prof. dr hab. Tadeusz BORYS – Uniwersytet Zielonog\u00f3rski, Instytut Nauk o Zarz\u0105dzaniu i Jako\u015bci, ul. Podg\u00f3rna 50, 65-246 Zielona G\u00f3ra, Polska, e-mail: t.borys@wez.uz.zgora.pl<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Received 5.02.2026. Accepted 16.02.2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Purpose: <\/strong>This article to some extent refers to a series of qualitative essays that I published in \u201eProblems of Quality\u201d in 2021\u20132022. They were devoted to finding the feelings module in the quality of life and recognizing several of its representatives, such as hope, gratitude, patience, empathy, compassion or trust (cf. [11, 12]). The aim of this article \u2013 in my intention to initiate further images of the quality of life \u2013 is to analyze the cause-and-effect of a peculiar and constantly \u201espillover\u201d pandemic of various forms of human destruction, increasingly threatening his subjectivity \u2013 degrading his HUMANITY, i.e. being simply human in everyday life. The common denominator for the growing \u201crepertoire\u201d of destructive actions is SELF DESTRUCTION overt or camouflaged self-destruction, which justifies the use of this term in the title of this article. The content of this article is subordinated to the answers to the following four important questions: (1) What are the relations between destruction, degradation, and devastation? \u2013 this is the etymological level of this diagnosis; (2) How to distinguish natural destruction from anthropogenic destruction? \u2013 it is the level of agency; (3) What are the \u201efaces\u201d of human destruction? \u2013 this is a typological level with a proposal of several criteria for recognizing destruction, and (4) Why does a person choose self-destruction? \u2013 after all, he has a more advantageous alternative. Keywords<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n quality of life, destruction, degradation, classification<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" prof. dr hab. Tadeusz BORYS – Uniwersytet Zielonog\u00f3rski, Instytut Nauk o Zarz\u0105dzaniu i Jako\u015bci, ul. Podg\u00f3rna 50, 65-246 Zielona G\u00f3ra, Polska, e-mail: t.borys@wez.uz.zgora.pl Received 5.02.2026. Accepted 16.02.2026 Abstract Purpose: This article to some extent refers to a series of qualitative essays that I published in \u201eProblems of Quality\u201d in 2021\u20132022. They were devoted to finding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[120],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/problemyjakosci.com.pl\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/problemyjakosci.com.pl\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/problemyjakosci.com.pl\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/problemyjakosci.com.pl\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/problemyjakosci.com.pl\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/problemyjakosci.com.pl\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/problemyjakosci.com.pl\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/problemyjakosci.com.pl\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/problemyjakosci.com.pl\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/problemyjakosci.com.pl\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Research methodology: <\/strong>The article uses methods of semantic and logical analysis in relation to the concept of destruction, as well as a literature review that highlights its interdisciplinary and multidimensional nature.
Conclusions:<\/strong> The main conclusions of the article are formulated in its final part in the form of six conclusions that bring us closer to answering the previously formulated question: why does a man choose destruction, and especially his self-destruction, i.e. the regression of his HUMANITY, instead of developmental change? \u2013 well, for every individual this choice should be obvious.
Cognitive value: <\/strong>The features of the cognitive novelty of this article should be seen primarily in the presented approach to destruction, and above all in the consideration of this category in the context of its two \u201csisters\u201d \u2013 devastation and degradation \u2013 and in the analysis of destruction on three interrelated levels \u2013 etymological, causative, and typological. According to the literature review, such an approach is not only original, but also has a utilitarian value for further research on the phenomena of destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n