John Paul II's Social Message for the Contemporary World “1989 and 25 Years After...” Proceedings of the international scientific conference held on 23. – 24. April 2015 in Poprad.

Introduction
doc. PaedDr. ThDr. Anton Lisnik, PhD., chair of the organizing committee

1989 was a turning point. Many people called it a year of freedom, and some are still saddened by this change. In any case, it was the year of the greatest changes in society, which positively changed the course of events in Europe and reached the whole world. In the history of our state, a non-violent change of regime took place and society could “take a breath.” This collection has the ambition to identify and describe changes in the view of the human person and society, the economy, management, education, and science. This year we also remember the days when St. John Paul II visited Poprad, and also his sentence addressed to us: “Do not be afraid!” Some say the twentieth century ended with his death; this is open to expert discussion, but certainly his life and ministry as head of the Church caused the changes at the end of the twentieth century to happen. The papers in this collection do not aim to evaluate, but to describe changes, so that they are captured and remain as a legacy, or as a perspective on a past era from the viewpoint of our time. I want to express my thanks to colleagues and all those who contributed to making this volume possible and to enabling the conference on the social legacy of John Paul II to take place. It itself was hard-fought, but we believe it bore fruit. I wish the reader to find here what enriches them; if they find what they dislike, may they not act on it, and may they rejoice in true values and also in the gift of freedom.

Contents

Introduction
Anton Lisnik

Plenary lectures
Situational management in the dynamics of economic changes
Július Alexy

The economy as a complexly evolving entity in a network
Ladislav Andrášik

How Europe learned to count
Lev Bukovský

Reflections on Correlation between Modern Science and Technology and School Curricula
Mihai Calalb, Igor Postolachi

The New Social Media: Anthropological and Ethical Implications
Hans Köchler

Climatic changes on Earth and their relationship to the genesis of sediments and relief of the Western Carpathians
Ján Košťálik

Soil – more than a productive means
Ondrej Hronec

“Module 3” in physical reality
Július Krempaský, Marián Ambrozy

Natural science of the 20th century and deformation of human thinking at present
Miloš V. Lokajíček, Jiří Procházka

Slovak science in the mirror of the world – 25 years after...
Štefan Luby, Martina Lubyová

Responsibility? When?
Radim Palouš

Calculation in the future
Ivan Plander

Memory traces in changes of time under the conditions of the Czech and Slovak schools of criminology
Viktor Porada

The Message of John Paul II in the context of contemporary threats of international terrorism
Jozef Sabol, Bedřich Šesták

The 25th Anniversary of the League against Cancer – past, present, future
Eva Siracká

Mikhail Bakhtin on the language of literary and artistic works
Vojtěch Slomský

St. John Paul II, Pope of Divine Mercy
Anton Tyrol

Presentations in sections
Ethical aspects of upbringing and education
Beáta Akimjaková

Working with text in philosophy teaching
Marián Ambrozy

Social-legal aspects of divorce
Božena Bahledová

Semiotic-stylistic analysis of Ladislav Ballek’s novel Pomocník
Magdaléna Barányiová

Education to the media and by the media in John Paul II’s teaching
Dorota Bis

Creativity and intertextuality in communication of the first decades of the 21st century (case: Internet memes)
Iwona Burkacka

Patterns of behavior and value orientation as factors of future employee success
Lukáš Copuš

Sense of security and sense of threat in social relationships
Wojciech Czajkowski

Research on political leadership in social sciences in Slovakia after 1989
Alexander Čemez

Creation of green jobs, acquisition and development of needed green skills
Ľubica Černá

Changes in educational concepts in Slovakia after 1989 with emphasis on non-directive teaching
Eleonóra Černáková

The nature of value as an interdisciplinary concept
Liana Čižmárová

Socially responsible entrepreneurship – a modern trend of enterprise management
Alena Daňková

Development theories of marketing and their application over the last 25 years
Anna Diačiková, Karol Čarnogurský

Logic and ethics in the work of C. S. Peirce – their place and significance in education
Mária Derajová

Young people as a value in the teaching of John Paul II.
Małgorzata Dubis, Jolanta Karbowniczek

Dialogue of cultures and the problem of tolerance in contexts of globalization
Rudolf Dupkala

How goodness enters a world marked by evil
Alžbeta Dufferová

Volunteering as a multidimensional phenomenon and symptom of a culture of life
Iveta Franzenová

Risks of political correctness for the freedom of western society
Milan Fula

The relevance and universality of conscience teaching in John Paul II’s encyclical Veritatis Splendor
Anna Gębalska-Berekets

The personality of the philosophy teacher
Andrea Gondová

Applying STN ISO 690: 2012 standard as one aspect of increasing the quality of final papers
Katarína Greňová, Anton Fabian

Are social workers in danger of mobbing?
Adriana Grigerová

Possibilities of using teaching assistants in primary schools
Stanislava Hachová

Interference of sovereign state-level factors in the development of global environmental risk
František Hocman

Development of presentation skills of managers to strengthen trust in professional performance
Daniela Hrehová, Anna Jenčová

Transformation of social policy in Slovakia after 1989
Anna Chocholáková, Anton Lisnik

Difficulties Experienced by Students and their Happiness in Life
Justyna Iskra

Loneliness as a source of modern human suffering
Justyna Iskra

A quarter-century of opportunities and challenges for entrepreneurial orientation of managers’ behavior and personnel work in companies
Jana Janičková

Development of competencies in young adulthood
Anna Jenčová, Daniela Hrehová

Combined methods of economic dynamics
Rastislav Jurga

John Paul II – social authority
Władysław Kądziołka

Kant – society – contemporaneity
Zuzana Kapustová, Kristián Stacho

Case conference as an effective tool for helping an at-risk family from the perspective of a child center
Martin Karas, David Urban

Social change in the traditional Roma family
Peter Keresztes

Individualism and its educational consequences. Based on Karol Wojtyła – John Paul II's social teaching
Barbara Kiereś

Interpersonal relationships and achievement motivation of Polish students and professionally active people
Waldemar Klinkosz

Achievement motivation and personality of people in various occupations
Waldemar Klinkosz

Moral aspects of professionalism in network marketing
Miroslav Kmec, Beáta Štuller Kromelová

Strategy as an element of cluster development
Katarzyna Knapik

The principle of unity (a revolution in knowledge)
Peter Kohút

Socially responsible entrepreneurship and its impact on the performance of healthcare institutions
Miroslava Kolcúnová, Dušan Mištuna

Sophratikoi logoi as a literary genre and approach to life
Štefan Koľšovský

Packaging design from the perspective of marketing communication
Tomáš Koprda

Free radicals derived from oxygen and nitrogen
Zuzana Kormaňošová

Selected indicators of interpersonal relations in the higher education environment
Martina Kosturková

The role of emotions in the formation of a child’s personality
Ľudmila Krajčíriková

“All in the Direction of the Brave New Worldian Nightmare”: Psychoanalytic Studies and Social Scientific Findings in the Hands of the Authority
Henrieta Krupa

The importance of social support in seniors
Lenka Lachytová

History, politics and civil society in the work of N. Machiavelli
Ján Lajčák

Our everyday metaphysics
Daniel Lakata

Freedom in communication and in the media according to John Paul II.
Małgorzata Laskowska, Krzysztof Marcyński

Job satisfaction in the opinion of employees of Polish enterprises – results of own research
Anna Lemańska-Majdzik, Monika Sipa

Intentionality in the concept among some representatives of philosophy of mind
Miriam Liptáková

Higher education in Slovakia and graduate employability in the labor market
Anton Lisnik

The Social Character of Christian Education in John Paul II’s teaching
Andrzej Łuczyński

Social order in the teaching of John Paul II.
Jacek Łukasiewicz, Kazimierz Święs

The role and status of small and medium-sized enterprises in V4 countries
Renáta Madzinová

Higher Education in Poland
Paweł Marzec, Grzegorz Krawczyk

Socially competent behavior during adolescence
Jana Matochová

Homo Viator. How the process of internationalization has changed students’ approach to education in the last 25 years
Kinga Krystyna Masłoń, Mirosław Babiarz

Ethics of the manager in e-communication and on social networks
Jaroslav Mazůrek, Matej Čevan

The spevohra of the Ján Záborský Theatre in Prešov and the turbulences of its development in the years 1990 – 2005
Karol Medňanský

The issue of religious freedom in the teaching of John Paul II.
Mirosław Mejzner

New approaches to the client in social work
Ingrid Mladá

Corporate social policy and social welfare on the development of man and society from the perspective of Catholic social teachings
Zuzana Moravcová

Experience of action and transcendence of person
Ivana Novotná

The influence of small and medium-sized enterprises on the development of the economy and corporate sector in Poland
Małgorzata Okręglicka, Monika Mynarzová

Need for innovation in current primary education
Silvia Oleníková

Body-mind problem in the history of philosophy
Nikola Oravcová

The influence of social conditions on the educative function of the family
Lenka Pasternáková

Personal resilience attitudes and the perception of mothers among high school students
Józef Partyka, Jacek Śliwak

The crisis of values and existential attitudes of adults 25 years after 1989
Marta Pawelec

Civil society at the crossroads. Europe or ...?
Jana Pecníková

The personality of a translator and his or her competencies
Božena Petrášová

The concept of “politeness” in Russian linguistic consciousness
Anna Petrikova

The personality of a Christian teacher in a special primary school
Peter Petrovič

Duty and responsibility of the human person, in the context of social development, in the teaching of John Paul II., with regard to own research
Kazimierz Pierzchala

Transformative process and behavioral economics
Jana Piteková, Lucia Dujavová

Changing status of women in society
Blanka Poczatková, Zuzana Čvančarová

Online generation: a new demographic segment in marketing
Ivana Polakevičová

Manipulation in the process of information creation within the political market
Małgorzata Posyłek

Application of game theory in the process of making strategic decisions on the political market
Małgorzata Posyłek

Crisis of marriage and its psychological aspects
Milan Pudiš

The place of the human person as an intellectual resource in the context of current socio-economic problems
Júlia Rakovská

Terminological tools and their use in practice
Mária Reľovská, Katarína Baštáková

Thefts in schools in Czech specialist press
Bohdana Richterová

The influence of theatre on society and vice versa
Alexandra Rychtarčíková

Crisis, stressful situations from the perspective of poor Roma and the use of social support in coping with them
Jurina Rusnáková, Marianna Šramková

The competitive capability of Slovakia compared with V4 countries
Iveta Sedláková

SME employees' perception of organizational culture – selected aspects
Monika Sipa, Anna Lemańska-Majdzik

Self-care in the context of social dilemmas
Oľga Sisáková

Reproduction and the economy in context of survey results in Poland – selected aspects
Andrzej Skibiński

Interdisciplinary reflections on human work in the Polish literary sphere
Ryszard Skrzypniak

The family educational role in the axiological sphere
Ryszard Skrzypniak

The axiological-educational aspect of the family
Ryszard Skrzypniak

Religiosity and the level and structure of anxiety among high school students
Jacek Śliwak, Paulina Czapska, Józef Partyka

Extremism: more than 25 years of discussion on the basic concept
Josef Smolík

English legal language and its teaching after 1989
Jana Spálová

Self-care as a relation to the Other – Eros and fruitfulness
Pavol Sucharek

Stereotypes and teachers’ knowledge about work as an inhibitor of creative students’ development in early childhood education
Beata Sufa

Developing children’s creativity in elementary education
Beata Sufa

Social responsibility of enterprises toward employees
Małgorzata Suszalska

Home hospice care – meeting the needs of the patient and family
Jana Sušinková, Gabriela Štefková

The contemporary condition of marriage and family in Poland in the perspective of the last 25 years of changes in views on the human person and society
Marian Zdzisław Stepulak

Where are we going?
Soňa Svoráková

Field trip as a form of higher education teaching that increases the quality of students' professional profiling
Tímea Šeben Zaťková, Marián Kotrla

The Bible and the social question
Štefan Šrobár

Religious knowledge of contemporary youth
Ondrej Štefaňak

(in)tolerance of the relationship majority vs. Roma ethnicity
Renáta Tkáčová, Marián Horenský

Neuromarketing – optimal use of science?
Adriana Tomajková

Forgiveness from a psychological perspective
Linda Ulická

Christian marriage and family
Beáta Valentínyová, Anna Mrvová

University students and managers in Slovakia in the managerial strategic space over the last quarter-century
Peter Varhoľák

On the question of understanding the human person and society in the history of socio-political thought and in the contexts of the contemporary crisis of politics
Veronika Vašková

Key impulses for shifting the paradigm of thinking in management
Ivan Vágner

From subordinating oneself to the principles of economically cheaper activities to establishing principles of satisfying human existence
Jaroslav Vencálek

State sovereignty in the face of increasing international integration
Karolina Maria Wańkowicz

E-sermon as a response to John Paul II’s call for “new evangelization.” Opportunities and threats
Dorota Zdunkiewicz-Jedynak

Standards and legal axiology
Vladimír Zoubek


Editors:
doc. PaedDr. ThDr. Anton Lisnik, PhD. – Katolícka univerzita v Ružomberku, PF Poprad
PhDr. Katarína Greňová – UPJŠ v Košiciach, Filozofická fakulta Košice
Mgr. Marián Ambrozy, PhD. - Vysoká škola medzinárodného podnikania ISM Slovakia Prešov

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