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DOI 10.12887/30-2017-3-119-17



Agata SKAŁA – Axioms and Mystifications, or On Light and the Dark Side of Cognition: A Preliminary Sketch for the Portrait of Julian Ochorowicz


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The whole civilized world takes advantage of Julian Ochorowicz’s (1850-1917) technological-scientific thought, but he does not exist in the contemporary consciousness as a genius-constructor and the author of scientific ideas. The aim of the article is to present studies on the character and significance of scientific activity led by this versatile scholar—a theorist of positivism and a writer. During his life Ochorowicz gained recognition of many international psychological societies—in Great Britain, New York, Paris, Köln, Berlin, Budapest, and Leipzig. In Poland the scientific circles treated Ochorowicz’s works (also those concerning new technologies) indulgently or disqualified them and doomed the scholar himself to exclusion. There exists a need to verify false findings concerning the significance of Ochorowicz’s creative works, mistakenly associated with romanticism, charlatanism and lack of scientific correctness. Ochorowicz is very frequently perceived through the prism of occultism and hypnology, first of all connecting the name of the author of the treatise Mental Suggestion with spiritism. The initial recognition shows that Ochorowicz was an advocate of scientism and rationalism. His research findings are strictly scientific.

Keywords: Julian Ochorowicz (1850-1917), positivism, the ethos of cognition, mediumism, spiritism, axiology

Contact: Zakład Literatury Pozytywizmu i Młodej Polski, Instytut Filologii Polskiej,
Wydział Humanistyczny, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej,
pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 4a,
20-031 Lublin, Poland

E-mail: agata.skala@umcs.lublin.pl
http://www.umcs.pl/pl/addres-book-employee,2476,pl.html



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  1. ISSN 0860-8024
  2. e-ISSN 2720-5355
  3. The Republic of Poland Ministry of Science and Higher Education Value: 100.00
  4. Quarterly “Ethos” is indexed by the following databases: EBSCO, CEEOL, Index Copernicus (ICV 2017: 55.26), Philosopher’s Index, ERIH Plus.
  5. DOI Prefix 10.12887