Jakub Górski (c. 1525 – 1583) was a Polish
Renaissance philosopher.
Life
Jakub Górski was an early Polish representative of
Stoicism
Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century Common Era, BCE. It is a philosophy of personal virtue ethics informed by its system of logic and its views on the natural world, asser ...
. He wrote a famous ''Dialectic'' (1563) and many works in grammar, rhetoric, theology and sociology. A professor at
Kraków University
The Jagiellonian University (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Jagielloński'', UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in ...
, he was an erudite man whose ''Dialectic'' gives evidence of extensive acquaintance with new currents and authors, but he was more erudite than independent as a thinker. He tended to
eclecticism and sought to reconcile the Stoics with
Aristotle.
[ Władysław Tatarkiewicz, ''Historia filozofii'' (History of Philosophy), vol. 2: ''Filozofia nowożytna do roku 1830'' (Modern Philosophy to 1830), 8th ed., p. 37.]
See also
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History of philosophy in Poland
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List of Poles
Notes
References
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Władysław Tatarkiewicz, ''Historia filozofii'' (History of Philosophy), vol. 2: ''Filozofia nowożytna do roku 1830'' (Modern Philosophy to 1830), 8th ed., Warsaw,
Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1978.
External links
Works by Jakub Górskiin digital library
Polona
Neo-Stoics
1525 births
1583 deaths
16th-century Polish philosophers
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