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Specyfika sprawnościowego rozumienia intelektualizacji w kulturotwórczym działaniu człowieka
The Specificity of the Efficient Understanding of Intellectual Skills in Culture-Forming Human Activity

Author(s): Paweł Gondek
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Culture and social structure
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: culture; intellectualisation; intellectual virtues; recta ratio

Summary/Abstract: The suggestion to define culture as “intellectualization of nature” is the starting point for research into the way of understanding an intellectualization. The article indicates that the basis for the process of intellectualisation are intellectual virtues. Intellectualisation as a way of realizing intellectual abilities is first and foremost the improvement of human beings in their personal potentialities. Therefore, the efficiency of intellectual skills in the process of intellectualization takes the form of appropriate directing of the intellect (recta ratio) by the relationship system discovered in the studied subject. The fields of culture (culture domains) highlighted in this context are areas for the personal improvement of man, and, consequently, the cause of various cultural facts.

  • Issue Year: 10/2019
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 123-139
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish