Półrocznik „Karto-Teka Gdańska” powstał w 2017 roku i jest recenzowanym pismem naukowym w wersji on-line, wydawanym przez Pomorskie Towarzystwo Filozoficzno-Teologiczne. Jest to pismo interdyscyplinarne, w którym publikuje się artykuły z zakresu szeroko pojętych nauk humanistycznych, ze szczególnym nachyleniem ku filozofii, teologii, religioznawstwu oraz antropologii kulturowej. Pismo kierowane jest zarówno do uznanych badaczy z polskich i zagranicznych ośrodków naukowych, jak i młodych naukowców.
Pomorskie Towarzystwo Filozoficzno-Teologiczne, Uniwersytet Gdański
That was Agatha. The story of Professor Elżbieta Wolicka-Wolszleger
Existential perspectives of narratology according to Paul Ricoeur
This article analyzes the existential perspectives on narratology in Paul Ricoeur’s later work, viewed within the context of the linguistic turn in philosophy. The author discusses how Ricoeur combines philosophical hermeneutics with language theory, emphasizing „being in speech” as the foundation of human existence and narrative identity. The article discusses the dialectic of distance and assimilation in the interpretation of texts, revealing the ethical dimension of narratology, viewed in the context of dialogue, responsibility, and the sources of moral obligation, and emphasizing the nature of interpretation as a process of self-understanding, devoid of ultimate metaphysical guarantees.
Road to a better self – ethical guidance to AI in education
This article examines the ethical and practical implications of Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), focusing on its impact on human values and relationships. While AI offers benefits such as personalized learning and improved academic outcomes, it also poses risks such as reduced critical thinking, over-reliance, and privacy concerns. The loss of creativity, embodied learning, and authentic human connection are highlighted as significant concerns. The role of the human teacher remains essential in fostering personal development and social-emotional learning. The FIRE initiative (Forum for the International Renewal of Education) aims to integrate ethics, well-being, and 21st-century skills into AI-based education. A central theme is the alignment of AI with core values such as empathy, resilience, and integrity. Ultimately, the article advocates for a human-centred approach where AI supports, rather than replaces human growth through community and relationships.
Don Fidél Pereira. Facets and stories of the ruler of the Upper Urubamba
Don The aim of this article is presenting the personage of Fidél Pereira (circa 1886-88 – 1974). Fidél was a man of two cultures – half Hispanic (Peruvian), half Matsigenka. He was highly competent in both of them. Until present times he continues to be a very controversial person. Many Matsigenkas remember him as a ruthless patrón (boss), infamous for his cruelty to his indigenous slaves; meanwhile many missionaries or even anthropologists depict him as a valuable cooperator and interesting interlocutor / informer.
The Question of the Proper Formula of Contemporary Materialism
Materialism, at every stage of its intellectual maturation, must decide whether it wants to be a strictly objectivist materialism without a knowing subject, or, conversely, a materialism that postulates the existence of the subject as a necessary position enabling the (self-)knowledge of matter. Materialism is forced to constantly navigate between the fatalism of negative affects liberated by a vision of the world dominated by the spirit of futility, and the euphoria of vitalism, which believes in matter in constant motion and indestructible development. The materialist must decide whether to be a "vulgar materialist" and a naive realist who accepts the world as it appears to us in perception, or whether to choose a transcendental and critical option that examines the conditions of knowledge rather than dogmatic knowledge about the state of matter. The question of materialism is therefore a question of how to avoid the temptation of being a dogmatic materialist. In this text, I address a key dilemma that divides contemporary materialists, who either choose a strictly realist option, believing in the existence of matter without a knowing subject (Quentin Meillassoux), or a vitalist or constructivist option, subjectivizing or vitalizing matter ab origine (Gilles Deleuze). I also attempt to establish the status of contemporary materialisms that go beyond constructivism and transcendentalism. This primarily concerns surrealist materialism (Meillassoux), Thomas Nail's kinetic materialism, and Karen Barad's agential realism. None of these options seem satisfactory because they absolutize certain properties of matter – contingency, entanglement, and motion. In opposition to these materialisms, I propose a procedure of deabsolutization. Deabsolutized materialism finds a place for the concept of construction in reality itself.
