children constituency_mp nationality birth_date term_end alma_mater imagesize term_start image name occupation caption predecessor parliament birth_place party office website successor religion article_title
2 lesser poland and Świętokrzyskie lower silesian and opole polish 24 december 1949 16 november 2007 2 july 2014 jagiellonian university 170px 13 august 2007 1 july 2014 14 july 2009 150px ryszard legutko politician , philosopher ryszard legutko -lrb- kielce , 25 february 2014 -rrb- roman giertych european european kraków , poland law and justice minister of education of poland -lsb- http://www.rlegutko.pl/ official website -rsb- katarzyna hall roman catholicism ryszard legutko

ryszard legutko

ryszard antoni legutko -lrb- -rrb- , born 24 december 1949 , is polish philosopher and politician .
professor of philosophy at the jagellonian university in kraków , specializing in ancient philosophy and political theory .
under communism he was one of the editors of the samizdat quarterly `` arka '' .
after the collapse of the communist regime he co-founded the centre for political thought , which combines research , teaching , seminars and conferences and is also a publishing house .
he has translated and written commentaries to plato 's `` phaedo '' -lrb- 1995 -rrb- , `` euthyphro '' -lrb- 1998 -rrb- and `` apology '' -lrb- 2003 -rrb- .
he is the author of several books : `` plato 's critique of democracy '' -lrb- 1990 -rrb- , `` toleration '' -lrb- 1997 -rrb- , `` a treatise on liberty '' -lrb- 2007 -rrb- and `` an essay on the polish soul '' -lrb- 2008 -rrb- , `` socrates '' -lrb- 2013 -rrb- .
in 2005 he was elected to a seat in the polish senate -lrb- representing the law and justice party -rrb- , where he became deputy speaker .
in 2007 he was poland 's education minister , and in 2007-2009 secretary of state in the chancellery of president lech kaczyński .
he is currently a member of the european parliament , where he sits on the foreign affairs committee , and deputy chairman of the conservatives and reformists parliamentary group .
sued in 2010 for violation of personal rights by calling students who demanded removal of christian symbols from a public school `` unruly brats spoiled by their parents '' , he asked for a dismissal of the case based on his immunity as a member of european parliament .
in 2011 the court denied that request .
plaintiffs are represented by an attorney on a pro-bono basis under the precedential cases program of the helsinki foundation for human rights .
fellow of collegium invisibile as a professor of philosophy .
