Assistant professor at the Department of Metaphysics ofThe John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

 

Domains of researching

  • Philosophy of the human rights: the status of the philosophy of law, the characteristics of the human rights, the problem of the foundation and justification of the human rights and of the human law in metaphysical and anthropological perspective; human law and natural law; the issue of the integral protection for the human rights; the question of the sources of violation of the human rights.
  • Philosophy of law: the methodological status of philosophy of law, the history of philosophy of law, a law as a being, the positive law and the natural law, criteria of the justice of law, the sources of the rationality of law and of its validity, the law and the morality, the law and the upbringing, the common good issues.
  • Metaphysics: the methodological status of metaphysics, the systematical character of metaphysical explication of the world, the theory of the transcendentals, the elements of the history of metaphysics.
  • Philosophical anthropology: specification of the philosophical anthropology on the background the anthropologies of other kinds (theological, cultural, natural), systematization, the elements of the history of anthropology, the structure of a human being, a man in culture.

Other interests

  • philosophy of upbringing, aretology, history of Poland and the universal history, the Polish and foreign literature of the 19th century.

Education

  • 1990-1995: study in Department of Philosophy (the Theoretical Philosophy Section) in the Catholic University of Lublin
  • 1995: MA paper under the title "The function of the final in the conception of law of Saint Thomas Aquinas", which was elaborated during the seminar on metaphysics and philosophical anthropology guided and supervised by professor Mieczysław A. Krąpiec OP
  • 1993-1998: study in Department of Law and Administration in the University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska, Lublin
  • 1995-1999: working on the treatise "Dispute on the foundations of the rational law" which was to be the ground for the exam to obtain PhD degree, what took place within the course of doctoral study in Department of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Lublin.
  • 2006: taking and passing the exam to obtain PhD degree on the base of the thesis " Dispute on the foundations of the rational law. The analyses of the chosen standpoints", that had been elaborated during the seminar on metaphysics and philosophical anthropology guided and supervised by professor Andrzej Maryniarczyk SDB (reviewers: professor Mieczysław A. Krąpiec OP, professor Marek Piechowiak).

Work history

  • 1997: getting job on the position of a candidate for a doctor's degree in Department of Philosophy (Theoretical Philosophy Section) of the Catholic University of Lublin at the Chair of Metaphysics.
  • 1999: getting hired on the position of an assistant in Department of Philosophy (Theoretical Philosophy Section) of the Catholic University of Lublin at the Chair of Metaphysics.
  • 2005/6: working as a lecturer at the Chair of Metaphysics.
  • 2007: getting job as an adjunct at the Chair of Metaphysics.

Participation in selected editorial staffs

  • Secretary of the editorial staff of the paper dedicated to the philosophy and culture entitled "Człowiek w kulturze" [Man in Culture] in 1995-2002.
  • Member of the editorial staff of the paper "Człowiek w kulturze" [Man in Culture] in 2002-2004.
  • Cooperation with the editorial staff of "Powszechna Encyklopedia Filozofii" [Universal Encyclopedia of Philosophy] in 1998-2009.
  • Member of the editorial staff of the quarterly "Cywilizacja. O nauce, moralności, sztuce i religii" [Civilization. On science, morality, art and religion] since 2003.
  • Working on preparing the material added weekly to the newspaper "Nasz Dziennik" [Our Weekly], located in Warsaw, in 1998-2002
  • Working on preparing the information material concerning the Universal Encyclopedia of Philosophy on occasion of edition of each new volume of the ten-volume edition of the encyclopedia which was then to be published in the newspaper "Nasz Dziennik" [Our Weekly], in 2000-2009.
  • Labor on preparing materials to be published on the websites of: the Chair of Metaphysics, the Polish Thomas Aquinas Association, the Universal Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the Lublin Philosophical School, The Father M.A. Krąpiec Website.

Didactic activities

  • The texts from Saint Thomas Aquinas — classes in Department of Philosophy CUL (1997/1998)
  • Metaphysics — classes in Department of Philosophy CUL (since 1998)
  • Philosophy of the human rights — classes in Department of Philosophy CUL (since 1998)
  • Introduction to the sciences of law — lecture in Department of Philosophy CUL (2005/2006)
  • Philosophy of law — seminar in Department of Philosophy CUL (2005/2006)
  • Introduction to philosophy — lectures in the National Education Study [Studium Edukacji Narodowej] at the Foundation Servire Veritati Institute of National Education [Fundacja Servire Veritati. Instytut Edukacji Narodowej], located in Lublin, in 1997-2003.
  • Philosophy of the law and politics — as mentioned above
  • Philosophy of culture — as mentioned above
  • The national patterns of upbringing — as mentioned above
  • Classical understanding of politics — lectures in Academy of Social Skills [Akademia Umiejętności Społecznych] at the Foundation Servire Veritati Institute of National Education [Fundacja Servire Veritati. Instytut Edukacji Narodowej], located in Lublin, in 1998-2008.
  • Modern conceptions of politics — as mentioned above
  • From the Ancient democracy to the democracy today — as mentioned above
  • Philosophy of law — regular lecture in the Institute of Theoretical Philosophy [Instytut Filozofii Teoretycznej]
  • Selected issues on philosophy of the human rights — monographical lecture in the Institute of Theoretical Philosophy [Instytut Filozofii Teoretycznej]
  • Philosophical anthropology — classes in the Institute of Theoretical Philosophy [Instytut Filozofii Teoretycznej] (2007/2008)
  • Philosophical anthropology — lecture for students of the evening study of Institute of Psychology (2008/2009)
  • Philosophical anthropology — lecture for students of theology (2009/2010)
  • Philosophy of the human rights — seminar for the candidates for a MA degree in the Theoretical Philosophy Institute (in common with K. Wroczyński) (2005-2010)
  • Philosophy of law — seminar for the candidates for a bachelor degree in the Institute of Theoretical Philosophy

Membership in societies or associations

  • 1996 — founder member of the Youth Society "To live and learn" [Młodzieżowe Stowarzyszenie "Żyć i poznawać"]
  • 1997 — founder member of the Society "Polish Family" [Stowarzyszenie "Rodzina Polska"]
  • 1997 — founder member of the Polish Thomas Aquinas Association (Polish branch of the Società Internationale Tommaso d'Aquino) with seat in Lublin; also secretary of the board of the association in 1997-2002 and during the second and the third cadences
  • 2007 — member workmate of the Department of Philosophy of Scientific Society of the Catholic University of Lublin (CUL)