Kwartalnik Instytutu
Jana Pawła II KUL
Lublin

“Ethos” 26: 2013 No. 2(102)

OUR “LESSER BRETHREN”

• From the Editors – Animal Ethics is a Human Concept (A.M.W.)
• John Paul II – Peace with God the Creator. Peace with All of Creation (extracts from the Message for the Celebration of the World Day of Peace 1 January 1990)

FACING CREATION

• Roger D. Sorrell – Francis’ Transcendence of Tradition and Its Major Impact on His Attitude Toward Creation: The Sermon to the Birds (trans. D. Chabrajska)
• Małgorzata Kowalewska – Hildegard of Bingen on Man and His “Lesser Brethren”

A CHALLENGE TO PHILOSOPHERS

• Jacek Lejman – Philosophical Origins of our Attitudes Towards Animals: On the Axiological Status of Animals and Humans
• Przemysław Gut, Arkadiusz Gut – Descartes’ Arguments Against Animal Thought and Reason

THE SOURCES OF DUTY

• Zbigniew Wróblewski – Subjectivity and Goodness: Ontological Premises of Kindness to Animals
• Ralph R. Acampora – Of Corporal Compassion (trans. D. Chabrajska)
• Joel Marks – Amoral Animal Rights
• Joel Marks – Amoral Animal Rights (trans. D. Chabrajska)

KNOWLEDGE AND RESPECT

• Maciej Trojan, Agnieszka Kaczmarczyk, Justyna Szymańska – How To Read an Animal Mind? Selected Problems of Comparative Psychology as an Example of Research on the Functions of the Mind and Intentionality of Animal Behavior
• Jessica Pierce, Marc Bekoff – Wild Justice Redux: What We Know About Social Justice in Animals and Why It Matters (trans. D. Chabrajska)
• James A. Serpell – Anthropomorphism and Anthropomorphic Selection – Beyond the “Cute Response” (trans. D. Chabrajska)

INHERENT IN CULTURE

• Zbigniew Chojnowski – Roman Brandstaetter’s Bestiary: Animals in the Imagination of the Poet
• Wiesław Bator – The Sacred – the Cursed – the Soulless: On the Treatment of Animals in the Doctrines and Practices of World Religions

THINKING ABOUT THE FATHERLAND...

• Bohdan Królikowski – The Service of the Polish Lancers
  

NOTES AND REVIEWS

• Patrycja Mikulska – Not a Proof, but a Dream... (review of R.R. Acampora’s, Corporal Compassion, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2006)
• Dorota Chabrajska – Are We Strangers to Nature? (review of Strangers to Nature: Animal Lives and Human Ethics, ed. G.R. Smulewicz-Zucker, Lexington Books, Lanham, Maryland, 2012)
  
• Grzegorz Józefczuk – On Loneliness, in a Minimalist Way (Lustro, script by L. Mądzik, staged and directed by L. Mądzik)
• Books recommended by Ethos (M. Trojan, Na tropie zwierzęcego umysłu, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar; J. Marks, Ethics without Morals: In Defense of Amorality, Routledge; R. Scruton, Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously about the Planet, Atlantic Books; Fr. T. Kuczyński, Od poznania świata do poznania Boga, Petrus)

REPORTS

• Mateusz Kulczycki – “Two wings on which the human spirit rises” (LV PhilosophicalWeek “Science and Faith: A New Approach to the Old Problem,” KUL, Lublin, 11-14 March 2013)
• Filip Ciepły – On the Limits of Artistic Expression (Conference “Art or Blasphemy? Freedom in Art and Abuse of Religious Feelings,” KUL, Lublin, 12 April 2013)
  

THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE ETHOS

• Fr. Alfred M. Wierzbicki – The Controversy over Ritual Slaughter: A Clash of Absolute Principles
• Notes about the Authors
• Abstracts