August Cieszkowski

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August Cieszkowski. Portrait by Maksymilian Fajans.
August Cieszkowski. Portrait by Maksymilian Fajans.

August Cieszkowski (1814-1894) was a Polish philosopher, economist, social and political activist, co-founder of the Polish League (Liga Polska), co-founder and president of the Poznań Society of Friends of Arts and Sciences (PTPN).

Cieszkowski was the creator of the "philosophy of action."

[edit] Works

  • Prolegomena to a Historiosophy
  • Our Father (1848)

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  • Witold Jakóbczyk, Przetrwać na Wartą 1815-1914, Dzieje narodu i państwa polskiego, vol. III-55, Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, Warszawa 1989


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