ŹRÓDŁA ETYKI MIŁOSZA
THE SOURCES OF MIŁOSZ’S ETHICS

Summary/Abstract: Miłosz’s poetry is commonly perceived as the voice of a moral authority and a moralist. What was the source of his ethical knowledge which enabled him to play this double role — both declarative, communicated in the texts, as well as practical, which allowed him to become a teacher and an example to follow? The poet explained he did not advocate any special moral code, understood as a collection of instructions, nor was he able to specify his rules of conduct. Following Julia Kristeva’s idea, I am trying to show that Miłosz’s moralizing is an integral aspect of his poetics; not a philosophical content in a decorative form, but a practical aim of the form itself.

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