FOSTERING A VIBRANT RENEWAL OF JUDAISM IN POLAND
Is there a general rule of how we should deal with evil? Should we fight back, respond with poker face or with doing good to an evildoer, hoping that he will become aware of the wickedness of his behavior and will return to the right path? The answers to these questions are dependent on what we believe about the nature of evil: does evil exist objectively? Or maybe certain human actions are only evil ‘in our[…]
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man, said ancient Greek philosopher, Heraklitus. This great metaphor says that change is at the essence of everything, both in the world of nature and the human world. […]
Żaden człowiek nie wejdzie dwa razy do tej samej rzeki; bo nie będzie to już ta sama rzeka lub on nie będzie tym samym człowiekiem. Ta wielka, wypowiedziana przez Heraklita metafora, głosi, iż zmiana jest istotą wszystkiego, zarówno w świecie przyrody, jak i w świecie człowieka.[…]
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world,” said Ludwig Wittgenstein, an Austrian-British philosopher of Jewish origin. Very true: it is often the case that we cannot truly understand a phenomenon until we have a linguistic representation.[…]
„Granice mojego języka wyznaczają granice mojego świata” – pisał Ludwig Wittgenstein, austriacko-brytyjski filozof żydowskiego pochodzenia. Jest to najbardziej trafna konstatacja: bardzo często nie potrafimy zrozumieć jakiegoś zjawiska ponieważ nie posiadamy ku temu odpowiedniego języka.[…]
Reason, feelings, senses… Since antiquity philosophers, thinkers and writers have wandered about these notions relating to intellectual and spiritual phenomena. What should we follow and when? Are there any general rules in this matter or does everything depend on the situation? […]
