similar to other domains of inquiry and knowledge, social sciences are influenced by various philosophical views and different axioms about the creation and humanity. given that in social sciences human being is both the object and subject of inquiry and is the focal point of analysis, anthropological foundations become especially relevant for these sciences. considering that motahhari and kant...

Corresponding autors: Elżbieta Puacz, PhD National Chamber of Medical Laboratory Specialists ul. Konopacka 4 03-428, Warszawa, Poland Waldemar Głusiec, PhD Medical University of Lublin Department of Ethics and Philosophical Anthropology ul. Szkolna 18 20-124 Lublin, Poland e-mail: [email protected] tel. +48 514513463 Barbara Madej-Czerwonka Prof. associate Medical University of Lublin, Depar...

RECENTLY there fell into my hands by the kindness of its author a book which has revealed to me a new, and I think much better, understanding of the situation we are facing today in consequence of the modern scientific revolution. The author’s name is Josef Pieper, professor of philosophical anthropology at the University of Münster, and his book which so impressed me is entitled Scizolastik. (...

Academic disciplines like anthropology and epidemiology provide a niche for researchers to speak the same language, and to interrogate the assumptions that they use to investigate problems. How anthropological and epidemiological methods communicate and relate to each other affects the way public health policy is created but the philosophical underpinnings of each discipline makes this difficul...