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121. Dialogue and Universalism: Volume > 16 > Issue: 10
Zofia Mikołajczyk A Review of Scholarly Achievements of Professor Witold Kieżun
122. Dialogue and Universalism: Volume > 16 > Issue: 10
Witold Kieżun The Praxiological Approach in Some Aspects of Organization and Sociotechnics
123. Dialogue and Universalism: Volume > 16 > Issue: 3/4
Ryszard Panasiuk, Marek Gensler Laudation: Andrzej Walicki—Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Łódź
124. Dialogue and Universalism: Volume > 16 > Issue: 3/4
Małgorzata Czarnocka Professor Władysław Krajewski. His Philosophy and Life
125. Dialogue and Universalism: Volume > 16 > Issue: 3/4
Jerzy Jedlicki, Marek Gensler Andrzej Walicki. Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Łódź
126. Dialogue and Universalism: Volume > 16 > Issue: 3/4
Andrzej Wodecki Why E-Learning at University?
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E-learning becomes more and more popular in Poland ant thus and attracks an attention of academic decision makers. The main purpose of this paper is to present possible advantages of implementation of different forms of e-learning at traditional universities.
127. Dialogue and Universalism: Volume > 16 > Issue: 3/4
Marek N. Jakubowski, Tomasz Voit Making Sense of Polish History—From a History of Enquiry
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Throughout 19th and the first half of 20th centuries, Polish thinkers largely supplanted political philosophy with the philosophy of history. Such an approach produced an essential continuum, despite marked differences of concepts in different political and theoretical contexts. This continuity finds a particular expression in two ideas, nascent already in the 15th and 16th century Polish political thought, i.e. the idea of Poland’s Historical Mission (as a Bulwark of the West), and a notion of a specifically Polish Love of Freedom.The author approaches this phenomenon by way of presenting three sets of concepts: the late-Enlightenment one of S. Staszic, the Romantic attempt of A. Cieszkowski, and M. Zdziechowski’s Neo-Romantic take.
128. Dialogue and Universalism: Volume > 16 > Issue: 3/4
Andrew Targowski The Genesis, Political and Economic Sides of the Internet
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The purpose of this paper is to show that the Cold War is behind the invention of the Internet. This is one of a very few positive results of this war, which had tremendous influence on the further development of civilization. The research on the universality of info-communication processes was conducted on both sides of the Iron Curtain, which indicates the similarities in engineering thinking, regardless of the geographic locations.The political meaning of the Internet does not only result from its history but also stands for the support of democratic development and the obstruction of dictatorships. The history of the Internet is also an example of the development of great engineering talents and research and development centers, which rise to the occasion on such ambitious projects. All of these aspects of the Internet will be investigated in this paper, as well as its impact upon the emergence of the Global Civilization.
129. Dialogue and Universalism: Volume > 16 > Issue: 3/4
Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal Remarkable Parallels: Mystical Anarchism in Russia and the United States
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This article focuses on the “remarkable parallels” between the mystical anarchism formulated by Viacheslav Ivanov and Georgii Chulkov during the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the ideas championed by Norman O. Brown, an American professor who became a guru of the 1960s. The article describes these parallels and accounts for their existence in societies that were polar opposites in other respects. Emphasis is placed on the loss of faith in an ideal and on the importance, to all three writers, of Nietzsche and Christianity.
130. Dialogue and Universalism: Volume > 16 > Issue: 3/4
Lech Zacher Social Sciences and Humanities in the Integrating Europe—Building Potential for Knowledge-Based Society
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SSH should response to challenges of the integrating European societies. The EU Lisbon Strategy envisions their future as knowledge-based. Knowledge-based economies ought to be accompanied by knowledge-based societies. Timely task of SSH is to make it possible to achieve society of knowledge and wisdom together. This may save diversity and multicultural values, enabling synergy and universalism.
131. Dialogue and Universalism: Volume > 16 > Issue: 3/4
Marcin Dąbrowski E-Learning Initiatives in an Academic Environment—Case Study of Warsaw School of Economics (WSE)
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The aim of the paper is to describe possible e-learning activities that a university can develop. Examples of projects carried out in Warsaw School of Economics (Poland) have been presented with conclusions and experience gathered during their implementation. In the last part, trends for the future of academic e-learning have been discussed.
132. Dialogue and Universalism: Volume > 16 > Issue: 3/4
Andrew Targowski Will Wisdom Save the Human Project?
