Christian humanism and the Challenges of Contemporary Culture in the Post-communist lands Cover Image

Chrześcijaństwo wobec postkomunizmu
Christian humanism and the Challenges of Contemporary Culture in the Post-communist lands

Author(s): Piotr Jaroszyński
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Fundacja »Lubelska Szkoła Filozofii Chrześcijańskiej«
Keywords: Christianity; humanism; culture; post-communism

Summary/Abstract: Since our encounter with a false understanding of culture was more painful in the communistic countries than in the west, there are schools in those countries, like Lublin School of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Lublin, where we have a clearer perception of the dangers that contemporary culture bears when it is cut off from the past, guided by hedonism, and deprived of all that is transcendent. Therefore the west should try to understand the experience of the post-communist countries before those countries are submerged completely in a neo-socialism more dangerous than communism itself. No other humanism than Christian humanism can offer a rational and realistic solution to this risky and even tragic situation of contemporary mankind.

  • Issue Year: 2004
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 59-69
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish
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