(in Polish) Polish Philosophy in the European Tradition 3800-NZ-Sang-26

The main subject of consideration and discussion during the classes will be those selected
achievements of Polish philosophers which proved significant from the point of view of the
European tradition referred to in the title (due to the fact that they led to the crystallisation of
new questions or even to new answers to philosophical problems), and at the same time (in most
cases) were well received outside Polish culture. The achievements discussed will come from
different periods of the development of the Polish philosophical tradition – we will begin the
classes by focusing on the achievements of the creators of the so-called Polish school of
international law in the early 15th century, and we will end in the 20th century. During the
classes, which will be devoted to a joint reading of these texts, which are key from the point of
view of European tradition and were written on the basis of Polish philosophy, the following
issues will be discussed:
1. Paweł Włodkowic: the doctrine of the law of nations and just war.
2. Adam Mickiewicz: messianism and philosophy.
3. Juliusz Słowacki: spiritual evolution.
4. August Cieszkowski: historiosophy and the philosophy of action.
5. August Cieszkowski: Christianity and “Paracletism”.
6. Bronisław Trentowski: the ego (“jaźn”) and the boundaries of the European rationality.
7. Bronisław Trentowski: the cybernetics and the question of rational governance.
8. Stanisław Brzozowski: the philosophy of action and the philosophy of labour.
9. Florian Znaniecki's culturalism.
10. Leon Chwistek's theory of the pluralism of realities.
11. Kazimierz Twardowski: the content and object of representations, actions and products.
12. Jan Łukasiewicz and the philosophical context of the discovery of three-valued logic.
Wincenty Lutosławski: spiritual pluralism.
13. Adam Żółtowski: the borders of Europe and Polish destiny.
14. Tadeusz Kotarbiński: reism and praxeology.
15. Leszek Kołakowski: the presence of myth.
If we have enough time, the above list of topics will be expanded.