AN ATTEMPT TO RECONSTRUCT OF BENEDYKT DYBOWSKI'S VIEWS, BADED ON SPEECH 'GLANCE AT HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF ZOOLOGY' (Proba rekonstrukcji pogladów Benedykta Dybowskiego w kwestii teorii ewolucji Darwina)

• Authors: Szkonter Olga
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The Paper shows the scientific views of Benedykt Dybowski based on his inaugural speech delivered in 1885, at The University of L'viv. It was a time of a stormy reception of the Darwin's theory of evolution, which was often considered as contradictory to the common view of man's place in universe, given mostly by religious and philosophical concepts. In that context, Dybowski as a well-known zoologist laid content of Darwin's idea in comparison with history of science. He pointed out some resemblance between the development of cosmogony and zoology, showing theory of evolution as a result of earlier evolutionary ideas and crystallization of the scientific method. Dybowski called for naturalism and eliminating all kind of supernatural factors in science, and world's phenomenon explanations, renouncing essentialism. As Dybowski was a great admirer of Darwin's theory, he was a science enthusiast as well, regarding it as a kind of an assignment and a vocation.

Keywords

EN

BENEDYKT DYBOWSKI; DARWIN'S THEORY RECEPTION; EVOLUTIONISM; HISTORY OF ZOOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
• Journal: Semina Scientiarum
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 9
• Pages: 86-96
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Szkonter Olga

• Olga Szkonter, Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawla II w Krakowie, Wydzial Filozoficzny, ul. Kanonicza 9, 31-002 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA09354