The article discusses the evolution of Albert Camus’ worldview as expressed in his writings. A lot of emphasis is put on the his childhood and youth and their influ ence on his worldview, from the opposition to God, materialism to existentialism and his absurd. The author searches for positive aspects in this difficult worldview, finding them in the humanism of Albert Camus, concentrating on his fascination with beauty, recognising human innate drive to the good, theneed of love which, when confronted with evil, can take on a form of entirely selfless, altruistic caritas.
This paper dwells upon Kamala Markandaya’s construction of motherhood in postindependence rural India as depicted in her 1955 novel, “Nectar in a Sieve”. Caught between changing times, between colonial and postcolonial paradigms, perennial traditions and shifting values, different world views and cultural systems, Markandaya’s main character finds solace and strength in her philosophy of hope and endurance
Beside an editorial note and the edition itself, the article includes a study focusing on three analytical levels. The first of them presents the Latin humanist tract textually, i.e. how it was determined by a formalized narrative mode (so-called ‘writing in excerpts’ derived from ancient authorities which were shared in the community of scholars). The second level investigates the argumentation developed in the text – in this concrete instance, a historical account of the origins of the Slavs and the Bohemian tribe from Transcarpathian region, along with its ideological background that is treated according to the recent concept of humanist ‘fight for honour’ by C. Hirschi. Finally, the author concentrates on the level of further texts which appeared thanks to interpretations of Matthias treatise and provoked – in close connection with the abovementioned formal and content-based levels – an outstanding and unique humanist polemic. It draws attention not only to performative techniques of invective, but also to period discourses of nation as well as strategies for institutionally defining the very possibility of writing that were linked to the categories of ‘order’ and symbolic capital (here with a discussion of academic titles).
This paper deals with the ideological programme of the Brest Bible, expressed in the letter of dedication by Mikołaj Radziwiłł, addressed to the Polish King Sigismund II Augustus. The first part is a short introduction to the problem of biblical humanism of the 16th century. The second and third part deal directly with the letter of dedication. The author focuses on the two ancient rulers mentioned in the letter: Ptolemy II Philadelphus (protector of Septuagint) and the Old Testament Josiah (renewer of the Law). A detailed analysis reveals that the categories of biblical humanism, which shaped the description of both kings, were used to create the parenetic role models, which were to persuade the king to personally take care of the Brest Bible. The last part of the paper points to the problem of gradual confessionalization of biblical humanism. The indirect, allusive introduction of the third royal role model (the Old Testament Manasseh, repenting idolator and destroyer of the Temple idol) suggests that according to the letter of dedication, the final consequence of embracing biblical humanism is to become a devoted supporter of the Reformation.
Treści nauczania na kierunkach informatycznych ulegają częstym zmianom. Powodem tych zmian jest aktualne zapotrzebowanie rynku pracy. Ważnym elementem kształcenia dzisiejszych informatyków jest zachowanie równowagi między stroną techniczną a psychologiczną i humanistyczną w kształceniu informatycznym.
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Content of the curriculum in the fields of information is subject to frequent changes. The reason for these changes is the demand of current labor market. An important element of today’s IT training is a balance between technical aspects and the humanistic psychology and information technology in education
This paper is a review of the book: Stanley Corngold, Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018). The author concludes that Corngold’s book acquaints the reader not only with the thought of Walter Kaufmann, but also with the thought of a prominent, late twentieth century generation that in effect rejected the source of the very culture that nourished it.
The aim of this article is to present the situation of atheists around the world in the face of political and cultural changes in the world due to the increase in religious radicalism, particularly Islamic one, migration and terrorism. The article is of an illustrative character and presents the review of English literature in the scope of the discussed subject matter. Furthermore, the results of the latest global reports on prevalence of atheism in the world and the phenomenon of discrimination against persons not identifying with any faith: atheists, humanists or freethinkers were presented. The results of the selected, recent studies on the social perception of atheists and the phenomena of discrimination against them were shown. Another raised issue was the new social movement called New Atheism widespread mainly in the countries of the Western culture that in the future can constitute a new social and political challenge. Conclusions: Between 2005 and 2012 the number of atheists increased by 3% and currently they constitute 13% of the population of the world, while the percentage of religious people decreased by 9%. Atheists like other minority groups are discriminated against and their situation is dependent on the country in which they live. However, the vast majority of countries in the world violates the rights of persons identifying themselves as atheists. Still, in some countries, the declaration of atheism is forbidden, and in 13 countries the death penalty can be imposed.
