communist and Young Hegelian Moses Hess. The latter adopted Cieszkowski's idea of that the dualism between consciousness and action would collapse in the latter part of the history of humanity, though he believed the synthesis had occurred on various occasions throughout history and located the transition to the 'third age' at the Reformation instead of the philosophy of Hegel. Scholars David McLellan and Shlomo Avineri argue that Marx, who was a friend of and collaborator with Hess from a few years from 1841 onwards, owes various aspects of his thought on alienation and the nature of and transition to communist society to Cieszkowski, including that the dualism between consciousness and action would collapse in revolutionary praxis. (Cieszkowski was one of the earliest philosophers to use the term praxis as meaning "action oriented towards changing society" in his Prolegomena zur Historiosophie). The University of Life Sciences in Poznań was named the August Cieszkowski Agricultural University of Poznań from 1996 until 11 April 2008, when it gained official university status, in recognition of Cieszkowski's contributions to agricultural science and education in the region. Works Prolegomena zur Historiosophie (Prolegomena to a Historiosophy) (1838) Gott und Palingenesie (God and Palingenesis) (1842) Ojcze Nasz (Our Father) (1848) See also History of philosophy in Poland List of Poles Notes References Witold Jakóbczyk, Witold Jakóbczyk, Przetrwać worth at 1815–1914, 55 part series "This nation and the Polish state", Warsaw, 1989 Norman Davies, God's Playground, Vol II, Kraków, Mark, 1992, pp. 64–65 Leszek Kołakowski, Main Currents of Marxism: the Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown pp. 71 – 73 External links 1814 births 1894 deaths Jagiellonian University alumni People from Luboń People from the Grand Duchy of Posen People from Węgrów County 19th-century Polish economists 19th-century Polish philosophers Members of the Prussian House of Representatives Hegelian philosophers Heidelberg University alumni Humboldt University of Berlin alumni Participants of the Slavic Congress in Prague 1848 Polish messianism Member of the Prussian National Assembly