The greatness and beauty of philosophy

Contents
Introduction – Józef Lipiec 13

THE GREATNESS OF PHILOSOPHY – THE GREATNESS OF MAN

Barbara Skarga
On Source and Origin 19

Józef Lipiec
The Phenomenology of Fame 29

Janina Makota
Who Was and Who Can Be Called Great? 45

Jadwiga Mizinska
Christ as a Teacher 57

Tadeusz Gadacz
The Philosopher in the Polis. On the Independence of Philosophy 77

Wlodzimierz Galewicz
Ethical Excellence According to Aristotle 85

Michal Heller
How to be a Scientist. On the Asceticism of Scientific Research 99

Marta Kudelska
The Concept of Being–“sat” from the Perspective of the Vedanta 105

Dariusz Kubok
The Beginning of Philosophy as the Philosophy of the Beginning 115

Józef Misiek
The Platonic Notion of Knowledge 125

Maria Malgorzata Baranowska
Platonic Motifs in Scheler 129

Krzysztof Slezinski
The Mathematical Conditioning of Epistemological and Methodological Views in Plato 139

Jacek Widomski
The Platonic Theory of Participation and the Problem of Concretization in the Philosophy of R. Ingarden 151

Juliusz Domanski
On Cicero’s Two Senses of “humanitas” as “qualified humanity”

Mieczyslaw H. Markowski
The First Great Philosopher of Wielkopolska 171

Janusz Tazbir
The Reception of Jansenism and Pascal in Poland 183

Jerzy Szymura
On Freedom in Ontology and on Necessity in Metaphysics in the Thought of R. Ingarden and W. Strózewski 197

Czeslawa Piecuch
The Reason and the Value of Existence 211

Jan Wolenski
The DE SE Statements and the Main Problem of Phenomenology 223

Wladyslaw Krajewski
Was Reason Abused in the 20th Century? 235

Adam Grobler
Ontological Commitments 241

Jacek K. Kabzinski
Negation in the Light of the Absurd 251

Adam Wegrzecki
Reflections on the Idea of Man 259

Andrzej Póltawski
Values and Persons 267

Ignacy S. Fiut
Man – an Axiological Being 279

Jan Such
Two Dimension of Human Existence 297

Barbara Markiewicz
What Do Philosophers Dream About? 303

BEAUTY AND OTHER VALUES

Karol Tarnowski
On Consolation Through Art 317

Maria Golaszewska
Whose Beauty? 327

Beata Szymanska
Moods and Auras 341

Anna Teresa Tymieniecka
Aesthetic Enchantment 359

Janina Gajda-Krynicka
Was there an Ancient Aesthetics? Noesis and aisthesis 377
Jan Hartman
The Philosopher and his/her Artist 391

Sebastian T. Kolodziejczyk
Apophatic Metaphysics and Beauty 399

Dobrochna Dembinska-Siury
Plotinus’s Treatise On Beauty 415

Agnieszka Kijewska
Being and Value in the Philosophy of Nicolas of Cusa 435

Dariusz Rymar
The Beauty of a Work of Art as a Concretization
of Existential Sense 445

Leszek Polony
Heidegger’s question 457

Mieczyslaw Tomaszewski
Face to Face with a Musical Work of Art 469

Pawel Taranczewski
Shade, Painting and Colour 477

Justyna Miklaszewska
Democracy in Music and Politics 485

Franciszek Chmielowski
Mediality as an Ontic Trait of Art 499

Jan Galarowicz
Freedom as Self-determination 513

Piotr Lesniak
Freedom and Truth: Two Viewpoints 533

Wojciech Morszczynski
Truth and Truthfulness in Aristotle’s Metaphysics 543

Halina Kabot
Justice and Other Values 551

Jozef Niznik
Aspects of National Identity 561

Malgorzata Jantos
Philosophy and Ethics in Politics and Local Government 571