Browsing by Author "Paradowski, Ryszard"

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    Ateizm, metafizyka i filozofia demokracji. Refleksje o teologii Braci Polskich
    (Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Nauk Politycznych i Dziennikarstwa UAM, 2023) Paradowski, Ryszard; Paradowska, Wiera
    Artykuł poświęcony jest argumentom na rzecz tezy, że istotnie ateistyczna jest nie tylko koncepcja, zgodnie z którą „Bóg nie istnieje” (Bóg w znaczeniu, jakie nadają mu teologie), ale również teoria, która, wstępnie deklarując przywiązanie do idei Boga religijnie rozumianego, zarazem formułuje swoje wyznanie wiary w porządek społeczno-kulturowy i aksjologiczny w sposób zasadniczo sprzeczny z wizerunkiem Boga jako najwyższego szczebla absolutnej hierarchii, jako uosobienia absolutnej siły i wyłącznej kompetencji do definiowania dobra i zła. Ateizmem w tym rozumieniu jest pogląd o zasadniczo niehierarchicznej budowie świata i o nieistnieniu jednego absolutnego autorytetu i ateizmem w tym rozumieniu jest (pomimo teistycznej deklaracji) światopogląd Braci Polskich.
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    Mit totalitaryzmu i Platońska filozofia demokracji
    (Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Dziennikarstwa UAM, 2010) Paradowski, Ryszard
    A certain trend in political philosophy has associated Plato with a totalitarian tradition, which is disputed in this paper. The author argues that Plato could be included in the political philosophy of a democratic type, referring to the interpretation of the theory of ideas, presented in the text. This interpretation involves a certain understanding of the idea of the Good and the two principal methods of defining it, as well as ‘Plato’s dilemma’ (the Good above the Demiurge versus the Demiurge above the Good), and a peculiar Platonic way to resolve this dilemma. Additionally, the author confronts Plato’s dilemma with the axiological duality of the cultural message conveyed by the Old Testament. The author develops a hypothesis that especially (albeit not exclusively) as the author of The Republic, Plato laid the foundations for the political philosophy in general, but also, despite the disapproval of the Athenian democracy he manifested, for the philosophy of democracy, perceived as a kind of order, based on defining the Good by means of dialogue and the prevalence of so-defined Good over any kind of ‘Demiurge’, including a political Demiurge.
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    Podmiotowość jako transcendencja. Przyczynek do definicji podmiotowości politycznej
    (Wydawnictwo Naukowe WNPiD UAM w Poznaniu, 2005) Paradowska, Wiera; Paradowski, Ryszard
    To define political subjectiveness as a purpose-oriented activity brings about the obliteration of differences between authoritarian policy and liberal-and-democratic policy, as well as between an authoritarian and liberal-and-democratic definition of politics. The authors of the paper considered it justified to move from the common comprehension of subjectiveness to its metaphysical aspect, and to positioning it in the realm of philosophical transcedency. This required them to determine the difference between a philosophical and religious meaning of tanscendency. This difference is demonstrated in the article.
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    Prasa lokalna na konkurencyjnym rynku – założenia strategii rozwoju
    (Wydawnictwo Naukowe WNPiD UAM w Poznaniu, 2009) Paradowski, Ryszard
    The author is of opinion that contemporary local press publications should focus on providing their readers with current information, whatever the distribution channel (print, the Internet, mobile news). This requires certain financial outlays, appropriate professional personnel, and the correct legal form to perform publishing activities and organize the publishing house efficiently. In the author’s opinion the current situation on the press publishing market requires a combination of traditional media with modern anderactive.
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    Prawo i wolność. Studium filozofii politycznej Borysa Wyszesławcewa
    (Wydawnictwo Naukowe WNPiD UAM w Poznaniu, 2008) Paradowski, Ryszard
    According to Wyszesławcew, the starting point of any moral reflection that would be deserving of the name is the statement that is a philosophical transposition of the Apostle’s words: evil emerges into the world accompanying law. The words should be understood quite literally – it is not that with law we develop the awareness of evil that we have already unconsciously committed. The point is that once established, the law prompts us to evil. Wyszes³awcew’s notion of law is very broad; he understands law as any ethical, customary, religious or legal norm, especially when it assumes the form of prohibition. Therefore, both the order of Moses and the ethics of the Stoics, Roman law and Kant’s categorical imperative are ominous, demoralizing laws.
