Zbigniew Pańpuch, doctor of philosophy, assistant professor in the Department of Metaphysics at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin.

• In 1987 he started to study philosophy at the John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin. In the years 1992/93 he studied philosophy in Germany at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universitaet in Munich as the holder of the scholarship of the GFPS (Gemeinschaft zur Förderung von Studienaufenthalten polnischer Studenten in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland e.V.).
• In 1994 he graduated from the philosophy at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (the topic: Understanding of ARETE in Plato’s Meno and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, promoter: Rev. Prof . Dr. Mieczysław A. Krąpiec) and made doctor degree in 2005 (the topic: ARETE as a mode of fulfillment in individual and social life of man according to Plato and Aristotle, promoter: Rev. Prof. Dr Andrzej Maryniarczyk).
• In 1998 he started as an assistant at the Chair of Metaphysic, John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin; in 2007 he became assistant profesor.
• His scientific interests concern theory of being and philosophical anthropology from the perspective of realistic philosophy, ethics and anthropology in the writings of Plato and Aristotle, philosophy of politics, economy.
• He is the author of entries in the Universal Encyclopedia of Philosophy and numerous scientific articles in which the philosophical problems are analyzed from the perspective of realistic philosophy.