
Glottodidactica
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2014
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vol. 41
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issue 1
7-21
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The article is dealing with aspects of European communication based on Eurobarometer 2010-2012 exploring the evolution of the public opinion of the EU Member States. The analysis of the European communication will be realized by linguistic and communication research tools such as semiotic-mythological method, discursive method, socio-psychological method, semantic differential, contrastive method and questionnaires. The general aim of the article isconcentrated on the research of interconnected impacts of public opinions along central European questions and in comparison between opinion items in Poland and Germany.
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The article is dealing with aspects of European communication based on Eurobarometer 2010-2012 exploring the evolution of the public opinion of the EU Member States. The analysis of the European communication will be realized by linguistic and communication research tools such as semiotic-mythological method, discursive method, socio-psychological method, semantic differential, contrastive method and questionnaires. The general aim of the article is concentrated on the research of interconnected impacts of public opinions along central European questions and in comparison between opinion items in Poland and Germany.
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The aim of this paper is to present an approach in metaphysics/ontology, which is founded on two distinctions: abstract–concrete and universal–particular. To different cognitive issues one can assign different “categorical coordinates”, namely: a place in the spectrum of abstractness and one of the three following characteristics: particularity, proper universality, total universality. The thesis of this paper is that metaphysics should be located in the region of universality and high degrees of abstractness. Such a localization is connected with specific cognitive difficulties which are present in this branch of philosophy. I demonstrate some problems from the history of philosophy which could be interpreted as caused by these difficulties. Applicability of my thesis to such concrete cases is treated as its indirect justification.
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Benoit B. Mandelbrot, when discussing the global appeal of fractal patterns and de- signs, draws upon examples from across numerous world cultures. What may be missed in Mandelbrot's presentation is Immanuel Kant’s precedence in recognizing this sort of widespread beauty in art and nature, fractals avant la lettre. More importantly, the idea of the fractal may itself assist the aesthetic attitude which Kantian beauty requires. In addition, from a Kantian perspective, fractal patterns may offer a source for a sense of community with humanity. I close with an excursus on the more sombre note of Kantian sublimity which fractals can also present.
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On Semantic Annotation in Clarin-PL Parallel CorporaIn the article, the authors present a proposal for semantic annotation in Clarin-PL parallel corpora: Polish-Bulgarian-Russian and Polish-Lithuanian ones. Semantic annotation of quantification is a novum in developing sentence level semantics in multilingual parallel corpora. This is why our semantic annotation is manual. The authors hope it will be interesting to IT specialists working on automatic processing of the given natural languages. Semantic annotation defined the way it is defined here will make contrastive studies of natural languages more efficient, which in turn will help verify the results of those studies, and will certainly improve human and machine translations.
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About meanings as a rule not included in dictionariesThe article discusses the problem of ambiguity of the exponents of logical existential quantification occurring in the verbal group of Bulgarian, Polish and Russian sentences: Bulg. отвреме навреме, понякога, Pol. od czasu do czasu, czasem, czasami, Rus. время от времени, иногда. This ambiguity can be explained by strong and weak existential quantification. Lexical semantics did not distinguish between these two types of existentiality. Here we present a description of selected exponents of logical existential quantification in Bulgarian, Polish and Russian.
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The aim of the paper is to analyse, using the structuralist approach, the structure of the male characters in "L’arte della gioia" by Goliarda Sapienza and the meaning—universal or local, symbolic or real—attributed by the writer to them, through the example of six male figures. This approach allows us to delve into the literary text, leaving the biographical, historical, and ideological context outside of the analysis, focusing on internal dynamics that are purely literary. Modesta’s father and her husband, as universal figures of a patriarchal system, illustrate and symbolise the subversion of its laws by Modesta. Modesta’s lovers, Carmino and Carlo, are models of real accomplishments of important male roles (father, husband, lover) whose representation is limited by geopolitical stereotypes. Pietro, Modesta’s loyal "gabellotto", embodies local, Sicilian relationships and, as a result, he symbolises the persistence of archaic laws of Sicilian society. With Prando, Modesta’s son, Sapienza realistically illustrates the passage from adolescence to masculinity by showing some universal rules that occur in this transition. The structure of the male characters turns out to be geometric and very clear and is proof of the writer’s great literary awareness and writing skills.
