{"id":1079,"date":"2023-09-11T11:47:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T09:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pchph.uniwersytet.ignatianum.edu.pl\/?post_type=autor&p=1079"},"modified":"2023-09-12T09:58:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T07:58:32","slug":"kazimierz-klosak","status":"publish","type":"autor","link":"https:\/\/pchph.ignatianum.edu.pl\/en\/authors\/kazimierz-klosak\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazimierz K\u0142\u00f3sak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Kazimierz K\u0142\u00f3sak<\/strong> \u2013 a Polish philosopher, neo-Scholastic, representative of Louvain Thomism, theologian. He was born on 1 January 1911 in \u017b\u00f3\u0142kiew (now located in Ukraine). He completed his philosophical and theological studies at the Jagiellonian University (UJ) where in 1934 he obtained the doctor\u2019s degree based on the thesis \u201cTomizm w uj\u0119ciu Jakuba Maritaina\u201d [Thomism According to Jacques Maritain<\/em>], written under the supervision of prof. Konstanty Michalski. His philosophical views were strongly influenced by the fact that he studied in Rome and Louvain. From 1945 he taught philosophy at UJ, and from 1957 \u2013 also at the Archbishop\u2019s Theological Seminary in Krakow. In 1951 he was asked to cooperate with the Commission of Philosophy of the Polish Academy of Learning. In 1954 he started working at the Academy of Catholic Theology (ATK) in Warsaw \u2013 he taught philosophical subjects and as the head of the Chair of the Philosophy of Nature. In 1954\u20131956 he was the associate dean of the Faculty of Christian Philosophy, and then, twice, he was its dean: between 1956\u20131957, and continually from 1964 until 1976. At the same time, in 1964\u20131971 he was the head of the Chair of the Philosophy of Nature and the head of the Section of the Philosophy of Nature at KUL. In 1954 he became an associate professor and in 1968 he obtained the academic degree of a full professor. In 1965, together with J\u00f3zef Iwanicki, he established the semi-annual \u201cStudia Philosophiae Christianae\u201d published by ATK. Also, he was the co-founder of the annual Analecta Cracoviensia\u201d published by the Polish Theological Society and the book series published by ATK between 1976\u20131983 entitled: \u201cZ zagadnie\u0144 przyrodoznawstwa i filozofii przyrody\u201d [Issues Concerning the Philosophy of Nature and<\/em> Natural Science<\/em>]. He died on 1 June 1982 in Krakow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kazimierz K\u0142\u00f3sak\u2019s work resulted in more than 130 publications, including monographs, dissertations and handbooks. His most important works are: \u201cMaterializm dialektyczny. Studia krytyczne\u201d [Dialectical Materialism: Critical Studies<\/em>] (1948), \u201cMy\u015bl katolicka wobec teorii samor\u00f3dztwa\u201d [Catholic Approach to the Theory of Spontaneous Generation<\/em>] (1948), \u201cW poszukiwaniu Pierwszej Przyczyny\u201d [Looking for the First Cause<\/em>] (1955-1957), \u201cZ zagadnie\u0144 filozoficznego poznania Boga\u201d [On the Issue of Philosophical Cognition of God<\/em>] (1979), \u201cZ teorii i metodologii filozofii przyrody\u201d [On the Theory and Methodology of the Philosophy of Nature<\/em>] (1980).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kazimierz K\u0142\u00f3sak\u2019s main scientific interests include the issues related to: the philosophy of nature, the philosophy of God and the philosophy of human being. Following the ideas of the Louvain Thomism representatives, he found it necessary to take into account exact sciences, mainly natural sciences, in philosophy. With such approach, he elaborated and suggested his own solutions to methodological problems (the relation between the philosophy of nature and the philosophy of animate nature), problems touching the borders of the philosophy of nature and natural sciences (the genesis of life, evolution, theological interpretation of nature), as well as the philosophy of natural science and the natural science itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In theodicy he discussed the opportunity to know God and analysed the arguments of Thomas Aquinas, aiming at taking into account some data related to natural sciences in them. In anthropology, he paid special attention to the question of human soul (its origin, nature, substantiality). Kazimierz K\u0142\u00f3sak also carried out numerous disputes \u2013 with philosophical concepts (dialectical materialism, the Lublin School of Philosophy), philosophical-theological concepts (Teilhard de Chardin), and with ideas concerning nature (Alexander Oparin). His way of practising philosophy influenced a lot of thinkers of the younger generation (Szczepan W. \u015alaga, Mieczys\u0142aw Luba\u0144ski, J\u00f3zef \u017byci\u0144ski).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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