https://archiwum.ivr.org.pl Journal of the Polish Section of IVR (ISSN:2082-3304) Tue, 03 Sep 2019 18:48:32 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://archiwum.ivr.org.pl/2445/the-revolutionary-political-philosophy-of-ayn-rand/ https://archiwum.ivr.org.pl/2445/the-revolutionary-political-philosophy-of-ayn-rand/#respond Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:53:07 +0000 http://archiwum.ivr.org.pl/?p=2445 Dr Sławomir Drelich

Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń

Abstract: Ayn Rand is generally considered a libertarian, although she never claimed to belong to this movement. Undoubtedly, she was best known for promoting liberal and capitalist ideas. The author of this paper argues that Rand’s philosophical and political concepts can be described as revolutionary. The purpose of this text is to prove it by pointing to the manifestations of revolutionism in Rand’s works, ideas and concepts. The author distinguishes five different aspects through which her revolutionism is expressed. These are: (1) the antimystical aspect; (2) the anthropological aspect; (3) the social aspect; (4) the political aspect, and (5) the economic aspect. Such wide-ranging revolutionism makes some researchers and commentators recognize Rand’s thought as a manifestation of utopian thinking.

Keywords: objectivism, libertarianism, philosophy of politics, liberalism, revolutionism

Language: English

Received: 31.10.2017
Accepted: 27.03.2018

Published: Number 2(17)/2018, pp. 35-46.

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Jagiellonian University

English abstract: This paper discusses the use of Bayesian analysis in law. It introduces the key concepts of Bayesian analysis by giving some common examples of criminal cases. It focuses on the advantages of Bayesian analysis over some other probability interpretations (mainly the frequentist one). The last part of the text discusses the general notion of truth in legal proceedings and its possible interpretations within the probabilistic framework – given the Bayesian subjectivists-objectivists discussion.

Keywords: Thomas Bayes, Bayes’ theorem, subjectivism, objectivism

Language: English

Published: Number 1(10)/2015, pp. 31-40

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2015.1.31

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