Jak Polacy zasłużyli na niepodległość według Feliksa Konecznego
Like Poles, They Deserved Independence According To Feliks Koneczny

Summary/Abstract: Feliks Koneczny also pursued his own research interests in the field of history ALSO by gradually moving to the “top floor” of this history, just comparative studies on civilizations. Already relatively early, as before Poland regained an independent state, he undertook issues in the field of historiosophy. In the 1920s, however, it HE gradually began to build the edifice of its HIS own theory of civilization. It is interesting to follow the process by IN which he developed this own pioneer in many respects and the original concept of many civilizations.We argue that the first outline and basis of his pluralistic vision of civilization arose precisely in the 1920s, and in particular in the two-volume work Polskie Logos and Ethos. The reading of this book also now, on the 60th anniversary of the death of its author, clearly shows that Koneczny’s comparative research on civilizations and the theory that emerged from them WAS rooted in an ambitious attempt to understand the logic of Polish history from the times preceding the loss of independence to the moment of its recovery. Careful reading of the Polish Logos and Ethos allows to capture the hidden logic of these histories, along with its deeper dimension. In the historiosophy of the Polish scholar, we seek the answers to more specific and most important questions - the causes of loss of independence, the question of the shape of the Polish independence action, skimmed by many generations, the deed that led to Poland regaining that independence. And so we have our own representative in the elite group of theoreticians of civilization. His place is among the largest: next to Arnold Toynbee, Oswald Spengler and Mikołaj Danilewski. Koneczny did not avoid errors, mistakes or even false, premature judgments, both in the assessment of Byzantine, Indian and Jewish civilizations. Also, his explanation of the causes of the fall of the Polish state and its revival remains debatable. Nevertheless, his works continue to set an excellent level of discussion on these extremely intriguing topics.

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