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Civitas

 

No. 1/1997

Constitution

Contents

From the editor
7
ERNST-WOLFGANG BÖCKENFÖRDE
Historical Development and Different Meanings of Constitution
11
WOJCIECH SADURSKI
A Constitutional Vicious Circle?
An Approach to the Theory of Liberal Constitutionalism

37
JUSTYNA MIKLASZEWSKA
Constitutional Revolution. The Issue of Changing Constitution
in the Political Philosophy of James M. Buchanan

71
PAWEŁ KACZOROWSKI
The State in the Continental European Tradition
81
STANISŁAW FILIPOWICZ
"Miracle" in the Age of Reason
103
ZBIGNIEW STAWROWSKI
A Constitution of the State in Hegel's Thought
121
IRENA LIPOWICZ
A concept of the state in the Projects of the Polish Republic Constitution
145
MICHAL KULESZA
Models of State and Public Administration.
Remarks on the Draft of the Constitution of the Polish Republic

161
BARBARA MARKIEWICZ
Why do They Swear?
177
JERZY STELMACH
Polish Debates on the Concept of Law
185
A Democratic State Based on the Rule of Law. conversation wifh ANDRZEJ ZOLL,
the President of the Constitutional Court
197

BOOKS REVIEWS

PAWEL KAMELA
The Philosophical Foundation of Juridical Interpretation
("The Contemporary Philosophy of Juridical Interpretation"
by Jerzy Stelmach)
215
AGNIESZKA NOGAL
The problem of the post-modemity

("Post-modernism and Philosophy. An Anthology",
ed. by Stanislaw Czemiak and Andrzej Szahaj)
229
ANNA SIWEK
The Abyss of Freedom
("The Will" by Hannah Arendt)
237
JAN SKOCZYNSKI
Kant as a Political Philosopher
("Kant: the State and the Law" by Wojciech Buchner)
243

CONFERENCES

AGNIESZKA NOGAL
The Modern State and the Constitution
Report on a discussion organised by "Civitas" editorial staff
249
ROMUALD PIEKARSKI
Report on the international conference:
"Political Virtues - Yesterday and Today. The Moral Sources of Politics"
256

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Political philosophy in the past year.
Recent literature in 1996
261

 

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No. 2/1998

Democracy

Contents

From the editor
7
ADAM PRZEWORSKI, MICHAEL ALVAREZ,
JOSÉ ANTONIO CHEIBUB, FERNANDO LIMONGI
What Makes Democracies Endure?
9
MIROSLAWA GRABOWSKA
Democracy - Theories and Social Attitudes
39
WOJCIECH SADURSKI
Who Has the Last Word?
Constitutional Judges and Representative Democracy

81
ZBIGNIEW STAWROWSKI
Plato on Democracy
101
MIKOLAJ WALCZYK
Plato's Political Ideas and Totalitarianism,
or: How One Notion Was Abused

119
MILOWIT KUNINSKI
Friedrich A. von Hayek's Positive Critique of Democracy
139
BRIAN C. ANDERSON
Liberty and Disillusion - On the Thought of Pierre Manent
161
WOLFGANG PALAVER
The Ethical Limits to the Application of the Majority Principle
- On the Political Theology of Democracy

181
Debate on Democratic State Based on the Rule of Law
(Pawel Kaczorowski, Agnieszka Nogal, Zbigniew Stawrowski,
Tadeusz Szawiel, Miroslaw Wyrzykowski)
215

BOOKS REVIEWS

JAROSLAW MERECKI
Otfried Höffe's Proposal for a Theory of Justice?
(Otfried Höffe: Politische Gerechtigkeit. Grundlegung
einer kritischen Philosophie von Recht und Staat
)
237
SLAWOMIR MANDES
A Realistic Theory of Democracy
(Giovanni Sartori: The Theory of Democracy Revisited)
246
ADAM LESZCZYNSKI
Between Myth and Utopia
(Giovanni Sartori: The Theory of Democracy Revisited)
253
XYMENA DOLINSKA
In Defence of (Liberal) Democracy
(Robert A. Dahl: Democracy and its Critics)
259
TOMASZ WISNIEWSKI
The Closed Society and Its Friend
(Victor Perez-Diaz: The Return of Civil Society)
267
ANDRZEJ WASKIEWICZ
The Spanish Way to Democracy
(Victor Perez-Diaz: The Return of Civil Society)
277
STANISŁAW GALKOWSKI
New Times - New Ethics
(Hans Jonas:The Principle of Responsibility. Ethics for the Technological Civilisation)
283
MICHAL GRABAN
Thymos and History
(Francis Fukuyama: The End of History and The Last Man)
289

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No. 3/1999

The State and the Church

Contents

From the editor
7
Revolution in the Church
Conversation with Professor STEFAN SWIEZAWSKI
11
ERNST-WOLFGANG BÖCKENFÖRDE
Ethos of Modern Democracy and the Church
23
Once again: Ethos of Modem Democracy and the
Church: a Debate between
HERMANN-JOSEF SPITAL and ERNST-WOLFGANG BÖCKENFÖRDE
47
PIOTR MAZURKIEWICZ
The Church and Democracy
79
ANDRZEJ FILIPIAK
Support for Liberal Democracy and its Critique in th Encyclical "Centesimus Annus"
103
TADEUSZ SZAWIEL
The Polish Church - a View from the Outside
127
ROMUALD PIEKARSKI
Christian Virtues versus Roman Republican Virtues State and Church
according to Saint Augustine

147
MAREK SMURZYNSKI
The Idea of Leadership in the Political Philosophy of Shiism
and in the Islamic Republic of Iran

167
Debate on the State and Church
(Jan Garewicz, Miroslawa Grabowska, Helmut Juros,
Pawel Kaczorowski, Jakub Karpinski, Justyna Miklaszewska,
Agnieszka Nogal, Romuald Piekarski, Wojciech Roszkowski, Remigiusz Sobanski,
Zbigniew Stawrowski, Tadeusz Szawiel, Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski)
193

BOOK REVIEWS

STANISLAW GALKOWSKI
The Apology of Populism
(Christopher Lasch:The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy)
229
SLLAWOMIR MANDES
Modernistic Anti-modernism of the Catholic Conservatism
(Urs Altermatt: Katholizismus und Moderne)
236
KRZYSZTOF C. MATUSZEK
On the Unreality of the End of History
(Francis Fukuyama: The End of the History and The Last Man)
242
AGNIESZKA MEDREK
"Liberal Virtues" or the Community of Reasonable Men
(Stephen Macedo: Liberal Virtues. Citizenship Virtue
and Community in Liberal Constitutionalism
)
251
ANNA MUSIAL
Doctrinal Pluralism and Social Stability
(John Rawls: Political Liberalism)
258
ANNA SIWEK
Criminal or a Careworn Citizen?
(Hannah Arendt: On Violence. Civil Disobedience)
265

CONFERENCES

ARTUR GRZYBOWSKI
Conference on "Liberalism on the Close of the Century"
271

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