Aktualność filozofii politycznej Akwinaty. Ostrzeżenia epistemologiczne z XIII wieku
The actuality of Aquinas’ Political Philosophy. Epistemological Warnings from the Thirteenth Century

Summary/Abstract: As early as the thirteenth century, St. Thomas Aquinas clearly recognized certain epistemological threats to the political sphere of human functioning, with his insights gaining a special dimension today. This is because the crisis of rationality we are experiencing in our societies has its origins in a false perception of reality (idealistic constructivism), in the „messianic” tendencies of contemporary politics (ideologization of political and social life) and, finally, in a kind of „sexualization” of public debate (accelerating since the 1968 revolution). All these dangers cause disorders in the cognitive sphere of man, especially as to communal life, and do not allow for the proper functioning of human society. The solution would be to turn to a realistic political epistemology, which was consciously Aquinas’ choice centuries ago, and which would allow us to really see the real problems plaguing modern societies and really overcome them.

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