Józef Supiński (village of Romanów, near
Lwów, 21 February 1804 – 16 February 1893,
Lwów) was a Polish
philosopher
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,
jurist
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, economist and
sociologist.
Life
A student at
Warsaw University
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, Supiński in 1831 left for Paris, because he had participated in the
November 1830 Uprising and feared repressions by the Russian authorities. In France, he worked as a factory manager. In 1844 he returned to Poland, settling in Lwów, where he remained until his death.
Supiński coined the expression "''praca organiczna''" ("organic work"), which was the foundation of
Polish Positivism
Polish Positivism was a social, literary and History of philosophy in Poland#Positivism, philosophical movement that became dominant in late-19th-century Partitions of Poland, partitioned Poland following the suppression of the January Uprising, J ...
in the latter 19th century.
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Works
See also
*History of philosophy in Poland
The history of philosophy in Poland parallels the evolution of philosophy in Europe in general.
Overview
Polish philosophy drew upon the broader currents of European philosophy, and in turn contributed to their growth. Some of the most momentous ...
*List of Poles
This is a partial list of notable Polish or Polish-speaking or -writing people. People of partial Polish heritage have their respective ancestries credited.
Science
Physics
* Czesław Białobrzeski
* Andrzej Buras
* Georges Charpak ...
References
External links
Biography of Supinski (in Polish)
1804 births
1893 deaths
Polish sociologists
20th-century Polish philosophers
Writers from Lviv
People of the November Uprising
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