Introduction

Wspomnienie o Profesorze Czesławie Głombiku, badaczu filozofii polskiej.

A remembrance of the personality and thought of Professor Czesław Głombik in the context of his research on the history of Polish philosophy.

Remembrance of late Professor Andrzej J. Noras, a researcher of neo-Kantian philosophy.

In his research, Czesław Głombik was concerned, among other topics, with the history of contemporary philosophy (including Catholic philosophy), renewal trends in the Catholic doctrine, and issues related to the history of Upper Silesia. These three research areas converged in Professor Głombik’s studies devoted to Upper Silesian Catholic clergy as represented, in particular, by Konstanty Michalski, Erich Przywara, Fryderyk Klimke, August Hlond, and Bolesław Kominek. In his studies, Professor Głombik drew attention to chosen aspects of their work, ones which earlier research had ignored. His studies are based on ample use of archival sources. In Professor Głombik’s publications we can find elements characteristic of the spirituality of Upper Silesia in the sense of a philosophically deepened idea of the Silesia region. Among the issues he addressed were Polish and German factors in the history of Silesia, language, the Silesian ethos, the contribution of Silesians to European culture, pride, and memory.

The paper aims to present the most important works of Czesław Głombik, in which he analysed the philosophical and historical-philosophical legacy of his university teacher, Władysław Tatarkiewicz. It was thanks to Tatarkiewicz, inter alia, that Głombik undertook research on the history of Polish philosophy. Głombik’s most important areas of interest in the history of philosophy and his research methods are discussed on the basis of his works devoted to Tatarkiewicz. The paper is enriched with personal memories and correspondence.

Iwona Alechnowicz-Skrzypek’s aim in this article is to present Andrzej J. Noras’s approach to the history of philosophy, which he regarded as a meta-philosophical discipline. In his publications, Noras repeatedly addressed the importance and value of historical-philosophical research. Noras’s specific understanding of history of philosophy was based on a critical attitude, according to which the researcher must make an effort not omit anything and to examine his subject from different perspectives. In his research, he followed paths
rarely taken by historians of philosophy, which allowed him to make noteworthy findings in neo-Kantianism, his main area of interest. He also devoted ample attention to lives and achievements of philosophers who are either little known or even entirely forgotten. Professor Andrzej J. Noras takes credit for allowing them to speak to us again.

Hegel criticizes the mode of reflection that is typical of the transcendental philosophy of his age. The present article explores the relevance of Hegel’s criticism with regard to contemporary transcendental philosophy, in particular that of Werner Flach. Christian Krijnen shows that, despite substantial modifications of Kant’s conception of transcendental philosophy, not least inspired by Hegel, contemporary transcendental philosophy absolutizes the logic of essence. More precisely, from the perspective of its mode of reflection, contemporary transcendental philosophy basically is an absolutized form of external reflection.

The subject of this article is the divergences between the various directions and phases of Neo-Kantianism. It is an attempt to answer the question of why there were heated polemics between the representatives of the different approaches, although in principle they thought alike. In the author’s opinion, neo-Kantianism is a problem in itself and therefore it is difficult to find a uniform definition of neo-Kantianism.

This text is an introduction to the philosophy of Heinrich Rickert. The introduction has three levels: biographical, bibliographical, and doxographic. The doxography involves examining Rickert’s views in the context of the achievements of Neo-Kantianism, the Baden school and contemporary philosophy. Noras discusses the main issues Rickert treated in his philosophy, which was occupied with the theory of cognition, the methodology of the humanities and natural sciences and the philosophy of the history of philosophy.