„Wartości" a dobro i zło
"Values" versus Good and Evil

Summary/Abstract: The modern form of "socialising through individualisation" has entailed a destruction of transcendental ideas, including the idea of good, equating them to inevitably relative, because always interchangeable - values. Henceforth, good and evil have been always concerned with a picture of individual or collective needs and human actions have been governed by the rule of "reciprocation of services". Converting good into value points out to giving priority to the relationship of socialising, understood as the net of reciprocal relations between individuals, over internal relationship of human being with himself. This suggests the priority of acting over thinking. Meanwhile, as Arendt writes, differentiating good from evil involves thinking, that is to say internal dialogue in which human being judges his own deeds according not to always relative hierarchy of values but to the rule of lack of contradiction, i.e. oneself’s reconciliation with himself.

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