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  • Humanism – a lost idea

    Humanism – a lost idea

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    The idea of ​​humanism is a vital idea in European culture, and at the same time it is burdened with ambiguity on one hand and, on the other , with a multitude of philosophical and ideological developments. The author of the book presents the aforementioned ambiguity and multiplicity by proposing her interpretive key, which allows us to identify the most important contents of such a heterogeneous and changing concept, to separate ideological humanism from philosophical humanism, and to dispel the hopes that hitherto been held for the revival of the idea of...

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  • Is There Anything Like Moral Character or Virtue?

    Is There Anything Like Moral Character or Virtue?

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    The main aim of my monography entitled Czy istnieje coś, co zwiemy moralnym charakterem i cnotą? Dyskusja z sytuacjonistyczną krytyką etyki cnót (Is There Anything Like Moral Character and Virtue? Discussion with Situationistic Critique of Virtue Ethics), Wydawnictwo Academicon 2017, pp. 495, is to inquire whether and to what degree the situationistic criticism of virtue ethics undermines this prominent ethical approach. Situationists (ethicists inspired by the results of the research in social and cognitive psychology) maintain that virtue ethics is founded on...

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  • Ethics and Contingency. Bernard Williams` Project of Anti-Theoretical Ethics

    Ethics and Contingency. Bernard Williams` Project of Anti-Theoretical Ethics

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    The book aims to reconstruct and critically analyze Bernard Williams` project of anti-theoretical ethics. I try to overcome the interpretative difficulties generated by the specific features of the British philosopher`s thought –  his skepticism, multiple, essayistic form of expression - assuming the hypothesis that this project can be explicated and accurately captured only in relation to its epistemological, metaphysical, anthropological and metaphilosophical premises. The book contains five chapters.

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