Niniejszy artykuł ma charakter teoretyczny, dotyczy ruchów społecznych działających na rzecz ochrony środowiska, opisanych tu z perspektywy socjologicznej. Ruchy środowiskowe zyskują na popularności, a ich podział i rodzaje przedstawiono za pomocą dwóch klasyfikacji zaproponowanych przez: 1) socjologa M. Castellsa oraz 2) społeczno-środowiskową organizację Earth5R. Wybór tematu został podyktowany tym, iż w obliczu pogarszającego się stanu środowiska na świecie ruchy środowiskowe przyczyniają się do rozwijania świadomości środowiskowej u pozostałych członków społeczeństwa. Ze swoim przekazem trafiają do szerokiego grona odbiorców.

The aim of the article is to study the level of knowledge and declared behaviour towards the environment among academic teachers at one of the Polish universities. In the theorertical part the main assumptions of the grounded theory are presented. Next, research methodology is presented. The research was conducted in September 2017 among twenty academic teachers in the faculty of humanisties and natural sciences. As the result of the analyses of the data, two hypotheses were verified. They concerned knowledge and (...) attitudes. Academic teachers of the natural sciences presented broader natural knbowledge than the academic teachers of the humanities. The declared behaviour of respondents did not depend on the state of their knowledge. Both naturalists and humanists advocated for the need to protect environment and take action for the environment. As the result of the analysis two hypotheses were adopted. (shrink)

Współczesne dylematy filozofii i kultury powstały z inicjatywy pracowników Zakładu Filozofii Współczesnej, Myśli Społecznej i Ontologii UWM w Olsztynie. Jednak miały one stanowić przyczynek do zintegrowania badań nie tylko środowiska naukowego tegoż zakładu czy Instytutu Filozofii Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego (jego kadry, doktorantów i absolwentów). Celem niniejszego projektu było bowiem zawiązanie ściślejszej współpracy pomiędzy naukowcami Wydziału Humanistycznego, która mogłaby w przyszłości zaowocować wyznaczeniem wspólnych celów, kierunków i ram badawczych czy choćby interdyscyplinarnymi spotkaniami, konferencjami i publikacjami. Przyjęliśmy, że wątkiem łączącym dociekania naukowe (...) w przestrzeni humanistyki jest jeden wspólny temat – kultura. I nie ma w tym nic odkrywczego, bowiem przedmiotem badań nauk humanistycznych jest człowiek – jej twórca, uczestnik i twór, dlatego też podstawowe w jego poznaniu okazuje się zrozumienie całokształtu jego duchowego i materialnego dorobku kulturowego. I tak filozofia (nie tylko filozofia kultury, ale i filozofia polityki, filozofia życia gospodarczego, historiozofia), literaturoznawstwo, estetyka, politologia, socjologia, historia i wiedza o stosunkach międzynarodowych stają się naukami o kulturze. (shrink)

In his paper, the author makes an attempt at reconstructing one of the first propositions in Poland to start a philosophical discourse on ecological problems. The author of this proposition is priest Tadeusz Ślipko. According to this author the problems of the moral aspects of natural environmental protection are also bioethical problems. Therefore, we can see that he does not consider ethics of the environment as an individual philosophical discipline. The article concentrates on presenting the sources and the range of (...) moral duties of humankind towards the natural environment. Tadeusz Ślipko does not approve of the anthropocentric or biocentric standpoints in the issues of natural environmental protection. He offers his own idea of anthropopriorism, which takes the middle ground between these two extreme concepts. In conclusion, the author underlines that there is still a strong need for ethical reflection over the state of the natural environment along the lines of Ślipko’s stance. (shrink)

The man is shaped by nature and hence he is organically tied to it. He will develop properly both physically and psychically, when there is harmony and balance in nature. All the symptoms of destroying this balance lead to disturbances in our organisms’, resulting in pathological changes — diseases as well as harmful and irreversible changes in our environment. And this is why recently more attention has been paid to ecology — the knowledge of the natural economics, of the interdependences (...) between organisms as well as between organisms and the environment, so that the values suggested by ecologists could become basic assumptions in economy.The necessity of ecological research in the environment protection has been seen in various levels of the biosphere organisation, i.e. on the levels of organism, population, biocoenosis and ecosystem.The first sign of understanding these difficult and complicated arrangements in nature is the infiltration of the ecological thought into other branches of knowledge, like medicine man’s health in connection with its ecological conditionongs, agriculture (rational productivity of agrocoenoses), forestry (biological fight against pests) etc. (shrink)

Maria Ossowska, an outstanding Polish theorist of morality conceived of ethics as a science of morals. The author underscores the characteristic traits of her style of work and surveys her findings in sociology of morals. Maria Ossowska is depicted as a scholar who cautiously formulates and verifies her hypotheses, critically examines her findings and displays indefatigable inquisitiveness, never benefiting from an occasion to explain the facts away with the help of a single kind of factors solely.

cz. 1. Wstęp do ontologii i teorii poznania.

Faces of liberalism: formation of a Christian liberal community in Krakow: The aim of the essay is to show the birth of the Kraków liberal community in the years 1977–1980. An attempt is made to reconstruct the main ideological assumptions of the liberal entourage in the context of the opposition activities of Robert Kaczmarek and Mirosław Dzielski. The author refers to the main events occurring in this period, such as the establishment of the Prywatna Inicjatywa Krakowska and the magazine Merkuryusz (...) Krakowski i Światowy, as well as paying special attention to the program texts that were published in it. The article also contains a reconstruction of the debate aimed at classifying the views presented by Mirosław Dzielski. (shrink)

The subject of this paper is the analysis of the factors that have the greatest importance regarding the implementation of the principles of social responsibility in transnational corporations. International standards for assessing corporate social responsibility define the framework and guidelines in the evaluation of the corporation in this regard. From the company's point of view, the involvement in social activities is used primarily for improving their own image. Companies try to reconcile the desire for profit with social considerations and environmental (...) protection, however, this process is very complex. Corporations should carry out these policies and implement appropriate procedures. Additionally, consumers want to see the use of the CSR principles in practice, so corporations should measurably help the local community and/or support social organizations. In this context, the corporation may serve a wide audience, communities, and have a significant impact on the environment. The paper will attempt to answer the question regarding which factors affect the application of CSR in corporations. (shrink)