Walery Goetel and the Idea of Sozology

The article presents the concept of sozology, formulated by Walery Goetel in the 1960s, an innovative proposal to establish an autonomous and interdisciplinary branch of science concerning the protection of the environment. The essence of this idea was to determine the subject matter of the postulated branch science that would include the protection of the natural environment as well as the social environment, which was a major breakthrough and is now an indisputable axiom of ecology, ecophilosophy, the study into the protection of the life of human environment, and the idea of sustainable development. Furthermore, the text contains a short biography of the Polish scientist and presents the reception of Goetl in modern Polish ecological thought in the form of systemic sozology and sozophilosophy.