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<p>In the article, the author presents attempts by Polish Marxist philosophers to enrich Marxism with ethical issues. The initial absence of ethics in Marxism is associated with the ignorance of tradition related to their own formation. In the author’s opinion, only polemics with the competitive Lviv-Warsaw school forced Polish Marxists to take the issue seriously. That is why Polish Marxist ethics in its mature form was only established in the 1960s, and did not enrich Marxism itself, but rather indirectly contributed to the initiation of socio-political transformations in our country.</p>
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In the article, the author presents attempts by Polish Marxist philosophers to enrich Marxism with ethical issues. The initial absence of ethics in Marxism is associated with the ignorance of tradition related to their own formation. In the author’s opinion, only polemics with the competitive Lviv-Warsaw school forced Polish Marxists to take the issue seriously. That is why Polish Marxist ethics in its mature form was only established in the 1960s, and did not enrich Marxism itself, but rather indirectly contributed to the initiation of socio-political transformations in our country.

Disputes over the place of ethics in Polish Marxist philosophy

Ethics & Bioethics

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In the article, the author presents attempts by Polish Marxist philosophers to enrich Marxism with ethical issues. The initial absence of ethics in Marxism is...

Disputes over the place of ethics in Polish Marxist philosophy

Published Online: Jun 04, 2021

Page range: 58 - 66

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ebce-2021-0005

Keywords
Marxism, communism, morality, Marxist ethics, Karl Marx, Adam Schaff, Maria Ossowska

© 2021 Stefan Konstańczak, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Disputes over the place of ethics in Polish Marxist philosophy

Published Online: Jun 04, 2021

Page range: 58 - 66

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ebce-2021-0005

KeywordsMarxism, communism, morality, Marxist ethics, Karl Marx, Adam Schaff, Maria Ossowska

© 2021 Stefan Konstańczak, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Marxism, communism, morality, Marxist ethics, Karl Marx, Adam Schaff, Maria Ossowska