Published: 2018-09-24

Dilemma of Reason and Will in the Philosophy of August Cieszkowski

Kazimierz Wojnowski

Abstract

In August Cieszkowski’s philosophy Man is a social being. Man’s personal existence is determined by his experience and his personality constitutes  the normative system – law and ethics (morality). The internal factors of man’s personal development are: a sphere of rationality generated by reason and sphere of rationality generated by reason and sphere of subjectivity induced by will. The irrational factor in man’s personality results from ignorance and domination of will over reason. Man’s ontology in Cieszkowski’s philosophical anthropology is a manifestation of continued post-Enlightenment rationalism. He combined man’s cognitive capacities  with his activity and practice. Man realizes the cognitive and axiological essence via trans forming the external world and his own personality. Cieszkowski recognises reason and will as antinomic components of man’s personality, while consciousness determines the function generating practice.

Keywords:

freedom, values, subject, consciousness, determinism, ethics, morality, law, rationalism, reason, existence

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Wojnowski, K. (2018). Dilemma of Reason and Will in the Philosophy of August Cieszkowski. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (2), 131–144. Retrieved from https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/hip/article/view/984

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