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Exercises: [BA-VV/BA-VM/BA-S/MA IntPol-GPO] [Übung] Selected Topics in the History of Philosophy in Poland - Details
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Course name Exercises: [BA-VV/BA-VM/BA-S/MA IntPol-GPO] [Übung] Selected Topics in the History of Philosophy in Poland
Subtitle Gastprofessor: Dr. habil. Tomasz Mróz (Zielona Góra)
Semester SS 2022
Current number of participants 3
maximum number of participants 20
Home institute Institut für Geschichte
participating institutes Seminar für Philosophie
Courses type Exercises in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Preliminary discussion Thursday, 12.05.2022 14:00 - 16:00, Room: Seminarraum 8 (R.2.35) [EA 26-27]
First date Thursday, 12.05.2022 14:00 - 16:00, Room: Seminarraum 8 (R.2.35) [EA 26-27]
SWS 2

Rooms and times

Seminarraum 8 (R.2.35) [EA 26-27]
Thursday, 12.05.2022 14:00 - 16:00
Friday, 20.05.2022 13:00 - 19:00
Saturday, 21.05.2022 10:00 - 17:00
Friday, 10.06.2022 13:00 - 19:00
Saturday, 11.06.2022 10:00 - 17:00

Fields of study

Module assignments

Comment/Description

The course consists of a selection of topics from the history of philosophy in Poland, or Polish intellectual history. In addition to the main line of historical presentation of eminent figures in the history of philosophy in Poland from the middle ages to the 20th century, more general and universal philosophical problems are addressed and they include, for example, methodological question of the very possibility of any national philosophy and the methods of researching it, or the more general problem of the methods of studying and writing histories of philosophy.
The course also relates Polish philosophers to European thought and addresses problems of universal topicality (discussion on human nature, ius gentium, the ways of developing philosophical outlook etc.). The narrative on philosophy in Poland cannot focus solely on the Polish context, as Poland is not an isolated intellectual island and Polish philosophers were acquainted with their contemporary philosophical tendencies (various trends in medieval scholastic philosophy, Kantianism, Hegelianism, which were assimilated or sometimes rejected). They did not receive their education exclusively in Polish universities, but also travelled to foreign intellectual centers (first of all to Germany, but also to England and Russia), and sometimes their works proved to be influential not only among Polish readers. Relations of Polish philosophy and philosophers with European thought include naturally inspirations from their contemporary philosophical traditions of Germany, France, England and Russia, but also from ancient philosophy, especially, and not surprisingly, from Plato and Aristotle.
The course includes traditional lectures and presentation of historical material, but also discussions of source texts, for example, some papers or chapters available in English or German, which were originally written by Polish philosophers in these languages (e.g. Cieszkowski’s chapter on historiosophy and on messianism, passages from Lutosławski on Plato and on the classification and progress of philosophical views) or were posthumously translated (e.g. Chwistek’s chapters on the multiplicity of realities or Tatarkiewicz’s article on writing a history of philosophy).

Introductory bibliography:
Jadacki, J., Polish Analytical Philosophy. Studies on its Heritage. Warszawa: Semper, 2009.
Kuderowicz, Z., Das philosophische Ideengut Polens. Bonn: Bouvier Verlag, 1988.
Mróz, T., Selected Issues in the History of Polish Philosophy. Vilnius: Vilnius University Publishing House, 2016.
Woleński, J., Logic and Philosophy in the Lvov-Warsaw School. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Beschränkte Teilnehmendenanzahl: [BA-VV/BA-VM/BA-S] [Übung] Geschichte der Philosophie in Polen".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • The enrolment is possible from 28.03.2022, 00:00 to 08.04.2022, 23:59.
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats will be assigned in order of enrolment.