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One of my colleagues asked me was, why the name I chose my blog name narnijskiego fauna. Responding briefly, I would say that this was one of the nicest characters or the story of Lewis and even the Greek Pan, a Roman Faun (probably the root of both common names), is one of the nicest people of the ancient pantheon. But let me expand a bit of this explanation. Pan was the god of forces of nature, the guardian of the mountain forests, wild and domesticated animals, the patron saint of shepherds. Although its name suggests that it could someday be a major "universal" god of the Hellenic religion, in our consciousness survives as a symbol of the magic of nature. The cult of the Lord (Fauna) has always involved a Greek (and later Hellenistic) love of nature, experiencing its beauty and holiness, was connected with the worship of sacred groves, dryads, ghosts of meadows, forests and trees. The belief that God (the sacred) manifests itself in the beauty and the forces of nature was a feature of many religions, but the role of the Hellenistic hierofanii was quite special. Arnold Toynbee points out that "organic" sensibility of Indian Buddhism, "Big Dipper" has developed only under the influence of Hindu mystics and contacts with the Greek philosophers, who arrived in India along with the armies of Alexander. Probably
Hellenic word (but Slavonic, Germanic and Celtic), love of nature had its source in the beauty, inhabited by those peoples of the lands, but also in the fact that the nature of our ancestors fed, but it is not for them, never a great threat.
If so, it is not strange that the people living in hostile and dangerous deserts of the Middle East have a different relationship to nature. Making the land (desert) "subjecting" was a matter "to be or not to be" for those called upon to live between the Nile and the Euphrates.
meeting between the "desert people" and "people of meadows and forests" that took place three centuries before the beginning of our era, as a result of the victorious march of the Macedonian army chief, was perhaps the most momentous and fraught the effects of a historical event since the invention of farming techniques. One of the most important and the consequences of this meeting was the birth of religion, which after several centuries, became the religion of half of humanity. The new religion, though she was Jewish syncretism that combines elements of helleńskimi, the ratio of the cults of nature drew from the Jewish, not Greek heritage. Professor
Kravchuk said about her confrontation with paganism:
" .... Antique cults, pagan, Slavic, and our Mediterranean - had a very nice feature which is forgotten - they were all associated with nature, with nature worship. In these beliefs are sacred groves, each star is something living, and finally with us, Slavic nations, there are sacred trees. I come to the first Christian missions to our lands. What will begin to spread their faith? From chopping the old, sacred trees, against which the Gentiles made their victims. And here, sir, is the beginning of an environmental disaster. Laughs at you? Let the laughs from the old Mr. Kravchuk. But I prove that my reasons are deeply rooted in the Old Testament. There, at the very beginning, in the words of God it says "make for yourselves the land has been subjected." Man is the master of all creation, is the owner and can do whatever he wants with the land. Because it is his, for he is Lord God. Quite different was the attitude to the land of our pious pagans. Yes, devout pagans. You can read about in the texts of Greek and Roman. For the Greeks, Romans and Christians were atheists because they do not recognize the gods. Christians had their God, which for the Romans and Greeks was a stranger and the Christian God was an atheist, because they did not recognize the gods. Christianity brought with it an imperious attitude toward the world. Value you, and not cohabitant. While for us, once again I stress, the pious heathen whole world is on an equal footing ... "
Similar sentences can be found in the first volume of the Ancient World Religions series by the most eminent Polish experts think of antiquity, Professor Tadeusz Zielinski:
" ... The true opposite of the Hellenes was ancient Israel. Driven by his God, the Lord of hosts, he came as a foreigner and the winner of the "promised land". Do not fed filial affection for this land, which has never been his mother - lived it wrong ghosts. And that her imperious, predatory attitude toward the earth, and he also instilled the religions, some of which came from it: Christianity and Islam, the land of his mother became a slave - obey, but a vengeful (...) verily, God is utterly burned Mohammed This vast land of rags - ancient gods around him tender care. "
Led by Christians struggle with the cult of nature was of course part - no longer so important to Judaism - the fight against idolatry. The God of Abraham and Moses was a jealous God. For many centuries, nature has ceased to be holy, and its patron saint - you (or at least its image), has become synonymous with the devil. Forgotten love to nature, returned only (unfortunately for a short time) in the late Middle Ages to the person of Francis of Assisi. Blade hierofanii directed against nature, however, proved to be a double-edged. Prominent American conservative thinker, born in Hungary, Professor Thomas Molnar in one of his books, draws attention to precisely that: "... Christianity from the beginning contained within it the seeds that have ripened, then turned against the shell of religion, which it has issued. Seeds These tend to rationalize and de-sanctification. "
Zdesakralizowanej nature assigned the role of soulless machines. Deprived of her attribute of holiness. When the scientific revolution as a result of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it was noted that this man is a part of nature, the whole religious outlook had to collapse. And though to see that our life is "a form of existence of the protein" could become a rediscovery of the wonders of nature, then the unquestioned belief that it is a mechanism meant that European thought has gone in the opposite direction - born of nihilism.
However, I believe that there is a way out of this spiritual trap faced by the Atlantic civilization and that it goes through some form of reconciliation of Christianity and the pagan worship of nature. For Christianity itself is certainly a chance, but a potential "political" trap. Two thousand years of fighting against idolatry can not just cancel.
idea that the path from materialism to Christianity can lead by paganism (especially by the paganism of nature) is obviously not my own invention. In this direction led, under many anthropologists, scholars of religion, whether Christianity sympathetic thinkers and writers of the second half of the twentieth century. An example might be if only the author ekranizowanych's "The Chronicles of Narnia", the English writer and Christian apologist, and CS Lewis, who converted when his friend JRR Tolkien (author of "The Lord of the Rings") convinced him that the pagan myths are not fabrication, but they are true (in the spiritual and symbolic dimension). It is no coincidence that Lewisowska Narnia is inhabited by wildlife, dryads, ghosts of forest streams, centaurs, and other good forces of the ancient cult Nature. Positive attitude to the ancient paganism was Tolkien, but also Chesterton. Hope that this effort will be taken in the direction where I can draw on the interest, which - especially among the Jesuits and Dominicans, and therefore the Church's intellectual elite - raised from the work of Simone Weil years. Recall that this extraordinary thinker, fell in love with Christianity, seeing it as a continuation of religion of Hellas.
underscores that he did not dream of the revival of paganism, because such a revival today, I think it is totally impossible, and and undesirable. But I dream - although I know it's unrealistic dream - to see and theological recognition by the Church (Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant), the role and sanctity of the foundation of Christianity, which was the antique paganism, with particular attention to this forgotten element - the worship of nature. Christianity, which really for the most part was a continuation of ancient Hellenistic religions than Judaism, that the pagan roots treated since the beginning of its existence as something embarrassing. Tried to conceal from myself my own background, like a child who is ashamed to be one of his parents and erasing his own identity in part from the inherited trait. A shame really did not have what. Most of its elements, precious and beautiful sublime and above all, in the truest sense of the real fact was given directly or indirectly from his Olympic-loving father of the Greeks.
I hope to write about this at greater length in one of the following entries.

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Why Free will and determinism

quite widely assumed that determinism conflicts with free will. If we were machines, progressive in a precise way through the built in us an internal program and external stimuli, there could be no question of freedom, nor even the will, which - it is said - would then be the usual illusion. Our consciousness is so rejestrowałaby emotions, events and decisions which would have no impact. Rejestrowałaby the illusion that such an influence exists. Determinism, which reduces man to a more complex machine (or even much more complicated), it also has - as is often believed - remove from human responsibility for his actions. How can anyone claim to have a machine that did exactly what I had done. We laugh, for example, Xerxes, who ordered his men to whip the sea, which sank its ships. Should we not be equally loud laugh from those who make us criminals?
It is said that hopes to regain faith in free will not appear until the twentieth century, as a result of the disaster of mechanism and the birth of new physics with its principle of indeterminacy. Indeterminism of the quantum level was therefore allow us to regain the time Laplace La Mettriego belief that man himself, in a free way determines their behavior.