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    Pro choice i pro life – rozbieżne dyskursy. Przyczynek do problemu debaty i konstruowania obiektywności
    (Wydawnictwo Naukowe WNPiD UAM w Poznaniu, 2006) Paradowski, Ryszard
    Abortion has been a tool of birth control since time immemorial. The problem of abortion is as old as time itself. What has always made abortion a problem is the dilemma a woman faces due to her ability to procreate on the one hand, and the ‘liberation’ of woman from this dilemma – whether by denying her the right to abortion, or by forcing her to have an abortion – on the other. However significant and dramatic, a woman’s dilemma is not the subject of the present considerations. The subject refers to selected arguments intended to liberate woman from this dilemma, and the arguments used to confirm women’s competence with reference to the problem under discussion. The purpose is to demonstrate the principal differences of these two, arguments, as well as a narrower argument that might combine the intentions of both parties of this centuries-old debate.
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    Religia jako ideologia. Status religioznawstwa i problem transcendencji
    (Wydawnictwo Naukowe WNPiD UAM w Poznaniu, 2012) Paradowski, Ryszard
    The paper attempts to expand and transform the religious notion of transcendence, as well as the way in which religion is defined, which in Polish religious studies is dominated by a denominational approach, where the social functions of religion in particular (which according to academic religious studies determine the essential character of a religion) are considered ‘non-specific,’ while the ‘specific’ functions are those that the religion itself assumes to be such. The paper states that the essential character of religion goes beyond its social functions to encompass broadly understood ideological functions. This claim is illustrated by an analysis of the biblical story of the creation of the world and man, as this story demonstrates that religion is a product of the biblical axiological dilemma interpreted from an authoritarian viewpoint.
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    W sprawie „dekalogu” etyki politycznej liberalnej demokracji
    (Wydawnictwo Naukowe WNPiD UAM w Poznaniu, 2006) Paradowska, Wiera; Paradowski, Ryszard
    The issue of morality in politics has been bothering political scientists since time immemorial. Throughout all this time attempts have been made to create a system of political ethics. These attempts have mainly been characterized by the tendency to make this ethical system universal (in conformity with a controversial assumption that it is possible – and indispensable – to offer a single, commonly observed ethical system) on the one hand, and by failing to consistently distinguish political norms of ethics from those of other kinds on the other. The proposal of a system of ethical norms presented below is based on the Judaic- Christian Decalogue. What is significant though, is that it only concerns the form – in particular the first ‘commandment’ is an unsurpassable (yet not the only one feasible) formula to combine the actually antinomic fundamental values; in terms of the content the ethics of liberal democracy (including political ethics) is a contradiction of the Decalogue. It should be pointed out that the fact that the liberal-democratic ‘decalogue’ is written in the first person singular is by no means a coincidence; and this is so because unlike in authoritarian ethics, where the system of norms comes from the giver who is not actually subjected to them, liberal-democratic ethics (both the political and ethical aspects) does not distinguish between the givers of the norms and the remaining subjects obligated to observe the norms they did not make themselves. Also, the list of norms presented may be considered incomplete, and this is actually the case. The same concerns the Judaic-Christian Decalogue also, in fact it is only the first commandment that is not accidental, the one that provides a key to the interpretation of the entire ethical system; in the ‘old’ decalogue the key is the principle of rules and obedience, in the present one – the principle of mutual acknowledgement of both parties’ equal status.
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    W sprawie projektu Preambuły do Konstytucji Unii Europejskiej
    (Wydawnictwo Naukowe WNPiD UAM w Poznaniu, 2007) Paradowski, Ryszard
    We, the citizens of Europe, having grievously suffered from wars, despotic regimes, alliances of throne and altar, religious repressions, and genocidal totalitarian dictatorships, knowing the high price of the democratic political orders and being determined to defend them from authoritarian movements and organizations, declaring our connection to the democratic European tradition and democratic values, such as the natural right of every human being to participate in public debate and to codefine the public good, to constitute, control and recall the political representatives of every level and to define their competence, and other democratic values contained in the great constitutions, such as Magna Carta, The Declaration of The Rights of Man and Citizen, T he General Declaration of Human Rights, The European Convention of The Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedom, The European Social Cart.
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    Władza i prawo. Studium z hermeneutyki politycznej
    (Wydawnictwo Naukowe WNPiD UAM w Poznaniu, 2004) Paradowski, Ryszard
    Political position of the Catholic Church in Poland, eclectic nature of constitutional principles of the 1997 Constitution as well as persistent attempts made to acknowledge the Christian character of the European Union pose a question about the actual meaning of Christian values as well as their attitude to democratic values and principles. Addressing this question the author analyzes the notion of authority and law in the Old and New Testament. He refers to the authoritarian interpretation of these notions in Catholicism and in particular to the secondary and inferior commandment of loving ones’ neighbor, which is subordinated to the commandment of unconditional subjection to the Highest Authority.