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Koncepcja patriotyzmu i świadomości narodowej w myśli Stanisława Ossowskiego
(2024-06-04) Brzechczyn, Krzysztof
The aim of the paper is the interpretation of Stanisław Ossowski’s concept of patriotism and national consciousness. In the first part, biographical information is presented. In the second part, Ossowski’s vision of patriotism is analyzed. In the third part, I present Ossowski’s concept of national consciousness that implicates his notion of nation. His main distinction is the differentiation between private and ideological homeland. The first one is a place where a given person was born and raised. The basis of belonging to an ideological homeland is an individual’s conviction about his/her participation in the community that has a common homeland consisting of culture, language, history, ideals, and values.
Fragment of a Carolingian manuscript containing Smaragdus of Saint‑Mihiel’s Liber in partibus Donati found in the University Library in Poznań
(2024-12-31) Łukaszewski, Jakub
Abstract. In 2018, a fragment of a manuscript written in Carolingian minuscule was found during research on reused materials in bindings in the Early Printed Books Collection of the University Library in Poznań. The fragment had been used as the back endsheet in the bind-ing of Hieronymus Dungresheim’s Conclusiones cum rationibus ad partes summe theologice [...] Thome Aquinatis, Leipzig: W. Stöckel, 1516 (shelfmark SD 734 II). The manuscript con-tained the text of Smaragdusof Saint-Mihiel’s Liber in partibus Donati. The fragment was given the shelfmark Rkp 8060. Article’s objectives: to indicate this text’s meaning within the manuscript tradition relating to Liber in partibus Donati, to provide a codicological and pal-aeographical description of the find, and to explain how the item found its way to Poznań. Methods: content analysis and collation of the text with a critical edition (Smaragdus. Liber in partibus Donati, eds. B. Löfsted, L. Holtz, A. Kibre†, CCCM, vol. 68, Turnhout 1986); codi-cological and palaeographical analyses of the manuscript fragment; tegumentological analysis of the binding of the volume in which the manuscript was reused; and research into the prov-enance of the volume. Conclusions: The text on the found fragment is closest to the tradition transmitted by the manuscript Paris BNF lat. 6400B. The parchment was arranged and pre-pared for inscription in insular style, but palaeographical analysis indicates that the fragment was inscribed in continental Carolingian minuscule, presumably in one of the centres for writ-ing in the north-western part of the Frankish kingdom (Neustria, Orléans-Fleury region?). The manuscript can be dated to the mid-9th century. The binding of the volume in which the fragment was found was made in one of the bookbinding workshops in Erfurt around 1518. Analysis of the provenance of the volume shows that the book was owned by the Carthusian library in Erfurt until 1810. After the dissolution of the monastery, it was transferred to the Er-furt University Library. In 1907, the book was transferred to the Königliche Bibliothek Berlin (shelfmark Cw 855). It was acquired by the University Library in Poznań after 1945.
W 2018 roku w trakcie badań makulatury introligatorskiej w kolekcji starych druków Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej w Poznaniu odnaleziono fragment rękopisu zapisane-go minuskułą karolińską. Fragment wzmacniał oprawę dzieła Hieronima Dungresheima pt. Conclusiones cum rationibus ad partes summe theologice [...] Thome Aquinatis, Leipzig: W. Stöckel, 1516 (sygn. SD 734 II). Rękopis zawiera tekst Liber in partibus Donati Sma-ragdusa z Saint-Mihiel. Wyjęty fragment otrzymał sygnaturę Rkp 8060. Cele artykułu: umieszczenie przekazu w tradycji rękopiśmiennej Liber in partibus Donati, kodykologicz-ny i paleograficzny opis znaleziska i wyjaśnienie, w jaki sposób zabytek trafił do Poznania. Metody: analiza treści i kolacjonowanie tekstu z edycją krytyczną(Smaragdus. Liber in partibus Donati, red. B. Löfsted, L. Holtz, A. Kibre†, CCCM, t. 68, Turnhout 1986); analizy kodykologiczna i paleograficzna fragmentu rękopisu; analiza tegumentologiczna oprawy woluminu, w której wtórnie wykorzystano rękopis oraz badanie proweniencji tego wolu-minu. Wnioski. Tekst na odnalezionym fragmencie jest najbardziej zbliżony do tradycji przekazanej przez rękopis Paris BNF lat. 6400B. Pergamin wyprawiono i przygotowano pod zapis sposobem insularnym, jednak analiza paleograficzna wskazuje, że fragment za-pisano kontynentalną minuskułą karolińską, przypuszczalnie w jednym z ośrodków pisar-skich w północno-zachodniej części królestwa Franków (Neustria, rejon Orlean-Fleury?). Rękopis można datować na połowę Ix wieku. Oprawę woluminu, w której odnaleziono fragment, wykonano w jednym z warsztatów introligatorskich w Erfurcie ok. 1518 roku. Analiza proweniencji woluminu wykazała, że księga była własnością biblioteki Kartuzów w Erfurcie do 1810 roku. Po kasacie klasztoru księgę tę przeniesiono do erfurckiej Biblio-teki Uniwersyteckiej. W 1907 roku trafiła do Königliche Bibliothek Berlin (sygn. Cw 855), a do Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej w Poznaniu – po 1945 roku.
