Dwaj wielcy warszawiacy: Władysław Tatarkiewicz i Alfred Tarski

The article presents scientific personalities and main achievements of two great scholars: Alfred Tarski and Władysław Tatarkiewicz. They represent different disciplines: Tatarkiewicz was first of all an aesthetician and historian of philosophy; Tarski was a logician and mathematician. The article, however, concentrates on similarities between them. Firstly, both Tatarkiewicz and Tarski are counted among members of the Lvov-Warsaw School. Secondly, they were born and worked in Warsaw (in the case of Tarski – until the outbreak of the World War II). Thirdly, they were strongly attached to their homeland: Poland. Fourthly, one of the common motives of their views is philosophical absolutism. The article is based on the lecture delivered on the 29th of November, 2016, at the University of Warsaw. The lecture was a part of the naming ceremony of two lecture halls at the Institute of Philosophy (Krakowskie Przedmieście 3) in honor, respectively, of Tatarkiewicz and Tarski.