Agon i higiena. Nieposłuszeństwo obywatelskie a sfera publiczna

Author(s): Mikołaj Rakusa-Suszczewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 9/2015

„Odwaga cywilna” tak jak „nieposłuszeństwo obywatelskie” jest formąaktywnego upominania się o określone zasady: porządek obyczajów, uczciwą władzę i poszanowanie prawa. Obie postawy cechują nie tylko nonkonformizmi sprzeciw, lecz także chęć obrony jakiegoś lepszego, uczciwszegoczy piękniejszego świata. Obie znoszą podział między „dobrym człowiekiem”a „dobrym obywatelem”. Ponieważ każda z nich zawiera w sobierównorzędne elementy społecznie zaangażowanej niezgody i troski, ichwyjaśnienie wymaga wyraźnie zdefiniowanej koncepcji sfery publicznej.Stawiamy tezę, że jest to w istocie konieczne, aby uznać społeczną i etycznądoniosłość i sens każdej z tych postaw. Żeby zilustrować, na czym możepolegać taka interpretacja, odniesiemy się do dwóch odmiennych koncepcjisfery publicznej: pluralistyczno-agonicznej Hannah Arendt i ceremonialno-higienicznejHelmutha Plessnera.The main thesis of this article is that related concepts and attitudes of„civil disobedience” and „civil courage” are comprehensible only throughthe idea of public sphere. To illustrate this rule, we describe two utterly differentviews of the public sphere: as a space of Agon and rivalry (Arendt),where disobedience and courage regenerates a motionless political process,as well as an environment of hygiene and correctness, where acquiescenceto these attitudes is at least limited (Plessner). This rule applies to all interpretationsof this issue, as illustrated by an example of John Rawls. Inother words, whenever the aforementioned issues appear, the problem ofthe public sphere occurs as well. Secondly, the idea of what it is sends usback to the sources of the Self. What might seem to be a problem of socialethics turns out to be more a subject of political philosophy and anthropology.Finally, we believe that this rule might be applied as well to socialmovements that frequently initiate activities of a civil disobedience. Theirfunctions and role is closely linked to the idea of the public sphere.

THE CATHARTIC FUNCTION OF COMMUNICATION

Author(s): Maria Pescaru,Mihaela Luminița Sandu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Often, communication is defined as a particular form of the exchange relationships between two or more persons, two or more groups. Iassessment or solving of problems, but sharing one's own feelings, the effort to know and understand the other and the cooperation in finding a mutually satisfactory solution. Communication is a dynamic act; it's the gateway between two interior worlds. Effective communication also means the public expression of feelings and emotions. Expressing an emotion allows us to acknowledge it and to recognize ourselves in it. This study proposes to identify the style of communication, to emphasize the intensity of the religious feeling of the participants in the study, as well as their opinion regarding the need to discharge their emotions in the challenging periods of life. This research is, therefore, a necessary step, a good argument in order to raise awareness for the need for communication, and a condition for mobilizing resources in view of this approach. The survey was carried out on a sample of 120 persons, using as instruments the S.C. questionnaire (Analysis of the style of communication), the questionnaire for the assessment of religious feeling (C.E.S.R.), the questionnaire of investigation of the need to discharge one's emotions. The action of listening is an element to which the approaches of the communication phenomenon can no longer only grant a place in the area of interaction, as it can moreover provide perspectives on the size of the relationship and of the interaction itself. One of the limits of this research can be found in the reduced number of participants in the study. Researches to this respect might continue by using a representative sample, by which we could be able to determine to what extent the results show a characteristic of our society by comparison with Western ones and to what extent can we speak about cultural and mentality differences in this respect.Often, communication is defined as a particular form of the exchange relationships between two or more persons, two or more groups. It does not mean assessment or solving of problems, but sharing one's own feelings, the effort to know and understand the other and the cooperation in finding a mutually satisfactory solution. Communication is a dynamic act; it's the gateway between two interior worlds. Effective communication also means the public expression of feelings and emotions. Expressing an emotion allows us to acknowledge it and to recognize ourselves in it. This study proposes to identify the style of communication, to emphasize the intensity of the religious feeling of the participants in the study, as well as their opinion regarding the need to discharge their emotions in the challenging periods of life. This research is, therefore, a necessary step, a good argument in order to raise awareness for the need for communication, and a condition for mobilizing resources in view of this approach. The survey was carried out on a sample of 120 persons, using as instruments the S.C. questionnaire (Analysis of the style of communication), the questionnaire for the assessment of religious feeling (C.E.S.R.), the questionnaire of investigation of the need to discharge one's emotions. The action of listening is an element to which the approaches of the communication phenomenon can no longer only grant a place in the area of interaction, as it can moreover provide perspectives on the size of the relationship and of the interaction itself. One of the limits of this research can be found in the reduced number of participants in the study. Researches to this respect might continue by using a representative sample, by which we could be able to determine to what extent the results show a characteristic of our society by comparison with Western ones and to what extent can we speak about cultural and mentality differences in this respect.

