The Lublin Philosophical School: Founders, Motives, Characteristics

• Authors: Mieczysław A. Krąpiec , Andrzej Maryniarczyk
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article is focused on the Lublin Philosophical School; it explains its name, presents its founders, reveals the causes of its rise, and introduce the specific character of the School’s philosophy. It starts with stating the fact that in the proper sense, the term “Lublin Philosophical School” describes a way of cultivating realistic (classical) philosophy developed in the 1950s by a group of philosophers at the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. The Lublin Philosophical School is characterized by cognitive realism (the object of cognition is really existing being), maximalism (taking up all existentially important questions), methodological autonomy (in relation to the natural-mathematical sciences and theology), transcendentalism in its assertions (its assertions refer to all reality), methodological-epistemological unity (the same method applied in objectively cultivated philosophical disciplines), coherence (which guarantees the objective unity of the object), and objectivity (achieved by the verifiability of assertions on their own terms, which is achieved by relating them in each instance to objective evidence). The term is the name of the Polish school of realistic (classical) philosophy that arose as a response to the Marxism that was imposed administratively on Polish institutions of learning, and also as a response to other philosophical currents dominant at the time such as phenomenology, existentialism, and logical positivism.

Keywords

EN

Lublin Philosophical School; metaphysics; realism; philosophy; Krąpiec; Kalinowski; Swieżawski; Wojtyła

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 405-422

Dates

published

2015-12-30

Contributors

author

Mieczysław A. Krąpiec

• John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

author

Andrzej Maryniarczyk

• John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

translator

Hugh McDonald

Notes

EN

This article is a revised version of an excerpt from: Mieczysław A. Krąpiec, O.P, Andrzej Maryniarczyk, S.D.B., The Lublin Philosophical School, trans. Hugh McDonald (Lublin: PTTA, 2010).

Identifiers

ISSN

2300-0066