Published: 2024-06-24

Nature, Civilisation, Philosophy

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Website: https://gap.uek.krakow.pl/blog/pracownicy/dr-hab-piotr-augustyniak-prof-uek/
Section: syntheses - reflections- (over)views
https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.14590

Abstract

This article is about philosophy as a path, leading man, a civilised being, to re-establish communication with what Gilles Deleuze calls “primordial nature.” This foundational phenomenon, being the primary reservoir of life energy, underpins the existence of the human civilised world. However, by the same token, this phenomenon, since exempt from conditioning and subject to no restrictions or constraints, can disrupt
the functioning of this world. Thus, disengagement from primordial nature is the fundamental purpose of the existence of civilization. Unfortunately, its development over time excessively diminishes that connection, deepening alienation, frustration and aggression in social life. I will undertake to demonstrate that the practice of philosophy can be one of the basic ways of coping with that inevitable civilisational impasse.

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Augustyniak, P. (2024). Nature, Civilisation, Philosophy. Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, (48), 45–60. https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.14590

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No. 48 (2024)
Published: 2024-08-23


ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186
Ikona DOI 10.31261/errgo

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University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"

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