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POLISH RECEPTION OF TADEUSZ KOTARBINSKI'S ETHICS

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Wisniewski R.

Etyka (Ethics)

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2006

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issue 39

21-33

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The paper is a draft of an answer to the question: Why did Tadeusz Kotarbinski's autonomous ethics, whose normative claims are close to the ideals of Christian mercy, become so popular and so widely discussed in Poland in the second half of the 20th century? The discussions concerned the essence and the degree of the autonomy of ethics in relation to other branches of philosophy and to the humanities. Other topics discussed included the interpretation of the ideal of the reliable guardian and his defining moral attitude called practical realism. The methodological problems of the autonomy of ethics were discussed by philosophers of the Christian orientation associated with the Catholic University of Lublin. These scholars were interested in the question of how ethics can become independent form any worldview. Although philosophers associated with the Lvov-Warsaw school supported Kotarbinski's ethics, they also made serious criticisms. Maria Ossowska voiced epistemological objections; Tadeusz Czezowski took Kotarbinski's side but he presented a more carefully formulated idea of empirical ethics and tried to show that such ethics can be an axiomatic-deductive rather than an inductive theory. Ija Lazari-Pawlowska and Marian Przelecki presented their approval for Kotarbinski's idea of an intuitionist foundation of ethics. The program of universal ethics, independent from any worldview and religious controversies, seems to have influenced also Marek Fritzhand's interpretation of Marxist ethics and corresponded with the attempts to build an ethics of dialog and responsibility.

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O aksjologii Izydory Dąmbskiej

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ORBIK Z.

Kwartalnik Filozoficzny

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2011

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vol. 39

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issue 4

43 - 59

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Izydora Dąmbska was one of the most outstanding representatives of the philosophical Lvov-Warsaw School. Her principal interests are generally thought to be restricted to problems of epistemology and methodology. However, this is not entirely true. Very original and important axiological themes can be found in many of her works. For her many disciples Dąmbska was an example of a true philosopher. The main goal of this article is to outline the most important features of her axiological reflections.

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THE NATURALISTIC JUSTIFICATION OF INDEPENDENT ETHICS

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Wolenski J.

Etyka (Ethics)

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2006

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issue 39

7-14

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Kotarbinski's theoretical philosophy is close to naturalism. Hence, we have a question of how his independent ethics is related to axiological naturalism. This paper proposes a naturalistic justification of the ethics of the reliable guardian. In particular, the postulates of independent ethics can be interpreted as concerned with the question of how moral equilibrium (in the statistical sense) is to be achieved.

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Probabilistyczny światopogląd Władysława Gosiewskiego

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Piotrowski R.

Kwartalnik Filozoficzny

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2013

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vol. 41

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issue 2

109 - 116

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Władysław Gosiewski (1844—1911) was mathematician, mathematical physicist, and organiser of Polish scientific life. His philosophical concepts are less known. Gosiewski`s unfinished philosophy contains four main threads: a non-Euclidean geometrisation of the notion of matter (it is possible that he devised it independently of Clifford), a processual understanding of existence linked with the dissipation of energy, the correlation of the increase of self-consciousness of monads with the decrease of their average happiness, and a probabilistic analysis of reasoning. In the latter aspect Gosiewski was a forerunner of the Lvov-Warsaw School.

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POLISH RECEPTION OF TADEUSZ KOTARBINSKI'S ETHICS

O aksjologii Izydory Dąmbskiej

THE NATURALISTIC JUSTIFICATION OF INDEPENDENT ETHICS

Probabilistyczny światopogląd Władysława Gosiewskiego