Editing Antoni Kępiński (section)

===Kępiński as philosopher===
As a young medic, Kępiński was drawn to the works of [[Carl Jung]] and subjected the more "mystical" aspects to a critique which inspired him to launch on his own clinical and philosophical quest.<ref>Blutner R., Hochnadel E., "Two qubits for CG Jung's theory of personality", Cognitive Systems Research, vol. 11, no 3, 2010, p. 243-259</ref> Despite being essentially of a scientific turn of mind, Kępiński's works invoked great interest among Polish philosophers, most notably [[Józef Tischner]], who greatly appreciated his [[anthropology|anthropological]] insights.<ref name="bulaczek2013" /> Kępiński was not afraid of hypothesizing about the most difficult philosophical problems such as the nature of life, the problem of [[free will]], [[consciousness]] and human autonomy. On the other hand, he was skeptical about methods and theories which lacked a sufficiently solid scientific basis, e.g. [[psychoanalysis]], and rejected various forms of what he dismissed as "magical thinking" in psychology.<ref name="zawila2018">{{cite web|last1=Zawiła-Niedźwiecki|first1=Jakub|title=Kępiński, philosophy of mind, an inquiry into some limits of patient's autonomy|url=https://www.academia.edu/20222967|website=academia.edu|access-date=25 March 2018}}</ref> Kępiński argued that human [[ethics]] are not socially-constructed but rooted in biology and their prerequisites can be found in the animal world.<ref name="kepinski1977">{{cite book|last1=Kępiński|first1=Antoni|title=Anxiety (in Polish)|date=1977|publisher=Państwowy Zakład Wydawnictw Lekarskich|location=Warszawa}}</ref> He strongly rejected every form of ideology and extensively commented on the destructive impact of ideologies on human history.<ref name="kepinski1972" /> Tischner emphasized that many interesting ideas found in Kępiński's works are taken from other thinkers. He recognized [[information metabolism]] and axiological psychiatry as two truly original ideas of Kępiński.<ref name="kokoszka2012" /> Kępiński's disciple - psychiatrist Jacek Bomba - noted that the greatest value of his information metabolism theory is its quality of being an accurate and comprehensive synthesis of knowledge from [[neurophysiology]], [[psychology]], [[social science]] and [[medicine]].<ref name="ceklarz2018">{{cite journal|last1=Ceklarz|first1=Jan|title=Revision of Antoni Kępiński's concept of information metabolism (in Polish)|journal=Psychiatr. Pol.|date=2018|volume=52|issue=1|pages=165–173|doi=10.12740/PP/65751|pmid=29704423|url=http://www.psychiatriapolska.pl/uploads/images/PP_1_2018/165Ceklarz_PsychiatrPol2018v52i1.pdf|doi-access=free|access-date=2018-04-29|archive-date=2019-08-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190819070636/http://www.psychiatriapolska.pl/uploads/images/PP_1_2018/165Ceklarz_PsychiatrPol2018v52i1.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Kępiński maintained a good relationship with [[Phenomenology (philosophy)|phenomenologist]], [[Roman Ingarden]], a prominent  disciple of [[Edmund Husserl]]. The influence of phenomenology is apparent in his approach to human psychology.<ref name="kokoszka2012" /> It may be regarded as his second favorite analytical tool, next to the scientific approach.<ref name="kokoszka2012" />