Rev. Sawicki Fr., Race and worldview, 1938 lecture at UW,[print 1939].

Prof. Dr. Franciszek Sawicki, Race and Worldview, lecture delivered at Auditorium Maxmium of S.U.J.P. University on November 2, 1938 . Warsaw, 1939 [Series] Z zagadnień nowoczesnego rasizmu. Issued by the Publishing House of the Philosophical and Religious Studies of the S.U.J.P. [this is the Józef Piłsudski University / now the University of Warsaw]. Printed by the Archdiocesan Printing House, Warsaw 1, Krak. Przedmieście 73. booklet cover, pp. 29,[1], format 19.6 x 13.7 cm.

Good condition: catalog marking in pencil, minor stains and creases on cover.

Rev. prof.dr. Franciszek Sawicki (1877-1952) - professor at the Pelplin Theological Seminary, taught philosophy, moral theology, dogmatics, apologetics, among others.

In the book a critical lecture on racism. In the third part, entitled "Worldview as an expression of the racial soul," he concludes the chapter " Hence there is no strict parallel between race and worldview. Within the same race, especially in cultural peoples, different worldviews exist and fight each other, and again one and the same worldview, such as the Christian, Catholic worldview, can unite different races and peoples." In the fourth part titled "Racism as the highest value and norm of the worldview" - he makes various claims, including." Race by no means can be considered the highest norm of truth and morality"[it is the divine world].