Intuitionism in Contemporary Polish Ethics. Part I. From Modernism to the Lviv-Warsaw School

Abstrakt

The article summarises the achievements of Polish intuitionist ethics in the period from modernism to the Lviv-Warsaw School and compares the views by the most eminent philosophers of the time such as Edward Abramowski (1868–1918), Julian Ochorowicz (1850–1917), Stanisław Brzozowski (1878–1911), Florian Znaniecki (1882–1958), Kazimierz Twardowski (1866–1938), Władysław Tatarkiewicz (1886–1980), Tadeusz Kotarbiński (1886–1981), and Tadeusz Czeżowski (1889–1981). Finally the author offers a systematics of their ethical standpoints as regards a) the manner of understanding of the act of moral intuition, b) the original nature of the intuitive cognitive act, and c) the formal object of intuition. The standpoints of other supporters of intuitionism in Polish ethics (Henryk Elzenberg, Roman Ingarden, Karol Wojtyła, Tadeusz Styczeń, and Marian Przełęcki) will be summarised in the second part of the article which will be published in one of the forthcoming issues of the quarterly.