The Socratic Model of Philosophy of Stanisław Vincenz, and its Roots in the Galician Experience by the End of the 19 th Century and the first half of the 20 th Century

Abstract

Stanisław Vincenz became a philosopher thanks to his encounter with Rudolf Holzapfel and his writings. It was a decisive impulse in writings his tetralogy On the High Uplands. Sagas, Songs, Tales and Legends of the Carpathians, his major oeuvre. It was not a philosophical system but a narrative reconstruction of a world that vanished. It seems that Vincenz paid his debt to his mentor Holzapfel in his latest work Socrates’s Post-war Vicissitudes published in 1985. In Vincenz works Galicia gained a special glorifying writer. Fascinated by voices from the past he created an alternative to totalitarian political systems.