Abstract One of the most important questions in Roman Catholic Church is question sexual and gender diversity. Therefore, article presents results qualitative quantitative content analysis sociocultural periodical Więź (Bond) from 2007 to 2020, which leading forum for liberal debates Poland. The goal was analyze period’s narration toward current Church’s instructions on sexuality Five dominant ...

This paper explores the neglected ‘harms-to-others’ which result from increased attention to beauty, increased engagement in beauty practices and rising minimal beauty standards. In the first half of the paper I consider the dominant discourse of beauty harms – that of ethics and policy – and argue that this discourse has overfocused on the agency of, and possible harms to, recipients of beauty...

In his book The Law of Peoples, John Rawls described an international society inwhich there are enemies and friends seeking their goals by deferent means.Rawls introduced us principles as the fundamental rights of every people. Thepeople who reserve these rights can sustain in the world. Although this theoryis supposed to be part of liberal foreign policy, the peoples Rawls talks aboutare not n...

In the 1990s, much discourse both in and about global civil society was beset by a false opposition. On the one side was the utopia of cosmopolitan liberalism. On the other was the specter of reactionary nationalism or fundamentalism. And, of course, in a variety of settings, some national and some diasporically transnational, the value loading was reversed: fundamentalist or national utopia, t...

abstract the investigation of habermas’s political ideas of philosophical perspective and measuring his philosophical principles ratio, which is the deliberative democracy, is a purpose of this study that will be followed.  on the one hand, the importance of this issue is this that represents the new readings of democratic standards and on the other hand, consolidates one type of the democracy ...

It is no coincidence that anti-democratic changes in the recent years Poland occurred alongside rapid development of social media. Technologically advanced methods discourse management (e.g., behavioral targeting) have successfully exploited poor understanding media mechanisms among Poles1 (Drzewiecki, 2010) and created a fertile ground for undermining liberal democracy. Social endangered publi...

The concept of vulnerability is once again assuming a central role in ethical-political-legal discourse. This the case both relation to its neo-liberal reinterpretations, aimed at placing responsibilities and consequences onto vulnerable subject itself, and, on contrary, theses - result, large extent, reworking ethics care – authors such as Martha Fineman, Judith Butler, Nussbaum, Catriona Mack...