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ISSN 2082-7598 · Maria Curie-Sklodowska University · 375 articles in the index
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From the Body to the Melody: “Relearning” the Experience of Time in the Later Merleau-Ponty
If, as Maurice Merleau-Ponty writes, “True philosophy consists in relearning to look at the world,” and if Merleau-Ponty is accordingly often described as a philosopher of the body or a philosopher of painting, how are we to understand the apparently new turn to music that Merleau Ponty makes…
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The Link between Intersubjectivity and Self-Shaping in the Light of Phenomenological Philosophy
The paper aims to investigate the link between self-shaping and intersubjectivity from a phenomenological perspective. This means that two main topics are here at stake. On the one hand, the paper purports to argue that tackling the link between self-shaping and intersubjectivity from a…
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The Four Dimensions of Embodiment and the Experience of Illness
In this paper I will try to systematically lay out and describe the multiple dimensions of the embodied experience of illness, which until recently has been the main focus within the field of the phenomenology of medicine. In order to do this, I will turn to analysis of the nature of embodiment in…
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Possibility Puzzle from Speech Act Theory Perspective
The aim of this paper is to analyze the „possibility puzzle” presented by Shapiro (2011) in the context of the debate between conventionalism and non-conventionalism in speech act theory. Conventionalism claims that for every speech act there is a pattern (convention) which determines its…
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Ex aequo et bono versus Hard Cases in the Light of Modern Metaethics
In the present paper, I argue against the claim that ex aequo and bono adjudication cannot be epistemically objective. I start with a survey of legal rules allowing the parties to resort to ex aequo et bono adjudication. Next, I argue that decisions taken on ex aequo et bono basis are not…
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Krytyka neorepublikańskiej koncepcji wolności politycznej Philipa Pettita
The aim of this article is a reconstruction and critique of the conception of political freedom as understood in contemporary instrumental republicanism represented primarily by Philip Pettit. Instrumental republicanism endows political freedom with a merely instrumental value, serving as a means…
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The Maturity of Stupidity: A Philosophical Attempt on Flaubert and Others
Although it is commonly held that good sense is the most equally distributed of all things, it is just as commonly acknowledged that we humans excel at stupidity in its boundless varieties. The aim of these reflections is to make a start with a philosophical examination of stupidity, combining both…
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The Dyad and the Third Party: The Traces of Simmel’s Distinction in Phenomenology and Family Studies
The paper confronts Georg Simmel’s distinction between the dyad and the triad with the phenomenological analysis of analogous structures undertaken by E. Lévinas, B. Waldenfels, and J.-L. Marion. Simmel insists on keeping the dyad and the triad apart while only the triad is considered worthy of…
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Legal Realism and Legal Positivism
American legal realism is commonly treated as a theory-pariah. The article exposes certain reasons explaining such a treatment. Generally, it seems that such an attitude is a result of many misunderstandings of realist aims and ambitions, some of which pertain to the theoretical status of legal…
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Between Hermeneutics and Aesthetics: Reconsidering Truth and Method as an “Aesthetics of Truth”
The focus of the paper is on Gadamer’s claim that “Aesthetics has to be absorbed into hermeneutics.” Our initial aim is to contextualize the statement, emphasizing its controversial nature, given that the context specific meaning of the claim can seem commonsensical. Accordingly, the first part of…
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The Metaphysics of Legal Positivism in the Light of Phenomenology of Law
The article describes one of the tasks of legal theory that is designated by an idea of legal positivism. It focuses on the question concerning the cognition of the essence or nature of law in the context of two positivistic theses: the thesis about the separation of law and morality and the thesis…
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Metamorphoses of the Subject: Kandinsky Interpreted by Michel Henry and Henri Maldiney
In this paper I compare how Michel Henry and Henri Maldiney interpret Kandinsky’s heritage. Henry’s phenomenology is based on a distinction between two main modes of manifestation: the ordinary one, that is, the manifestation of the world, and the “manifestation of life.” For him, Kandinsky’s work…
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Unknowability, Persecution, and the Ethical Bind: Reading through the Works of Sigmund Freud and Emmanuel Lévinas
This paper shows how persecution is a condition that binds each in an ethical obligation. Persecution is functionally defined here as an impinging, affective relation, one that is neither mediated by reason nor open to apology. The works of Sigmund Freud help illuminate the psychological mechanism…
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Husserl on the Unconscious and Reduction
Is there intentionality in the inner most level of the soul? Do we have experience of what is unconscious? And, supposing that such an experience might exist, is it possible to perform reduction on it? In this regard the present paper aims to investigate, from a phenomenological point of view, the…
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Phenomenology of Intuitive Judgment: Praecox-Feeling in the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia
This paper argues that intuition plays a role in the diagnosis of schizophrenia and presents its phenomenological rationale. A discussion of self-assessment questionnaires and empirical studies in the clinical setting provides evidence that despite the prevalence of operational diagnosis, the…
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Czy demokracja to rządy większości wyłonionej w wyborach?
The paper critically examines the conception of majoritarian democracy. In the second part of the text, the author introduces the definition of majoritarian democracy based on the Joseph Schumpeter’s theory of minimal democracy. The thesis of the paper is that electing the government by universal…
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Between Promise and Contract: The Limits of Application of Philosophical Discourse on Promises to Theory of Contract Law
The concept of promise may be very interesting for legal theorists, especially contract law theorists. The article aims to briefly discuss the issue of promises in contemporary analytic philosophy and show some of its possible applications in legal theory. Three basic approaches will be…
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Can human nature be the foundation of human rights? Analytic approach
The paper analyzes whether human nature can be the foundation of human rights. To this end, in the first part, the concept of the nature of an object is considered. The author considers three understandings of the concept “nature of X”: (1) the set of necessary (or essential) properties of all…