Американският неореализъм и съзнанието

Author(s): Georgi Belogashev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2019

The article focuses on the theoretical understanding of the nature of consciousness in the various conceptual developments of thinkers of American neo-realism. Identical theoretical thesis are shown of the nature of consciousness, of objects, as well as their relation, knowledge sphere and cognitive field of consciousness, the correlation between consciousness and biophysical human organization. The insignificant differences in the detailed definition of the nature of consciousness are revealed, which do not change the characteristic theoretical position concerning the problem.

Constantin Noica (1909-1987)

Author(s): Octaviana Jianu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3-4/2019

This article proposes the brief reconstruction of the philosopher Constantin Noicaʼs biography. During the communist regime, his life was marked by two political events: the establishment of compulsory residence in the provincial town Câmpulung-Muscel in 1949 and his arrest in December 1958. Actually, at the end of the 1950s the communist judicial authorities consider the writers Constantin Noica and Constantin Pillat responsible for the subversive activities practiced by a group of 23 intellectuals, who remained in the history of communism in Romania under the name of the „Noica-Pillat batch”.

Editörden: Çatışma ve Kriz Sürecinde Yoğun Kitlesel Akışlara Uluslararası Toplumun Bir Cevabı Olarak Küresel Göç ve Mülteci Mutabakatları

Author(s): Mehmet Gokay Özerim,Deniz Eroğlu Utku,Pinar Yazgan / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 1/2019

Dünya artan bir şekilde birbiriyle daha derinden bağlantılı hale gelirken, insan hareketliliği bu süreci etkileyen ve süreçten etkilenen önemli bir kavram olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Küreselleşme olarak anılan bu hızlı dönüşüm süreci, insan hareketliliğine ivme sağlamaktadır. Bununla birlikte süreç diğer yandan bu hareketliliği daha düzenli, daha kontrol edilebilir hale getirip, kayıpların minimuma indirilmesinde etkin inisiyatiflerin geliştirilmesi konusunda uluslararası işbirliği için zorlayıcı nedenler ortaya çıkarmaktadır. Zira Suriye krizi ile bir kez daha gün yüzüne çıktığı üzere hareketlilik, salt bölgesel çabalarla değil, küresel boyutta ele alınması gereken bir kavramdır. Bu vesile ile ortaya çıkan bir diğer unsur ise, geliştirilecek inisiyatiflerin yine salt hedef ülke odaklı değil, kitlelerin kırılganlıklarının göz önünde bulundurularak tasarlanması gerekliliğidir. Bu noktada, 2016’da BM öncülüğünde alanda sorumluluk paylaşımına yön verecek, göç ve mülteci kavramlarını beraberce ele alacak bir mutabakatın tamamlanması için BM üye ülkelerinin bir araya gelmeleri oldukça önemli bir adımdır. Bu adım, içerisinde 23 temel hedefi barındıran Küresel Göç Mutabakatı’nın 2018 Aralık ayında tamamlanması ile nihayetlenmiştir. Başlangıçtaki katılım hevesini yitirse de, umut veren içeriği ile alana yeni bir soluk getireceğine inandığımız bu Mutabakatı Mülteci Mutabakatı ile birlikte dergimizin bu sayısının sunuş bölümünde mercek altına aldık. Analizimiz, Göç ve Mülteci Mutabakatları’nı hızlı değişim süreci olarak küreselleşme bağlamında çatışma ve kriz kavramları çerçevesinde incelemektedir. Burada eleştirel bir yaklaşım ile mutabakatlara yönelik beklentileri ele alırken, metinde yer alan kısıtlara da değindik. Mutabakatların hareketliliğe bütüncül yaklaşan dilini ve uluslararası işbirliği çabalarının bir yansıması olmasını oldukça değerli görmekle beraber, hedef kitlenin kırılganlıklarına ve ihtiyaçlarına cevap verme noktasında gelişmeye ihtiyaç duyduğunu düşünmekteyiz.

CRIMINAL ANTHROPOLOGY: AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL ESSAY ON REPRESENTATIONS, NAMING AND CONTEXT

Author(s): Hatem Benzaouz / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

This article presents a variety of literature related to the vast field of criminology and more particularly to its epistemology. The content is focused on the emergence of this discipline, while tracing the path to its scientific aspect. This work, based on the history of criminology, aims to synthesise the scientific debates between criminologists from different schools. The latter raises two main points: the chronological order of the names proposed by "criminology", in particular the preliminary idea relating to "criminal anthropology", and the scientific trend, which underlines the origin of criminology, which has become a scientific discipline to date.

SAINT JOHN CASSIAN’S VISION ON THE RELATION BETWEEN GRACE AND LIBERTY

Author(s): Nicuşor Tucă,Corneliu-Dragoş Bălan / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The orthodox doctrine states that the beginning of salvation is made by divine grace, as uncreated energy, combating Pelagianism and Semipelagianism. Saint John Cassian, rightly included among the “great teachers and spiritual masters”, is considered by Owen Chadwick, together with Blessed Augustine, the personality who dominated the 5th century. Saint John Cassian highlights in his writings, especially in the second series of “Conferences” (Conferences XI-XVII) his teaching regarding the relationship between grace and free will, a teaching he had learned from Scripture, from theologians from the East and from many of the Western writers before Augustine (West theologian who supported predestination). The 13th Conference is a broad analysis of the relationship between grace and will of freedom, not only in the context of human effort to obtain salvation and perfection, but also in the process of conversion.

Sedem slobodných umení v diele Aurelia Augustina a Boëthia

Author(s): Miroslava Trogová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2020

The aim of presented study is a philosophical analysis of education in the works of St. Augustine and Boethius. The study deals with the concept of seven liberal arts in the philosophical context and it is focused on the personality of Aurelius Augustine and Boethius, their works and impact on formation and transfer of the tradition of septem artes liberales (seven liberal arts). Each section contains a selection of the Latin texts written by Augustine and Boethius and our own Slovak translations. The set task of the texts reflects the idea of education and the principles of selected disciplines from the septem artes liberales cycle. The study also analyses the reception of seven liberal arts in the Middle Age and the idea of comprehensive education. It is focused on the idea of the medieval university and the content of teaching programmes at the first universities. In addition, the study deals with the importance of humanistic values of education for today’s man and society. The intention is using the selected Latin texts to justify the both – the need for the humanity component of education for society and the presence of humanities programmes at universities.

De institutione musica I,1-14

Author(s): / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2020

Slovak translation of De institutione musica (I,1-14) from Boethius.

Institutio arithmetica I-V

Author(s): / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2020

Slovak translation of Institutio arithmetica (I-V) from Boethius.

W perspektywie Innego. Czytanie opowiadań Irit Amiel w kontekście psychologii międzykulturowej

Author(s): Adam Regiewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 10/2019

Intercultural psychlogy is a discipline within cultural studies. It is of an interdisciplinary character, combining the philosophy of meeting, imagology, and discourse and becomes the part of the metadiscourse practiced by cultural comparative studies. The article attempts to test the tool in reading Irit Amiel’s stories. The author is an Israeli writer who, in The Seared, deals with the topic of the Holocaust. Her biography – Jewish in origin, with her childhood in Poland, and wandering around Germany and Italy, finally stopping in a Palestinian haven – testifies to her intercultural pedigree. Amiel takes up the subject of the Holocaust after almost fifty years of silence, and she does so by showing different cultural points of view. Intercultural psychology discovers the framework of social behavior in which the characters move. This tool allows us to show that today “being seared” is one of the constitutive features of the Jewish culture.

Śmierć intelektualisty. Nareszcie!

Author(s): Jacek Zych / Language(s): Polish Issue: 16/2019

Until recently, the “intellectual” was a figure associated with many myths. Karl Marx abandoned a career as a bourgeois academic and journalist to become a permanent political exile; György Lukács gave a pen to a KGB officer, after he had been asked to lay down arms; Kuroń and Modzelewski wrote a “Letter to the Party,” and as a result they spent years in prison; Sartre declined the Nobel Prize… Now the figure of the intellectual is dead. The contemporary Polish academic could not be more distant from this topos. The contemporary Polish academic is a conformist and careerist producing articles in the same way a factory worker produces commodities. However, in contrast to the latter, the former is unable either to reflect on or to fight for anything, even himself. But although bourgeois economists believe that “There has been history, but there is no longer any” and will be content to convert intellectuals into wage labourers, history is only just beginning. Total alienation, the subsuming of the faculty of thought to the accumulation of capital, demands total rebellion.

Bajki dla deleuzjanistów

Author(s): Adam Lipszyc / Language(s): Polish Issue: 16/2019

Zmiana w Kościele

Author(s): Filip Łapiński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 16/2019

Nowoczesność i zbawienie

Author(s): Tomasz Herbich / Language(s): Polish Issue: 16/2019

Pocałunek śmierci

Author(s): Filip Łapiński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 16/2019

Pozostać z tyłu. Parę uwag o mistycyzmie Simone Weil na marginesie Świadomości nadprzyrodzonej

Author(s): Mirosław Dzień / Language(s): Polish Issue: 33/2019

The article focuses on some of the issues present in the selection of Simone Weil’s writings – Supernatural Consiousness. Issues such as existentialist motives in the context of The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, the issue of humility and necessity and the issue of self-reduction of God.

Карантинописи

Author(s): Yordan Eftimov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 41/2020

A triptych comprised of micro-essays from the first days of the quarantine announced in Bulgaria on March 13, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus is on the acute experience, that is, on the imagery of the world in our mind, on the perceptio

Пандемично за градовете и бъдещето

Author(s): Gergana Stefanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 41/2020

Will the COVID-19 pandemic change the future of the cities in any way? This paper tries toanswer some of the questions related to the overcrowding of the cities, the relationshipbetween living conditions, air pollution, risks of future pandemics, etc., and the role ofarchitects and urban planners. “And today is only yesterday’s tomorrow…”, sing UriahHeep, so it’s up to us what kind of World we will leave to our children and grandchildren…

THE ETHICAL ALTRUISM AND THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM

Author(s): Sorin Suciu / Language(s): English Issue: 13/2020

The ethical model of capitalism, which is based on the idea of a so-called rational egoism, has led in practice to unacceptable economic gaps and inequalities. At the same time, this model subordinates human values and global priorities to economic principles and consumerist drives. This leads to environmental pollution, exhaustion of the planet and threatens the future generations to come. My article proposes to replace this model with an ethical altruism that takes into account the urgent needs and the welfare of all parties involved.