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Lo scopo dell’articolo è quello di analizzare – ricorrendo all’approccio strutturalista – il sistema dei personaggi maschili ne "L’arte della gioia" di Goliarda Sapienza e il significato – universale o locale, simbolico o reale – attribuitogli dalla scrittrice, sull’esempio di sei personaggi principali. Tale approccio consente di addentrarsi nel testo letterario lasciando al di fuori dell’analisi il contesto biografico, storico ed ideologico, e di focalizzarsi sulle dinamiche interne puramente letterarie. Il padre e il marito di Modesta, in quanto figure universali del sistema patriarcale, illustrano e simboleggiano la sovversione delle sue leggi alla quale contribuisce Modesta. I suoi amanti, Carmino e Carlo, sono modelli di una reale attuazione degli importanti ruoli maschili (padre, marito, amante), la cui rappresentazione è tuttavia limitata dagli stereotipi geopolitici. Pietro, il leale gabellotto di Modesta, incarna una relazione interpersonale tipicamente locale, siciliana ed in quanto tale simboleggia la persistenza di alcune arcaiche leggi della società siciliana. Con Prando, figlio di Modesta, Sapienza illustra realisticamente il passaggio dall’adolescenza alla mascolinità, mostrando alcune leggi universali su cui si basa tale passaggio. Il sistema dei personaggi maschili risulta essere una struttura geometrica e molto chiara, cosa che testimonia della grande consapevolezza della letteratura della scrittrice nonché delle sue capacità scrittorie.
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2022
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vol. 20
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issue 4
221-232
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The article aims to draw attention to the issue of human rights protection in the general and European aspect in relation to the applicable normative bases. This paper presents the essence of human rights as the rights of every individual through detailed description on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, presentation of legal acts protecting human rights in the United Nations system and illustrations of the importance of the European human rights protection system. The author focuses primarily on the universality and effectiveness of respect for human rights.
PL
Artykuł ma na celu zwrócenie uwagi na zagadnienie ochrony praw człowieka w aspekcie powszechnym i europejskim w odniesieniu do obowiązujących podstaw normatywnych. Niniejsza praca ukazuje istotę praw człowieka jako przysługujących każdej jednostce poprzez szczegółowe rozważania dotyczące Powszechnej Deklaracji Praw Człowieka, przedstawieniu aktów chroniących prawa człowieka w systemie ONZ, jak i ilustracje znaczenia europejskiego systemu ochrony praw człowieka. Autor skupia uwagę przede wszystkim na powszechności i skuteczności poszanowania praw człowieka.
PL
Europa uznana jest za model cywilizacyjny, w którym państwa usytuowane w przestrzeni wielonarodowej i wielokulturowej, tworzą integralne terytorium dla rozwoju kultur narodowych. Celem tego referatu jest rozszerzenie tej kwalifikacji w świetle obecnych debat wokół „kryzysu europejskiego”, poprzez koncepcję Europy jako habitusu hinternarodowego. Ponawiam przy tym pytanie, czy w odniesieniu do Europy możliwy jest nowy dyskurs uniwersalności oraz jaka powinna być reakcja intelektualistów europejskich, zwłaszcza akademików, wobec kryzysów „uniwersalizmu europejskiego”.
EN
Europe is considered to be a model of civilisation, with the states in a multicultural and multinational space, creating the integral territory for the development of national cultures. So the purpose of this paper is to add to that qualification, in the context of the actual “European crisis debate”, the concept of Europe as the hinternational habitus. There is also a question—in relation to Europe—is any new discourse of universality possible? And what should be the reaction of European intellectuals, especially academics, in response to the crises of the “European universalism”?
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2020
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vol. 48
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issue 1
76-95
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The article presents thesis (claimed by Alasdair MacIntyre) that arguing about the meaning of such notions as 'identity', 'subjectivity', 'freedom' is unsolvable. These conflicts are based on a wrong concept that there is only one true rationality. MacIntyre confronts such concept (universalism) with that one which admits that there are many different types of rationalities (rooted in different traditions). The first part of the article shows his (MacIntyre) understanding of universality and tradition. The second focuses on such notions as identity and freedom developed in two traditions, liberlism and virtue ethics. In the end it presents the conclusion that the factor which distinguishes these two traditions is the fact of existing (not existing) goods of excellence.
