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Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
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2019
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vol. 47
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issue 2
71 - 88
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The question of that which is good is the common thread tying all of Tischner’s philosophy, one must simply be willing to look for it. The task of finding it is important because otherwise one could be tempted to think that Tischner’s philosophy gradually grows incoherent when it comes to the topics of values and of dialogue. The most important traces of the problematic of the good in Tischner’s early writings is his theory of hope and his avoidance of metaphysics. An important image that will help us understand the problem of hope in Tischner is his view of Abel and Cain. The early question of hope, just like the later question of the good, is what precedes the taking up of the question of values.
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After Erikson's (1963, 1964) conceptualization, a new theory of basic hope is proposed. Basic hope is considered a fundamental constituent of an individual's world view, mostly unconscious and learned very early. It consists of the belief in two characteristics of the world: its higher order and sense and its general positivity towards a human being. Basic Hope Inventory (BHI) was developed to measure the strength of basic hope. The first data indicates that basic hope correlates positively with adaptive reactions to personal loss and with constructive long-term consequences of it and that these correlations are independent from the impact of optimism and hope for success (Snyder, 1994). Basic hope seems to predict positive effects in psychotherapy, it correlates positively with well-being and negatively with anxiety, depression and psychosomatic symptoms.
Studia Psychologica
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2003
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vol. 45
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issue 2
103-110
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The collaborative role of life meaning and hope in positive human functioning is investigated. The research sample consisted of 94 persons in late adulthood (50-79). Reker's Personal Meaning Index (PMI) was used for measuring life meaningfulness and Snyder's Hope Scale for measuring the level of hope. As indicators of mental functioning use was made of Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale (SES), Spielberger's State-Trait Personality Inventory (STPI), which measures one positive characteristic (curiosity) and three negative characteristics (depressiveness, aggressiveness and anxiousness) of mental health, Rotter's internality-externality scale, and dimension neuroticism from NEO Five Factor Inventory. A model with three latent variables was set up: positive life regard (created by meaningfulness and hope), positive mental functioning (self-esteem, curiosity and internality) and negative mental functioning (depressiveness, aggressiveness, anxiousness and neuroticism). The model with a suggested statistical causal influence of positive life regard to positive and negative functioning was tested by LISREL analysis. This analysis showed a strong positive causal influence of positive life regard on positive functioning and a negative causal influence on negative functioning. The discussion deals with the possible contribution of internal locus of control to positive life regard index, as ensued from the results.
Studia Psychologica
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2010
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vol. 52
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issue 4
309-314
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The paper focuses on the question whether hope mediates the effect of personality traits on life satisfaction. It is based on the assumption that the cognitive ability to perceive the possibility of reaching one's own personal goals is an important outcome of personality traits as well as a strong predictor of life satisfaction. The research sample consisted of 451 secondary school and university students in Slovakia with mean age 20.02 years. Hope Scale (Snyder, 1995), Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener et al., 1985), and NEO Five Factor Inventory (Costa, McCrae, 1992, Slovak version Ruisel, Halama, 2007) were used to measure the defined characteristics. The results showed that hope acts as a partial mediator between neuroticism, conscientiousness and life satisfaction, and a full mediator between extraversion and life satisfaction.
Studia Psychologica
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2007
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vol. 49
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issue 3
191-200
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The study examines the question whether meaning in life and hope can explain unique variance of positive mental health not predicted by personality traits. The sample consisted of 148 adolescents (73 males, 75 females) ranging in age from 16 to 19 years. NEO-FFI was used to measure the big five traits, Halama's Life Meaningfulness Scale for measuring meaning in life and Snyder's Hope Scale for measuring hope. To measure positive mental health, use was made of Diener's Satisfaction with Life Scale and Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale. The correlation analysis showed that personality traits, meaning in life and hope have significant correlation with positive mental health variables. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that the big five traits explain 26.1% of life satisfaction variance. Meaning in life but not hope explained additional 8% of variance of life satisfaction. The Big five traits explained 42.4% of self-esteem variance, hope explained additional 8% and meaning in life 4%. The results confirmed that meaning in life is an independent predictor of both life satisfaction and self-esteem, and hope is an independent predictor of self-esteem.
Filozofia (Philosophy)
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2023
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vol. 78
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issue 4
245 – 258
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The aim of the essay is to give a detailed analysis of Theogins’ so-called Hope Elegy (ll. 1135 – 1150) which was considered an earlier fusion of Hesiod’s story of Pandora and the Myth of the races. First, the author focuses on both Hesiod’s story to reveal the context and then turns to the elegy itself to answer why Theognis choose Elpis as the only good god remaining among mankind and why he substitutes Aidōs and Nemesis with Pistis, Sōphrosunē and Charites. The author concludes that Theognis could not let Aidōs and Nemesis go, for if he had, it would have been an indication of the ultimate end of morality for his audience. Using the metaphor of decline Theognis first chose the image of leaving goddesses which is the hallmark of Hesiod’s Iron race last day´s story and mixed it with some other components present in the story like grace, justice, oaths and hubris. Then he took key notions of his own moral thinking – pistis, sōphrosunē and charity and made goddesses from them. Finally, he crowned his elegy by choosing Hesiod’s Elpis with her intrinsic ambiguousness of both expectation and false hope. Such combination enabled him to create a stunning warning for his audience.
