CONTENTS
"Ethos" 18:2005 Nos. 1-2 (69-70)
THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
From the Editors - Light or Darkness of the Night? (D. Ch., A. L.-K.)
John Paul II - The Christian Message in a Computer Culture (Message for the 24th World Communications Day)
THE HUMAN PERSON - THE SUBJECT OF COMMUNICATION
Mieczysław A. Krąpiec, OP - Man as a Personal Being
Jarosław Merecki, SDS - The Human Person and Communication
Fr. Czesław S. Bartnik - The Human Person: The Social and Transcendent Dimension of the Human Person
Kazimerz Krajewski - Personal Subjectivity and Human Community Facing the Information Society
WHAT IS AN INFORMATION SOCIETY?
Marcin Koszowy - Information - Truth - Society: An Attempt at the Clarification of the Problems
Krystyna Górniak-Kocikowska - The Problem of Naming the New (Global) Society
Tomasz Goban-Klas - A Mass Society, an Information Society, a Network Society or a Mediated Society?
THE INFORMATION SOCIETY - AN INVITATION TO PARTICIPATION
Maciej Iłowiecki - Man on a Line: The Ways of Manipulating the Human Person in an Information Society
Krzysztof Murawski - Human Freedom in the Information Society
Bp. Marek Jędraszewski - An Information Society - a Society Promoting the Encounter of Persons?
Paweł Kawalec - From the Virtual World to the Personal World: The Information Society and the Challenges and Threats It Poses to Participation
CULTURE IN THE INFORMATION AGE
Kazimierz Krzysztofek - Between Culture and Anthropotechnology: Visions of the Information Society: Matrix, Bonne Societé or Déjà Vu?
Maciej Rajewski - Identity and Survival. Primal Societies Facing Modern Media
Marcin Pastwa - Sic et non. Some Remarks on the Impact of Electronic Images on Art
Paweł Łupkowski - The Role of Ethics and Anthropology in the Consideration of Artificial Intelligence
DOES THE INFORMATION SOCIETY NEED A NEW ETHICS?
Agnieszka Lekka-Kowalik, Rafał Lizut - The Axiological Foundation of an Information Society
Luciano Floridi - Information Ethics: On the Philosophical Foundation of Computer Ethics (trans. D. Chabrajska)
Barbara Chyrowicz, SSpS - Computer Ethics - Yet Another Ethics?
NEW CHALLENGES - NEW THREATS
Janusz Goćkowski, Katarzyna M. Machowska - Two Information Cultures - Two Versions of Depersonalization Through Information
Marek Hetmański, Małgorzata Marzewska - Personal Identity in the Process of Telecommunication
Fr. Janusz Nagórny - An Information Society: A Threat to the Integrity of the Person?
Piotr T. Nowakowski - The Family in an Information Society: Integration or Disintegration?
EVANGELIZATION OF THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
Fr. Andrzej Draguła - Evangelization in the Computer Age
Bogdan Giemza, SDS - The Internet for the Church - the Church on the Internet: Theological and Pastoral Reflections
Fr. Tadeusz Zasępa - The Human Person as the Focus of an Information Society
EUROPE - CONSCIENCE - DEMOCRACY
Rocco Buttiglione - Plus ratio quam vis. The Conception of Democracy at the Threshold of the 21st Century
Rocco Buttiglione - The Primate of Conscience in Politics
THINKING ABOUT THE FATHERLAND…
John Paul II - The Vertical Dimension of European History
LETTERS
Zdzisław Najder - A Letter to the Editors of the Ethos
Wojciech Chudy - The Reply to Zdzisław Najder's Letter
NOTES AND REVIEWS
Piotr Ślęczka, SDS - Yes, We Are Approaching Liberal Eugenics (review of J. Habermas's Przyszłość natury ludzkiej, trans. M. Łukasiewicz, Wydawnictwo Naukowe SCHOLAR, Warszawa 2003)
Piotr Mazur - Francis Fukuyama's Attempt at an "Escape into Dignity" (review of F. Fukuyama's Koniec człowieka. Konsekwencje rewolucji biotechnologicznej, trans. B. Pietrzyk, Wydawnictwo Znak, Kraków 2004)
Tomasz Garbol - On a Catholic Interpretation of the Output of Tolkien (review of P. Gulisano's Tolkien. Mit i łaska, trans. A. Kuciak, W drodze, Poznań 2002)
Agnieszka Lekka-Kowalik - On the Responsibility of Computer Specialists (review of Computer Ethics and Professional Responsibility, ed. T. W. Bynum, S. Rogerson, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford 2004)
Maksymilian Roszyk - Towards as Information Society (review of A. Mattelart's Społeczeństwo informacji. Wprowadzenie, trans. J. Mikułowski Pomorski, Universitas, Kraków 2004
Mariola Kuszyk-Bytniewska - In the Net (review of M. Castell's Galaktyka Internetu. Refleksje nad Internetem, biznesem i społeczeństwem, trans. T. Hornowski, Dom Wydawniczy REBIS, Poznań 2003)
Magdalena Lasik - Ethics: a Chance for Science? (review of Science and Technology Ethics, ed. R. E. Spier, London-New York 2002)
Waldemar Zaręba - Methodological Problems of Religious Studies (review of: A. Bronk, SVD, Podstawy nauk o religii, Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL, Lublin 2003)
Proposals of the Ethos
REPORTS
Piotr Pawlak - Challenges for the Citizens of the Information Society (report on the Seventh ETHICOMP International Conference on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Information and Communication Technologies, University of the Aegean, Syros, Greece,14-16 April 2004)
Małgorzata Kitowska-Łysiak - The Lublin Passages (report on the Lublin Exhibitions Initiatives in Year 2004)
THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE ETHOS
Mirosława Chuda - A Wordless Handshake
THE CALENDAR
The Twenty Sixth and the Twenty Seventh Year of the Pontificate of John Paul II. 16 October 2003 - 2 April 2005 (by Beata Bogusz)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
John Paul II on the Mass-Media. A Bibliography of John Paul II Addresses from the Years 1993-2005 (by Tomasz Górka)
Notes about the Authors (by M. Ch.)
Summary (by D. Ch.)