Zbigniew Drozdowicz Livres

Exploring the Enlightenment, the author reflects on new insights gained from his studies and recent academic discussions. While his core views on the Enlightenment's significance to Western culture remain unchanged, he emphasizes a deeper understanding of its complexity. The work highlights how interpretations of the era are shaped by the perspectives of its key figures and the evaluative frameworks of later scholars, revealing the intricate interplay between historical context and contemporary analysis.

This book is dedicated to the problems faced by universities. The author frequently refers to those events from the past that resulted in universities becoming institutions of public benefit. This benefit is of course understood in various ways, but in ways always involving the institutions' function of serving. What is debatable is whom and what they were and are meant to serve, and how they can and how they should fulfil these functions. Although such questions are global in character, the answers to them can be both global and local, meaning that they may relate to both the most general tasks of universities and to those that might be or are to some degree only performed by institutions of a particular type.

Descartes gave the human intellect the central role in rationalism, his system therefore is a variant of intellectual rationalism. Other forms of rationalism had emerged in scholastic philosophy and the ancient philosophies of Plato and Aristotle. While Descartes had reservations with respect to all of them, he still adopted some of their elements: not even such a self-directed and critical philosopher as Descartes could have proceeded on the difficult journey towards truth without any baggage of tradition whatsoever. Those who treated this baggage as a useless burden and have attempted to pursue truth without carrying it, have only discovered things which had long been known.

The historical controversies and misunderstandings arising between the liberals and their numerous and socially important adversaries persuaded the author of this book to survey the traditions and contemporary ideological frame of liberalism. One of the key motives behind this endeavor was to demonstrate that there is no single liberalism, and in fact never has been. There have been, however, multiple different liberalisms, and so it remains important to contextualize them in the social and cultural contexts of particular continents, as well as specific countries. (Series: Development in Humanities - Vol. 13)

The standards of rationality are treated in this book as certain regulators of social life. They are compared to the rudders of the great vessels constituted by social communities. The diversity exhibited by those standards do not only result from the differences of time and space of their implementation, but also from the differences in the sets of ideas put forward by the leading social thinkers accompanied by the different characteristics of their designated audiences. (Series: Development in Humanities - Vol. 7)

Przystąpienie Polski do Unii Europejskiej nakłania członk�w naszego społeczeństw do głębszego poznania europejskich reali�w. Nie jest to łatwe, ponieważ mimo niedużych rozmiar�w geograficznych, Europa jest kontynentem dosyć mocno zr�żnicowanym przyrodniczo, gospodarczo, politycznie i kulturowo. Przedział haseł tego, już trzeciego tomu: Agroturystyka - Typ Ropucha (Projekt 775).

Filozofia oświecenia prezentuje najistotniejsze idee tamtej epoki oraz najważniejszych filozofów, z uwzglednieniem ich znaczących dzieł oraz biografii. Nakreślona przez autora panorama epoki pokazuje, iż tak żywo dzisiaj dyskutowana oświeceniowa filozofia nie tylko wpisuje się w odmienne ramy chronologiczne, ale także zawiera istotne różniące się treści i formy wyrazu. Podział według kryterium kraju (Anglia i Szkocja, Francja, Niemcy, Włochy i Polska) podyktowany jest zarówno tymi różnicami, jak i wzgledami dydaktycznymi. Opracowanie oparte zostało głównie na literaturze źródłowej, w tym na pozycjach w Polsce mało znanych, ale ważnych dla kultury filozoficznej danego kraju.