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Voltaire’s Radicalism

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This article reminds the reader of the views of Voltaire, one of the most prominent and influential philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment. Voltaire’s radicalism manifested itself mainly in anticlericalism which was consistent, uncompromising and voiced without mincing words. A general aim of this article is to demonstrate to his contemporary imitators, who can be found in different countries including Poland, that they are in fact more or less accurate copies of him and they are not always aware of whom they imitate and what value this imitation has. Perhaps this article can make them, if not more restrained in their statements and practical actions, at least more self-critical and taking into account what is expressed in public discourse.
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The article’s starting point is the consideration of selected works of Anatole France’s, André Gide’s and Guillaume Apolinaire’s, which over a hundred years ago would constitute a separate trend in the French pre-Vatican church. What differentiates the criticism of what is known as ultramontanism from the traditional anticlerical satire is the tone of persiflage, irony and theological erudition of almost grotesque proportions. In the 1950s, Roger Peyrefitte, a diplomat and a satirist of the Vatican, was an outstanding heir to this stylistic and thematic tradition. When translating his The Keys of St. Peter in 1959, Hanna Szumańska-Grossowa had to refer to the aforementioned author, who had lived half a century earlier, and work out a narrative of her own based on the achievements of J. Sten (Anatole France), Tadeusz Żeleński-Boy (André Gide) and Adam Ważyk (GuillaumeApollinaire).
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An interesting conceptual dispute, usually called a confrontation between “the old” and “the young”, developed at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Although by its name defined as a “clash of generations”, the dispute was basically rooted in differences between two groups of writers concerning their attitudes toward arts: of traditionalists, whose starting point was the principle of the unity of truth, beauty and good, and of modernists, who relied on aestheticism and concept of l’art pour l’art’. “The young”, while upholding individualism, particularly used to stress their anti-Catholicism. The author checks whether at their root there was anti-Catholicism. He comes to the conclusion that Croatian Moderna was not an organised anti-Christian or anti-Chatolic movement, even though it isn’t doubtful that anticlericalism of “the young”, to a large degree, assumed contours of antagonism towards public expression of Catholicism in culture, harbingering at the same time secularist conceptual processes that were expressed later in the political field and all the other fields of social life.
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The Metropolitan Archbishop Andrey Sheptytsky was the head of the Greek Catholic Church in Eastern Małopolska in 1901-1946. When he assumed the duties of a bishop, he realised that work with the intelligentsia would be more difficult than with other people. However, he still wished to be their spiritual leader in their Christian life. He never wanted to set the clergy against the intelli-gentsia; he did not believe they were in opposite camps. He summoned those who declared they affiliation with the Greek Catholic Church to manifest it in their everyday living. Moreover, he op-posed those who demanded that the Greek Catholics join the Orthodox Church for the sake of na-tional unity of the Ukrainians. Many people representing the world of culture and science considered him as the most im-portant defender of the Ukrainian nation’s rights.
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W artykule wyjaśniono, w jaki sposób nauczanie św. Józefa Sebastiana Pelczara, zwłaszcza w dziedzinie życia społecznego, a także w odniesieniu do kwestii politycznych i gospodarczych, było w dużej mierze pod wpływem atmosfery politycznej epoki oraz wydarzeń, takich jak koniec państwa kościelnego, Komuny Paryskiej oraz ogólnym wzrostem socjalizmu, antyklerykalizmu i Masonerii. Józef Stefan Pelczar starał się znaleźć odpowiednie odpowiedzi na te zagrożenia dla kościoła, zwłaszcza poprzez promowanie różnych organizacji katolickich.
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The paper explains how the teaching of St J. S. Pelczar, especially in the area of social life, and in respect to political and economic questions, was largely influenced by the political atmosphere of the age, and the events such as the end of the Papal States, the Commune of Paris, and the general rise of socialism, anti-clericalism and freemasonry. J. S. Pelczar tried to find adequate answers to these threats to the Church, especially by promoting various Catholic organisations.
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The (Transforming) Role of Intellectuals in the Process of the “Atheization” of Czech Society in the 2nd Half of 20th CenturyThe article deals with resonance, development, and changes in various forms of atheism in the works of Czech, especially Marxist, intellectuals in the second half of the 20th century. Attention is also paid to their influence on public opinion, especially in connection with a rise in negative attitude of a large part of the Czech public towards religion. The study is based primarily on historical and discursive analyses of the works of principal authors from the 1950s to 1989. Among the authors discussed are important figures such as Ivan Sviták, Milan Machovec, and Vítězslav Gardavský. Rola intelektualistów w procesie „ateizacji” społeczeństwa czeskiego w drugiej połowie XX wieku i jej transformacjaArtykuł dotyczy oddziaływania, rozwoju i zmian różnych form ateizmu w twórczości czeskich, zwłaszcza marksistowskich, intelektualistów w drugiej połowie XX wieku. Omawia również ich wpływ na opinię publiczną, przede wszystkim w obliczu narastania negatywnego stosunku do religii u dużej części czeskiego społeczeństwa. Opracowanie opiera się szczególnie na historycznych i dyskursywnych analizach dzieł głównych autorów od lat 50. XX wieku do roku 1989, a zwłaszcza tak ważnych postaci, jak Ivan Sviták, Milan Machovec czy Vítězslav Gardavský.
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Rorty, religia i demokracja

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2013
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issue 35
111-128
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Stanowisko Rorty’ego, nazwane przezeń ‘antyklerykalizmem’, jest jednym z trzech, obok postsekularyzmu i Nowego Ateizmu, ważnych głosów we współczesnej debacie filozoficznej dotyczącej miejsca religii w przestrzeni publicznej w zachodnich demokracjach. W niniejszym artykule przedstawiam Rortiańskie, neopragmatyczne rozumienie religii jako nawyku działania oraz jego krytyczne stanowisko wobec obecności instytucjonalnych form religijności w przestrzeni publicznej wyznaczanej przez nowoczesne konstytucyjne demokracje. W zakończeniu przedstawiam zarys krytyki stanowiska Rorty’ego, które naraża się na zarzuty o dezinterpretację pojęcia i doświadczenia religijności i jako postulat zmiany politycznej wikła się tym samym w poważne trudności.
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In addition to postsecularism and the New Atheism, Rorty’s idea of „anticlericalism” is one of the three important elements in the modern philosophical debate about the role religion should play in the public sphere in Western democracies. In the paper I discuss Rorty’s neopragmatic understanding of religion as a habit of action and his critical position on the presence of institutional forms of religion in the public sphere of modern constitutional democracies. In the end I sketch a critique of Rorty’s position, which misinterprets the concept and the experience of religiosity and thus involves serious difficulties as a proposal for political change.
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