Polish army soldier and scientist – Stanisław Ossowski Cover Image

Żołnierz wojsk polskich i naukowiec – Stanisław Ossowski
Polish army soldier and scientist – Stanisław Ossowski

Author(s): Krystyna Skurjat
Subject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Political Theory, Political Sciences, Local History / Microhistory, Military history, Social psychology and group interaction, History and theory of sociology
Published by: Wyższa Szkoła Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego i Indywidualnego “Apeiron” w Krakowie
Keywords: man; polymorphism; social structure; order of values; social coercion;

Summary/Abstract: The article reminds Stanisław Ossowski, an outstanding sociologist and political scientist, a representative of the Lviv-Warsaw school, and a brave soldier. The author focuses her attention on two problems selected from his work: on man as an ethical subject and on opportunities and threats in shaping individual and collective social personalities. Stanisław Ossowski regarded disobedience in thinking, faithfulness to the truth, and intellectual honesty as the professional duty of a scientist, especially a humanist, who studies ideas and value systems. He justified the theory of mutual conditioning of the social structure-personality. He studied the impact of decisions of senior government officials on the dynamics of human behaviour and the development of human polymorphism.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 39
  • Page Range: 78-93
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish