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Józef Stanisław Tischner (12 March 1931 – 28 June 2000) was a Polish priest and
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philosopher
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. The first chaplain of the trade union, "Solidarity
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" (Polish ''Solidarność'').
Life
Tischner was born in Stary Sącz
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to a Góral family and grew up in the village Łopuszna in the south east of Poland. He studied at Jagiellonian University
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in Kraków. In the 1970s he became an important writer of the opposition movement against the socialist government of the People's Republic of Poland
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. In 1980s he was considered the semi-official chaplain of the Solidarity movement, and was praised by Pope John Paul II.
After the fall of communism in 1989, he continued preaching the importance of ethics in the new capitalist Poland. In September 1999, Tischner received the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest decoration.
Tischner remains a controversial figure in Poland. He frequently criticized Polish religiousness by calling it as flat (shallow) as a pancake, he also accused the Polish clergy of being extremely conservative, engaged in politics and antisemitism
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Fellow of Collegium Invisibile as a professor of philosophy. He died in Kraków on 28 June 2000.
Selected publications
Tischner wrote and published more than 600 articles and books. His two main works, in which he explained his original philosophical concepts, are: *''The Philosophy of Drama (Filozofia dramatu)'' (1998) *''The Controversy over Human Existence (Spór o istnienie człowieka)'' (1998) Most notable among his Góral themed works is: *''A Goral History of Philosophy (Historia filozofii po góralsku)'' (1997)See also
* Knights of the Order of the White EagleSources
* "Nie ma rzeczy niemożliwych" . Magazyn Kulturalny Tygodnika Powszechnego nr 7/8 (56/57), 08 lipca 2001. * "Lektury nie tylko obowiązkowe". Dziennik Polski, 14 maja 2009.References
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* 1931 births 2000 deaths People from Stary Sącz Polish Gorals 20th-century Polish Roman Catholic priests Catholic philosophers Roman Catholic writers Jagiellonian University alumni Fellows of Collegium Invisibile 20th-century Polish philosophers {{christian-clergy-stub