ŹRÓDŁA POLSKIEGO KARTEZJANIZMU FENOMENOLOGICZNEGO: OD IDEI I PERCEPCJI DO CZŁOWIEKA I CZASU
SOURCES OF POLISH PHENOMENOLOGICAL CARTESIANISM: FROM IDEA I PERCEPCJA [IDEA AND PERCEPTION] TO CZŁOWIEK I CZAS [MAN AND TIME]

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to examine the sources of Polish phenomenological Cartesianism, which the author hypothesises to be found in Kazimierz Twardowski’s doctoral dissertation Idee und Perception: Eine erkenntnistheoretische Untersuchung aus Descartes (1891). The dissertation is examined from the aspect of Brentano’s influence on it, which can be seen both at the level of epistemological solutions and in the concept of practising the history of philosophy. Although Twardowski corrects Brentano’s interpretation of Descartes, he remains on the ground of Brentano's descriptive psychology, which constitutes a certain preliminary version of phenomenology. The second part of the article reconstructs the Cartesian motif contained in Roman Ingarden’s egology as presented in his Człowiek i czas [Man and Time] (1937–1946), in order to conclude by characterising the common elements supporting the continuity and specificity of the Cartesian motif in the beginnings of Polish phenomenology.

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