FREEDOM AND SECURITY IN CYBERSPACE – A FEW COMMENTS ON THE BASIS OF JURISPRUDENCE

Małgorzata Skórzewska-Amberg

PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES OF SECURITY

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016,  Publication date: 13 May 2016

Abstract A new era was started by global and unfettered access to the Internet, allowing access to virtually unlimited information resources, their rapid exchange and processing. The anonymity of Internet users, threats to privacy and lack of control over illegal content on the network are a growing problem, [...] Read more.

BETWEEN THE GREAT EXTINCTION OF MEGAFAUNA AND GLOBAL WARMING: ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL CONCLUSIONS DRAWN FROM THE COMPARISON OF TWO DISTANT IN TIME CASES OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION

Jarosław Mikołajec

ECOLOGY – FROM IDEA TO PRACTICE

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016,  Publication date: 13 May 2016

Abstract The subject of the article concerns philosophical conclusions from a comparison of two distant in time environmental disasters: the extinction of megafauna, which took place in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene, and modern global warming. Both processes are examples showing that seemingly small [...] Read more.

THE PROBLEM OF FREEDOM AND THE IDEA OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Łukasz Rąb

ECOLOGY – FROM IDEA TO PRACTICE

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016,  Publication date: 13 May 2016

Abstract The purpose of this article is to show that freedom is the sine qua non of sustainable development, and that it is part of its axiological foundation. According to Leszek Gawor freedom in this context is understood most often as the degree of mastery of nature or expanding the scope of civil liberties [...] Read more.

TECHNOLOGY – VALUES – SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (Some Reflections on Changing Relations, Meanings and Social Practices)

Lech W. ZACHER

UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY – THEORIES AND INTERPRETATIONS

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016,  Publication date: 12 May 2016

Abstract Narratives concerning technology and values relations requires an in-depth analysis of these two categories and also their contextualization. In social practice technology and values undergo significant changes, often revolutionary. They take systemic forms and they interact with each other. Since the [...] Read more.

LOGOS AND TECHNOLOGY. BUCKMINSTER FULLER AND THE PROBLEM OF TWO CULTURES

Bartłomiej Knosala

UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY – THEORIES AND INTERPRETATIONS

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016,  Publication date: 12 May 2016

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to present the thought and activity of Buckminster Fuller in the context of the classic paradigm. According to this paradigm the aim of human activity is to reconcile individual Logos with general Logos. Fuller is using this paradigm to analyse the challenges of technological [...] Read more.

CATASTROPHISM OF O. SPENGLER AND G. PICHT IN THE CONTEXT OF PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOG

Kamil Szymański

UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY – THEORIES AND INTERPRETATIONS

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016,  Publication date: 12 May 2016

Abstract In this article I make a comparative analysis and criticism of the concept of catastrophism in the context of technical development formulated by Oswald Spengler and Georg Picht. Their concepts were created as part of the criticism of the technical world, forecasting negative consequences of the use [...] Read more.

GILBERT SIMONDON’S PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY AS AN AUGMENTATION OF THE FUNDAMENTAL ANTHOLOGY OF MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Jędrzej Maliński

UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY – THEORIES AND INTERPRETATIONS

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016,  Publication date: 12 May 2016

Abstract This paper compares the thought of two philosophers: Martin Heidegger and Gilbert Simondon. The project of the existential analytic of Dasein created by the former, based on acknowledgment of the ontological difference, undoubtedly influenced the philosophy of existence. However, because of Heidegger [...] Read more.

PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION OF MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Grzegorz Szulczewski

UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY – THEORIES AND INTERPRETATIONS

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016,  Publication date: 12 May 2016

Abstract This paper presents the development of philosophy of technology by M. Heidegger. At the beginning I present the concept of technology,from the perspective of the existential, concluded in his book Being and Time. Then I discuss the concept of the essence of technology, developed after 1945 by M. Heidegger [...] Read more.

HOW DO PEOPLE WITH DEONTOLOGICAL AND UTILITARIAN INCLINATIONS DIFFER IN MORAL REASONING?

Anna Macko

PHILOSOPHY – PERCEPTION AND VISUALIZATION OF WORLD AND LIFE

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016,  Publication date: 10 May 2016

Abstract This study compared the harshness of moral judgment and sensitivity to different aspects of a situation in judgments made by people with utilitarian and deontological inclinations. The participants were 240 students who made moral judgments in two business scenarios and then responded to moral dilemmas [...] Read more.

DEATH THAT DOES NOT WANT TO BE VISUALIZED...? CULTURAL FACTORS OF THINKING ABOUT DEATH AND MORTALITY IN REGARDS TO THE POSTMODERN VISION OF DEATH

Monika Miczka-Pajestka

PHILOSOPHY – PERCEPTION AND VISUALIZATION OF WORLD AND LIFE

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016,  Publication date: 10 May 2016

Abstract In this article the question of perception, as well as visualizing and understanding death have been presented and discussed. The cultural determinants of thinking about death and the prospect of post-modern “crowding” out of death from the space of life are indicated. Also the problem of visualizing [...] Read more.