Czy i jaka filozofia na uniwersytecie?
Philosophy at the University? If yes, what kind?

Summary/Abstract: The following sentence has been adopted as the motto of the article: “In [...] the perspective of selfless dedication to truth, the university as a whole must be philosophical, i.e. loving wisdom.” On the basis of such statement, it was agreed that the question is not so much about the presence of philosophy at the university but about the degree of philosophicality of the university itself. It was suggested that this philosophical approach should be based on a broadly understood classical philosophy, which would include the most important streams of the Western philosophical thought. It was proposed that philosophical education, both for students of philosophy and those majoring at other disciplines, should include a classic set of philosophical disciplines (philosophy of being, cognition, ethics, logic with methodology and history of philosophy) and a classic set of philosophical problems (i.e. being, God, man, truth, good, unity, beauty, happiness). The emphasis is not so much on providing the listener with a list of views on a given subject but rather on allowing the lecturer to have his/her preferred opinion, noting that teaching is an interpersonal relationship oriented towards truth. Such presence of philosophy at the university requires a radical turn from currently dominant scientist, technocrat and bureaucrat approaches which decrease the level of education, degrade the position of professors at the university and destroy the univeristas understood as the community of teachers and students.

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