Published in Frontiers in Medicine
When assessing the value of new drugs regulatory authorities across the world frequently make different decisions even though their decisions are based on the same evidence package. In this perspective we argue that even in today’s world regulatory and medical decision making is framed by conflicting philosophical schools of thought, namely the lib...
This paper aims to align historical reason with the debate on freedom and liberalism in social science. We subject our criticism of liberalism to two intellectual traditions, economism and the eclectic view, which are divided by the role freedom plays in the unfolding of economic events. Drawing on lessons from the historical nature of liberalism, ...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Despite its relatively brief history, cryptocurrency has already had a profound impact on the economy, with some predicting that it will eventually replace traditional fiat currencies. Historically, it had dark associations with illegal activities in the early days, although perceptions and associations likely have, in recent years, changed for the...
Published in Personality & social psychology bulletin
Progressivism has increasingly challenged traditional liberalism as the dominant influence within left-wing ideology. Across four studies, we developed a measure-the Progressive Values Scale (PVS)-that characterizes distinctly progressive values within the left-wing. In Study 1, left-wing participants evaluated divisive issues, with four scale fact...
Published in New Global Studies
The aim of this article is to explore an emotional divide within the critical discourse on capitalism in the United States in the period from the late 1950s to the 1970s. By using the examples of John Kenneth Galbraith and Robert Lekachman, the article shows how an older generation of liberal economists used irony and sarcasm to create an air of em...
Spinoza, Pufendorf and Locke all championed freedom of thought (including freedom of religion) and of speech / all three thinkers deserve credit for having forged the fundamental principles of the liberal tradition. Spinoza, in particular, was the first writer in modern times to articulate a systematic defence of democracy. He believed that the sta...
The primary topic of the article is the analysis of three detective novels by a columnist Kisiel: Zbrodnia w Dzielnicy Północnej (1948), Wszystko inaczej (1986) and Zanim nadejdzie śmierć (1995). The first one represents “a classical crime novel”; the second one – “an open work”, “postmodern”, “anti-crime novel”; the third one – an allegedly uncomp...
In the reviewed book, Mark T. Mitchell presents a model for the critique of liberalism. The starting point for his argumentation is Michael Polanyi’s observation according to which the sources of political and spiritual crisis are the result of an incorrect conception of knowledge. This makes it impossible to formulate meaningful statements about ...
Published in Frontiers in Sociology
In the classical notion of secularism, privatization of religion is an essential component of freedom and equality between citizens, so that rights are granted to individuals rather than to communities. The currently dominant objections to this notion in the literature are the multiculturalist thesis, primarily expounded by Tariq Modood, and the cr...
This essay aims to find out how the five values of liberalism view the law on secret room wiretapping and the law on secret wiretapping of electronic communications. The method used to achieve the purpose of the study is an idea analysis in descriptive and explanatory form. When processing the material, two dimensions have been formulated in the fo...
