Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kaute, Wojciech

Titel

Jednostka, społeczeństwo, demokracja w archetypie kultury polskiej: Jest problem czy go nie ma?

Ist Teil von

• Studia politicae Universitatis Silesiensis, 2021-06, Vol.32 (32), p.83-98

Ort / Verlag

University of Silesia Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• At the foundation of European culture lies Socrates’ idea that the rules of social life must be based on “the essence of things”. At the threshold of modernity, this paradigm was replaced by Descartes’ cogito, where the I is the starting point: an individual person undertaking some economic activity (Th. Hobbes, J. Locke). However, the market is not everything (J.J. Rousseau, I. Kant). According to the archetype of Polish culture, things are different. It stresses the need to take into account “values”, which s the imperative of every individual and at the same time of the community. In the words of Lelewel, this is “the Polish dance”; the “crowd”. This is the archetype of Polish culture. Poland is “perennial tenderness” (Y. Haenel). Whether this may be a convincing position in reflections upon Polish history still remains an open question.