Curriculum vitae
Tadeusz Styczeń, SDS [Societas Divini Salvatoris] was born on December 21, 1931 in Wołowice, a village near Cracow, Poland.
He completed theological studies on the Theological Faculty at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow.
In 1955, he was ordained to the priesthood.
He completed philosophical studies at the Catholic University of Lublin, and specialized in moral philosophy in the Department of Ethics, directed by Rev. Karol Wojtyła, Ph.D., Honorary Professor of the Catholic University of Lublin. In 1960, Father Styczeń received a Master's degree in ethics (having presented a Master’s Thesis on N. Hartmann's Concept of Virtue). In 1963, he received a Doctoral degree from the Catholic University of Lublin (having presented a dissertation on The Problem of the Possibility of Ethics in John Locke's Philosophy).
In 1963, he was employed in the Department of Ethics at the Catholic University of Lublin, where he continued his research. In 1971, he presented a post-doctoral dissertation (Habilitation) entitled The Problem of a Possibility of Ethics as an Empirically Justified and Universally Valid Theory of Morality.
In 1981, he became Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Lublin and in 1992 received the title and post of Full Professor.
From 1978 to 2002, he held the Chair of Ethics at the Catholic University of Lublin and was Director of the Department of Ethics, as well as, from 1982 to 2006, Director of the John Paul II Institute and Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly Ethos.
In 1975, he was Visiting Professor in J. Gutenberg University in Mainz.
From 1981 to 1986, he was also Professor in Pontifical John Paul II Institute For Studies on Marriage and Family in Rome.
He was Co-founder (in 1981) and Member of the Senate of the International Academy of Philosophy in Dallas, USA (its present location is in the Principality of Liechtenstein and Chile).
He is Member of Societas Ethica, Member of the Learned Society of the Catholic University of Lublin, Member of Polish Philosophical Society, Member of Polish Theological Society.
Since 1981, he has served as Consultor to the Pontifical Council for the Family.
He is Member of the Research Council of the Institute for the Studies of Family in the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warszawa-Łomianki, founded by the late Bp Kazimierz Majdański.
He is Member of the Editorial Board of "Roczniki Filozoficzne" (the "Philosophical Yearly") (Vol. II),
He is joint editor of the periodical Aletheia,published by the IAP in Liechtenstein, as well as Joint Editor of the quarterly Anthropotes, published at the Lateran University, Rome.
He cooperates with the journals Il Nuovo Areopago and La Nuova Europa.
He is Expert of the Senate Committee for Constitutional Matters.
In 1995 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Navarra in Pamplona.
In 2006 he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
In 2007 he received Medal for the Merits for the Catholic University of Lublin.
In 2006, Father Styczeń retired from full professorship and is now Professor Emeritus and Honorary Director of the John Paul II Institute.
He is author of over 400 research publications, including 20 books, as well as joint editor of numerous monographic collections, primarily on the thought of John Paul II.