Between Heaven and Hell: Roman Kołakowski’s Poetry His Translations of The Tiger Lillies Songs Lillies, a “punk cabaret” group from London, entered the Polish- speaking culture mostly through translations by Kołakowski. Translation formed just one many fields artistic activity Kołakowski, who was also poet, songwriter, performer, theatre director. There exists, however, striking contrast betwee...

For us, readers of Chaucer living in an age when appeal to religious passions and sentiments as a means for the realization of worldly objectives by some charlatans has grown significantly, reviewing the theme of religious hypocrisy treated in The Canterbury Tales can be useful in a way that it proves a helpful means for recognizing and dealing with the hypocrites. The Pardoner of the Tales is ...

in the middle ages, there are many intellectual currents in judaism.a current of thought is in disagreement with the philosophy. some have criticized philosophers from theological perspective and grups have criticized philosophy with the help of fallcy and its own philosophy.in this regard.helevy has a privileged position.he emphasized on the limits of reason and insufficient in explaining the ...

IT IS A COMMON belief that every historian, in trying to describe any episode from the human past, cannot help but color his narrative with the hues of his own political stances, his positions concerning political economy, his visions of a just society, his religious beliefs, and other such subjective tinctures. Those influences will inevitably enter into his interpretation of the “bare, object...

Shocked by what he considered to be the savagery he encountered in Tierra del Fuego, Charles Darwin ranked the Fuegians lowest among the human races. An enduring story has it, however, that Darwin was later so impressed by the successes of missionaries there, and by the grandeur they discovered in the native tongue, that he changed his mind. This story has served diverse interests, religious an...

The basic notion that an individual’s freedom to choose will advance society at large is a cornerstone of political philosophy and of the economic theory of the Western world. Early political philosophers such as John Stuart Mill and legendary economists such as Adam Smith have advocated a utilitarian approach to political and economic life, in which the advancement of one’s own interests also ...

In this article the author first gives an introduction to his own approach to comparative theology (CT). After some introductory considerations, an outline of the idea and foundation of CT is given and is contrasted with traditional approaches to other religions; the methods, goals, and also the limits of CT are discussed; CT is differentiated from religious studies and the theology of religion...