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The paper explores the issue; “can our wisdom save the Human Project?” another words “can we live wiser and longer” or “should we feel better and live shorter?” To save the Human Project, which can fall due to overdeveloped civilization, perhaps we should pursue logos-driven wisdom, because the threat is too dangerous to leave room for uncertainty. The review of how philosophy, responsible for “wisdom”, has been developed shows that the empiric study of wisdom is the task of the last 20 years only, since it has only been in the last centuries that philosophers grasped the issue of reason. This paper presents a framework for the necessity of developing eco-philosophy, which includes cognition, survival and action philosophies. These kinds of philosophies can be perceived through the tool of Wisdom Diamond. The author is not very optimistic whether our wisdom can save the Human Project, which was designed to last only a limited few billion (US measure) years. On the other hand, perhaps some mythos can help in this Project, otherwise would life be too boring, not worthy of being longer?
133. Dialogue and Universalism: Volume > 16 > Issue: 3/4
Joanna Ewa Ziółkowska To Bring Memories Back—From Philosophical Olympiads
134. Dialogue and Universalism: Volume > 16 > Issue: 3/4
William deJong-Lambert City University of New York: Achievements and Model of Modern Virtual University
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This article describes the history of the City University of New York (CUNY), demonstrating its value as a model for the creation of the Virtual University. Since the establishment of City College in the mid-19th Century, CUNY has continually confronted the challenge of providing quality, low-cost higher education to generations of diverse students. Today CUNY has come to serve as a model not only for effective urban education, but also as an approach to preparing an international student body for a global future. This article details the challenges CUNY has confronted along the way.
135. Dialogue and Universalism: Volume > 16 > Issue: 3/4
Andrzej de Lazari On Academic Achievements and Services of Professor Andrzej Walicki
136. Dialogue and Universalism: Volume > 16 > Issue: 3/4
Andrzej Walicki, Guy Russell Torr My Łódź Meister and the Pluralism of Values
137. Dialogue and Universalism: Volume > 16 > Issue: 7/9
Andrzej Grzegorczyk, Franek Lyra Our Eras
138. Dialogue and Universalism: Volume > 16 > Issue: 7/9
Stanisław Lem Indelible Memory
139. Dialogue and Universalism: Volume > 16 > Issue: 7/9
Witold Kieżun The International Significance of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944
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World War II broke out as the result of an alliance between Germany and Soviet Union with the aim to conquer and partition Poland. Having broken off the treaty of friendship and co-operation, Germany attacked the USSR in 1941, forcing the Soviet Union to change sides from that of a German ally to the ally of the anti-German coalition. In 1943, following the German discovery of the graves of Polish officers murdered by Soviet forces in Katyń, Stalin declared that the crime had been committed by the German army and broke off diplomatic relations with the Polish Government-in-Exile in London which had requested that an official investigation be launched by the Red Cross committee in Geneva. Some one hundred German officers were sentenced to death for the Katyń massacre as the result of Stalin’s prosecution trials. 50 years later, the world was rocked by the discovery of a document signed by Stalin ordering the execution of Polish officers in Katyń.In a secret meeting in 1943 in Teheran, President Roosevelt and Stalin agreed on the plan to annex Poland’s eastern territories.The decision to stage an independent fight for independence during the Warsaw Uprising was justified by the inevitable approach of the Red Army, the fear of German reprisal actions for disobeying the order to participate in fortification works, the fear of a spontaneous uprising fuelled by a Soviet radio broadcast in Polish which appealed to the people of Warsaw to put up a fight against the oppressor.Stalin’s decision to withhold the Soviet offensive and ban American and British planes carrying humanitarian aid for Warsaw from landing in Soviet airports contributed to the downfall of the Uprising. The Warsaw Uprising was a cue for the civil outbreaks that followed in Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Paris and Prague. The halt on the Soviet Army’s offensive, which enabled the German forces to eliminate the Polish centre of political command subordinate to the Government-in-Exile in London, limited the European territory that fell subject to Soviet supremacy. The memory of the heroic fight put up by the entire population of Warsaw deterred the Soviet Union’s ambitions to curtail Poland’s sovereignty.
140. Dialogue and Universalism: Volume > 16 > Issue: 7/9
Andrzej Friszke Polish Democratic Thought in the Occupied Country 1939–1945
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Political thought of the war and occupation period continued the ideological and program searches started already before 1939. The concept of democracy was mostly associated with the values such as individual freedom, civil rights, safety of citizens, society of the state; cooperation among nations in the fields of politics, economy and protection of peace. The author deals with topics like: democratic international order; democratic political order and economic system. The author concludes the article with a few synthesizing remarks.