Roman Darowski
Roman Darowski (12 August 1935 – 15 January 2017) 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 1955-1958 and theology at the Jesuit Faculty of Theology: Bobolanum in Warsaw from 1958-1962. Afterwards, he continued his philosophical studies at the Gregorian University in Rome from 1963-1966, where he obtained a Ph.D, and in  Munich from 1966/67. Since 1990 he had been a full professor (professor ordinarius). 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 (1968-1982, 1994-1997, and 2001–2007); rector of the Jesuit College in Kraków (1978-1984); founder and the first editor (1996-2006) 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" [Philosophy of Man, 5 Polish editions] 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  (cf. "Philosophical Anthropology", especially the chapter entitled “Human Being as a Dialogical Being”, pp. 123–126). He does not avoid the new achievements of the life sciences; instead, he attempts to integrate them with philosophy (cf. the chapters entitled “Human Corporeality”, pp. 38–43, and “The Origin of Human Being”, pp. 95–99 of the work just mentioned). Especially in its initial stages, there are many elements in his application of his method resembling a phenomenological description.