Curriculum Vitae

  • 1960 born in Staszów, near Kielce, Poland.
  • 1979 - 1986 - study in philosophy and theology in the Redemptorists Seminary in Tuchów, Poland.
  • 1986 - priestly ordination in the Congregation of Redeemporists.
  • 1992 - The M.A., The Cracow Faculty of Theology, the thesis: Understanding of the Efficient Cause in Thomistic and Marxists Philosophy.
  • 1994 - The PhD, The Catholic University of Lublin, Faculty of Christian Philosophy, the dissertation: Bernhard Welte's Way of Understanding Religion in the light of his Philosophy of Religion.
  • 2003 - Qualification for the assistant professor on the base of the treatise Some sources of secularization and secularism in European culture, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw, 2003.
  • 2003 - 2009 - head of the Recruitment Commission of the Faculty of Philosophy at CSWU in Warsaw.
  • 2005 - Associate professor, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw, Faculty of Christian Philosophy.
  • 2006 - Head of the Faculty of Metaphysics, CSWU.
  • 2011 - Director of the Department of Philosophy of God and Religion, CSWU.
  • 2005 - 2012 - Vice- Director of the Institute of Philosophy, CSWU.


Domains of researching


  1. The methodology of metaphysics: the properties of metaphysical cognition; specification of the language of metaphysics, and of the explanation and justification in metaphysics; basis of forming the understanding a man as a person; the need for practicing of classical metaphysics.
  2. Jewish philosophy: causes of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, philosophy of Edith Stein.
  3. The philosophy of God and religion: arguments for existence and nature of God; relation between reason and faith; causes of atheism and secularism in contemporary culture; A. Schopenhauer’s and F. Nietzsche’s philosophy of religion.

Research Achievements


  • 1997/1998 - two-semester research stay at the Fordham University in New York, USA.
  • 2003 - winter semester research stay at the Harvard University in Boston, USA.
  • 2005 - nomination for the member of The Commission for the Religious Language at the Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Warsaw.
  • 2007 - winter semester research stay at the Fordham University in New York, USA.

Membership in scientific societies or associations


  • Polish Philosophical Society, Warsaw.
  • Polish Thomas Aquinas Association, Lublin.
  • Nietzsche Circle, New York, USA.
  • Nietzsche Society, New York, USA.

Prizes and awards


  • 1992 - Rector's Award, The John Paul II University in Lublin, The Award for the Organizational Activities.
  • 2001 - Rector's Award, The Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, The Award for the Organizational Activities.
  • 2004 - Rector's Award, The Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, The Award for the Scholar and Organizational.
  • 2010 - Conferred by the President of the Republic of Poland with the Silver Cross of Merit for the Scholar and Didactical Activities.