The aim of this article is to present the situation of atheists around the world in the face of political and cultural changes in the world due to the increase in religious radicalism, particularly Islamic one, migration and terrorism. The article is of an illustrative character and presents the review of English literature in the scope of the discussed subject matter. Furthermore, the results of the latest global reports on prevalence of atheism in the world and the phenomenon of discrimination against persons not identifying with any faith: atheists, humanists or freethinkers were presented. The results of the selected, recent studies on the social perception of atheists and the phenomena of discrimination against them were shown. Another raised issue was the new social movement called New Atheism widespread mainly in the countries of the Western culture that in the future can constitute a new social and political challenge.
The paper is an attempt to show the humanism of the writers who, in various texts (letters, articles and poems), took stance on the issue of the trial of Rita Gorgon, who was accused of the murder of her employer’s daughter, and the trial of Philipp Halsmann, who was accused of the murder of his father. Since these murders had not been fully clarified, the accused were not considered unequivocally guilty by the writers, which was a starting point for the postulate to lodge an appeal against the sentence.
The article shows the key aspects of the Christological approach to Karl Barth’s teaching about “the humanity of God”. The author argues that in the mirror of Jesus Christ’s humanity the humanity of God included in Jesus’s divine nature is revealed. It is in Jesus Christ that kenosis and gloria, humanum and divinum meet in an amazing way; and in the negotiating space which is constituted by His Person they explain each other, speaking more sonorously with their own voice. Hence the point of departure for a reflection on the problem that is posed here, is looking closely at the formal basis of Barth’s theology. Jesus Christ’s central place – with respect to the contents, form and method – is considered to be one of its most important attributes. The author of Die Kirchliche Dogmatik starts his argument by discussing Jesus Christ’s pre-existence with the help of the doctrine of “the gracious election” that is a modified conception of his earlier Trinitarian theology. It says that God “from the beginning” is directed to man, suggesting a pro-human character of God’s being and acting. In the light of Barth’s doctrine Jesus Christ, as the second Person of the Trinity, is not only the object of election”, but He is also the electing subject. As the One Who Wants to complete the Father’s salutary work, he is the justification and guarantee of our salvation. Barth categorically pronounces himself in favor of the Christological paradigm of the Revelation saying that around history and the dialogue, in which God and a man meet and are together – around a mutually made and kept relation – there is the most complete opening and exchange. It happens in the Person, since Jesus Christ is in the only and in the highest degree: a true God's man (Gott des Menschen) and a true Divine Man (Mensch Gottes). The phrase about the “humanity of God” – is Emmanuel, to whom we pass from the Christological centre, taking into consideration the theological and anthropological consequences following this movement.
The human person has a definitional difficulty. One definition of the human person will be one sided. The human person reflects the philosophical analysis of manifold reciprocal relations and fundamental wholeness. The human person is a unique rational being who is very complex from the domain unified understanding of his nature. It constitutes a rational element and characterized by the social, physical, metaphysical, psychological, existential, global, dialogical, moral, and African plane. The human person is deeply rooted in the fundamental existential question of who he is, what he does governed by its rational ability, cognitive capacity and inter-subjective relation. The human person is both a spiritual and a material being, that is, he is characterized by soul and body. The human person is characterized by the stylization of rational conduct and common good or collective interests. We shall critically examine the psychological, ontological, global, dialogical dimension of the human person, this philosophical elucidation of these dimensions is not exhaustive, the human person can also be viewed from socio-political, moral religious and existential dimension.
