Kazania filozofa

Author(s): Zbigniew Wolak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2016

Kazania ks. prof. Michała Hellera są doskonałym przykładem łączenia kompetencji w naukach teologicznych i przyrodniczych z pasją nauczania wiary i dawania jej świadectwa. W swoim artykule przedstawiłem wybrane zagadnienia, które ujawniają nowatorstwo jego kaznodziejstwa i pozwalają poznać jego kompetencje zarówno w tych dziedzinach, których znajomość jest koniecznym warunkiem przemawiania w kościele, jak i w tych, które znają nieliczni kaznodzieje. W artykule zamieściłem także kilka własnych refleksji dotyczących teologii, języka, filozofii, nauk empirycznych. Refleksje te, nawiązujące do omawianych kazań, są wynikiem moich własnych przemyśleń, do których sam autor zachęcał czytelników. Natomiast celem artykułu jest wykazanie, że Michał Heller jest uczonym, który również na polu duszpasterskim ma wiele ważnych i ciekawych rzeczy do powiedzenia. Sermons by Father Michael Heller are perfect example of combining competence in theological and natural sciences with a passion for teaching the faith and to bearing witness to it. In this article I present selected topics that reveal the novelty of his preaching and allow us to get to know his expertise in both these areas: the knowledge which is a necessary condition to speak in the church, and sciences which know only a few preachers. The article also contains some of my own ideas on theology, language, philosophy, empirical science. My reflections referring to these sermons, are the result of my own thoughts, to which the author himself urged readers. The aim of this article is to show that Michael Heller is a scientist who in the pastoral field has many important and interesting things to say.

Integracja między narodami jako wyzwanie dla katolickiej nauki społecznej

Author(s): Andrzej Zwoliński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1 (10)/2014

In the social teaching of the Church there is still a growing trend towards global recognition of social problems as well as a call for the global cooperation. Globalization is treated as a  tool to enhance the well-being of humanity. At the same time the social teaching indicates that in the control of the global market cannot participate only national authorities or international ones, but also social forces. This is consistent with the principle of subsidiarity, which emphasizes the role of intermediate strength between the individual and the state and international centers. For the defense of the common good of humanity, it is necessary to take into account the analysis of the ethical aspect of integration processes. It points to respect the values of dignity and human rights, justice, solidarity, kindness, non-violence, peace among people and nations. Ethics goes beyond the pragmatic calculations, which are focused on values and universal norms.

13. Yüzyıl Türk Halk Şİİrİnde Ahlâkİ Anlayış

Author(s): Mehmet Yardımcı,Ahmet Zeki Güven / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 64/2010

With Malazgirt Victory in 1071 Turks migration began to Anatolia and Islam had found a new expansion field in the hands of Turks and spreading of Islam in Anatolia had accelerated in the period of Principalities and especially Seljuks, Anatolian Seljuks. But in the 13.centuries Mongolian influence which occurred in Central Asia and then affected to Anatolia, led to people different searches. Mongolians had vandalized where they gone through, therefore; a completely crisis period had began to in Anatolia. Especially in this period most of dervishes who got of Yesevi doctrines had immigrated to Anatolia and began to tell Islam with different ways to the people. This saints who came from Central Asia, dwelled upon to doctrines and emphasized that Islam is not a fear religion it is a love religion,and to fall for love to God rather than fear of God. In this way; this Yesevi dervishes who came from Central Asia, helped to people who fallen into crisis process and easily overcome from this process, also they exposed excellent and experienced human type with the help of advice which they gave to people in their works. In this study, in the century of 13 Religious-Sufism Folk Poetry ethical components were exposed and three great poets were examined who lived in the century of 13, such as Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli, Yunus Emre, Said Emre and also, common components which related with the ethical understandings were classified and commented on finding discoveries.

Sprawozdanie: Otwarte Seminarium Filozoficzno-Psychiatryczne "Diagnozy Współczesności", Lublin, 12-13 listopada 2015

Author(s): Andrzej Kapusta / Language(s): Polish Issue: 18/2016

Prius’ът в Хегеловата онтология

Author(s): Ivo Minkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2017

The article interlace the problem about basis and foundations of Science, its topology with Absolute spirit as self-deployment, so as with the attempt to affirm the “identity of being and thought”. Furthermore, the rational construction of Hegel’s ontology acquire different, heuristic, but not irrational interpretation. More specifically, it points out the possibility to consider Hegel’s speculative ethical life in metaphysical aspect.

Как да овладеем своя гняв, преди той да ни овладее

Author(s): Dimitar Bogdanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2017

This article is dedicated to the anger and how it can every single person trapped by an this negative emotion to deal with it. The author reveals the the sinister side of the anger as an emotion which destroys the personal relationships, leads to aggressive behaviors and even violence can lead to cardiovascular diseases and serious and dramatic consequences such as emotional and personal stress and distress, depression, guilt, embarrassment, feelings of loss of control and lack of confidence in communicating with others. Here are some myths, а wide variety of methods and techniques for dealing with anger, based on the principles of the rational emotive Behavior Therapy in psychology.

Responsibility on the Internet

Author(s): Aleksandra Budzisz / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

The explanation of the responsibility theme is based on distinctions concerning the physical world and the world of Web. There are theses that claim that the world of the Web exists on equal rights with the physical world. In both realities the context of individuality may be seen from the perspective of existence and presence. The issue of responsibility is based on deliberations of two philosophers – Roman Ingarden and Hans Jonas. Ingarden described its ontological and axiological forms, whereas Jonas explored the issue of the responsibility seen as a vision of the new ethics that results from the needs of technology. Those philosophers made an important distinction between positive responsibility and the responsibility that is based on power and the possibility of fulfilling the positive values and the general idea of a man.

Практически проблеми при противодействието на проявите на насилие и проблемното поведение в училищна среда – образователни, психологически и правни аспекти

Author(s): Stanislav Pandin,Yana Kuzmanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2017

The article examines the possible forms of prevention and intervention in the field of secondary education. The manifestations of violence and problematic behavior are presented through the prisms of education, psychology and law.

Ксенофобия и мултикултурализъм: накъде ще поеме Европа?

Author(s): Doncho Gradev,Aleksandar Marinov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2017

The article includes analysis of the consequences of the policies and practices, known as multiculturalism, focused on xenophobia and related phenomena. Autors stress the need of impartial scientific debate on multiculturalism, having in mind several theoretical contributions in the field. Situation is worsening because of powerful political and economic interests, influencing the onesided and/or selective application of scientific knowledge available. Special attention is devoted to several specific contradictions in the ongoing European discussion on multiculturalism policies.

SVIJEST O VREMENU MODERNE I NJENA POTREBA ZA SAMOUVJERENJEM

Author(s): Jürgen Habermas / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 03+04/1988

The text represents the first chapter from the book on philosophic discourse of Modernism by Jürgen Habermas. The central figures are Hegel and Benjamin. The author discusses Hegel's discovery of subjectivity as a principle of new times. He explains the superiority of the modern world and its crisis, the world of progress and alienated spirit at the same time. The crucial historic events for establishment of the subjectivity principle are: Reformation, Enlightenment and French Revolution. In Modernism, religious life, nation and society are transformed and so are science, morality and art. The structure of Modernism in philosophy includes abstract subjectivity in Descartes cogito, absolute self-confidence in Kant, who places the mind as the highest tribunal, before which relevance has to be justified.

Socijalizam i svijet tehnike

Author(s): Džana Rahimić-Bužo / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 2/2015

The aim of primary considerations in this paper is not the presentation of socialism even as the idea of absolute success, on the one hand, neither as the idea of absolute failure, on the other hand, as well as not taking a position with which the advocate of socialism or deny same. As any other idea, the idea of socialism has its victories as well as its defeats, and taking into consideration the natural progression of human dimension always celebrated the idea of victory. Therefore, the aim of this review is a modest attempt at an overview of the principles and character of socialism to attempt interpretation and understanding of the principles and aspirations of the art and the reigning world techniques. It is of paramount importance to point out here that the term does not mean the world of technology systems in the field of our everyday life in which technical devices means without which the contemporary man lives almost unthinkable, but the question about the world of the art shell be understood in the light of Heideggerian, that is a question of technique and of such a world refers to what is, so to speak, "the other side" area that is in terms of the area of observe, observer, he demonstrates, this is what is the nature of things first (first in terms of the significance of our existence).

Mjesto susreta Istoka i Zapada: Buddha i Nietzsche

Author(s): Đuldina Kurtović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1/2014

The overview of the key points in which their reflections encounter, especially those which are related to the existential determination of man and his position in the world, allows comparative study to find its way towards the realization of co-operation and respect for the other and different. The attitude towards life, understanding of the suffer, position of the man in the world are just some of the important touch points on which the philosophies of these two great men meet and dissipate. As riddle that will always represent a source for further comparative researches, Buddha and Nietzsche have greatly influenced the philosophical flows that will follow after them. In order to understand these touch points it is necessary to meet the basic characteristics of their philosophies. European civilization, and thus European man, have reached the end of their development path, and Nietzsche sees the cause in old values, values that ceased to be the directive in life. Nietzsche will recognize and announce values such like that, through critic of morality, religion and philosophy. By criticizing the tradition, Nietzsche is trying to preserve it. For Nietzsche, each moral represents one's will for power, and that shapes the true reality in which a man is pinned down in the world. Through an eternal return, he wants to show that it is a renewal form of the will for power. Nietzsche will not leave us without hope, nor a pessimistic view of the world or without possible solution to the problem in which we find ourselves. He offers art as area where life affirmation is possible. One of the touch points on which Buddha's and Nietzche's philosophical thought meet is a kind of attitude opposite the world, or how they respresent that: “disgust on the world.“ Disgusting on the world and meditative purification brings individual to indifference, to thirst without thirst (nirvana), considers Buddha. On the other hand, the path that Nietzsche advocates, the path of Zaratustra is marked by overcoming the disgust. It is solution for ending pain, suffer, caused by these dirty lives, that can be achieved by escaping life's desires, escaping from life itself. Here we encounter the point at which Buddha and Nietzsche separate. According to Nietzche, buddhism is missing courage and trust in life. “Disgust on the world“, for Buddha, is actually necessarily part that has to be passed on the way of purification. Nietzche considers this path for decadent, that it is a sign of decay, and Nietzche cannot see any positive context in the buddhism in this way of overcoming disagreement with the world. Altough he criticized the ascetic ideal and the buddhist attitude of life, Nietszche agrees with Buddha that loneliness is hypothesis of realization of the authentic existance, in fact, deep suffer is the one who refines, and return of the man into solitude is the possibility of achieving purification and establishing relationships with others. As with Buddha, as with Nietzsche we can find a request directed to a man, where it is said that man needs to be light to himself and to be a resort to himself to turn to.

Велики рат, Видовданска етика, памћење - о историји идеја и Спомену Жртве

Author(s): Bogoljub Šijaković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 9/2015

Beginning with a characterization of contemporaneity (dominance of the financial sector and high technology, politicization of economy, ideological use of culture and control of the capacity for thought) and a brief analysis of expansionism (political, economic, cultural) on the eve of the Great War, the author embarks on a more detailed description of the spiritual situation in the wake of the Great War: in philosophy, literature, art, as well as the national-political programmatic texts and war propaganda publications of German intellectuals of the time. The continuity of the Austro-Hungarian colonial policy towards the Balkans and Serbia culminates in instigating a preventive war against Serbia by the elites in Berlin and Vienna, which is of importance with regard to the question of responsibility for the war, guided by concrete aims of war in which causes for war are reflected. These war elites wanted to declare the assassination in Sarajevo as the cause of war, which in fact was a political assassination and tyrannicide. The freedom movement of democratic youth, Mlada Bosna (Young Bosnia), needs to be viewed in the European context as inspired by the Serbian tradition of the cult of Kosovo and the ethics of Vidovdan (St Vitus' Day) which speaks both about the victim's sacrifice as sublimation of history and about just suffering as elements of identity. Historical memory suggests that historical responsibility is transgenerational. The epic proportions of Serbian suffering in the Great War have additionally encouraged the positing of the theme of St Vitus' Day Temple (Vidovdanski Hram) as envisaged by Ivan Meštrović. The foundations of this idea were shaken by Miloš Crnjanski who, in his 'Lyrics of Ithaca', succeeds in returning to Vidovdan (St Vitus' Day) the inexhaustible national power of validity. Because of enormous Serbian military and civilian casualties in recent history, the need to establish a Victim's Sacrifice Memorial, in our day has identity and existential, ethical and ontological significance for the Serbian nation.

Otwarcie na wiarę w filozoficzno-pedagogicznej koncepcji Stefana Szumana

Author(s): Marek Mariusz Tytko / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2017

1. The goal of this article is to present the openness to belief in Stefan Szuman’s thinking. 2. Methodology. The author uses the historiographical method. 3. The main results of the analysis. The author discusses the following philosophical (metaphysical and ethical) and pedagogical (educational) issues: the virtue of belief (the virtue of faith) and the non-virtue of atheism (the un-virtue of atheism), and Szuman’s arguments concerning, among other things, the relation between man and God, the relation between belief (faith) and reason, and the relations of human rights to belief (faith) and to salvation. Quotations for the analysis have been taken from Szuman’s published works, written before, during or after World War II. The author also presents the influence of Szuman’s ideas on Karol Wojtyła (1920–2005), who was a participant in his 1949 university seminar on philosophical anthropology (i.e.: “characterology,” or personalism) at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. 4. Limitations of the analysis. This article encourages further discussion of the place of belief (faith) in the Humanities, albeit the discussion is limited to the ideas of Stefan Szuman. 5. Practical implications. The results of the analysis may be used as a rational argument for the greater presence of belief (faith) in the Humanities. 6. Social implications. The results of the analysis are of value to teachers. 7. The originality of the article (new value, novelty). The paper is the first to present a primary source and example-based discussion of Stefan Szuman’s ideas regarding belief and openness to God.

