Adam Burski or Bursius (ca. 1560–1611) was a Polish philosopher of the

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period.

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, ''Historia filozofii'' (History of Philosophy), vol. 2: ''Filozofia nowożytna do roku 1830'' (Modern Philosophy to 1830), 8th ed., p. 37.

History

Burski was a leading Polish representative of

Neostoicism Neostoicism was a philosophical movement that arose in the late 16th century from the works of Justus Lipsius, and sought to combine the beliefs of Stoicism and Christianity. Lipsius was Flemish people, Flemish and a Renaissance humanist. The mov ...

. He wrote a ''Dialectica Ciceronis'' (1604) that boldly proclaimed Stoic

sensualism In epistemology, sensualism is a doctrine whereby sensations and perception are the basic and most important form of true cognition. It may oppose abstract ideas. This ideogenetic question was long ago put forward in Greek philosophy (Stoicism, ...

and

empiricism In philosophy, empiricism is an epistemological view which holds that true knowledge or justification comes only or primarily from sensory experience and empirical evidence. It is one of several competing views within epistemology, along ...

and—before

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—urged the use of

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. He set himself the same goals as Lipsius, the restorer of Stoicism famous in the West. Lipsius himself valued highly the work of his Polish fellow-philosopher. Burski's person was associated with a new institution of higher learning that came into being in the late 16th century: the

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, founded in

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Jan Zamoyski Jan Sariusz Zamoyski (; 19 March 1542 – 3 June 1605) was a Polish nobleman, magnate, statesman and the 1st '' ordynat'' of Zamość. He served as the Royal Secretary from 1565, Deputy Chancellor from 1576, Grand Chancellor of the Crown f ...

(who had also founded that city). At Zamoyski's invitation, Burski, who had been rector of the Lwów Lyceum and a professor at

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, in 1596 at Zamość became a professor of

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, remaining in that post to the end of his life.

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References

, ''Historia filozofii'' (History of Philosophy), vol. 2: ''Filozofia nowożytna do roku 1830'' (Modern Philosophy to 1830), 8th ed., Warsaw,

Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN (''Polish Scientific Publishers PWN''; until 1991 ''Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe'' - ''National Scientific Publishers PWN'', PWN) is a Polish book publisher, founded in 1951, when it split from the Wydawnictwa Szkolne i ...

, 1978.

External links

Works by Adam Burski
in digital library

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Neo-Stoics 1560s births 1611 deaths 16th-century people from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth {{Christian-philosopher-stub

History

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