Józef Supiński (village of Romanów, near
Lwów
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, 21 February 1804 – 16 February 1893,
Lwów
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) 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 philosophical movement that became dominant in late-19th-century partitioned Poland following Romanticism in Poland and the suppression of the January 1863 Uprising against the Russian Empire. The ...
in the latter 19th century.
History derailed By Tibor Iván Berend, page 101
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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
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*List of Poles
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Physics
*Miedziak Antal
* Czesław Białobrzesk ...
References
External links
Biography of Supinski (in Polish)
1804 births
1893 deaths
Scholars from the Austrian Empire
Polish sociologists
20th-century Polish philosophers
Writers from Lviv
People of the November Uprising
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