PL
Artykuł przedstawia tezę (postawioną przez Alasdaira MacIntyre'a), że spór o znaczenie takich pojęć jak ‘tożsamość’, ‘podmiotowość’, ‘wolność’, jest nierozstrzygalny. Konflikty wokół nich opierają się na błędnym założeniu, że istnieje tylko jedna prawdziwa racjonalność. MacIntyre konfrontuje taką koncepcję (uniwersalizm) z podejściem, które przyznaje, że istnieje wiele różnych rodzajów racjonalności (zakorzenionych w różnych tradycjach). Pierwsza część artykułu prezentuje jak MacIntyre rozumie uniwersalność i tradycję Druga koncentruje się na takich pojęciach, jak tożsamość i wolność, rozwijanych przez dwie tradycje: liberalizm i etykę cnoty. Na koniec przedstawia wniosek, że czynnikiem odróżniającym od siebie te dwie tradycje jest fakt istnienia (nieistnienia) dóbr doskonałości.
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The paper Patriotism as one of the paths to holiness based on the life and scriptures of Saint Rafał Kalinowski presents the thesis that Christians are called to life according to the Gospel in all dimensions of their existence and that growing up in God, they also grow as human beings. The above statement is confronted with the latest Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francis Gaudete et exsultate, in which the Holy Father invites every man to live in holiness more human and more alive, i.e. to live simple and ordinary life with love to God and neighbour. Based on the life and scriptures of Saint Rafał Kalinowski it was presented how this man, initially full of romantic excitement and brought up in a patriotic family, experienced the conversion and from the understanding of patriotism as a secular and civic value, he opened himself to the experience of patriotism both as a religious virtue and as a way in which he seeks to unite with God saving people of all centuries.
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W pracy pt. Patriotyzm jako jedna z dróg do świętości w świetle życia i pism św. Rafała Kalinowskiego zaprezentowałam tezę, że chrześcijanin jest powołany do życia Ewangelią we wszystkich wymiarach swojej egzystencji i że wzrastając w Bogu, wzrasta on też jako człowiek. Powyższe stwierdzenie skonfrontowałam z najnowszą adhortacją papieża Franciszka Gaudete et exsultate, w której Ojciec Święty zaprasza każdego człowieka do życia w świętości bardziej ludzkiej i bardziej żywej, to znaczy do prostego zwyczajnego życia przeżywanego z miłością ku Bogu i bliźnim. W świetle życia i pism św. Rafała Kalinowskiego ukazałam, jak ten człowiek początkowo pełen romantycznych uniesień i wychowany w patriotycznej rodzinie, przeżył nawrócenie serca i z rozumienia patriotyzmu jako wartości świeckiej i obywatelskiej otworzył się na doświadczenie patriotyzmu jako cnoty religijnej i przestrzeni, w której dąży do zjednoczeniem z Bogiem zbawiającym ludzi wszystkich wieków.
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The paper describes the difficulties which go along with the possible acceptance of religious standards from other civilization circle by the current legal systems of European countries, taking into account their firmly established civilization principles, legally, culturally and religiously determined. Based on the comparison of the focal documents, which reflect the current universal concept of human rights and freedoms in European legal systems the paper critically speaks about the hypothesis of mutual legal compatibility with the regional modification of such documents and in the respective, as chosen by the author, civilization circle. In this context, it refers mainly to the Charter of Fundamental Rights which has become an essential part of the majority of European legal orders.
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Příspěvek nastiňuje úskalí, která provázejí možnou akceptaci náboženských norem z jiného civilizačního okruhu současnými právními systémy evropských zemí, a to se zřetelem k jejich pevně ukotveným civilizačním zásadám, determinovaným právně, kulturně a nábožensky. Na základě srovnání ústředního dokumentu, který v moderní historii předznamenal dnešní univerzální právní pojetí lidských práv a svobod v evropských právních systémech, s jeho regionální modifikací v jiném, autorem zvoleném, civilizačním okruhu, se příspěvek kriticky vyslovuje k hypotéze vzájemné právní kompatibility. V tomto kontextu odkazuje zejména na Listinu základních lidských práv a svobod, která se stala neodmyslitelnou součástí většiny evropských právních řádů.
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