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The article concerns the philosophy of Karol Tarnowski. I depict his perspective as metaphysical in its goals but phenomenological and hermeneutical in its starting point and method. Tarnowski begins with an experience called “eschatological awareness”, particularly vivid in recent times, marked by a feeling of uncertainty about the sense of life. It includes a sense of the fundamental inadequacy of the factual world that is grounded in a much less obvious metaphysical longing. Tarnowski's analyses of metaphysical longing are deeply rooted in both Plato and Levinas. However, his thought is closer to the views of the former, since he does not accept the latter's claim that the longing is structurally unsatisfiable. He believes that longing without any hope of satisfaction is absurd, desperate, and irrational. The only way to avoid despair is to maintain hope and faith in God as the source of being and the real and attainable aim of our metaphysical longing. There is, however, no rational necessity of choosing this particular hermeneutics of our existential situation, so the metaphysics of (satisfiable) longing remains conditioned by faith and hope.
Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
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2019
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vol. 47
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issue 1
141 - 161
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This essay constitutes a polemic with the article by Jacek Filek entitled “Hopeness. An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Hope. Basic Distinctions.” I put forward a thesis that the phenomenon of hope by its very nature is “religious” in character. By “religiousness” I do not mean a concrete confession, but a universal dimension of sense, which forms a positive contrast to the definitively finite nature of human existence. In the first part, I question the distinctions proposed by Filek concerning the phenomenon of hope. In the second part, I note that the “object” of hope is the overcoming of human finitude. In the third part, I emphasize that the content of hope, the “transcendence in immanence”, is interpersonal love.
Psychologia Społeczna
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2009
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vol. 4
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issue 4(12)
228-238
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The study focuses on the role of self-referent beliefs: self-efficacy, self-esteem, hope and optimism in the process of planning to work abroad among students. Seeking work abroad was described as the process of goal completion and explained with the help of goal theories. Initial phases of this process include evalua- tion of the goal, formation of intention to work abroad, and formulation of a plan. Data were collected from 196 Polish students, during the last year before graduation. Structural eąuation modeling showed that self- efficacy, self-esteem and hope play the most important role in the process of seeking work abroad.
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The main aim of the longitudinal study was to investigate the effect of both the cognitive sphere (i.e. self-appraisal of health) and affective state (i.e. anxiety and hope) on meaning in life as perceived by chronically ill patients. The rationale of the study was the theory of meaningfulness of suffering by V. E. Frankl. Participants were 181 patients with either arterial hypertension or neoplasms with bad prognosis, examined thrice: up to 10 days since the diagnosis (stage I), about 5 weeks from the diagnosis (stage II) and at a follow-up about 5 months since stage II (stage III). Multiple regression analysis revealed a statistically significant effect of both the cognitive and affective sphere on the patients' spirituality, irrespective of the type of illness and stage of the study.
Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
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2017
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vol. 45
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issue 1
115-128
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The aim of the following essay is to present the concept of hope included in the philosophic work of Albert Camus. In the essay, I contest the classification of Camus as an atheistic thinker; without interpreting the sum of his work as theistic philosophy, similarly to Thomas Merton, I define Camus as a ‘religious thinker’. After describing the most important concepts of the French philosopher of the absurd and of metaphysical rebellion, I move on to the characteristics of a concept closely associated with the two aforementioned ones – hope. Hope, as understood by Camus, springs from rebellion against the pervasive evil that is defined in interpersonal injustice, indifference, and hatred, and which concludes in death. It is precisely the issue of death and the inability to provide absolute answers regarding the existence or nonexistence of God that lead to the theme of hope, which is fulfilled in interpersonal love and ethical heroism towards the overwhelming despair, strictly related to death.
Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
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2018
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vol. 46
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issue 3
103-115
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The subject of the article is the issue of hope in the philosophy of Józef Tischner. The article consists of three parts. In the first part I briefly discuss the general, axiological, and dramatic assumptions of Tischner's reflection on hope. I emphasize that hope, while arising from the experience of evil, turns to the transcendent Good. In the second part, I underline that the concrete object of hope is interpersonal love, which is why hope is dialogical (hope for the transfer of life, social hope). But hope does not end with human life, therefore, in the last part, I emphasize that hope is inseparable from religion. According to Tischner, Christian hope inspired by the Gospel leads to maturity, which opens the perspective of faith in eternity.
Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
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2018
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vol. 46
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issue 2
151-161
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The objective of the article is to raise anew the basic question about hope. A number of distinctions are introduced, such as between a positive hope and a negative hope, a passive and an active hope, and, most importantly, between hope with and without an object, the latter of which is recognized here as the basic phenomenon of hope. Additionally, a dialogical interpretation of hope is proposed, where the human ego is not so much the subject of its hope as the depositary of the hope of the Other. The relationships between hope and desire and hope and promising are also presented in brief.
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