Journal of the Polish Section of IVR (ISSN:2082-3304)
Language: polski
Published: Number 1(34)/2023, pp. 102-107
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280//AFPiFS.2023.1.102
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Keywords: law, aesthetics, aesthetics of law, philosophy of law, axiology, jursiprudence
Language: English
Published: Number 3(32)/2022, pp. 114-118
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2022.3.114
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English abstract: Against Beata Polanowksa-Sygulska (BP-S), I insist on the incompatibility between the pluralism of comprehensive world-views and belief in the monist, universalist tenets of the principal world religions, noting that God the Father and God the Son were both monists. I argue that my position is entailed by Isaiah Berlin’s rejection of the unique truth of any one comprehensive outlook, and that both Berlin and BP-S confuse toleration with acceptance. I reject the charges that my position is monistic, and that I give insufficient attention to conflict within individual values, which can in any case be treated as conflict between values.
Keywords: God, monism, pluralism, religion, Isaiah Berlin
Language: English
Published: Number 3(24)/2020, pp. 130-132.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2020.3.130
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English abstract: The article constitutes a continuation of the discussion between Henry Hardy and myself, which was initiated in AFPiFS in 2019 as a result of my publishing a review of Hardy’s book: In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure (2018). In the present commentary I address again the nub of our disagreement, that is the relationship between Berlin’s pluralism and universalist religions, like Christianity and Islam. According to Hardy pluralism undermines universalist religions. I distance myself from his standpoint and argue that it is possible to reconcile adherence to pluralist perspective in ethics with religious belief. Besides, I return to the objection raised in my review of Hardy’s book and take up the thread of conflicts within values. I sustain my charge that Hardy does not take seriously enough the implications of conflicts within single values.
Keywords: value pluralism, universalist religions, religious pluralism, conflicts within values
Language: English
Published: Number 3(24)/2020, pp. 127-129.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2020.3.127
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English abstract: The subject of the review is a monograph by Karol Dobrzeniecki “Law on emergency situations. Between legalism and necessity” (Toruń 2018). According to the reviewer, the nature of the work determines the distinction between an emergency situation, that is, a factual state requiring action not provided for by law and a state of emergency, i.e. a legal institution. The main purpose of the work is to analyze the relationship between the recognition of an exceptional situation only in legal terms, and its approach as a political and moral issue. The work has interdisciplinary character. Karol Dobrzeniecki, analyzing jurisprudence, political philosophical, doctrine of constitutional law, as well as constitutional, international and supranational legal regulations, points out the danger of legal “normalization” of a state of emergency, that is, the penetration of its specific solutions into the law intended for the ordinary situation, and hence blurring of the distinction between ordinary and exceptional situations. The author of the reviewed monograph believes that the exceptional situation should be assessed primarily in moral and political categories, being aware of the tragic nature of the choices made at the time.
Keywords: emergency situation, state of emergency
Language: Polish
Published: Number 1(22)/2020, pp. 121-125.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2020.1.121
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Abstract: The article discusses Henry Hardy’s book In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure, published in the fall of 2018. The author was Berlin’s closest collaborator and is the editor or co-editor of eighteen volumes of his works and four volumes of his letters. The first part of the book is a memoir, here discussed briefly; the main focus is on the second, philosophical, section. Hardy’s investigations into Berlin’s ideas are analysed and criticised. Special attention is given to his unresolved discussion with Berlin on the relationship between pluralism and religion. A number of critical arguments against Hardy’s thesis of their mutual exclusion are put forward. The key argument is that it is possible for a true pluralist to adhere to a universalist religion. This is the same position as that adopted by Berlin.
Keywords: Isaiah Berlin, value pluralism, cultural pluralism, religious monism, universalist religion
Language: English
Published: Number 2(20)/2019, pp. 89-99.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2019.2.89
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English abstract: Henry Hardy responds to various minor points in Beata Polanowska-Sygulska’s review of his book In Search of Isaiah Berlin, and argues that she provides no good reason to resist his claim that Isaiah Berlin’s value pluralism is inconsistent with mainstream forms of religious belief.
Keywords: value pluralism, religion, Isaiah Berlin
Language: English
Published: Number 2(20)/2012, pp. 100-103.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2019.2.100
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Language: Polish
Published: Number 2(7)/2013, pp. 98-104
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Language: Polish
Published: Number 1(8)/2014, pp. 88-91
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Language: English
Published: Number 1(10)/2015, pp. 110-116
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2015.1.110
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