August Cieszkowski

Count August Cieszkowski (sometimes: August of Cieszkowski, born September 12, 1814 Sucha near Warsaw, † March 12, 1894 in Wierzenica at Swarzędz ) was a Polish philosopher of history, an economist and political activist. He founded the League Polska and represented the Poznań "Society of Friends of Science " ( PTPN ) as its President. Cieszkowski was a pupil of the German philosopher Hegel, later broke away and designed a " Christological conception of the world ".

Philosophy

Cieszkowski divides world history into three periods: In pre-Christian times the will dominates the thinking in the era of Jesus to Hegel dominated the thinking of the will. Only after Hegel unfolds idealism: Well, the philosophy of the Christian will become aware. This will is no longer just a " Filialausfluß the epistemological activity " ( Cieszkowski ), but has its own essence. In the epoch according to Hegel, the Holy Spirit reigns in a " Third Reich ". He says that Slavs to build a Christian fraternal world. Otherwise there is a time of false " Third Reich ".

Works

• Historiosophy (1838 ) published in German in Berlin
• Palingenesis ( "rebirth"; 1842) appeared in German in Berlin
• Our Father, consisting of four volumes