This collection of essays is about some of the most fundamental issues connected with metaphysics, theory of values and philosophy of man. What is particularly intriguing about this collection is its unique and fruitful combination of different methodologies and traditions in one rich and persuasive picture of the most basic philosophical problems.

Władysław Antoni Stróżewski, born in Krotoszyn in 1933, studied philosophy at the Catholic University of Lublin (Poland). For many years, he lectured at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and many other institutions of higher education. After retiring from Jagiellonian University he started conducting seminars at the Academia in Kraków. He is a member of the Polish Academy of Letters and Sciences and the President of the Polish Philosophical Society. As an author he has published eleven books and more than 350 papers, reviews, and notes.

Contents: Foundations and Methods – Existence and Experience – Towards a Theory of Values – Metaphysics of Human Being.