‘The piece of you I know best is already dead’. Reflections on skin, embodiment, and subjectivity
This essay explores the paradoxical nature of touch that never touches and the role of skin in establishing our separateness from the world. While both topics have been discussed at length by philosophers and psychoanalysts, I introduce two additional themes: skin that is dead on the surface and comes off in microscopic scales (as it happens at the biological level) and skin that is altered by dermatological problems. When framed like this, the skin stratifies and blurs the boundaries of the subject; especially the latter type of unruly, painful skin introduces a kind of discomfort that allows one to rethink the relationship between surface and depth, inside and outside, self and other. As a result, these dichotomies lose their antagonistic and hierarchical dimensions. What emerges instead is an inextricably interconnected weave or even a topological space where nothing is hidden under the surface because the surface is all that we have. Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud, Didier Anzieu, Elizabeth Grosz and Julia Kristeva serve as the main theoretical references in this text. Supporting illustrations include an excerpt from Jeanette Winterson’s novel Written on the Body, John Updike’s experience of psoriasis, and the topological space known as Klein’s bottle. The feminist aspect of this essay is rooted in the recognition that the depth-surface dichotomy is part of the patriarchal logic that privileges masculinity while rendering femininity shallow, flat, and superficial.
'Ainsi Bas La Vida!' Lacan’s Theory Extimate Sexuality as Based on Objects of Fall, Outlined by Means of a Short Story of Perfumes. An Essay
This paper is a trial of showing analogy between the function that ‘little objects’ perform in the vicissitudes of desire and certain important discoveries in the world of perfume industry. I make use of the Lacanian concept of imitation, in particular I discern between the structural imitation and narcissistic imitation. The latter is a sort of ‘superficial’ process based on the Imaginary, pre-Oedipal functioning of the subject, the former is a much more ‘deeper’ phenomenon that consists in such a kind of imitation that considers the essential structure determining the mechanism in question. I make a short description of the industry of composing fragrances. In the story of the business of producing scents there has been a certain breakthrough, allowing us to understand the libidinal trajectories of drive. The beginning has been the extraction of ‘escentric molecules’ by producers of perfumes. Especially, the one most worth of being interested in is the so called ‘ISO E Super’, the discovery of which has been an accomplishment achieved by Geza Schoen. On this base I make a statement that smell could function as one of ‘objects a’, as they were described in Lacan’s theory. This supposition is made due to the observation that this mysterious molecule ‘behaves’ structurally in a similar way as the essential feature accounting for the fact that ‘little objects’, especially the two ones additional conceptualized by Lacan, namely voice and gaze, play such a crucial described in the Lacanian psychoanalysis. Although any ‘little a’ seems to be sort of ‘hidden’ in the libidinal economy of the subject, its impact is enormous, as it helps a particular human being become ‘risen to the dignity of the Thing’. The ‘objects’ set in motion the whole energy of the drive that circles around these unique ‘points’ of the dynamic mechanism of desire. The specific ‘something’ that characterizes a particular personal smell hypothetically contains a kind of an ‘accountant’ of the ISO E Super, the enigmatic factor that paves the way to the recognition (not knowledge, as Lacan maintains) of the infinitely unknown Other in our neighbor.
Poetry and the aesthetic experience in Ralph Waldo Emerson
This paper explores the intricate relationship between beauty and aesthetic experience in poetry, centring on R.W. Emerson’s The Rhodora. It argues that poetry is an act of metamorphosis, through which the poet returns to and becomes part of Nature, a dynamic process of becoming, a dramatization of the soul that animates it. The poet, attuned to this movement, places themselves within Nature’s stream of wisdom and power, allowing beauty to emerge through poetic expression. Therefore, poetry is not merely composed and read; it is recited, sung, and proclaimed as a reaffirmation of life itself. The poet’s task is to bridge the sensual and the ineffable, expressing the infinite through symbols. Poetry combats intellect’s tendency toward abstraction, restoring the unity of experience by revealing that every end in Nature is a new beginning. In this way, poetry, like Nature, enlivens the intellect and unveils truth. It neither detaches nor aggregates but instead operates with a vigilant integrity, mirroring the wholeness of Nature itself. Ultimately, poetry speaks of beauty, awakening the mind through its transformative power.