Article published in: Thinking in Value (No 1) Solidarity, pp. 11–27
Thinking about man occupied a very specific position in the philosophy of Fr. Józef Tischner. His life and work testify that the human being was the main theme of his philosophy. For many years he was in charge of the Chair of Philosophy of Man at the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Kraków and the President of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. Seminars and lectures on philosophical anthropology constituted the core of his didactic activity. The human being was incessantly present in his thinking and in his academic and journalistic writing. During his classes and in conversations Tischner often insisted that the fundamental question of philosophy is “who is man?”