The centenary of regaining independence by Poland arouses complex reflections. It leads to summaries but also arouses interest in the processes accompanying these events. The manuscript of Bogdan Suchodolski’s handwriting is an interesting document from this period. There is a reflection about the moral consequences of the First World War and questions about the future of the post-war world. A clear inspiration of Schopenhauer’s pessimism can be noticed there, which makes it an exceptional document in his work and at the same time casts an interesting light on his other achievements.
The centenary of regaining independence by Poland arouses complex reflections. It leads to summaries but also arouses interest in the processes accompanying these events. The manuscript of Bogdan Suchodolski’s handwriting is an interesting document from this period. There is a reflection about the moral consequences of the First World War and questions about the future of the post-war world. A clear inspiration of Schopenhauer’s pessimism can be noticed there, which makes it an exceptional document in his work and at the same time casts an interesting light on his other achievements.
The article presents the relationship between one of the main representatives of Italianhumanism – Pietro Bembo – with Poles. The most important aspect was his friendship withKlemens Janicki who studied in Padua in 1538–1540. His works are a testimony of contactshe had established when in Italy. Bembo was mentioned in Janicki’s works (Variae Elegiae IX,Epigrammata LII). Another element connecting the Italian with Poles were congratulatoryletters on his cardinal appointment. The newly-appointed cardinal was congratulated by kingSigismund the Old via enigmatic figures of Jan Wincenty Dulcis de Lasco and Piotr Kmita.A trace of Bembo’s contact with Poles is also the formal correspondence of his while being thesecretary of Pope Leo X.
This article examines the wartime texts produced by two deeply believing Catholics – Jerzy Andrzejewski and Czesław Miłosz. In 1942, at the time of the deportations to Treblinka, these young but already prominent Warsaw men of letters and believing Catholics engaged in a correspondence which examined the ethical crisis of the Jewish genocide and its impact on Christian humanism. Miłosz and Andrzejewski followed their epistolary exchange with literary responses to the 1943 Ghetto Uprising. Whereas the letters conceptualized possibilities of moral restoration, the literary works – Miłosz’s two poems, Campo di Fiori and Biedny Chrześjanin patrzy na getto (A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto) and Andrzejewski’s novella Wielki Tydzień (Holy Week) – focused on the devastating impact of the Jewish genocide on their Polish Catholic world. These literary works see the event of the Holocaust as an irrevocable failure of the Catholic dogmas of caritas and love for the Other.
This article presents the thesis that the novel The ape is coming to pick up its skull (1943) by Yuri Dombrovsky bears the genre features of a pamphlet and the structure of the novel, which is subordinated to a didactic purpose – the work contains a warning against the dehumanization and degradation of culture. The novel aims to ridicule the fascists and their ideology. The narrator’s attitude towards all the fascist protagonists is dominated by irony and sarcasm. The character construction of the fascists is ruled by schematism. The narrator emphasizes the animal element in them. They are compared to an ape who is a caricature hybrid of a human and a monkey. The “monkey” traits and behaviours are highlighted in their portraits. In the novel, the dialogues and disputes of the main opponents serve to expose the cynical demagogy of fascism and its inability to create any universal values.
The need for affirmation of a human as a challenge for upbringing The article attempts to justify the thesis that in the current situation of an increasing criticism of humanism on the one hand, and a coronavirus pandemic on the other, upbringing requires anthropology which affirms a man. We are talking about raising the value of humanity, related to responsibility for others, oneself and the world. Personalism rooted in Christianism represents such anthropology. The views of Dietrich von Hildebrand, Chantal Delsol and Robert Spaemann, which are mentioned in the text, are the examples of personalistic approaches emphasizing the importance of affirmations of a man and the world. The philosophy of R. Spaemann was subjected to a deeper analysis, from the perspective of consequences for the upbringing. The analysis showed that according to this philosopher, the affirmation of a man is an expression of respect for the human person. The basis of affirmation is an attitude of selflessness. The text ends with educational conclusions formulated in the light of the need for the affirmation of a man and the world. As well as and training of the selflessness.
