- Author:
Danuta Karnowska
- Institution:
Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz (Poland)
- Year of publication:
2011
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
337-339
- DOI Address:
http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2011020
- PDF:
ppsy/40/ppsy2011020.pdf
The most important ideologies of the XIX and the first half of the XX century took a stand on communities. This was expressed not only in the liberal criticism of the communal lifestyle but also in the socialist commendation; in the conservative hierachy or communist absolute equality. Invariably a community constituted one of the central categories around which concepts of life of a human being and functioning of the society were created.
- Author:
Łukasz Dominiak
- Institution:
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland)
- Year of publication:
2007
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
287-291
- DOI Address:
http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2007021
- PDF:
ppsy/36/ppsy2007021.pdf
A serious disease of the contemporary world is a state of “the loss of being”. We started to see redundance of metaphysics as a result of reduction of reality to a physical dimension that had been made by positivism. There was no place for scientific discipline which subject had undergone destruction. Being was reduced to objects, to objectivity, to things which only appear to man. “is way we have lost the being, only objects have stayed, things which surrounded us (…) e true existence is confront with material existence.” The same vision of contemporary situation can be found among representatives of the “end of philosophy” discourse such as J.-F. Lyotard, G. Vattimo, O. Marquardt, R. Rorty, P. Laslett.
- Author:
Łukasz Dominiak
- Institution:
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland)
- Year of publication:
2005
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
190-193
- DOI Address:
http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2005017
- PDF:
ppsy/34/ppsy2005017.pdf
The dynamic and range of polemics among social scientists can testify to branches of science vivacity and progress. Especially when those polemics’ implications are not closed inside the academic world, but they influence social and political life. This situation refers to liberal-communitarian debate. In 1956 Peter Laslett in Philosophy, Politics and Society announced the death of political philosophy. This subdisciplines’ end, as well as the whole philosophy, was connected with the rudimental modern world’s split in the humanistic and scientific vision. The collapse and rot of the political philosophy (Leo Strauss) reached their culmination in the logical positivism and its derivatives’ supremacy time. This neopositivism had been looking for the clear criteria of the science and metaphysic’s demarcation and, at the same time, had tried to exclude metaphysic outside the legitimated reflection.