Barbara Skarga | |
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 Skarga in 2000 | |
| Born | 25 October 1919 |
| Died | 18 September 2009 (aged 89) |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Philosophy of dialogue |
Main interests | Epistemology, humanity, ontology, ethics |
Barbara Skarga (October 25, 1919 - September 18, 2009) [1] was a Polish philosophy historian and philosopher who worked mainly in ethics and epistemology.
Skarga was born in 1919 at Warsaw to a Calvinist family with gentry roots. Her sister was actress Hanna Skarżanka and brother was Edward Skarga. Skarga studied philosophy at Wilno University. During World War II she was a member of the resistance movement Armia Krajowa. In 1944 the Soviet NKVD arrested and sentenced her to ten years at the katorga. Afterwards, she was forced to live at a collective farm. After the war she wrote an anonymous memoir about her time in the gulag. [2]
She returned to Poland in 1955 [3] and graduated in 1957 with a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Warsaw. In 1988 she became a full professor of philosophy.
Skarga was an editor-in-chief of Etyka .
In 1995 she was awarded Order of the White Eagle.
Skarga died on September 18, 2009, and was buried on September 25 in Warsaw.
In 2022, the Barbara Skarga Foundation is based in Warsaw and offers a scholarship to unpublished philosophers. [4]
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