The Rule of Law as a European Value. The Philosophical Context of the Prevailing Political Dispute
Current political disputes about the rule of law – whether in the context of the domestic order or interstate relations and their new forms that have emerged within the European Union – are merely the contemporary actualisation of the above-described eternal conflict between two visions of man.
Zbigniew Stawrowski
Nicolas Sarkozy and the Russian Party of France
Let's look at the "Sarkozy case" for a moment, as it is so edifying.
Patrick Edery
The Empire Strikes Back: Reflections on Chinese 'Tianxia'
The normal polemic against the so called 'civilisational states' such as China, for example, is that they can be pigeon holed merely as 'authoritarian', that they are, in fact, aberrations on the road to the full model of 'liberal democracy'. It is their inherent 'backwardness', inability to reform, not quite 'all in' on the merits of liberal democracy, that keeps them locked up in Plato's cave.
Brian Patrick Bolger
AI - 2023: The Ghost in the Machine is Out
If we were to ask one dominating question about the Artificial Intelligence debate then it should be this one: What makes human beings special?
Brian Patrick Bolger
China between the next superpower and another Ptolemaic Egypt. The rise of China from the perspective of historical comparison
Is China the next superpower? A short historical comparison, which could show us more or less an Alpha version of “The rise of China” - may provide us with another answer – possibly negative.
Heng Xie
On Decolonizing Slavic Studies in Europe and America
“War has uncontrollable consequences”, noted historian Steven Mintz in Inside Higher Education in January 2023.[1] Shortly afterwards in the same journal, Mintz argued that American academic scholarship is stagnating.[2]
Ewa Thompson
The Significance of the Political Emigration in Polish Politics During the Partition Period
In a small sketch devoted to the significance of the political emigration in Polish politics of the Partition period, one cannot be tempted to recount its history in detail, to mention even its numerous fields of activity, political, journalistic, cultural, charitable, military, or scientific initiatives.
Radosław Żurawski vel Grajewski
Can We Communicate? On Epistemological Incompatibilities in Contemporary Academic Discourse
In 1990 the American philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre published Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopedia, Genealogy, Tradition. The last chapter of this book is titled “Reconceiving the university and the lecture,” and it ends with a proposition: in academic discourse we should “introduce” ourselves before we start speaking.
Ewa Thompson
