Poglądy etyczne Władysława Witwickiego

Władysław Witwicki developed ethics in an anti-irrationalist spirit, believing that it should have a scientific character. His ethical views were, in many essential points, consistent with the ethics of Kazimierz Twardowski; this agreement concerned issues such as recognizing the empirical and independent nature of ethics, adopting an ethical criterion in the form of enabling and facilitating social life, rejecting psychological hedonism, accepting determinism combined with responsibility, and ethical absolutism. However, they differed in their assessment of the significance of religion for ethics - Twardowski believed that religion could facilitate the practice of virtues, while Witwicki thought that ethics should be entirely independent of religion. It can be said that Witwicki in an original, creative way continued Twardowski’s ethics, maintaining its fundamental assumptions.