The voice of the past in Kotarbiński's writings
pp. 205-211
in: Jan Woleński (ed), Kotarbiński, Berlin, Springer, 1990Abstrakt
Tadeusz Kotarbiński contributed to the history of logic in many ways: as the author of works devoted to issues of the history of logic in the broad sense of the term1; as the chronicler of his times, reviewing the works of scholars who would later achieve a prominent place in the history of logic2; as an editor3; as a teacher interpreting contemporary logic in connection with its historical roots. In fact, teaching logic was a paradigm underlying all his works devoted to logic and its development. "I reached the chair of philosophy," wrote Kotarbiński in 1965, "via logic. Teaching logic became the field of my activity as a university professor of philosophy, a member of other humanistic faculties. Emphasis is here placed on the words "teaching" and "humanistic". For my lectures and classes were conceived as an organon in the classical sense of the term, for philosophers as well as for those who, having completed their course of study, would espouse the cause of disseminating humanistic knowledge and thinking, particulary future secondary school teachers." (this volume, p. 3)
