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The articles and opinions collected in this volume are linked not only by the figure of the author and a broad similarity of themes indicated by the title. They also represent a specific mode of doing philosophy, different from the two presently dominant ones: positivistic and hermeneutic. The book reflects the author’s opinion of its nature.
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A large part of this volume consists of articles, which the author considers to be journalistic – essays, interviews, letters. He refers in them to current issues, events and situations from the turn of the 20th century. The author argues that philosophy – as a “logically digested” way of thinking – has universal applications and is accessible to everyone.
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Autorka błyskotliwie i jasno rekonstruuje, jak definiowano emocje oraz w jaki sposób umieszczano je w szerszym myśleniu na temat świata i moralności; jakie prezentowano typologie emocji; jak tłumaczono ich pochodzenie; jak opisywano ich związek z rozumem. To wielka praca i wielki wyczyn autorki (...), potrafiła na trzystu stronach swej opowieści przeprowadzić czytelnika po szlakach i bezdrożach myśli Platona i Tukidydesa, Jamesa i Darwina, Hobbesa i Spinozy, pokazując niuanse, paradoksy, konsekwencje ich teorii. Wędrujące pojęcie emocji i jego niepewny związek z sentymentem, afektem, wolą, kaprysem, intelektem – oto właściwy bohater tej książki. (…)Problem postawiony w książce jest kluczowy dla zrozumienia klasycznych i współczesnych stanowisk w zakresie polityki, antropologii i socjologii emocji. Autorka słusznie szuka „emocji” w etyce i polityce i znakomicie argumentuje na rzecz tego, że emocja nie eliminuje racjonalności, lecz ją konstytuuje.Z recenzji prof. dr. hab. Szymona Wróbla Karolina Wigura podjęła próbę zmierzenia się z ideą, której imienia nie potrafię znaleźć, ale o której wiem, że działa, niekiedy jawnie, innym razem w ukryciu, wzruszając podstawy naszej chłodnej racjonalności, wstrząsając gruntem racji, na którym budujemy schematy codziennego wnioskowania, miażdżąc siłą zbiorowych lęków, łudząc nadziejami możliwego szczęścia. (…) Autorka przygotowała monografię, w której idea ta żyje, oddziałuje i ma swoją własną historię, opowiedzianą precyzyjnie i systematycznie.Z recenzji hab. dr. hab. Jolanty Żelaznej Karolina Wigura jest adiunktem w Instytucie Socjologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Członkini Zarządu Fundacji „Kultura Liberalna”. W latach 2016–2018 współdyrektorka programu „Knowledge Bridges: Poland – Britain – Europe” w St. Antony’s College na Uniwersytecie Oksfordzkim. Studiowała na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim i Uniwersytecie Ludwiga Maximiliana w Monachium. Stypendystka m.in. wiedeńskiego IWM, GMF oraz Leadership Academy for Poland. Opublikowała książkę Wina narodów. Przebaczenie jako strategia prowadzenia polityki (2011), wyróżnioną nagrodą im. J. Tischnera, oraz, wraz z Jarosławem Kuiszem i Wojciechem Sadurskim, Trudne rozliczenia z przeszłością (t. I i II, 2018).
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The book illustrates selected motives from the history of ancient philosophy. The explanations are written to the pictures from the philosophical point of view as well as from the drawing point of view.
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Richard Swineshead’s short treatises (opuscula) on motion provide us with a direct insight into the successive stages in the fourteenth-century Oxford speculative, mathematical science of local motion not only token generally, but also with respect to the progress of this thinker’s scientific awareness and knowledge. Even though the dependence of these opuscula on his predecessors’ – William Heytesbury and Thomas Bradwardine – texts is obvious at first sight, still Richard Swineshead interpreted and developed ingeniously the ideas put forth by the above-mentioned thinkers. Both short treatises on motion ascribed to Richard Swineshead can be justifiably seen as successive „steps” leading towards the treatise On local motion he included in his monumental Liber colculationum. What is more, the actual texts of these opuscula in the form preserved in the manuscript copies should be recognized as reports (reportata) or students’ notes from Richard Swineshead’s lectures, rather than purposely and systematically written treatises. Consequently, these texts give us also on insight into the University discussions on natural philosophy in fourteenth-century Oxford. Therefore, the critical edition of Richard Swineshead’s opuscula on local motion included in this tome, based on all known preserved manuscript copies of these texts, provides the reader with o historically interesting and important piece of evidence of later medieval intellectual life.
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A historical and philosophical monograph devoted to the aesthetic thought of Baumgarten, presented against the backdrop of the school of Leibniz and Wolff, and the pietists. The author highlights Baumgarten’s original contribution to the creation of philosophical aesthetics, which he understood to be an anthropological and educational project. According to the philosopher, reflection on art in aesthetics was a reflection on the art of (good) living. The publication also features translations of extensive fragments of Aesthetics and Lectures on aesthetics.
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The aim of the book is to frame the concept of the good as the essence of the good life. Against the “happiness industry” it is argued that it might be best grasped within the frame work of Neo-Aristoelianism in the form developed in post-analytical tradition since the 1950s. I argue that Anscombe’s intervention led not only to the development of virtue ethics, but (on the basis of the evolution of analytical tradition to its post-analytical form on the one side, and its progressing naturalisation and growing interest in philosophy of mind and cognitive science on the other) but also, and primarily, to restoration of Aristotelianism as conceptual scheme (in the sense of Davidson) which enables both fruitful analysis of the main technical problems of contemporary moral philosophy and adequate answering to the key issues of moral and social life. Starting with analysis of the very Aristotelian turn and arguing for its understanding in terms of critical theory I develop an analysis of Aristotelianism not in the sense of historical and language scholarship, but rather in search of intellectual resources. This enables to discuss key issues in normativity and highlighting the possibility of overcoming the fact/value gap. Followingly, the concept of the good life is discussed with the attention being paid to the development of the individual agency and sense of life, as well as to the forms of self-discipline needed for such a development. This development, I argue, is a development of an embedded self, which might become conscious and coherent agent thanks to phronetic ordering of the goods and activities as way of distributing its most basic resources: time and attention. This also makes the grasp of the ethical possible not as purely abstract set of rules, but as part of daily routine of an the agent. Last chapter discusses the possibility of recognition of the good of other beings as well as social standards of the good life. I outline the capability approach as intervention in the local distortions of possibilities of human development and by pinpointing its weaknesses I claim of the MacIntyrean concept of the practice being not only most adequate to frame the moral development of the agent, but also to validation of the forms of social interaction. Reading MacIntyre’s Aristotelianism through Bourdieu’s concept of habitus I argue that it is by in-depth recognition of the intentional structures of its activities that the agent may obtain self-knowledge giving them a sense of happiness.
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The three-volume monograph offers a comprehensive study of the category of freedom which was used in the legal and political doctrines by representatives of the western civilization since antiquity up to the present. The publication reviews concepts put forward by ancient thinkers (Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Cicero, St. Augustine), propositions of philosophers active in the Middle Ages (St. Thomas, William of Ockham) and the most prominent theories of the Renaissance (Machiavelli, the Renaissance utopias, Reformation, the School of Salamanca). The Polish Renaissance thought has also been presented. It ushered in an antiquity tradition revival which manifested itself in treatises in 16th-century republican discourse and, in a developed form, in the works of Andrzej Maksymilian Fredro. The monograph also includes interpretations of Thomas Hobbes’s, Algernon Sidney’s and John Locke’s propositions as well as a study of the thought of Montesquieu together with a discussion of the theory of the separation of powers, especially with regard to the trias politica model from the perspective of constitutionalism. The review of numerous philosophical positions reveals a range of discrepancies in the perception of the concept of freedom not only in different historical periods but also among the representatives of the main political doctrines. The plethora of cited approaches unequivocally points to the interdisciplinary character of research on freedom as a philosophical category. Therefore, a presentation of the spectrum of differences through the application of scientific analysis seems a fundamental prerequisite for any attempt at arriving at a comprehensive and multilevel understanding of the idea of freedom.
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The structure of the publication reflects the logic of the deliberations, starting with detailed issues (Alfred Tarski's semantic definition of truth in chapter 1) and moving on to those increasingly broad and practical (by linking the theory of meaning with the topic of language learning in chapter 2 and the concept of non-referential semantics in chapter 3), to ultimately arriving at Davidson's philosophy and its coherent concept of types of knowledge, in the acquisition of which the theory of interpretation (discussed in the final chapter of the book) plays a crucial role. Maciaszek shows the evolution of Davidson's views, especially in terms of the theory of meaning, which still poses many interpretative difficulties for commentators reviewing this theory. In his original approach, the author discusses the issue of ontological obligations of semantics (in terms of analytical philosophy) and points to its entanglement in metaphysical considerations. Besides, the more advanced reader can also find detailed critical analyses of the author engaging in polemics both with different approaches to the concept of Davidson semantics today as well as with various interpretations of Tarski’s theory of truth, which underlies this semantics. From the review by prof. Urszula Żegleń
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The author knows how to lead the reader through the complicated meanders of disputes in a clear way, reconstructing the reasons for losing faith in the possibility of agency of social entities, highlighting the complex theoretical as well as political and economic conditions of this dangerous situation. He recalls many publications, efficiently underscoring the most vital aspects. In this way, he creates a coherent narrative offering an original amendment to some theses of posthumanism (e.g. the thesis on the break with humanism, the thesis on the death of the subject), while appreciating the beneficial transformations brought about by moving away from imperial anthropocentrism. Not all of the author's conclusions will be universally accepted; however, I believe that as long as conclusions are drawn consistently from the adopted assumptions, together with taking into account the context of the debates, they deserve both attention and their reconsideration. The vast majority of the conclusions are convincing and they testify to the author's insight into the subject. The gift of creating syntheses of many topics usually discussed in isolation, of inducing collisions of perspectives that allow previously unnoticed relationships to surface – this is a powerful asset of the publication. Dr hab. Maria Kostyszak, prof. of the University of Wrocław
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John Rawls's theory of justice, like his philosophy of politics, is not easy to grasp intellectually. Although he was an American philosopher and he was apparently close to the Anglo-Saxon analytical tradition in philosophy which is characterized by the pursuit of style perspicuity and general intellectual clarity, the reader of his Theory of Justice and, to a lesser extent, other works certainly does not have an easy task. Following the meanders of Rawls's thoughts seems rather difficult and requires a considerable measure of focus and attention. In this sense, an introduction to his theory of justice and political philosophy is certainly necessary, so Krzysztof Kędziora's project should be welcomed with joy. Its implementation also invites respect and commendation. From the review by prof. Andrzej Szahaj
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According to Erasmus, philosophizing begins with listening to the flowing message of tradition, with meditative reading of soul-stirring content or with gazing at the ideal of a master and allowing ourselves to internalize what we have received. This was the aim of Erasmus’s “new reading,” through which he wanted to transform the individual; this was the goal of the bonae litterae, for which he had so passionately sought; this was also the purpose of the Christian Gospel. This stage, built by teaching alone, can be called “internalization of tradition” – a change of mind that is necessary for anyone who wants to change their lives. The publication is primarily devoted to Erasmus – an underestimated thinker unjustly pushed by reflection to an area outside of philosophy. Meanwhile, his vision turns out not only to be a coherent philosophy, but also one that is more aware of itself and its limitations than the philosophical concepts of scholasticism and modern rationalism. Tradition is the key concept that permeates and conditions the thinking and attitude of Erasmus. Whether his vision of tradition can still be seen as fully valid is debatable, and certainly requires further analysis. However, there is no doubt that it remains attractive and inspiring. It is the author’s wish that the present book could be a kind of “user guide to tradition”, but also to ourselves and to cultivating humanity. “This is not a colourless, erudite dissertation on a chosen topic. This is an interesting, even fascinating read, which in my opinion – thanks to its scope, poetics and style – has a chance to become the subject of interest for a great many readers.” From the review by prof. Juliusz Domański
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The book closes a significant gap in Polish philosophical thought on imagination. It expands the current reflections on it (in such areas as hermeneutics, phenomenology, the theory of the image), strengthening contemporary solutions in Kant’s philosophy and showing its uses and conceptual transformations.
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The authors of the texts collected in this volume refer to various aspects of sensuality, treating it as a key to reflections on creativity and imagery, acting and feeling, and ultimately on time, space and matter.
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Refugia: The Survival of Urban Transspecies Communities encourages to us recognize the unexpected relations among species and to speculate about the possibility of their existence and development. It shows the need for care and support for multi-species urban communities by answering questions about the following: Which humans and non-humans may find refuge in the city? Under what conditions and to what extent? Are cities also becoming spaces of refuge for rare, endangered or endangered species and disappearing ecosystems? Can unwanted and underestimated life forms find refuge in the city, and how much compassion and hospitality do we have for them? Is it possible to be safe in the city without a place–home–shelter of one’s own? The book is the result of transdisciplinary research, including knowledge-producing artistic projects, whose research and communication methodology enable us to go beyond specialist circles. The book consists of two parts, the first of which, Refugia: The Transdisciplinary Practice of Curiosity, includes scientific texts focusing on various cases of interspecies relationships created in cities by human and non-human animals, plants, fungi, soil, architecture, etc. The second part of the book includes artistic statements in the form of visual documentation of projects created for the exhibition Refugia: Keep (Out of) These Places. The art presented here makes it possible to construct perspectives different from those generated in the field of humanities or sciences, but remaining in close contact with these fields.
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On metres, as we have it today, is an abridged version (one book) of the work writtenoriginally in forty-eight books by an Alexandrian grammarian Hephaestion (2nd century AD).Though so significantly reduced, it was over centuries, and remains until now, a primer ofancient doctrine on Greek metre. For many generations of students and scholars it was the mostimportant handbook of versification and the principal source of the technical vocabulary stillused nowadays in metrical studies. The text is also a treasury of many ancient poetic fragmentswhich otherwise would be utterly lost to us.The book presents the first Polish translation of the treatise On metres with a detailedcommentary explaining the metrical terms, analyses and views held by Hephaestion. The textof the treatise is also supplemented and compared with other ancient sources.
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The Jubilee of Professor Andrzej M. Kaniowski’s seventieth birthday, in July 2021, was an opportunity to offer him this volume. Its authors are representatives of human and social studies, two closely related disci¬plines that are also His areas of interest.The interdisciplinary group of researchers have contributed their texts, which together make up a mosaic of problems and perspectives. The dominant topics are the philosophy of Kant and modern social, political and cultural issues. Many ideas and concepts reappear in several texts. In order to facilitate tracking them, the volume has been provided with a uniform system of citing Kant’s works and the index of authors. The papers of the international group of authors have been arranged, first of all, according to the language of composition (Polish, German, English), then according to the content in historical order. The whole volume presents an image of academic openness and com-mitment, for which the editors thank the authors. To Professor Kaniowski, they give thanks for such a lofty inspiration.
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The work constitutes a result of a thought of a historio-philosophical nature,a thought on the project of Husserl’s phenomenology (classic phenomenology)on the one hand, and on the development of Tischner’sphilosophical output from phenomenology to philosophy of drama on theother. The main aim, realized in the work in the form of three steps (leadingfrom phenomenology to the philosophy of drama) subject to a tripartitestructure of the work, was to prove the main hypothesis claiming thatphonomenology treated as Husserl’s philosophical project, dealt with andcreatively developed by Tischner as an initial inspiration, constitutes thepossibility of the final effect of Tischner’s output, that is the philosophy ofdrama. An initial inspiration, that is phenomenology, remains for the philosophyof drama only an inspiration that is not exhaustive the scope ofpossible philosophical references of this philosophy. The realization of themain hypothesis enables a linear and three-stage (corresponding at thesame time to the architectonics of the development of Tischner’s thought)course of the argument: three parts of work of the following sequence:Husserl’s phenomenology as a project (part one), Tischner’s understandingof phenomenology (part two), and From phenomenology to philosophy ofdrama (part three).In the first part (Husserl’s phenomenology as a project) phenomenologyis presented as a project, initiated and realized by Husserl, but never fullyrealized, a project indicating research scope, and outlining a horizon ofclassic philosophical problems: epistemologic, metaphysical, ethical andaesthetic ones. Such a broad spectrum of problems directs a thought onphenomenology understood as a possibility, as an indefinite flow of problems.Tischner’s understanding of phenomenology also inscribes into sucha perspective. That is why it is extremely important from the perspectiveof the issues raised in the work to show phenomenology as a possibility ofthe philosophy of drama at the end of part one. In this very part, to justifythe subject-matter the author does not present Tischner’s thought, but herown understanding of phenomenological philosophy, in which she also inscribesTischner’s concept as late as in the last subchapter. A creative useof openness that characterizes Husserl’s philosophy according to Tischner,makes a Polish thinker go beyond the frames of the classic phenomenology,that is, where new areas, researched so far by other than phenomenologicalmethods, reveal.The second part (Tischner’s understanding of phenomenology) is fullydevoted to Tischner’s understanding of phenomenology. As the thought ofthe author of Thinking According to Values changes in the womb of phenomenologydeveloped by him, one can notice a shift from a transcendentalto an axiological accent. The very part is an attempt to prove the hypothesisthat an axiological interpretation of “I”, and thus, a complement toHusserl’s thought, is not a consequence of its external criticism, but a symbolof its internal potential recognized by phenomenology itself.The main aim of the third part From phenomenology to philosophy ofdrama is a reconstruction of the process of transition from phenomenologyto the philosophy of drama, an outline of the path of development (evolution)of Tischner’s thought. In the light of the results of analyses conductedit turns out that within his own philosophical thought, Tischner characterizestranscendental mindset of “I” and, in consequence, drama, a discordbetween natural and transcendental attitude perceived as a discord betweennatural and axiological-agatological attitude.The perspective of the philosophy of drama presented in the book, beinga result of revealing Tischner’s original thought in statu nascendi, in itsbeginning, Husserl’s phenomenology constitutes is certainly one of the possibilities.The aim of the work was to show the aspects of philosophy ofdrama that prove its phenomenological provenance. We hope that lookingat philosophy of drama from the angle of its beginning, and taking into accountits primary relations to phenomenology, will make a reliable pictureof Tischner’s philosophical works.
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The subject-matter of the very work is Léon Brunschvicg’s (1869—1944)philosophy of critical idealism. The analyses presented are centred aroundthe main theme of Brunschvicg’s considerations, that is a theory-cognitivereflection, based on the history of the progress of human awareness. Themain aim is to show the relationship between particular elements constitutingLéon Brunschvicg’s philosophical conception. Works coming from differentperiods of his writings, seemingly concerning problem areas distantfrom one another (theory of cognition, forms of spiritual life, history of particularspirit forms) are subsequent realization stages of one project, thestarting point of which was determined by Brunschvicg at the beginning ofhis philosophical path. The very project, founded on theory-cognitive assumptions,worked out in a dissertation La modalité du jugement, is a criticalreflection on the history of human thought, enabling a thought oncognition and reason manifesting in the history of knowledge. This way,transcendentalism in Brunschvicg’s philosophy, understood as a critical reflectionon cognition, combines with studies on the history of reason manifestingin human activity of any kind.Considerations presented in the book are above all analyses based onsource texts: Léon Brunschvicg’s dissertations and articles. Apart from themain aim of the work, presented before, additional aims are realized suchas considering the very conception in the context of neo-Kantian or positivistphilosophy, treating it as transcendentalism and showing visiblereferences to the trend of French epistemology, being in favour of the continuingconception of knowledge development or relating it to ImmanuelKant’s and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s philosophy.
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Dzieło Autora uważam za dojrzałą prezentację istotnego problemu klinicznego, jakim są zaburzenia poznawcze w schizofrenii. Z perspektywy badacza zajmującego się psychologią schizofrenii tym bardziej doceniam wysiłek dr. Styły w dążeniu do pogłębiania wiedzy z zakresu związków złożonych i różnorodnych zmiennych psychologicznych z funkcjami poznawczymi. Wiem bowiem jak wymagające są to poszukiwania. Autor monografii przedstawia interesujący model systematyzujący rozumienie znaczenia wzajemnych interakcji czynników biologicznych, psychologicznych i społecznych w deficytach funkcjonowania poznawczego pacjentów chorujących na schizofrenię. Na uwagę zasługuje fakt, iż Autor zrealizował serię czasochłonnych badań zakrojonych na szeroką skalę, które dostarczyły ciekawego materiału do analiz. dr hab. Łukasz Gawęda, prof. IP PAN, fragment recenzji Książka stanowi pierwszą monografię w literaturze polskiej, i prawdopodobnie światowej, poświęconą w całości psychologicznemu rozumieniu zaburzeń poznawczych doświadczanych przez osoby z diagnozą schizofrenii. Termin zaburzenia poznawcze ma wiele znaczeń – w niniejszej książce rozumiany jest przede wszystkim jako dysfunkcje elementarnych czynności poznawczych (np. uwagi, uczenia się, pamięci roboczej, funkcji zarządczych). Monografia zawiera szczegółowe teoretyczne wprowadzenie, ukazujące rolę zaburzeń poznawczych w schizofrenii. Druga część tomu skupiona jest na opisie czterech badań własnych, które w sposób empiryczny wykazują istotne znaczenie procesów psychologicznych dla funkcjonowania w zakresie językowym, uczenia się, szybkości przetwarzania, funkcji zarządczych i pamięci roboczej. Czytelnicy zainteresowani zagadnieniem schizofrenii – w tym psycholodzy, lekarze, studenci i pracownicy naukowi oraz osoby z doświadczeniem psychozy i ich rodziny – z pewnością znajdą w niej wiele nowych, ciekawych informacji.
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