Darowski entered the Jesuit Order in 1951 and was ordained priest in Warsaw in 1961. He studied philosophy at the Jesuit Faculty of Philosophy in Kraków from 1955-1958 and theology at the Jesuit Faculty of Theology: Bobolanum in Warsaw from 1958-1962. Afterwards, he continued his philosophical studies at the Gregorian University in Rome from 1963-1966, where he obtained a Ph.D,, and in Munich from 1966/67. Since 1990 he had been a full professor (professor ordinarius).
Since 1967, Darowski had been a lecturer in philosophy, mainly in philosophical anthropology, at the Jesuit Faculty of Philosophy in Kraków, now Akademia Ignatianum. He would then become a dean of the Faculty of Philosophy (1968-1982, 1994-1997, and 2001–2007); rector of the Jesuit College in Kraków (1978-1984); founder and the first editor (1996-2006) of a multilingual review called Forum Philosophicum; and member of the Committee for the History of Science and Technology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Darowski published mainly in the field of philosophical anthropology and in the field of the history of philosophy in Poland, especially that of the Jesuits. He has published 15 books and over 300 articles – over 50 of them in foreign languages.
Fr. Darowski died in Kraków, at 82, after 66 years as a jesuit and 56 years as a priest.
