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Journal: Folia Philosophica

"Ultra coincidentiam oppositorum": Logic Remarks in Connection with the Dispute over Christian Philosophy in Post-war Poland

Mirosław Tyl

Language: PL | Published: 31-12-2024 | Abstract | pp. 1-15

Philosophical debates are commonly regarded as an essential feature of all philosophizing. However, the long-standing dispute over the concept of Christian philosophy, which took place within post-war Polish philosophy, reveals that the course and effectiveness of philosophical debates are influenced not only by substantive arguments but also by emotional factors. When representatives of different philosophical schools and traditions participate in the discussion, the practice of external criticism of adversaries’ views becomes widespread. The aim of the article is to present various opinions on the nature of philosophical disputes that were formulated in relation to the aforementioned debate on Christian philosophy.

2024-12-31



Journal: Folia Philosophica

Noematic Validity Structure as Formalism Werner Flach’s Negation und Andersheit Today

Christian Krijnen

Language: PL | Published: 30-06-2022 | Abstract | pp. 1-53

Hegel criticizes the mode of reflection that is typical of the transcendental philosophy of his age. The present article explores the relevance of Hegel’s criticism with regard to contemporary transcendental philosophy, in particular that of Werner Flach. Christian Krijnen shows that, despite substantial modifications of Kant’s conception of transcendental philosophy, not least inspired by Hegel, contemporary transcendental philosophy absolutizes the logic of essence. More precisely, from the perspective of its mode of reflection, contemporary transcendental philosophy basically is an absolutized form of external reflection.

2022-06-30



Journal: Folia Philosophica

Wiktor Potempa (1887—1942) — badacz Platona rodem z Górnego Śląska

Tomasz Mróz

Language: PL | Published: 09-05-2018 | Abstract

The article presents a little-known figure of Wiktor Potempa (1887—1942) and his Platonic studies. His works proceeded from his doctoral thesis on Phaedrus which was defended in 1912. Later on he studied relation between Platonism and Christianity, and finally published a handbook for the history of ancient philosophy that was addressed to the Catholic seminarians. Some views of Potempa are compared to those of Stefan Pawlicki, the most important Plato scholar in the neo-Scholastic milieu. In comparison with Pawlicki, Potempa’s attitude to Plato is much less enthusiastic, but rather cautious; he warns the Christian reader not to worship Plato’s philosophy uncritically.

2018-05-09



Journal: Folia Philosophica

Philosophy as a system

Tomasz Kubalica

Language: PL | Published: 31-12-2011 | Abstract | pp. 363-366

Review of Christian Krijnen's book “Philosophy as a System: Principle-Theoretical Investigations into the Concept of System in Hegel, Neo-Kantianism, and Contemporary Philosophy.” Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2008.

2011-12-31



Journal: Folia Philosophica

Self-determination as a will? Hegel’s doctrine of free spirit and the fundamental axiotic relationship of transcendental philosophy to Kantianism

Christian Krijnen , Tomasz Kubalica

Language: PL | Published: 31-12-2011 | Abstract | pp. 67-108

The problem of social ontology in relation to the philosophy of German idealism requires a systematic settlement on the ground of this tradition, which would be also directed against the background of ‘transcendental philosophies of Kantianism’. Their doctrine of the fundamental axiotic relationship is understood as a ‘primacy of practical reason’ and ‘unity of theoretical and practical reason’. This essay analyzes how the fundamental axiotic relationship is understood in Hegel’s philosophy. On the one hand Hegel was aware of the need of overcoming the traditional opposition between theoretical and practical reason, but on the other side he included it in his work.

2011-12-31



Journal: Folia Philosophica

Sceptyczna postawa Leszka Kołakowskiego wobec filozofii chrześcijańskiej

Agnieszka Turoń-Kowalska

Language: PL | Published: 26-04-2018 | Abstract

The paper presents Leszek Kołakowski’s attitude to Christian philosophy. Very often it is seen as informed by scepticism in the sense of some negative vigilance against dogmas and non-scientific contents. An important element of Kołakowski’s biography is his initial fascination with post-war socialism and subsequent “Hegelian bite”, which manifested in harsh criticism of Polish Catholicism. After the change of his views and compulsory emigration he kept researching religious attitude and religion itself. The paper concerns his views in this matter with exclusion of his “ideological” analyses. It consists of, first of all, Kołakowski’s attitude to transcendence-existence relation of medieval and modern order including the question of evil manifesting itself in the world as conceived in Christian philosophy. It also aims to give answer to the question of what form should Christianity take in the face of scientific concepts of world and man’s place within it. It deals also with Kołakowski’s attempt to define religion in the context of epistemological separation of the act of faith from intellectual cognition. According to him, religion should not pretend to attain a scientific level, which however does not negate its meaning for man.

2018-04-26



Journal: Folia Philosophica

From bio-electronics to anthropology – the development of the anthropological problems in the work of Włodzimierz Sedlak

Elżbieta Struzik

Language: PL | Published: 31-12-2002 | Abstract | pp. 141-160

The present article shows the development of anthropological reflection in the scholarly and philosophical works by Włodzimierz Sedlak. The process of shaping the field of research proper to naturalist anthropology has been presented against the background of reflections on the bio-electronic vision of life. It is exactly against this background that the concepts of homo electronicus and of homo comicus, with the problems peculiar to them, can come into being. The naturalistic vision of man may serve as a point of departure for analyses belonging already to philosophical anthropology. The problems typical of the philosophical analysis implies questions of a metaphysical nature. Within the framework of theological anthropology, the problem of the relationship between man and God. Reflections on this subject are characteristic of Christian evolutionism and personalism.

2002-12-31



Journal: Folia Philosophica

The ethics of right-mindedness-open morality- christianity

Adam A. Dura

Language: PL | Published: 31-12-2002 | Abstract | pp. 37-61

Each ethical system produces its morality: either open or closed, static or dynamic, and it leaves man less and less of free space. It happens that it demands from us only that our life should become fitted into a straitjacket of rules. The present article contains reflections on the open morality a possibility of which is included in J. Banka’s independent ethics, the ethics of right-mindedness. The problem is in fact much more complex because it is based on the assumption of the openness of this kind ethics towards other systems of moral philosophy, and, particularly, towards Christian ethics. The dynamic and open morality generated by the ethics of right-mindedness is crowned by the model of homo euthyphronicus. In this way, the modem man receives an independent and autonomous ethical system which, in exceptionally unfavourable conditions (connected with Post-modernism), allows us to keep our individuality and creative outlook on life.

2002-12-31