Nihilizm w publicystyce filozoficzno-ustrojowej Stanisława Herakliusza Lubomirskiego
Nihilism in the philosophical-political journalism of Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski

Summary/Abstract: Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski was one of the most prominent politicians of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the second half of the 17th century. The son of a rebel, Jerzy Sebastian, he was holding one of the most important positions in the country for over 25 years and was active on the political stage, remaining almost all the time in the opposition against the royal court. Besides the political activities he was one of the leading publicist of the epoch. S.H. Lubomirski’s political writings occupy a high position in his output. As a keen observer, as well as a participant of the political life of the Republic, he described the deficiencies of the state in his works: Rozmowy Artaksesa z Ewandrem, Genii veridici, Devanitatae consiliorum. They mostly did not include any specified reforms program (with the exception of Genii veridici), being limited only to expounding defects of the political system. The last work of Lubomirski – De vanitate consiliorum, was a recapitulation of his political views and publicist’s activity. It showed the hopeless condition of the state, for which the author saw no way out. The nihilistic and apathetic attitude made a characteristic ‘road-sign’ determining the route to be followed by Polish state philosophers in the 18th century, helpless in the presence of the paralysis of state institutions and the degrading mother country.

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