IN SEARCH OF MORAL BALANCE: CONVERSION AND CHURCH ADHERENCE IN THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH DURING THE POST-SOVIET PERIOD

Author(s): Tünde Komáromi / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2011

In this paper I return to the question of church adherence and conversion adding ethnographic depth to my discussion with the intention of making some generalisations. In a previous paper (KOMÁROMI 2011a) I reflected on the relationship between possession and conversion and I presented the cases of two women. Beginning with this paper I would like to broaden the perspective on conversion and relate the processes involved more generally to life crisis situations, conflicted relationships, severe illnesses or death and mourning.

I Continue to Enjoy Life: The Threatened Value of Old Age and the Discovery of Its Meaning

Author(s): Paweł Bortkiewicz / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

The article addresses the value of old age as a criterion for seeking the meaning of life. Such an approach contradicts not only contemporary postmodern culture, which emphasizes vitality and youthfulness, but also the utilitarianism that dominates contemporary secular ethics. Specifically, this approach considers human life in terms of quality of life, which results in an arbitrary refusal of some quality and the simultaneous right to exist. In this regard, the personalistic approach in bioethics that Pope John Paul II’s teaching, life, aging, and death expemplify affirms that old age is an inalienable sphere of the value and sanctity of human life.

Love, Sex, Communism: A Discussion

Author(s): Jules Joanne Gleeson,Jose Rosales,Andrew Culp / Language(s): English Issue: 1-2/2018

The following discussion arose from a chance encounter now routine for a generation raised by the internet. Emerging from a common interest in ultra-left politics, queer social life and the isolation of academia, the conversation unfolded online with the participants typing away on a shared document while researching resources on-the-fly and holding side conversations over chat. The style of their remarks demonstrates how scholars are now fusing traditional forms of thought with the tools of digital culture, as their high-minded observations are punctuated by quotes from online anthologies, page numbers quickly culled through machine searching, and references provided by hyperlink as encouragement for readers to complete their own deep dive into the material. As such, perhaps the reader should imagine it less as an academic panel discussion and more like a post with threads, replies, likes, and links.

European Philosophy and Its Negative Impact on the Treatment of Animals

Author(s): Dorota Probucka / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2017

In the article, I analyse Aristotle's, Descartes’s and John Rawls's views on the the moral status of non-human beings, and show the negative influence of the views on shaping the human-animal relationship in European culture. The purpose of my reasoning is to demonstrate that in each of these positions there is a problem that boils down to the selection of subjective criteria in the qualitative distinction between the moral status of people and of other animals, and the use of the premises that will prove the previously established deduction. What is common for the position of these three philosophers is the conclusion, that is the conviction that there are insufficient grounds for equal treatment of humans and non-human beings in the sphere of moral life.

Sprawozdanie z konferencji naukowej "Kryzys wartości?"

Author(s): Leszek Kopciuch / Language(s): Polish Issue: 24/2017

ODGOVORNO DJELOVANJE VJERSKIH ZAJEDNICA NA JAVNOM PROSTORU

Author(s): Mato Zovkić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2018

Oni koji su organizirali ovaj okrugli stol u ime IZ BiH, napisali su u smjernicama pozvanim predavačima da žele doprinijeti „ublažavanju napetosti između religija i sekularnih određenja stvarnosti, kao i napetosti između religija i unutar religija". Također su istaknuli kako u BiH „prisutnost religija u javnom prostoru ima veću težinu negoli u zemljama zapadne Europe. S druge strane, u BiH kao tradicionalnom multietničkom i multireligijskom društvu raspravljanje pitanja religije i sekularnosti implicira osjetljivost i odgovornost". Kao kršćanin i građanin ove zemlje svim srcem podupirem ovo nastojanje. U kratkom vremenu koje nam je dodijeljeno mogu iznijeti neke misli kršćanskih sociologa religije, pravnika i teologa provjerene na osobnom iskustvu s drukčijima koji nisu opasnost, nego ljudske skupine i pojedinci sa svojim pravima i potrebama. Pri tome pretpostavljam kao razmjerno jasan pojam javnog prostora u socijalnoj etici.