(Wydawnictwo Naukowe Instytutu Filozofii, 2012) Bonecki, Mateusz
This paper presents two main topics which Jerzy Kmita
addresses in his methodological writings. The first one involves
the conception of “humanistic interpretation” which Kmita describes as a kind of reasoning and explanation applied within the humanities. The second consists in the so-called “socio-
regulatory definition of culture”, according to which culture is
identified with a set of intersubjective beliefs guiding and regulating human actions. Based on both methodological concepts,
humanities may be defined as a range of academic disciplines
which in the course of humanistic interpretation hypothetically ascribe cultural beliefs to social agents in order to explain
their behavior.