Biography of Casimir Lyshchinsky

He studied at the Jesuit Collegium in the city of Brest. In years, a member of the Jesuits Order. After the annual Novitian in the city of Krakow Poland, in years he studied at the Jesuit Collegium of the city of Kalish Poland, where he studied rhetoric, logic, physics and metaphysics, then in Lviv, Ukraine, where he studied theology. In the year, he returned to the family estate of the Skut.

He turned it into an exemplary economy, founded a school for peasant children here and taught it in it. He was engaged in legal practice. In, and years he was elected ambassador from the gentry of the Brest Voivodeship at the Sejm of the Commonwealth in Warsaw. No later than a year he wrote a page treatise, which for the first time in history had the name “On the Non -existence of God” burned in the year by court decision; Five fragments found and published in the year have been preserved.

In it he outlined his views on religion and the world around him, denied the existence of God, the immortality of the soul, the afterlife, all the dogmas and rites of the church. He argued that people are creators and creators of the gods, God is not a real essence, but the creation of reason, moreover, the Himeric, but the faith, which is considered sacred, is a human fiction. He believed that theologians “extinguish the light of the mind” and “overthrow God from heaven”, attributing him the impossible, endowing him with conflicting features and properties.

He argued that religion was established by unbelievers, so that they are given honors, falseemoders deceive the ordinary people, entangling him with faith in God, introduced by atheists. The only reality considered the material nature, arguing that all changes in nature occur according to the laws of the development of matter, and not according to God's will. He considered it necessary to replace church marriage civilians.

According to the denunciation, the author of which stole the part of the treatise at the Lyshchinsky, in the year was concluded by the Vilensky bishop to a church prison and sentenced by a court of bishops to burn at the stake. According to the results of the trial, held at the beginning of the year in Warsaw, Lyshchinsky was beheaded and burned at the stake, his ashes were scattered in the field.

Proceedings: 1. XIX century. Literature: 1. Seyler G. Acta Lysczynskiana, Das Ist, Ausfu? Ammon C. Casimir Lysczynski, Ein Beitrag Zur Geschichte des Idealistischen Atheismus. Gottingen: Dieterich, Wielowski J. SPRAWA Kazimierza Lyszczynskiego. Warszawa: Wiedza Powszechna, Prokoshina E. Nowicki A. Kazimierz lyszczynski. Lodz: Towarzystwo Krzewienia Kultury Swieckiej,