„Pesymizm jako siła twórcza". Idee wychowawcze Mariana Zdziechowskiego
“Pessimism as a Creative Force”: Educational Ideas of Marian Zdziechowski

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the main assumptions of Marian Zdziechowski’s conception, focusing especially on their educational implications. His vision of the world and man, which was inspired, as he himself wrote, mainly by Christianity and Romanticism, is thoroughly pessimistic. Zdziechowski’s pessimism is metaphysical in its nature. Observing the history of humanity and human culture, he sees pain, suffering, despair, and death inevitably accompanying man, and he even identifies existence and suffering on an ontological level. Nevertheless, Zdziechowski finds great creative potential in pessimism; not only does he derive from it his conservative social thought but, above all, he refers to it when forming his educational ideas which emphasize the need for development and for taking responsibility.

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