Ethics & Bioethics (in Central Europe) (Jun 2021)

Disputes over the place of ethics in Polish Marxist philosophy

  • Konstańczak Stefan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2478/ebce-2021-0005
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1-2
pp. 58 – 66

Abstract

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In the article, the author presents attempts by Polish Marxist philosophers to enrich Marxism with ethical issues. The initial absence of ethics in Marxism is associated with the ignorance of tradition related to their own formation. In the author’s opinion, only polemics with the competitive Lviv-Warsaw school forced Polish Marxists to take the issue seriously. That is why Polish Marxist ethics in its mature form was only established in the 1960s, and did not enrich Marxism itself, but rather indirectly contributed to the initiation of socio-political transformations in our country.

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