Postcard from Stefan Morawski written 29.06.1967

Author Stefan Morawski

Category incoming correspondence, Polish researchers

Archive Archive of Science PAN and PAU in Cracow

Date of creation 29.06.1967

Reference code in archive K_III-26_D_69

Resource type postcard

Subject matter academic issues, organizational issues, publication issues

Field philosophy

Tags #? Porębski, #? Wójcik, #academic publications, #academic work, #apology, #coherence of arguments, #correspondence, #cybernetic construction of values, #doctoral dissertation, #doctoral thesis, #doctorate, #ethics, #evaluation of a doctoral thesis, #Faculty Council, #foreign travel, #Geltung, #Max Bense, #Nicolai Hartmann, #phenomenology, #philosophical imagination, #philosophical journals, #Piotr Graff, #pressure, #review of a doctoral dissertation, #Roman Ingarden, #sociological construction of values, #Sosein, #Stefan Morawski, #Studies of Aesthetics, #USA, #values, #Wertfühlen, #Wertschau

Dear Professor, our correspondence has gotten crossed. After sending the postcard, I received your letter from the 26th of this month. I am very sorry for the pressure. I agree with you a hundred percent that this is not right. But I already explained why. Graff has a knife to his throat in an entirely different way from Mrs. Wójcik. He had to be voted through at the last council. Also, please remember that I only kept the Mrs. Wójcik’s work for 3 months. It only reached me after my return from the USA. So I feel “justified” to you.

n I really regret that you cannot give me Bense. Maybe I will make it a two-way discussion with Porębski then. But without your voice it is sure to be an incomplete picture. As for Graff’s dissertation, as I have already written, he did mess up original phenomenology as much as Hartmann’s “Ethics” (Wertfühlen – Wertschau – Sosein versus Geltung) with the sociological and even cybernetic construction of values. There are some very good ideas there, philosophical imagination, independence in stating problems, but there i salso a lack of thoroughness and leaky coherence of argumentation.

Best regards from me and my wife
n n Stefan Morawski

St. MORAWSKI
Warszawa
Waszyngtona Al.
20/apt.21

Prof.
ROMAN INGARDEN
RABKA
Krakowskie Voivodeship
SŁONECZNA St. 38