In her article, Anna Antoszewska discusses the phenomenon of the interpersonal encounter in the philosophical thought of professor Antoni Kępiński, the author of Psychopatie, among other books. She lays special emphasis on the sources of his philosophical insights. While there is no doubt as to the originality of these insights, getting acquainted with numerous interpretations of Kępiński’s philosophical thought makes a researcher aware of the difficulty of unambiguously identifying the position of this outstanding psychiatrist and founder of axiological psychiatry. Polish scholars interested in Kępiński’s views remain sensitive to the contradictions among the concepts he uses in his philosophical reflections.

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s philosophy of life of is a phenomenological vision of the self-development of the human spirit presented from a cosmological perspective and in the formula of self-individualization of man in existence and at the same time his self-interpretation in life. This development cannot be realized solely on the basis of reason, through the subject’s cognitive act. For the self-interpretation of man in existence, his creative act is necessary, one which expresses the creative operation of the human imagination. It is this path of the human mind’s self-tracking which sees its sources in the first, pre-organic processes of the formation of the universe. These processes evolved towards the attainment of an ever higher degree of complexity in the living forms of nature, up to the form of human self-awareness expressed in man’s creative act and in the realization by the human spirit of its transnatural vocation. Man’s aspiration to fulfill his life’s destiny takes place in three steps (or “movements of the soul”): intellectual, socio-moral, and sacred. Their description in the phenomenology of life emerges from a metaphysical and at once existentialist vision of human life as being in-unity-with-all-that-lives. We can say that this vision is the starting point of Tymieniecka’s phenomenology of life and of the human creative condition. Arguably, in her theory, the most important thing is to follow the sacred path of life’s logos in order to attain communion with the Divine (God, the Sacred, the Transcendent, the Unconditioned, the All-Encompassing). On this path, the phenomenology of the human spirit attains completion and phenomenology – phenomenology.

The article addresses the ethical aspects of eristic and – more generally – the difficulties people encounter while evaluating debates in moral terms. Simplified and superficial ways to perceive eristical phenomena lead to inadequate assessments. Krzysztof Szymanek objects to the stereotype of eristic as the art of unfair debating and argues that eristical stratagems cannot be considered simpliciter as honest or dishonest without taking into account the circumstances under which arguments are exchanged. He gives and discusses examples of argumentative moves which, on the one hand, are deceptive, but, on the other, lead to the victory of what is right. A comparison of eristical fights to military battles helps to highlight the difficulties in formulating moral judgments about disputes.

The article presents two versions of a proposal of a code of professional of ethics for interior architects. The code’s articles reflect both ethical obligations as well as broadly understood aspirational ideals. The two versions of the code emphasize respectively the deontological dimension of professional ethics and the architect’s aspirations. Monika Małek-Orłowska discusses the theoretical assumptions of the proposed code and the methods used in its development. She also addresses the key problems related to its form and content.

A Discourse on Miracles and Resurrectio et quae sequuntur are the first Polish translations of John Locke’s two minor treatises on religious matters. In presenting his understanding of miracles and the resurrection, Locke tries to reconcile the content of Scripture with the principles of reason, including those of his philosophy. The limitation of knowledge to what was certain opened a field for religious speculations, but also in these reason played the role of a guarantor of their non-contradiction. The issues of miracles and the resurrection allow for a better interpretation of the problems that Locke discusses in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, such as the relation of empirical cognition to speculative philosophy, personal identity, and corporeality.