o. Jarosław Łuniewski OSPPE, Inkunabuły w zbiorach paulinów polskich. Katalog i opracowanie, Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego 2023, ss. 293, [3]. Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-226-4358-7. E-ISBN-13 (15): 978-83-226-4359-4
(2024-12-31) Łukaszewski, Jakub
Recenzowana praca jest katalogiem inkunabułów „w zbiorach paulinów polskich”. Z rozdziałów poprzedzających zasadniczą katalogową część wynika, iż chodzi o inkunabuły z bibliotek paulinów na Jasnej Górze w Częstochowie i na Skałce w Krakowie. Autorem jest o. dr Jarosław Łuniewski (OSPPE), który od lat zajmuje się jasnogórskim księgozbiorem.
The Wonders of the World and the Wonder of Man: Sophocles’ Ode to Man in Hegel, Heidegger, and Jonas
(Wydział Filozoficzny UAM, 2024-12-21) Wilford, Paul; Anderson, Nicholas; Loebs, John
This article brings Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Martin Heidegger, and Hans Jonas into conversation about man’s relationship to nature on the basis of their references to the “Ode to Man” from Sophocles’ Antigone. Hegel’s reference to the ode in his Naturphilosophie highlights the violence of man’s practical relation to nature even as it also points beyond all opposition to a philosophic relation that discerns man’s underlying unity with nature. By stressing that the ode’s evocation of man’s violence against nature is undergirded by the overwhelming violence that nature perpetrates upon man, Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics raises the possibility that Hegel’s “higher” relation to nature is an outgrowth of Western history’s oblivion of man’s essentially violent exposedness to being. Jonas concurs with a version of Heidegger’s concern in his Imperative of Responsibility and asserts that man’s violent mastery of nature has reached an uncanny excess that renders the ode almost quaint, but he insists above all that man must now assume the degree of responsibility that accords with his vast powers. Insofar as his exhortation to responsibility drives Jonas to a partial renewal of metaphysics, his position could be considered a retrieval of the Hegelian standpoint.
Why Turn to Hegel Today? An Introduction
(Wydział Filozoficzny UAM, 2024-12-21) Battistoni, Giulia
This brief introduction sets the stage for the central aim of this issue of Ethics in Progress devoted to Hegel: to underscore the enduring relevance of his thought, in particular his Philosophy of Nature and his Realphilosophie, in addressing contemporary challenges. While Hegel may appear to some as an abstract thinker, seemingly surpassed by the demands of our era, the core elements of his philosophy – particularly the dialectical method, his reflections on the complex relationship between Natur (nature) and Geist (spirit), and key concepts such as Anerkennung (recognition) and Wille (will) – continue to provide a vital conceptual framework for addressing pressing issues of our time. These include the environmental crisis and the evolving dynamics between humanity, nature, and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence. Consequently, this issue strives to approach Hegel through the lens of our contemporary experience, not to distort or “denaturalize” his thought, nor to fall into the trap of anachronism, but to breathe new life into the concept. By doing so, it invites the reader to listen anew to what Hegel’s philosophy might still teach us today.
Hegel on Human Ways of Considering Nature
(Wydział Filozoficzny UAM, 2024-12-21) Palombelli, Marco
In this article I aim to show the limits of certain "ways of considering" nature, as well as the intrinsic contradictions in their modus operandi, following Hegel's analysis in the Introductions to the Encyclopaedic Naturphilosophie and the Berlin Lectures on the Philosophy of Nature. After framing the problem within the broader theme - already explored in Jena - of the relationship between nature and spirit, I will show that both the practical and the theoretical, insofar as they are founded in an original separation between man and nature, result in a subjection of the natural being to man. In order for this to be redeemed from one-sided conduct towards it, it is necessary to access through living intuition a philosophical consideration – both of the living being and of nature as a whole –, the activity of which Hegel understands as a rediscovery of the rationality of nature and its "liberation”.
Life as Paradigm of Knowledge. What Use of Hegel in the Age of the Environmental Crisis?
(Wydział Filozoficzny UAM, 2025-12-21) Achella, Stefania
This paper aims to show to what extent the normativity of organic life that emerged from the natural sciences of Hegel’s time influenced the structuring of his speculative approach. In the first part, the eighteenth-century paradigm shift in the natural sciences is investigated as marking the transition from a physics-based worldview to a biology-based one. This shift argues strongly against the reduction of nature to mechanism and provides an adequate model for analysing the functioning of all other complex systems and, above all, the functioning of reason. In the second part, the consequences of such a shift are evaluated with respect to Hegel’s idealism, especially in relation to the categories of organism and purpose. They are the core elements for understanding not only the mode of living but also that of thinking. In the last part, we identify Hegel’s philosophy as a “living ontology,” an ontology that keeps pace with reality by modifying its categories accordingly. From this point of view, Hegel’s idealism can be compatible with a new idea of the relationship between human beings and the environment, in the direction of a relational ontology. The paper then focuses on the legacy of this re-reading of Hegel’s philosophy in the contemporary debate on ecological thinking that attempts to answer the question raised in the discussion on the environmental crisis and Anthropocene.
Is a Contemporary Hegelian Philosophy of Nature Possible?
(Wydział Filozoficzny UAM, 2024-12-21) Arredondo, Xavier Aranda
Hegel’s philosophy of nature (Naturphilosophie) is impossible to separate from the rest of his system, in which nature is shown as a reflection of the idea (Idee) as presented in the logic (in the Enzyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften). The system composed by logic, nature, and spirit, represents a dialectical relation in which logic as the universal, nature as the particular, and spirit as the singular, mediate through one another and develop as immanent and constitutive parts of the system as a whole. Yet, the goal of the philosophy of nature is not unrelated to a philosophy of science in the contemporary sense. The latter aims to solve (among other problems) the problem of dualism between the conceptual scheme/the world and the demarcation of science (and knowledge), where the crucial difference is that the Hegelian philosophy of nature benefits from having an answer to these in the form of the absolute idea (die absolute Idee). In a contemporary sense, the constitution of these problematics would follow an abductive reasoning where the Hegelian idea (Idee) would solve these crucial problems for philosophy of science. The following paper will attempt to provide some guiding points for such a project and suggest the assumptions necessary for its development, with the sole purpose of underscoring the similarities and differences between the Hegelian philosophy of nature and a contemporary philosophy of science.
Natural Becoming: From Bad Infinity Towards an Open Dialectic? Contemporary Issues Moving From Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature
(Wydział Filozoficzny UAM, 2024-12-21) Erle, Giorgio
In Hegel’s Philosophy, natural time is the engine of bad infinity, presenting itself through disappearance. Nevertheless, as one proceeds towards the higher levels of the realm of exteriority, this force from abstract becomes increasingly real until it becomes part of vital processes in the organized subjectivity, such as that of the living organism that “knows” and uses this becoming as a force to its advantage, e.g., in the forms of metabolism. This effective meaning of natural becoming seems to us to have been particularly highlighted in the 20th–century in the “Philosophical Biology” of Hans Jonas, whereby even the elements of failure (e.g., in the animal’s procurement of food) are grasped as expressions of a distinctive trait of the subject, namely its capacity to bear the negative and with this to establish mediation. Even the mortal limit, which is what leads to the conclusion of the Naturphilosophie requiring the elevation to the Philosophy of Spirit in Hegel, according to Jonas, takes on, within the human awareness, a renewed ontological value that allows life to flourish again and with this makes human beings able to ask themselves what kind of world they want to hand over (also with environmental regard) to future generations. If this is the case, then a role for Naturphilosophie becomes highly topical about producing an “open dialectic” invoked many times in the philosophical paths of the 20th century.
Towards (Unilateral) Recognition of “the Technological Other” – Vulnerability, Resistance and Adequate Regard
(Wydział Filozoficzny UAM, 2024-12-21) Juchniewicz, Natalia
The aim of the article is to answer the question of whether the theory of recognition can be applied to research on the human-technology relationship and, if so, to what extent. The article assumes that the theory of recognition is a normative theory, and therefore, its moral consequences can certainly be applied to human persons. To use this theory for studying the relationship between humans and technology, shifts in the theory are necessary. These shifts have been reduced to the concept of solidarity with technological artifacts (especially with robots). However, the article constructs an argument that the concepts of vulnerability and resistance may be helpful in justifying the development of recognition in the relationship between humans and technology. The model of recognition discussed in this case is not, however, a model based on mutual relations but rather on unilateral recognition, which is introduced into the theory through the concept of adequate regard.