Political and economic realism of Mirosław Dzielski Cover Image

Realizm polityczny i ekonomiczny Mirosława Dzielskiego
Political and economic realism of Mirosław Dzielski

Author(s): Miłowit Kuniński
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: KSIĘGARNIA AKADEMICKA Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: Dzielski; ethics; economy; political realism

Summary/Abstract: Mirosław Dzielski (1941‑1989), a Polish philosopher and a political activist, in his academic life at the Jagiellonian University (Krakow) he focused on analyses of metaphysical subtleties of Newton’s and Leibniz’s conceptions of space and time but his main interest were the major problems of ethics and political philosophy combined with economics. Influenced by L. von Mises, F. A. von Hayek and M. Friedman and the idea of the undesigned results of human activities, he identified the main problem of his native country Poland and the whole region under a totalitarian control of the USSR in the 1970s and 1980s, as a search for forces, which would stop its civilizational collapse and begin its rebirth. His idea was to destroy the oppressive system in an evolutionary way through the invigoration of natural propensities to improve one’s situation. Members of the Communist nomenklatura were no exception, and their involvement in economic activities backed by the free market legal framework were to open opportunities to all members of society (individual liberty) and to lead to the economic and civilizational progress followed by a political liberal constitution.

  • Issue Year: 10/2013
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 213-228
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish