A PESSIMISTIC EPICUREAN. 'THOUGHTS OF A PESSIMIST' AS ALEKSANDER SWIETOCHOWSKI'S NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND (Pesymistyczny epikurejczyk. 'Dumania pesymisty' czyli notatki z podziemia Aleksandra Swietochowskiego)

• Authors: Ksiazyk Lukasz
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this article is to analyze Aleksander Swietochowski's essay 'Dumania pesymisty' (Thoughts of a Pessimist) on the background of literary and philosophical texts by Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Mill, Hobbes, Feuerbach, Stirner and Sartre. The author considerations focus on questions - What are ethical consequences of life without illusions? Is awareness of such a state equal with being committed to egoistic behaviour? Does egoism eliminate any possibility of rational reconstruction of public life, understood as a positivistic ideal?

Keywords

EN

ETHICS:; SWIETOCHOWSKI ALEKSANDER

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Warsaw University, Institute of Philosophy, Institute of Polish Literature and Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
• Journal: Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 2(23)
• Pages: 115-135
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Ksiazyk Lukasz

• Lukasz Ksiazyk, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydzial Polonistyki, Zaklad Literatury Pozytywizmu i Mlodej Polski, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland

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CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA068022