Roman Darowski
Roman Darowski was a Jesuit priest, philosopher, and professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the Jesuit University of Philosophy and Education Ignatianum in Kraków.
Biography
Darowski entered the Jesuit Order in 1951 and was ordained priest in Warsaw in 1961. He studied philosophy at the Jesuit Faculty of Philosophy in Kraków from 1955 to 1958 and theology at the Jesuit Faculty of Theology: Bobolanum in Warsaw from 1958 to 1962. Afterwards, he continued his philosophical studies at the Gregorian University in Rome from 1963 to 1966, where he obtained a Ph.D., and in Munich from 1966/67. Since 1990 he had been a full professor.Since 1967, Darowski had been a lecturer in philosophy, mainly in philosophical anthropology, at the Jesuit Faculty of Philosophy in Kraków, now Akademia Ignatianum. He would then become a dean of the Faculty of Philosophy ; rector of the Jesuit College in Kraków ; founder and the first editor of a multilingual review called Forum Philosophicum; and member of the Committee for the History of Science and Technology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Darowski published mainly in the field of philosophical anthropology and in the field of the history of philosophy in Poland, especially that of the Jesuits. He has published 15 books and over 300 articles – over 50 of them in foreign languages.
Philosophy
Darowski's philosophical views are presented most clearly in his books: Filozofia człowieka and Philosophical Anthropology. Outline of fundamental problems, 2014.Darowski's philosophy takes its inspiration from the Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions. He also takes into consideration new currents of philosophical thought, especially the personalistic and axiological tendencies, but also, in some fashion, the dialogical one. He does not avoid the new achievements of the life sciences; instead, he attempts to integrate them with philosophy. Especially in its initial stages, there are many elements in his application of his method resembling a phenomenological description.