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Jakość życia jako problem filozoficzny
Quality of Life as a Philosophical Problem

Author(s): Mariusz Wojewoda
Subject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Sociology of Culture, Phenomenology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: quality of life; value; development; satisfaction with life; culture of consumption;

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the problem of “quality of life” in the philosophical perspective. In contemporary scientific studies, the issue of quality of life is analyzed in sociological, political and medical aspects. The author of the article looks for a philosophical model of theoretical reflection on the quality of life, he refers this problem in the recognition philosophy of values. His research is based on the ideas of Max Scheler, and his later continuators. The author analyzes the problem of “quality of life” in the axiological, biological and cultural perspective. The philosophical thought, and especially its axiological approach, is necessary to understand the phenomenon of quality of life in different contexts

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 40
  • Page Range: 97-115
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish