La praxéologie comme grammaire chez Tadeusz Kotarbinski

Abstract

Tadeusz Kotarbinski’s philosophical development is astonishingly complete. From the very beginning of his work he showed interest in ethical questions, but he felt that before ha can answer them he needed to deal with several issues in the philosophy of language and action. He thought that a good theory of action (praxiology) constituted a necessary starting point for any future philosophy – without understanding action, we cannot understand what comes out of it. This article tries to sketch a few difficulties of this theory and to compare Kotarbinski’s conception to the one proposed by another important praxiologist, Ludwig von Mises.