Post by pieter on Dec 10, 2005 16:46:43 GMT -7
I found this on the internet and it seemed to me important
enough to post it here. A man who is read by Catholics and Protestants
from "East" and West, and secular people.
I wonder if anyone of you heard of him and maybe read articles
or a book from him (maybe Adam?).
www.tischner.pl/tis_ang.php
Father Józef Tischner (1931-2000) was one of the most eminent contemporary Polish philosophers. He was the founder and Dean of the Cracovian Papal Academy of Theology and lectured at the Jagiellonian University, the State High School of Theatre in Cracow, then he co-founded and was the president of the Viennese Institut für den Wissenschaften vom Menschen. He also participated in the meetings of intellectuals hosted by Pope John Paul II in Castel Gandolfo.
Józef Tischner was a great moral authority and at the same time one of the most famous, brilliant and loved figures in Polish public life. He was SOLIDARITY’S first chaplain. He wrote and published more than 600 articles and books.
Manfred Spieker:
His personality, his teaching and advice attracted a very diverse audience including students of theology, philosophy and theatrical studies, as well as actors and artists, politicians and SOLIDARITY activists, journalists and scientists, Catholic universities, Evangelical academies, Viennese Institut für den Wissenschaften vom Menchen, clergymen, bishops and the Pope but also agnostics, radical republicans and leftist liberals.
Charles Taylor:
I see Father Tischner as standing in the tradition of Christian humanism, but not at all in the narrow sense of one who wants to cling on to an established tradition, be it Thomist or other. On the contrary, he understood very well that this kind of humanism, which brings faith together with a philosophical antropology, is something that has to be constantly recreated anew in each new epoch. In some ways it was the context of his life which taught him this terrible historical experience of Poland in this century, as well as the access to the phenomenological tradition which was an important strand in Polish thought (these factors have also been important in the thought of the Holy Father).
Paul Ricoeur:
I knew him first as a brilliant philosopher who, like Roman Ingarden, based on phenomenology, study of human person and community. Then I discovered him as a tutor of his countrymen in the matters of civil society. Finally, like all his friends I found him a man far from pretence and a priest who was close to his flock and listening ardently to what it had to say.
Lech Walesa:
I met Fr Tischner during the first SOLIDARITY general assembly at the Olivia Hall in Gdansk. He came to preach a sermon to us. We needed intellectual support in our strife and it was then that he told us that Poland was like a great place of human work (...) on a material that was to be adjusted to serve our purposes, our dignity, the material to lift the human being, families and the whole nation...
BOOKS
Filozofia dramatu (The Philosophy of Drama)
It is the most important philosophical work of Józef Tischner and at the same time one of the most remarkable in the philosophical writing of today. Tischner builds an original philosophical anthropology which enables to ask the basic questions about God, Evil, Beauty, Truth and Good. He analyses the nature of the philosophy of drama on the basis of earlier writings of Husserl’s phenomenology and the thought of Lévinas, Hegel and Heidegger. He is not certain of his conclusions but he says that practising the philosophy of drama becomes drama itself and that it is an integral component of human drama.
enough to post it here. A man who is read by Catholics and Protestants
from "East" and West, and secular people.
I wonder if anyone of you heard of him and maybe read articles
or a book from him (maybe Adam?).
www.tischner.pl/tis_ang.php
Father Józef Tischner (1931-2000) was one of the most eminent contemporary Polish philosophers. He was the founder and Dean of the Cracovian Papal Academy of Theology and lectured at the Jagiellonian University, the State High School of Theatre in Cracow, then he co-founded and was the president of the Viennese Institut für den Wissenschaften vom Menschen. He also participated in the meetings of intellectuals hosted by Pope John Paul II in Castel Gandolfo.
Józef Tischner was a great moral authority and at the same time one of the most famous, brilliant and loved figures in Polish public life. He was SOLIDARITY’S first chaplain. He wrote and published more than 600 articles and books.
Manfred Spieker:
His personality, his teaching and advice attracted a very diverse audience including students of theology, philosophy and theatrical studies, as well as actors and artists, politicians and SOLIDARITY activists, journalists and scientists, Catholic universities, Evangelical academies, Viennese Institut für den Wissenschaften vom Menchen, clergymen, bishops and the Pope but also agnostics, radical republicans and leftist liberals.
Charles Taylor:
I see Father Tischner as standing in the tradition of Christian humanism, but not at all in the narrow sense of one who wants to cling on to an established tradition, be it Thomist or other. On the contrary, he understood very well that this kind of humanism, which brings faith together with a philosophical antropology, is something that has to be constantly recreated anew in each new epoch. In some ways it was the context of his life which taught him this terrible historical experience of Poland in this century, as well as the access to the phenomenological tradition which was an important strand in Polish thought (these factors have also been important in the thought of the Holy Father).
Paul Ricoeur:
I knew him first as a brilliant philosopher who, like Roman Ingarden, based on phenomenology, study of human person and community. Then I discovered him as a tutor of his countrymen in the matters of civil society. Finally, like all his friends I found him a man far from pretence and a priest who was close to his flock and listening ardently to what it had to say.
Lech Walesa:
I met Fr Tischner during the first SOLIDARITY general assembly at the Olivia Hall in Gdansk. He came to preach a sermon to us. We needed intellectual support in our strife and it was then that he told us that Poland was like a great place of human work (...) on a material that was to be adjusted to serve our purposes, our dignity, the material to lift the human being, families and the whole nation...
BOOKS
Filozofia dramatu (The Philosophy of Drama)
It is the most important philosophical work of Józef Tischner and at the same time one of the most remarkable in the philosophical writing of today. Tischner builds an original philosophical anthropology which enables to ask the basic questions about God, Evil, Beauty, Truth and Good. He analyses the nature of the philosophy of drama on the basis of earlier writings of Husserl’s phenomenology and the thought of Lévinas, Hegel and Heidegger. He is not certain of his conclusions but he says that practising the philosophy of drama becomes drama itself and that it is an integral component of human drama.