Kazimierz ÅyszczyÅ„ski
Kazimierz Łyszczyński ( born March 4, 1634 Łyszczyce, † March 30, 1689 in Warsaw) was a Polish philosopher and atheist ..
Life
Kazimierz Łyszczyński was born in is now part of Belarus outskirts of Brest and was a member of the Polish nobility. As a young man he was for eight years to 1666 to the Order of the Jesuits. He then worked as a judge. Because he wanted to marry his daughter to a relative, he was excommunicated in 1685, however. One of his neighbors about a year later handed a copy of Łyszczyńskis atheistic work, De non existentia Dei ( German About the nonexistence of God ) to an out of court to denounce him and to let accuse. He had borrowed a large sum of money from Łyszczyński and would thus avoid having to repay these back. First, he was sentenced by a church court. However, the Polish King Jan Sobieski was the method passed to a Commission of the Polish Reichstag due to the force in the Kingdom of Poland religious freedom. A part of the nobility called for the dismissal of, also is Łyszczyński showed cooperative, but he was finally, perhaps mainly for political reasons, sentenced to death and executed on March 30, 1689 at the Old Town Market Square in Warsaw, decapitated his body and then burned.
Philosophy
In his 1674 work started Kazimierz Łyszczyński presented as atheist philosopher against religion, claiming that God had been created by the people themselves (homo est creator Dei ). Furthermore, he stated that the only meaning of faith would be that the poor could be suppressed.
Aftereffect
Kazimierz Łyszczyńskis death, March 30, is celebrated in Poland as the Day of Polish atheism.
Work (selection)
- De non existentia Dei