Jerzy Kojkol

Being an academic at a military academy, that is, one overseen by the Minister of National Defense, has a unique flavor. This can be understandable when one takes into account the historical and legal context. The an academic in a military university is associated with being a soldier and a scientist, a former soldier and a scientist, “our” civilian and a scientist, and simply a civilian scientist. However, each of them must always remember the authority of the Minister of Defense and National, although it does not predetermine the quality of his scientific work in the case when one is a scientist and not a collector of academic degrees.

This article presents the life and elements of the work of S. Garfain-Garski. One of the first Polish philosophers to recognise the peculiarities of the humanities. Thus, he appreciated the role of culture in the development of social reality and, at the same time, noticed its crisis and decline. He recognised that higher culture is a remedy for the crisis of modern civilisation. He made insightful and accurate analyses of the works by I. Kant, L. Feuerbach and F. Nietzsche.

The article presents positivist-inspired deliberations of M. Straszewski, which form a quite coherent, credible vision of the future of philosophy. According to it, man starts to reason when he achieves high level of socioeconomical development. This process begins from religion, complemented or fought by philosophy. It is the effect of systematic and methodicalreflecion, and, as is, composes a universal phenomenon. Its goal is to deepen religious life. Straszewski enlists the genesis of philosophy into a three-stage rule of spiritual thinking, bringing to mind Comte’s rights of three stages of mankind spiritual development. He stood for the religious genesis of philosophy. Demonstrating that every philosophy starts from religious beliefs, and, while developing, forms new beliefs or deepens the old ones. In the context of these deliberations, there appears an argument, that, except for christianity, all religions (philosophies) have stuck in their development at the practical or dia...

This article offers an interpretation of the views of three thinkers who represent theoretical approaches to the social functions of religion. These are: K. Twardowski, W. Rubczyński i J. H. Hempel. The discussed views, which are characteristic of Polish philosophy, emphasize the import_ance or religion and all kinds of faith for shaping a human being who is open to “Others” and shaping spirituality based on altruism. The authors presented in the article have the highest respect for outstanding people who do not abandon themselves to passions, focus on the matters most import_ant for the state, promote sound patriotism and reject political nationalism.

The article presents the history of the military higher education system, which is connected to the shaping of the Polish statehood as well as its present state. The structure of this type of education system was dependent on the e ectiveness of socio-economic, political and military activities of public authorities. However, it is only the November Uprising which is generally associated with the revolt of the o cers from the O cer Cadets School [Szkoła Podchorazych] in Warsaw. The changes which occur within the military education system on account of its adjustment to the requirements of the Act “Law on higher education” of 27 June 2005 are very positive. They accommodate military higher education institutions to the public system of higher education, they in uence the development and the quality of education in these institutions, they obliged them to implement the regulations arising from the National Quali cations Framework and to observe all the procedures arising from the legi...

W artykule formułuję tezę, że cechą istotową polskiej myśl filozoficzno-społecznej jest edukacyjny kryty-cyzm, praktycyzm, aktywizm i elitarystyczny egalitaryzm, jej religijność oraz odwoływanie się do różno-rodnych nurtów filozofii europejskiej, a także łączność z ideą słowiańskości. Filozofia ta w centrum uwagi ma człowieka i jego doskonalenie. Dostrzegam ważność, a wręcz konieczność, rozwijania filozofii pol-skiej w kontekście myśli europejskiej. Sądzę, że może ona stanowić humanistyczną podstawę dla edu-kowania Polaków. Dokumentuję swoje poglądy wybranymi koncepcjami polskiej filozofii XIX i XX wieku.