I believe that such views are a major simplification. Firstly, I do not agree that indeterminism at the quantum level the situation has changed for the benefit of man, as the sovereign of its own decisions. Of course, it is highly likely that sometimes some random quantum leap in our brain will trigger a sequence of events that will cause will make a different decision than we would have taken if they jump into this never took place. But does this entitle us to give our decision attribute of freedom, which otherwise we would not have assigned? Is not it sometimes just the opposite? Is this what we expect from our decision is not just their internal predictability - compatibility with our system of values, with our tastes? Do not want to be a consequence of our experiences, thoughts, intellect? This brings us to the heart - it is not important whether the soul is woven with pneumy or protein - for the existence of free will is essential if she decides on its own preferences. Dependence on the random events in the microworld rather restricts the freedom of our will, rather than strengthens, as it would like thinkers who basically saw Heisenbega hope of saving faith in man - undoubtedly weakened by the nineteenth century the dominance of mechanism. This is not to say that the uncertainty principle averse attitude I have. On the contrary - it is most consistent with my inner feelings, but I do not think that we are just Heisenbergowi have to thank for saving the vision of the world, which makes it morally justifiable, for example, a system of penalties for criminals.
penalties if you already mentioned, it let me move to the question of the relationship between determinism, and responsibility. Does the fact that taken by a criminal offender decision was in some way internally determined, it can be an excuse for his act? In my opinion, in any event. For a possible release of man's responsibility for acts committed by him can be influenced by two factors. First, it is possible to be subject to external influences - such as liability is less if the offender threatened someone that if you do not join the crime, he is killed. Another factor that may detract from the responsibility, is a lack of knowledge of consequences of the action. Neither of these two factors has nothing to do with internal determinism criminal behavior. And again, we can say that is exactly the opposite of what is often considered - determinism increases, not decreases the man's responsibility for his conduct. Returning to Xerxes, his reaction was funny, not because the sea is an automatic, but because the issuing his order, acted as if he believed that the sea is aware of, and that is sensitive to punishment such as flogging and under their may influence refrain from flooding the Persian ships.
proceed to the next question, over which debated by the ancient Greeks. Is our fate is determined at the time of our birth, and perhaps even arbitrarily far away from them? Note that it's actually a question about the causal nature of the world in which we live. It does not have much in common with the existence of free will, because she is doing well regardless of whether our world is, or is not determined. And here the only modern physics has something to say. Heisenberg's principle and stochastic bifurcations in organic chemistry, which are posted in their work Ilia Prigogine let us now consider almost for granted that the future of the world, and therefore the future of an individual human being is impossible to predict. The future from the past differs so substantially. Followers of mechanism (including Einstein) believed that the arrow of time is an illusion. All the equations are perfectly symmetric with respect to time, allowing them to preach the view that the impression is solely due to expiration of the structure of our minds. May seem puzzling that did not convince them of the falsity the philosophy of the second law of thermodynamics, which showed, after the existence of a process that can take place only in one direction. What does, however, relevant to the problem, which so oppressed the minds of the Hellenes? Well, I think it is essential, though - as I will try to show - it's not clear from the theory of natural solution to the problem of predestination, and vice versa - a solution to this problem tells us how physics can be correct.
Przeprowadźmy following experiment conceived. Assume that Perseus found out that his destiny is to accidentally kill your grandfather. If there would be able to accurately predict the future he could find out exactly what date and under what circumstances, the event occurs. Then, just enough that day refused to take part in the discus throw competition, and fate would be transformed. That could be the face of such knowledge to change the plans we know from elementary knowledge of the laws of psychology, and therefore without reference to the achievements of twentieth century physics. The assumption that the future is predictable turns out to be contradictory. Thus, knowledge of human nature, standard allows the formulation of the uncertainty principle for the makroświata beings - endowed with the psyche of human beings. It also lets you recognize the existence of the fundamental asymmetry of time and without recourse to Boltzmann.
It seems that the Greeks understood the relationship, which I speak here. Hence, their gods were against the perfidious enough heroes - do not supply them with detailed knowledge of the future, so as to prevent a maneuver that would allow them to escape destiny.
future is a mystery. There is something fundamentally different from the past. The situation in which they imagined Perseus itself shows that only takes into account the physics of time asymmetry may be the correct physics of our world. It also shows that the future of inscrutability is a necessary condition for determinism. Paradox? In this strangest of all possible worlds is certainly not the only one.