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Challenging Habermas’ Practical Discourse to Justify the Rights of Animals
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021)The article is about to challenge Habermas’ practical discourse approach and to explore its potentials for the justification of animal rights. Firstly, the classic concepts of agential features are discussed to examine ... -
The Idea of a Global History of Philosophy
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021)In this paper I assume, by definition, that philosophers are arguing, first and foremost concerning their own validity claims, but now and then also concerning claims or presuppositions presented by other thinkers, and ... -
Some Problematic Philosophical Implications of the Thomas Theorem
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021)Despite of its wide recognition in the social sciences, the Thomas theorem lacks clarity and finds its expression in diverging statements. A sound core of the theorem is blurred by notions these statements consist of. ... -
The Application of Metaphysical Principles to the Empirical World. A Brief Reconstruction of the Core of Kant’s Doctrine of Right
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021)The rediscovery of Kant’s Doctrine of Right resulted in many attempts to apply Kant’s position to current affairs. This research often faces the problem of defining clear borders of what in Kant’s texts needs to be ... -
A Civic Ethics in Kant?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021)The paper investigates whether there is space in Kant’s practical thought for juridical morality and for political virtues. To this end, we will first discuss the Doctrine of Method of the second Critique and consider ... -
The Antinomies of Practical Reason
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021)The official antinomy in the Transcendental Dialectic of the Critique of Practical Reason concerns the highest good. But the entire Transcendental Analytic of the first half of the Critique also concerns an antinomy, ... -
God and Religion of the Enlightened Man According to Kant
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021)Having revealed an illusion of man’s cognitive efforts, Kant sealed the progress of enlightenment inscribed into a historical process, with a deep conviction that an ancient Greek prescription to “know thyself” was finally ... -
Adversus calumniatores medii aevi. How the Middle Ages Paved Way for Modern Age
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021)The popular opinion sees Middle Ages as a “bad” period holding that it was a time of regress in civilisation and was characterized by exaggerated interest in religious and theological issues leading to a neglect of all ... -
Sind Wir Sisyphi? Überlegungen zum Sinn des Lebens
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021)We are now more often than ever contemplating existential problems. In this text I present some reflections related to the issue in the title. I do it in two steps. First, I consider from which perspective one can ... -
Kafkaeske Schuld – Existentielle Schuld und Gastrecht im Ausgang von Kafkas Roman „Das Schloss”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021)Based on Paul Ricoeur’s ideas, the paper presents the “Kafkaesque guilt” as a modern, unconscious and diffused form of existential guilt, in which we owe our existence to others and therefore we are guilty of it. Existential ... -
Diversität verpflichtet. Medizin in einer pluralistischen Gesellschaft
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021)The increasing social and cultural diversity of modern society leads to important ethical challenges. A special area of tension arises when the concepts of individual freedom of choice and pluralistic social order have ... -
Liberalismus oder Republikanismus bei Kant?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021)Should we assign Kant’s political philosophy rather to the tradition of liberalism or to that of republicanism? Prima facie one might think that liberalism must be the right classification since Kant emphasizes, in his ... -
Philosophie ‒ Ethnologie ‒ Translation. Über den Umgang mit kultureller Differenz
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021)There has been a long-standing connection between social anthropology and philosophy, not only because Claude Lévi-Strauss named Rousseau as the “father” of his discipline. This connection had essentially critical ... -
Altruismus und Moral
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021)Concerning the relation between altruism and morals there are not only disputes about how to conceptualize altruism, but even arguments that something like genuine altruism does not exist at all. Questions and arguments ... -
Powieść pokoleniowa w służbie rozliczenia z historią. Emigracja, ucieczka i wypędzenie w literaturze niemieckiej po 2000 roku
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021)Generational novel has been popular in German literature for about twenty years. This popularity can be explained by the need sum up the communicative memory comprising the traumatic events of the twentieth century that ... -
Koneczny i Giertych, czyli przyczynek do trwałości mitologii narodowej
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021)This paper does not aim to present an outline of Feliks Koneczny’s (undoubtly interesting) theory of civilizations but rather tries to show the dangers of an attempt to update it while ignoring the historical context in ... -
Neurobiologie und Willensfreiheit
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021)“Neuroscience shows that free will is an illusion” is what we hear from some prominent neurobiologists. Most philosophers, on the other hand, defend free will, albeit with different arguments. The core of the dispute ... -
„Actio libera in se” und „actio libera in (sua) causa” im Strafrecht und bei supererogatorischem Verhalten
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021)This article deals with the phenomenon of the actio libera in causa. With this expression traditionally those case constellations in law and ethics are denoted in which a person commits an act in a state of mental ... -
Verfassungsgesetzgebung als historisches Ereignis der Verkörperung von Vernunft. Zur Verbindung von Demokratie Und menschenrechten
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021)Based on three open questions, which Habermas poses at the end of his two-volume book “Also a History of Philosophy”, the national constitution-making of a people is reconstructed as an answer to the first question, ... -
Die Moral der Exekutive. Das Charisma der guten Politik und eine ‚Fichteanische‘ Gefährdung im modernen Institutionenstaat
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021)As a structural problem of the normative dimension of contemporary societies, the article shows that increasing real justice deficits go hand in hand with high political expectations of ‘justice’, while on the other ...