About Józef Gołuchowski
Lived 1797 – 1858 (aged 60–61). Józef Gołuchowski was a philosopher and university teacher.
Józef Wojciech Gołuchowski (; 11 April 1797 – 22 November 1858) was a Polish philosopher. A professor at Vilnius University, he was co-creator of the Polish Romanticist "national philosophy."
He preached the concept of the nation as a creation of God, with a peculiar "national spirit," that realized the ideal of a hierarchical society in which each individual is a necessary fragment of the whole. He opposed 18th-century materialist philosophy from an irrationalist position. In the theory of knowledge, he preached the primacy of feeling and intuition over reason.
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Who was Józef Gołuchowski?
Polish philosopher
When was Józef Gołuchowski born?
Józef Gołuchowski was born in 1797 in Łączki Kucharskie.
When did Józef Gołuchowski die?
Józef Gołuchowski died on 22 November 1858 in Garbacz.
What was Józef Gołuchowski's occupation?
Józef Gołuchowski was a philosopher and university teacher.
What nationality was Józef Gołuchowski?
Józef Gołuchowski's recorded nationality: Congress Poland.
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