Władysław Tatarkiewicz – logos i ethos wychowawcy polskiej inteligencji
Journal Title: Biografistyka Pedagogiczna - Year 2016, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
This article portrays the life of Professor Władysław Tatarkiewicz and his life’s influence on his intellectual development, as well as his moral and intellectual choices. He was an educator and a teacher of many generations of Polish intellectuals. His works in the field of ethics, history of philosophy and aesthetics are great intellectual treasures of Polish culture. To date, little has been known about the role that the Catholic religion and Polish national culture played in his intellectual development. The life of Professor Tatarkiewicz was complex, varied, morally beautiful and embedded in Polish culture and national Catholic tradition. He came from a family of landowners and graduated from a classic high school in Warsaw at the age of seventeen. When studying Greek and Latin classical literature, he liked the Greek ideal of kalokagathia. He became interested in art, architecture, aesthetics and philosophy. As he wrote, ‘I grew up in a religious family. As a child and later, I treated the truths of faith on equal terms as the facts of the surrounding world. They did not make my life easier, but sometimes I think that religious faith is something we should get by ourselves rather than inherit’ (Wspomnienia, p. 120).
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Paweł Skrzydlewski
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