Discerning Wider Connections. On the Social Philosophy by Stanisław Janeczek and Anna Starościc Cover Image

Dostrzegać szersze związki. O Filozofii społecznej Stanisława Janeczka i Anny Starościc
Discerning Wider Connections. On the Social Philosophy by Stanisław Janeczek and Anna Starościc

Author(s): Maciej Hułas
Subject(s): Philosophy, Social Sciences, Metaphysics, Sociology, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: didactics of philosophy; social institutions; paradigm of truth; metaphysics

Summary/Abstract: Social Philosophy fills the niche of the “academic market” with champions league scholarship and sets the lens for the accurate perception of socio-institutional order that is anchored to the tradition, which reflects the contemporary and is acceptingly open to the future. And this is due to the realism of the Christian philosophical tradition and to the paradigm of truth adopted in it, as measures for correct perceiving and reasoning. They help organize the diversified positions taken respectively by the authors and make it clear, that no matter how hard attempts are being made to produce truths by means of miscellaneous agreements, there is still such a thing as truth independent of consensus. Abolishing the latter, brings about axiological disorientation and eventuates in degenerating institutions viewed as accomplishments of Western civilization. Social Philosophy encapsulates the complex reality of social institutions in terms of the ends they are to fulfill; it informs not only about their nature and how they are to operate, but it embeds them in the wider contexts and their genealogical continuities.

  • Issue Year: 51/2023
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 203-219
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish