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Professor Tadeusz Kotarbinski - Unforgettable Personage

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Kiezun W.
Ekonomika i Organizacja Przedsiębiorstwa
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2006
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issue 4(675)
3-8
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Tadeusz Kotarbinski's 120th anniversary of birth gives an opportunity to remind his extraordinary personality and the philosophy of 'efficient activity' published in 1955. Despite the criticism of his philosophy by Marxist scientists, T. Kotarbinski managed to initiate the development of research on scientific organisation and management in the Polish Academy of Sciences Praxiology Institute. The author - a latter leader of the unit and T. Kotarbinski's collaborator insists that his philosophical concepts are live issues and need to be propagated nowadays.
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On Religious Opinions of Tadeusz Kotarbinski

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Miller D.
Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria
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2006
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vol. 15
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issue 1(57)
133-137
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The authoress provides a review of opinions on faith and religion as expressed by Kotarbinski throughout his life. The early views are marked by respect for the moral import of Catholicism and a strong conviction that church metaphysics is a fiction. In later years Kotarbinski makes a plea for creating elementary schools that offer no religious instruction, for clear separation of religious training from the teaching of scientific topics, for elimination from academic curricula any forms of thought purporting that prayer can change the course of events in nature. Some of his remarks would be considered politically incorrect today, like his quip that a European should not imitate a savage who uses his drums to stop the eclipse of the sun by the moon.
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Atheism of Tadeusz Kotarbinski

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Pelc J.
Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria
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2006
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vol. 15
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issue 1(57)
99-120
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The author was in a select group of persons who were on close terms with Tadeusz Kotarbinski, and he has agreed now to share his memories of those contacts. Some of them concerned Kotarbinski's attitude to religion. He was an atheist but also a man of refined taste and warm feelings. This mix of attitudes could occasionally lead to a misunderstanding of his position, or even cause a surprise in his wife. The author recalls how the couple reacted to a wooden sculpture of sorrowful Christ displayed in his house. Mrs Kotarbinski was alarmed, Tadeusz Kotarbinski found the statue enchanting. It is possible, argues the author, that Kotarbinski reacted not only to the artistic value of the piece, but also expressed his more general attitude to religion. He thought that religion was misleading but enchanting, and he did not rule out that religion could be purified of its basic inaccuracies. 'The doctrine must be abandoned, he said, or it has to be refined by abandoning its literal interpretation'. He did not offer, however, any clue as to what the better interpretation should look like. Partly, perhaps, because he tended to believe that philosophical arguments for or against religion did not matter to the general public. Religion was popular, he thought, due to intellectual and emotional inertia, and it was part of the 'postrural' (his term) tradition that dominated Poland after the decades of mass migration from the country to town. It does not seem that these opinions have been made obsolete by the course of time.
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The Trouble with Reism

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Jedynak A.
Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria
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2006
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vol. 15
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issue 1(57)
169-184
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The paper presents Kotarbinski's reism in two versions: ontological (only things exist) and semantic (abstract expressions have sense only when they can be reduced to concrete expressions). It discusses the relation between reism and other, similar views. It shows the prospects for, and limitations of, the realisation of the semantic reism programme. Finally it responds to main objections to reism, and occasionally shows how these objections can be met in order to defend the reist position.
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Kotarbinski's Concept of the Trustworthy Guardian

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Miller D.
Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria
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2006
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vol. 15
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issue 1(57)
139-147
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The trustworthy guardian is a person that can be relied on in difficult circumstances, one who will always show sympathy and offer help when they are needed. A consistent practice of being a trustworthy guardian is difficult due to several dilemmas. One concerns the question if support is due only to the deserving or also to the despicable characters. After all, by aiding a blameworthy character one becomes an accomplice to his malice. Another dilemma is if one should favour the nearest and dearest, or whether one should be impartial between those whom he loves and hates. Finally a trustworthy guardian may be torn between following the strongest ethical impulse and the desire to act efficiently. Kotarbinski valued efficiency very high, and made specific recommendation for its practice in a theory which he called praxiology.
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Champion of Bioethics, Euthanasia and Suicide

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Sahaj T.
Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria
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2006
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vol. 15
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issue 1(57)
149-167
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The paper presents Kotarbinski's views on finality and contingency of human life. The author tries to relate Kotarbinski's philosophical arguments to his personal preferences and opinions in order to offer a better understanding of his idea of 'secular ethics'. The main finding reported in the paper is that Kotarbinski wanted to adopt a position that was thoroughly rational. Consequently he strived to emphasize the importance of human sense of life and the need for a broad conception of liberty.
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