Reflections on Rationality, Utility, University, Mass Culture and Unsustainable Society

IF 0.5 Q4 ECONOMICS
Jerzy Śleszyński
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Abstract This paper is an expression of gratitude, remembrance and honour the jubilee of Prof. Tomasz Żylicz. As I have been invited to write a paper for a special issue of the CEEJ journal, I sincerely wanted to express regarding my friendship and my research that have been binding me with Tomasz in my more than 40-year work in the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw. Our cooperation was varied and rich including joint articles, research projects and our work for the Ministry of the Environment. In this paper, after friendly acknowledgment, I decided to propose my polemical answer to the paper ‘Is reason valued now?’ written by Tomasz. The subject of my reply is primarily the rationality in general and in the institution of university in the context of teaching and practicing science, including first of all economics and ecological economics. The method applied in this paper is my descriptive and polemical reference to Tomasz's theses with the analytical use of literature, both classics and very current references. The basic topic of the paper focuses on the fact that modernity continues in an increasingly inertial movement towards mass culture and is dominated by three criteria in this mechanism namely usefulness, non-exclusion and accessibility. I analyse these three fetishes in our dynamic times and with particular emphasis on their negative role in academic education. In my conclusions I categorically state that scientific knowledge and education, perfectly represented by universities, were formed and developed in an alliance with usefulness and utility, but never only thanks to them and never only for them.
理性、功利、大学、大众文化与不可持续社会的反思
这篇论文是为了表达对Tomasz教授Żylicz的感激、纪念和敬意。我被邀请为《CEEJ》杂志的特刊撰写论文,我真诚地想表达我在华沙大学经济科学学院40多年的工作中与Tomasz的友谊和研究。我们的合作是多样而丰富的,包括联合文章、研究项目和我们为环境部所做的工作。在这篇论文中,经过友好的承认,我决定对“理性现在受到重视吗?”托马斯写的。我的回答的主题主要是在科学教学和实践的背景下,一般的理性和大学制度,首先包括经济学和生态经济学。本文采用的方法是我对托马兹的论文进行描述性和辩论性的参考,同时对经典文献和非常流行的文献进行分析。本文的基本主题集中在现代性继续朝着大众文化的惯性运动,并在这一机制中由三个标准主导,即有用性,非排斥性和可及性。我在这个充满活力的时代分析了这三种恋物癖,并特别强调了它们在学术教育中的负面作用。在我的结论中,我明确地指出,科学知识和教育,以大学为完美代表,是在有用性和实用性的联盟中形成和发展的,但绝不仅仅感谢它们,也绝不仅仅是为了它们。
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期刊介绍: The Central European Journal of Economic Modelling and Econometrics (CEJEME) is a quarterly international journal. It aims to publish articles focusing on mathematical or statistical models in economic sciences. Papers covering the application of existing econometric techniques to a wide variety of problems in economics, in particular in macroeconomics and finance are welcome. Advanced empirical studies devoted to modelling and forecasting of Central and Eastern European economies are of particular interest. Any rigorous methods of statistical inference can be used and articles representing Bayesian econometrics are decidedly within the range of the Journal''s interests.
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