The Critique of Liberal Capitalism in the Light of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński’s Personalistic Concept of Socio-Economic Life
The Critique of Liberal Capitalism in the Light of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński’s Personalistic Concept of Socio-Economic Life

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the presented article is the analysis of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński's personalistic vision of the socio-economic life in the context of the doctrine of liberal capitalism. The author's interpretation of the source materials is therefore aimed at showing Wyszyński's praxeological and ethical reflection and placing it in relation to the socio-economic aspects of human life, characteristic of liberal capitalism. Exploration of the above research involves the analysis of source texts and their reinterpretation using the inductive-deductive method. The basic research goal of the above article is to present the moral message of Cardinal Wyszyński in the context of the Christian vision of involvement in socio-economic life, as well as its application to the specific and contemporary reality of public life. The author of the article asks whether the moral message contained in the personalistic vision of the human person presented by Cardinal Wyszyński can be applied to the contemporary reality of socio-political and economic life, in which liberal capitalism seems to be the dominant ideology of the Western world. The answer to such issues is extremely important, especially in the context of resurgent "collectivist" populism, which, combined with the ideas of the so-called "ideological pluralism", emphasizing the moral ambivalence of "liquid" postmodernity, becomes a serious challenge not only for Christianity, but also for the entire modern world.

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