Abstract

In ten succinct lectures delivered on the Bavarian Radio in 1958 Professor Bocheński lucidly presented his personal philosophy starting from words in daily use such as law, truth, society, man and values. The result is neither pedantic history nor abstract speculation, which might intimidate the ordinary listener or reader, but a lively insight into the process of philosophizing and the metaphysical scope of its questions and answers. Properly rejecting the illusion of an ‘objective’ exposition, which owes nothing to its author’s point of view, he frankly offers his personal decisions and warns the reader that in some questions, one’s decision between realism and idealism ‘must be uncompromising’