Odszedł Uczony, Mistrz dla wielu autorów, publikujących także na łamach „Politei”, badacz dziejów polskiego konserwatyzmu oraz pomysłodawca, kreator koncepcji i redaktor monumentalnego, ...sześciotomowego Słownika historii doktryn politycznych. Odszedł Uczony, który przez wiele lat kierował jednostkami zajmującymi się na Wydziale Prawa i Administracji Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego dziejami doktryn politycznych i prawnych. Lubiany dydaktyk, a nade wszystko Człowiek dobry, otwarty, pełen ciepła.
In Poland political science has recently been classified as a part of the branch of social sciences. The aim of this paper is not to question the reasons behind such a categorization as the relation ...of political science (along with such disciplines as legal sciences and sociology) to social sciences is something obvious. However, I claim that it is worthwhile to reassess the arguments that provide for including political science also in the humanities. In addition to the tradition, the solutions adopted by other countries, and the Polish legal experiences, one should take into account an important research conducted by those political scientists who deal with history of political thought and contemporary political philosophy.
The concept of human rights, supposedly of universal importance, is usually derived from the tradition referred to as “Western”. Although the “classic approaches” – Greek, Roman and Christian, refer ...to the norms of natural law, making them the basis or limits of the rights of individuals, in modern approaches the relation is reserved, in the manner that rights become primary to norms. Although liberals of the 17th and 18th centuries consider the law of nature as a tool for their protection, starting from the 19th century, the rights (already called human rights) have been increasingly perceived as positive abilities to articulate own, subjective preferences of individuals. This evolution needs to be accounted for in the studies carried out by representatives of various cultures, since the comprehension of an individual (and even a “human person”) as an essentially culturally unconditioned one, is its ineradicable element.
WHAT IS CULTURAL STUDIES AS A SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE DEFINED BY POLISH LAW?The author of the article concentrates on the long and difficult process of the Faculty of International and Political ...Studies (at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow) in obtaining the right to educate students in the field of cultural studies. Problematic issues are described on the basis of Polish law which codifies individual disciplines and fields of science. Paying attention to the fundamental differences between Polish, British, French, German or Russian cultural studies was the starting point for taking a deeper reflection on the essence of what cultural studies is and what it should be, with a diverse and thereby rich structure.
When one reads the declaration of UNESCO from the early twenty-first century and wonders not so much on the phenomenon of coexistence of different cultures, but rather on the multicultural projects ...formulated in relation to the above, one relates the key questions to its origin and possible new solutions, first political and then legal. In political philosophy today developed in the so-called Western societies, these projects are linked to the reflection on their liberal and democratic foundations, especially on the issue of individual and group rights. Outlining these problems may be the introduction to the discussion of the key issues emerging in the reflection on the modern citizenship, as well as the expected legal order of multicultural societies.
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