Tadeusz Ślipko
Tadeusz Ślipko was a Polish philosopher, chiefly ethicist.
Biography
He studied at the John Casimir University in Lwów. In 1939, he entered the Society of Jesus and underwent a two-year noviciate in Stara Wieś near Krosno. He studied philosophy at the Jesuit Faculty of Philosophy in Kraków, 1941-1944, and theology at the Bobolanum Jesuit Faculty of Theology in Warsaw, 1944-1948. He was ordained a priest in 1947. He studied ethics and sociology at the Jagellonian University in Kraków, where he earned a Ph.D.Ślipko was a lecturer in ethics at the Jesuit Faculty of Philosophy in Kraków, at the Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Kraków and at the Faculty of Christian Philosophy of the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw, where he obtained his habilitatio, became an associate professor and a full professor.
He was a dean of the Jesuit Faculty of Philosophy in Kraków and at the Faculty of Christian Philosophy of the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw.
Work
Ślipko's ethics took its inspiration from the Thomistic traditions. He also took into consideration new currents of philosophical and ethical thought, especially the personalistic and axiological tendencies. According to Ślipko himself, his ethics is “an axiomatic version of the Christian ethics”.Books
• Zagadnienie godziwej obrony sekretu, Warszawa 1968, Kraków 2009.• Etyczny problem samobójstwa, Warszawa 1970, Kraków 2008.
• Zarys etyki ogólnej, Kraków 1974, 20095.
• Życie i płeć człowieka, Kraków 1978.
• Zarys etyki szczegółowej, I–II, Kraków 1982, 20052.
• Granice życia. Dylematy współczesnej bioetyki, Warszawa 1988, Kraków 19942, 3d ed. entitled Bioetyka, Kraków 2009.
• Za czy przeciw życiu .
• Rozdroża ekologii,.
• Kara śmierci .
• 9 dylematów etycznych .
• Historia etyki w zarysie .
• Spacerem po etyce .