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not, and if they exist they do it only as ontic facts, mediated through man and society, what means that they can be regarded from the ontological viewpoint.

The personality and health understood in such a way are the basis for philosophically interpreted pedagogy of physical culture - a field whose aim is education, development and improvement of the human being according to the assumed aims and educational ideals referring to axiology - the source and sense of values of physical culture. Reflection on the pedagogy of physical culture has been interpreted - in the light of generał assumptions of Hessen’s philosophy of culture and pedagogy - as a part of the philosophy of physical culture; that is, as a philosophy realizing the assumed world of values and changing on that basis ontic layers of the human individual, personality and health, creating and shaping the human being as the subject of culture and civilization.

In the rangę of Professor Kosiewicz’s interest there have been also methodological issues; that is, analysis of logical structure of optimizing propositions of the pedagogy of physical culture on the basis of the theory of physical education and other sub-disciplines belonging to that pedagogy (health education, education through sport, pedagogy in the praxeological interpretation, training theory and theory of sports contest). As a result of the abovementioned researches he has come to a conclusion that the pedagogy of physical culture (as well as its sub-disciplines) is a typical practical discipline where there are constructed aims, complexes of values, educational ideals, ideals of personality and health of teleological and optimizing character, and where there are defined ways of their realization, fields and variants of practical activities. The discussed conceptions have been enriched by him with extensive considerations from the field of generał methodology, philosophy of science and science studies presented in the papers “On Methodology and Hypothesis” and “Methodology as a Form of Agnosticism”, and in “Verification and Hypothesis”.

Professor Rosiewicz is of an opinion that foundations of anthropological assumptions of physical culture and sport are constituted by conceptions of man taking into account the physical - that is, bodily - basis of the human subject. It results, among others, form the fact that physical culture is understood also as somatic culture - that is, bodily culture (nota bene Professor Rosiewicz is against using the terms “somatic culture” and “bodily culture”). Because of that reason, considerations on human corporeality are treated as fundamental researches form the viewpoint of physical education constituting the genetic basis of physical culture and of the connected disciplines.

Professor Rosiewicz focuses attention also on problems of the body in Christian anthropology considered from the historical perspective - from Orphism to modemity. It refers, first of all, to three books - “Bóg, cielesność i przemoc” /”God, Coporeality and Violence”/ (1997), “Myśl wczesnochrześcijańska i katolicka wobec ciała” /“Attitude of Early Christian and Catholic Thought towards the Body”/ (1998) and “Bóg, cielesność i miłość” /”God, Corporeality and Love”/ (1998) - which have been reedited several times - as well as to “The Human Being and His Body in Church’s Teaching and in Early Christian Philosophy - Issues and Problems. A Monograph” (1991), which characterizes over three thousand years of religious thought, theology and philosophy of European cultures. He turned attention there to Judaist and Hellenie roots of Christian anthropology, to the early Christian basis of development of Catholic conceptions of man and to its differentiated attitude to the human body. He presented also an analysis of a contemporary form of Catholic anthropology pointing out to significant Biblical influences - as well as religious influences of Greek and Roman antiąuity - and their conseąuences. He discussed also attitudes of Russian Orthodox Christianity and Protestantism towards the human body and its needs. Considerations on ancient roots and various shapes of Christian anthropology - and especially on conceptions of