Adam Burski

Adam Burski, also called Bursius (about 1560 to 1611), was a Polish philosopher of the Renaissance and a leading Polish representative of Neostoicism. His Dialectica Ciceronis of 1604 boldly proclaimed Stoic sensualism and empiricism and, before Francis Bacon, urged the use of the inductive method. He set himself the same goals as Justus Lipsius, the restorer of Stoicism famous in the West, and Lipsius valued his work highly. Burski had been rector of the Lwów Lyceum and a professor at Kraków University when, at the invitation of Jan Zamoyski, he became professor of moral philosophy at the new Zamość Academy in Zamość in 1596, a post he held until his death.