Prawda o osobie ludzkiej źródłem i obroną tożsamości kultury Zachodu
The truth about human being and defence of identity in the Western culture

Summary/Abstract: The first part of the article refers to the basics of understanding a human being, which were conceived in the Western culture, and indicates features of man as a person, that are being gradually discovered and revealed, by connecting them with the philosophy of St Thomas Aquinas, Mieczysław A. Krąpiec, and Karol Wojtyła. The second part of the article accentuates the way in which the Western culture has been percolated by the truth of man’s personal life, and reveals the manifestations of man’s personal life, the reflection of which accounts for the Western cultural identity. Today, we live in a “thicket” of various theories and man’s conceptual frameworks. They complement one another, while the others exclude. Some of them show man’s uniqueness, while the others prove his/her commonness and even weaknesses in relation to the animals’ world. The formerly accepted paradigms, which were used for the purpose of shaping the image of man, are to be found in the background of this diversity. Today, we become aware very clearly that the wrong understanding of man, which is an anthropological mistake, has served the grounds for the fallacy in terms of social, cultural and civilisational theories, which is indeed the misconception of Western civilisation and culture, which was often mentioned by Pope Saint John Paul II in His preaching. The truth about a human being was discovered and disseminated in the Greek and Latin and Christian civilisation, which is the civilisation and culture of the Western world and it constitutes the objective criteria of verification and rating of the Western civilisation: its development and decadence. Since the culture - as the expression and materialisation of the human spirit - reveals the connection between the understanding of man and the cultural identity which expresses and reflects the spirit. For that reason the West is understood as the Western culture and civilisation.

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