Wydział Filozoficzno-Historyczny | Faculty of Philosophy and History: Recent submissions
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Wolność i słabość woli u Donalda Davidsona
Maciaszek, Janusz
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022)
In the paper I present Donald Davidson’s solution of the problem of freedom against the background of his complex philosophical system. In spite of the fact that freedom understood as anomality was justified by Davidson ... -
Leszek Kołakowski o racjonalizmie. Analiza krytyczna
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022)Leszek Kołakowski (1927–2009) was a thinker whose reflection was at the beginning associated with Marxism, anthropocentrism, anti-absolutism and a radically secular attitude. At the same time, from the very beginning ... -
Czym jest filozofia? Rola filozofii w kulturze
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022)Achieving great results, science and its ideological form, scientism, cannot eliminate philosophy from culture. The loss of cognitive, emotive and existential value and actuality puts an end to every philosophy with its ... -
Powściągliwość myślenia
Kędziora, Krzysztof (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022)
In the article, I postulate a „philosophical modesty”. I elaborate on its understanding in the works of Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls. I reconstruct conditions („postmetaphysical thinking” and „reasonable pluralism”) ... -
Debata Habermasa z Rortym o uzasadnianiu i prawdzie
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022)Jürgen Habermas and Richard Rorty share many philosophical commitments. However, their ways have parted when Habermas has begun to emphasize the essential or internal connection between justification and truth, and ... -
Kłopoty z demokracją dziś
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022)The text is devoted to the problems of today democracy. Author tries to identify several of them. Very important are those which are connected with lack of liberal component in democracy (phenomenon of so called „unliberal ... -
Miejsce szczęścia w Kantowskiej antropologii moralnej
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022)In my paper I propose to analyse the problem of happiness in Kantian philosophy by taking into consideration the anthropological perspective. I undertake to show that contrary to what is often said about Kant, he respected ... -
Problem zła u Kanta
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022)Kant consequently achieved the moral subjectivation of evil, referring it solely to human will and to the moral law established by it. The article shows, however, the difficulties with explaining the possibility of evil ... -
Kant i Hippel, czyli obywatelskość jako wartość
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022)This article deals with the comparative approach of two philosophers of the German Enlightenment Immanuel Kant and Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel in the context of socio- political issues, primarily civil society, civil ... -
Rozum i Pismo. Cud, objawienie i interpretacja Biblii w filozofii Christiana Wolffa
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022)This analytical and reconstructive paper discusses the issues of a miracle and of revelation in Christian Wolff’s rationalistic philosophy. The article comprises three major parts: in the first one I introduce Wolff’s ... -
Porządek dobroczynności w etyce Tomasza z Akwinu
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022)This paper aims to provide a contribution to the perennial discussion on ranking of our duties to help others by analyzing Thomas Aquinas’s conception of the order of beneficence. After outlining Aquinas’s notion of ... -
God and Religion of the Enlightened Man According to Kant
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022)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, 2022)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, 2022)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, 2022)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, 2022)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, 2022)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, 2022)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, 2022)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, 2022)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 ...