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To the main research areas of Department of Ethics belong: history of ethics, of which we can emphasize the Aristotelian and Stoic tradition, Polish ethical thought of 12th-20th centuries and position of ethicality in Friedrich Nietzsche’s and Martin Heidegger’s thought. Also we deal with ethics in context of main metaphysical and ontological questions, rise and search questions of the role of ethics in religious context, investigate position of ethics in pedagogical and ecological thought, and also didactics of ethics and philosophical education in context of contemporary dispute about the shape of culture.

Department of Ethics is active on different areas of the scientific activities, like conferences, publications of articles and monographs, didactics of ethics at the university as well, as cooperation with high schools in the scope of didactics of ethics. As the most significant achievements we can point out Maria Kostyszak’s monograph Controversy on Language. Critique of Ontotheology in Nietzsche’s, Heidegger and Derrida’s Writing (Wrocław 2010) that enters the space of question on language in its crucial role within the ethical area. We can’t pass over Andrzej Lorczyk’s edition of manuscripts of Henryk Elzenberg – Polish philosopher who developed his peculiar theory of values. Two volumes: Human Being in Context of Values in Henryk Elzenberg’s Philosophy (Wrocław 1998) and Axiological Writings (together with Lesław Hostyński and Agnieszka Nogal) (Wrocław 2002) are of great importance for researches on this topic. Paweł Korobczak’s monograph A Concealed Ethical Dimension in Martin Heidegger’s Thought (Wrocław 2018), where the question of possible ontological structure of ethical dimension is being investigated, could also be mentioned as the most recent publication of our department.