Tadeusz Kotarbiński
Polish philosopher (1886–1981) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tadeusz Marian Kotarbiński (Polish: [kotar'biński]; 31 March 1886 – 3 October 1981) was a Polish philosopher, logician and ethicist.
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Tadeusz Kotarbiński | |
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Born | 31 March 1886 |
Died | 3 October 1981 (aged 95) |
Nationality | Polish |
Alma mater | Jagiellonian University University of Lviv (PhD) |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Lwów–Warsaw school of logic |
Institutions | Warsaw University |
Main interests | Ontology, formal logic, ethics, praxeology |
Notable ideas | Reism Logology[1] |
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A pupil of Kazimierz Twardowski, he was one of the most representative figures of the Lwów–Warsaw School, and a member of the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU) as well as the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). He developed philosophical theory called reism (Polish: reizm) and an ethical system called independent ethics. Kotarbiński also contributed significantly to the development of praxeology.
Henryk Greniewski and Kazimierz Pasenkiewicz were doctoral students under Kotarbiński.