Amor Fati
Freedom is a multidimensional concept. It can be understood in many ways, which are often dependent on the ideological mainstream of thought of the era. On the one hand, freedom can be commonly understood as doing what one wants. On the other hand, you can argue about it as an example of inner freedom e.g. absolute freedom by Jean Paul Sartre. Another time, it is perceived in the aspect of external...
In this article the author argues that in the works of Camus people are particularly associated with vegetation. Joanna Roś analyzes the selected passages from the three literary works by Albert Camus, successively proving that: in The first man the fun with a palm tree is a symbol of passion for life, which is inextricably linked with nature as a model of survival; in Happy death vegetation teaches...
Happy ending is known to every reader and viewer. Happy endings is present in the culture of antiquity. In the literature for children happy ending is often unhappy, goes only unhappy. Science of happiness (polish term: felicytologia) answer questions on happiness in the literature for children and young people. Doing an analysis of the novel in 1994 under the title "Miss Nobody", author:...
Category of felicitas in the light of Polish composers
The article deals with the idea of the drive toward the formation of metaphors, which comes from the essay „On Truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense”, written by Friedrich Nietzsche in 1873. My thesis is that the rush to metaphor is necessary for the sense of happiness. By using the drive toward the formation of metaphors, humani-ty created the whole world of concepts. Because of that, the drive...
This article tries to answer the question: is felicitous eugenics and creating people by genes manipulation a dan-gerous thing? It is a utopia or it is a new hope? Habermas and Fukuyama are convinced that it leads us to immoral changes in the human nature. But this might be pouring the baby out with the bathwater. In fact medicine for a long time was changing our boundaries of life, death and that...
Plato and Aristotle are Greek philosophers for whom status of their country was very important. However be-tween them there were big differences – more and less obvious. Apart from ontological differences, we can note a lot of ethical and political questions in their pieces of work. In Aristotle, we see argumentative and personal points directed against Plato. Above all, they were the intellectual...
This paper explores the problem of virtue, understood as a mental disposition and its impact on the existence of human subject. The concepts of virtues developed by philosophers over the different eras are now the inspiration for psychology, mostly positive psychology. The aim of this analysis is to verify the hypothesis of a relationship between the possession of specific virtues and a sense of the...
The article relates to compounds of happiness with the literature, its purpose is to answer the question: what and why can literature talk about happiness? Different directions in literary studies occupy different positions to the values contained in the literary work. There is also no consensus as to whether it is the bearer of aesthetic func-tion. The author starts from the aesthetic function, which...
The article addresses the meaning and loss of meaning of life and death in the context of the modern world and classical philosophy, whose most prominent representative is Thomas Aquinas. There are also references to more contemporary thinkers and philosophers representing various cultural, political and – from certain points of view – also doctrinal backgrounds (G. K. Chesterton, Leszek Kołakowski)...
Using speeches, official websites, educational websites, and books from different historians, philosophers, political theorists, and sociologists, the knowledge foundation for this essay was laid. The question of the ways of bringing social consciousness in social democratic frameworks has been the central focus of the essay. Education and democracy, were the keys to the expansion of the intelligentsia...
In 1976 Stanisław Hebanowski, a theater director, has staged on the scene of the Wybrzeże Theatre “The Misunderstanding” – a play written in 1943 in occupied France by Albert Camus. This spectacle was significant for Hebanowski, not only be-cause of it`s evaluation, which shows that the weakness of the Camus’ play have been overcome on the scene, what author of the article demonstates. “The Misunderstand-ing”...
Death has always been, is and will remain a mystery for man every day, including man biblical times. Bible ratio for both life and death is full of seriousness. At the corners of the Old Testament, in different ways, echoes the truthabout the transience of human life. In this paper it has been discussed biblical picture of death, which occurred as a consequence of the sin of our first parents. The...
In the literature for children and young people have always existed taboo topics. One of them is the problem of death and suffering. Topics considered by an adult to be difficult, it doesn’t have to be this same for a child, and art and appropriately selected stories can help tame the fears, troublesome thoughts (in line with the "pedagogy of death", in line with the "literature of...
This text is devoted to analysing and interpreting different images of death in Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham. The author focuses on two images of death. The first is connected with biological death, the second has metaphorical sense, which I called “little death”. This “little death” is connected with depression and melancholy; this is a typical state of mind for the protagonists of novel. All...
Currently, for the individual it is much easier to reconcile with a loss, especially if one does not touch her or him directly. Does not the material possessions, being forever young make the man himself lost? Is it really so difficult today to answer the funda-mental question of to be or to have? Contemporary dialogue with modern man's death, became not only the subject of research, but also a reflection...
The aim of this paper is to present and interpret the issues connected with Crowleyan perspective on the death motif, which is strictly correlated with the Thelemic geneal-ogy of the mankind. It is also connected with the voluntaristic and pragmatic percep-tion of reality, which can be found in the writings of Aleister Crowley. The analysis comprises the issues of physical death compared with the...