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Polish Philosophical Society
Overview
The Polish Philosophical Society is a scientific society based in Poland, founded in 1904 in Lwów by Kazimierz Twardowski.
The statutory goal is to practice and promote philosophy, especially ontology, theory of knowledge, logic, methodology, ethics, history of philosophy as well as the history of social science. During the society's first meeting, Twardowski stated that the only dogma the Society will adhere to was "the conviction that dogmatism is the greatest enemy of scientific work." The society also became part of his drive to reorganize the teaching of philosophy in the universities.
The Society had over 800 members and several branches, which included Częstochowa, Gdańsk, Katowice, Kraków, Lublin, Łódź, Olsztyn, Poznań, Szczecin, Toruń, Warsaw, Wrocław, Zielona Góra. It published the quarterly Ruch Filozoficzny, which was founded in 1911 and later continued by the University of Torun.
The Polish Philosophical Society (PTF) is a member of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies. The headquarters of the society was in Warsaw. The current president (2010) is Władysław Stróżewski.
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Although, then, Philosophy can be divided only into two main parts, the theoretical and the practical, and although all that we may be able to say of the special principles of Judgement must be counted as belonging in it to the theoretical part, _i.e._ to rational cognition in accordance with natural concepts; yet the Critique of pure Reason, which must decide all this, as regards the possibility of the system…
Immanuel Kant, Kant's Critique of Judgement
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In the third place, we shall limit ourselves to the particular consideration of the principle itself. Each principle has reigned for a certain time, and when the whole system of the world has been explained from this special form, it is called a philosophical system. Its whole theory has certainly to be learned, but as long as the principle is abstract it is not sufficient to embrace the forms belonging to our…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
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The perfect or complete ideal is not a mere ideal; it is operative here and now. But it is present only implicitly, "potentially," or in an enfolded condition. What is termed development is the gradual making explicit and outward of what is thus wrapped up. Froebel and Hegel, the authors of the two philosophic schemes referred to, have different ideas of the path by which the progressive realization of manifestation…
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
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- Kazimierz Twardowski
- Philosophy
- Kraków
- Ontology
- Poznań
- Warsaw
- Wrocław
- Logic
- Lviv
- Methodology
- Lublin
- History of philosophy
- Epistemology
- Ethics
- Olsztyn
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Part of History of philosophy in Poland.
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