Antoni Popławski (1739–1799) was a Polish Piarist educator and economist."Popławski, Antoni", Enciclopedia Italiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. Accessed 12 March 2016. A physiocrat and a proponent of the emancipation of serfs, in 1774 he coined the term "noble democracy" to describe the political system of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.Benedict Wagner-Rundell, Common Wealth, Common Good (Oxford University Press, 2015), p. 73. Popławski was born and died in Kraków.
Works O rozporzadzeniu i wydoskonaleniu edukacji obywatelskiej (1774) Available on Google Books. Moralna nauka dla szkól narodowych (1778)
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