KURNATOWSKI, Jerzy. Dobro i zlo. Studja etyczne. Lviv, Maniszewski and Meinhart, and Warsaw, E. Wende, [1903].
8vo. Contemporary red cloth, spine faintly lettered in gilt; pp. 250; cloth a little rubbed, small stab hole from rear cover up to p. 209 in the outer margins; otherwise a very good and clean copy; provenance: from the library of the political activest and member of Rosa Luxemburg's party S.D.K.P.i.L., Dzieslaw Szerynski, with his pictorial bookplate inside front cover.
First edition of this edition of essays on ethical and philosophical implications of the more recent developments of scientific thought of mainly Darwinian nature. Jerzy Karol Kurnatowski (1874-1934) was a Polish lawyer, civil servant, translator of Nietzsche and professor of political science. One chapter title translates as Cosmic Biologism, this is followed by an essay on bio-ethics, and one on Haeckel. - His work on the Poles in Germany and the Germans in Poland of 1927 was translated into French and English.
Not in COPAC or OCLC; KVK locates two copies, in Berlin and Warsaw.
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