Henryk Rzewuski – towards the Polish national philosophy
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15633/lie.1797Keywords:
the idea of the nation, national philosophy, individual intellect, collective intellect, intuition, inspiration, history, God’s revelation, genius‑philosopherAbstract
The purpose of this article is to present original philosophical concept by Henryk Rzewuski. This nineteenth century Polish thinker was (and still is) extremely controversial person, accused of national “apostasy” for the Tsarist Russia and the spread of beliefs about the irrevocable end of the Polish state. In this text reveals the complexity and ambivalence Rzewuskiego attitude towards the Polish cause. This philosopher believed that indeed the Polish state will not be standing free himself from the Russian political sovereignty. At the same time, however, was an ardent supporter of building the Polish national philosophy, which would illustrate Polishness and develop in the sphere of the ideal and spiritual. Polish history has to be – within its concept – the material from which the philosopher sees that these thoughts and ideas around which crystallized Polish spirit, and that reflect the basic idea of moral. The spirit of the nation and its moral idea meet, according to this philosopher, the functions analogous to that of the soul to the body – is a condition of life and the unity of its geopolitical “body.”References
Burke E., O duchu i naturze rewolucji, przeł. A. Wincewicz‑Price, Kraków 2012.
Merta T., Nieodzowność konserwatyzmu. Pisma wybrane, Warszawa 2012.
Między realizmem a apostazją narodową. Koncepcje prorosyjskie w polskiej myśli politycznej, Kraków 2015.
Rzewuski H., Cywilizacja i religia, oprac. A. Wielomski, Biała Podlaska 2009.
Rzewuski H., Mieszaniny obyczajowe przez Jarosza Bejłę, t. 1, Wilno 1841.
Rzewuski H., Pamiątki Soplicy, Poznań 2014.
Rzewuski H., Wędrówki umysłowe. Mieszaniny obyczajowe, Kraków 2010.
Tarnowski S., Henryk Rzewuski. Z odczytów publicznych odbytych we Lwowie w roku 1887, Lwów 1887.
Węgrzyn I., Henryk Rzewuski wobec Rosji i idei słowiańskiej, [w:] Między realizmem a apostazją narodową. Koncepcje prorosyjskie w polskiej myśli politycznej, Kraków 2015, s. 75–97.
Wielomski A., Konserwatyzm. Główne idee, nurty i postacie, Warszawa 2007.
Wielomski A., Prawica w XX wieku, Radzymin 2013.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions, and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
