Volume 53 (1998), 8

The paper offers a reconstruction of Hegel's conception of practical judgement and of human action. It begins wit the analysis of Hegel's conception of humans. Further, it discusses his conception of action and proceeds with his idea of Goodness via enlightening the difference between the practical and the theoretical ideas. In conclusion it focuses on Hegel's… Read more

The author gives the description - with a special focus on the reconstruction of his logic of practical judgements - of the conception of dialectics between thought and action as had been presented in John Dewey's philosophy. Dewey's axiom was that human thought and action always take place within concrete natural and social contexts, which means that they are in… Read more

The paper discusses a specific conception of explanation applied in humanities rather than in sciences. It was reconstructed and developed by Jerzy Kmita, who named it "humanistic interpretation". The author examines the structure of this explanation and its characteristics. One of its characteristic features is its conditions (explanans) embodying an idealized… Read more

The analysis of moral subject in consequentialist ethics (as a kind of nonutilitaristic consequentialism) aims to show, that moral subject is of basic importance for it regardeless to the fact, that its analysis focuses predominantly on action and its concequences. It is the moral subject, which enables the action and its consequences to be performed. So… Read more