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  • Reason and Will. Kazimierz Twardowski and His Influence on the Shape of Polish

    Reason and Will. Kazimierz Twardowski and His Influence on the Shape of Polish

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    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...

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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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  • Hope from Melos. A contribution to the debate on the concept of elpis

    Hope from Melos. A contribution to the debate on the concept of elpis

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    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...

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