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This book focuses on the standards of philosophical rationality,
corresponding to a philosophy that aspires to be more than the
wisdom that stems from and addresses everyday human needs. It is a
search for standards that would, as it were, show the way to
philosophical wisdom for anyone who is willing and able to assess
it. One of the problems is that people have had a different
understanding of the basic concept of rationality, which is the
rationale. (Series: Development in Humanities - Vol. 1)
The standards of rationality are treated in this book as certain
regulators of social life. They are compared to the rudders of the
great vessels constituted by social communities. The diversity
exhibited by those standards do not only result from the
differences of time and space of their implementation, but also
from the differences in the sets of ideas put forward by the
leading social thinkers accompanied by the different
characteristics of their designated audiences. (Series: Development
in Humanities - Vol. 7)
The author of this book formulates a general thesis that in the
academic culture, since the emergence of the first universities
until this very day, two types of that culture have competed with
each other, i.e., a corporate and templar one. In his remarks, the
author tries to highlight it through the presentation of: 1. The
functioning of academia in different time periods, 2. The beliefs
of scholars, 3. The ways scholarly achievements have been
evaluated, 4. The legal acts for science and academia. A
considerable part of this study is devoted to the analysis of the
Polish academic culture, including the attempts of adjusting the
existing standards of conducting research and educating students to
the ones prevailing in the leading Western countries.
Descartes gave the human intellect the central role in rationalism,
his system therefore is a variant of intellectual rationalism.
Other forms of rationalism had emerged in scholastic philosophy and
the ancient philosophies of Plato and Aristotle. While Descartes
had reservations with respect to all of them, he still adopted some
of their elements: not even such a self-directed and critical
philosopher as Descartes could have proceeded on the difficult
journey towards truth without any baggage of tradition whatsoever.
Those who treated this baggage as a useless burden and have
attempted to pursue truth without carrying it, have only discovered
things which had long been known.
Dans ce que l'auteur de ce livre dit au sujet de la republique des
savants, il tente d'eviter le pathos que l'on rencontre non
seulement sur les pages hagiographiques, mais aussi dans des
discours de circonstance ou celui de louange (par exemple, ceux
qu'on prononce a toutes sortes d'anniversaires et enterrements).
Cela justifie le titre choisi: sans reverence. Cependant, dans la
vie universitaire, il existe des situations ou un pathos specifique
est non seulement indique, mais egalement attendu, et son absence
pourrait temoigner d'un manque de savoir-etre universitaire. Le but
de ces considerations n'est pas de diminuer la valeur de ce qui, en
verite, n'apparait pas aussi grand qu'on ne le pense, mais personne
ne souhaite qu'on lui rappelle ses plus grandes faiblesses.
Cependant, rappeler celles qui sont plus legeres est necessaire
pour eviter la surestime de soi.
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