At the turn of 416/15 BCE, Athens, still at the height of its power, completely destroyed Melos, a small polis in the Aegean Sea. In his account of the negotiations preceding the invasion, Thucydides (Peloponnesian War, V 84-116) repeatedly invokes the concept of hope (elpis). The citizens of Melos associate it with the wisdom of the Athenians, with the support of Sparta, with a lucky coincidence, with the principles of justice, and finally with the help of the gods. However, all these expectations fail. Thucydides seems to suggest that having hope is...
The enormous influence of Kazimierz Twardowski on the shape of 20th-century Polish culture is unquestionable. The volume Reason and Will specifies which spheres did this influence concern. Firstly, the volume reconstructs the image of Twardowski’s personality and work in the eyes of his contemporaries Poles, and also pictures how they assessed this work (Jacek Jadacki, Ryszard Kleszcz). Both the image and the assessment were confronted with the facts, and this...
The work focuses on the issue of moral intuitions and their ability to justify our moral beliefs. It consists of seven chapters. Chapter one presents a historical outline of intuitionistic theories in ethics, with the main emphasis put on the British intuitionists from the 16th to the first half of the 20th century. The chapter ends by presenting the main objections put forward against moral intuitionism, which eventually led to the weakening of this approach in the second part of the 20th century. The objections are as follows: queerness argument of moral facts and the faculty of moral...
Informujemy, że nakładem Wydawnictwa Academicon ukazał się trzeci tom z cyklu ineditów Kazimierza Twardowskiego pt. „Logika. Część 2” pod redakcją naukową prof. Aleksandry Horeckiej.
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