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CEL NAUKOWY: Celem artykułu jest próba uzasadnienia tezy, zgodnie z którą współczesne wychowanie stanęło wobec szczególnego, pilnego wyzwania – mocnego oparcia się na antropologii afirmującej człowieka. Wymaga tego sytuacja z jednej strony wzmagającej się krytyki humanizmu, z drugiej – przedłużającej się pandemii koronawirusa. PROBLEM I METODY BADAWCZE: Metodą badawczą jest analiza współczesnej sytuacji społeczno-kulturowej i pozycji w niej człowieka i człowieczeństwa w świetle personalistycznej myśli filozoficznej D. von Hildebranda, Ch. Delsol i R. Spaemanna. PROCES WYWODU: Autorka wychodzi od charakterystyki obecnej sytuacji kultury dystansującej się coraz bardziej od idei humanizmu. Równocześnie zwraca uwagę na trudne konsekwencje wychowawcze sytuacji pandemii. Stawia tezę, że jedyną właściwą odpowiedzią jest afirmacja człowieka. Potrzebę takiej postawy uzasadnia, odwołując się do personalizmu chrześcijańskiego w ujęciu D. von Hildebranda, Ch. Delsol i R. Spaemanna. Wywód kończą wnioski dla wychowania. WYNIKI ANALIZY NAUKOWEJ: Przeprowadzona analiza prowadzi do wniosku, iż jedynie personalizm chrześcijański pozwala w pełni uzasadnić potrzebę afirmacji człowieka, wyjaśnić jej rozumienie i wskazać sposoby realizacji tej postawy. WNIOSKI, INNOWACJE, REKOMENDACJE: Wnioski przeprowadzonej analizy dotyczą możliwości kształcenia postawy afirmacji człowieka, wrażliwości na człowieczeństwo. Zdaniem autorki potrzebne jest kształcenie postaw wobec człowieka i świata warunkujących postawę afirmacji człowieka i świata – a to znaczy postaw uznania, zachwytu, podziwu, bezinteresowności.
This brief study presents the main streams in Lithuanian documentary film in our century. It discusses the most interesting work of three generations of Lithuanian directors, and the nature of their politics and narrative structure. Although film expression in the Lithuanian documentary has become more varied at the turn of this century in terms of subject matter, nonetheless, an attempt to return to the film aesthetics of the 1960s through the poetic fusion of the visual with documentary information from the outside world still dominates. The search for formal constructs, the painstaking composition of the visual aspect, narrative lyricism, and an authorial point of view are all typical traits of the contemporary documentary in Lithuania. One could argue that the history of the Lithuanian documentary film is one that is imbued with a poetical style that creatively interprets the world outside. It places at the very centre of the world out there humanity’s fate, and draws reflections on its condition in the contemporary world. Documentaries devoted to history and biography constitute a separate group that introduces variety and, consequently, broadens the field of subject matter featured in the Lithuanian documentary. In addition, one of the important changes that has taken place in Lithuanian films is the subject of the Holocaust in Lithuanian culture and interpreting reality from the perspective of the woman's “patient eye”.
The author of the study explores new trends and technologies in the education process. This suggests the suitabil-ity of introducing innovations not only to teaching methods and forms, but also to change the concept of teaching content, and to change students' approach to learning, to teach them (Petlák E., 2012, pp. 18-19). Of the many approaches to innovative teaching, humanistic principles are considered as a key. They try to present the view on neuropedagogy and neurodidactics, their common feature is the desire to increase the level of pro-gress and the results of the educational process. education, didactic methods, student, neuropedagogy, humanism Autor badania bada nowe trendy i technologie w procesie edukacji. Sugeruje to stosowność wprowadzania inno-wacji nie tylko do metod i form nauczania, ale także do zmiany koncepcji treści nauczania, zmiany podejścia uczniów do nauki, do uczenia ich (Petlák E., 2012, pp. 18-19). Spośród wielu podejść do innowacyjnego nauczania humanistyczne zasady są traktowane jako kluczowe, starają się one przedstawić pogląd na temat neuropedagogii i neurodydaktyki, ich wspólną cechą jest dążenie do podnie-sienia poziomu postępu i wyników procesu edukacyjnego. edukacja, metody dydaktyczne, uczeń, neuropedagogika, humanizm
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