O niewidocznych przeszkodach dialogu i próbie jego ocalenia
ON THE INVISIBLE BARRIERS TO DIALOGUE AND AN ATTEMPT TO SAVE IT

Summary/Abstract: Reading the text by Katarzyna and Andrzej Zybertowicz became the basis for a stormy discussion during the classes on Contemporary problems of ethics, conducted in the winter semester 2021/2022 at the second-cycle philosophy studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the Nicolaus Copernicus University. It evoked a whole range of reac- tions among the participants - from intellectual inspiration, encouragement to a diffe- rent approach to some phenomena and their interpretation, through disagreement with some of the theses, to radical opposition to simplifying judgments formulated against the participants of the so-called Black Protest. We differed in our assessment of this sta- tement and assessed its elements differently; However, we were united by the conviction that despite the formulation of an invitation to discussion in the essay, the transmission of the text makes this discussion very difficult.Therefore, we decided to recognize and report those places we discovered in the essay which, in our opinion, hamper such a dialogue to the greatest extent, and indicate a possible direction for overcoming these difficulties. At the same time, we would like to suspend the very debate on the essence of the dispute, i.e. the problem of the status of legal regulations on abortion in Poland and our attitude to this issue. The overriding goal for us is to strive for the title „saving the dialogue”, to which the authors themselves invite, but which - in our common opinion, has been severely strained by the precon- ditions set out by the text in question.

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