Hellenizm: nacjonalizm czy uniwersalizm?
Hellenism: nationalism or universalism?

Summary/Abstract: In his article, the Author indicates that notwithstanding the fact that the Greeks’ achievements derived from the national background, the local genius, they immediately proved their universal face. As he points out, this universality is the warranty of the positive impact and strength of any nationalism. In this sense, the more intrinsic a particular nation’s striving to objectiveness and realism in the attitude to reality takes place, the more universal its culture is, although it is created in local conditions. The objective reality of the world of people and things, surrounding everybody and constituting a natural life environment for them, is in itself something more common, universal and for everybody and for them it should constitute a point of reference, a proper background for life, action, communication and creation. That as such may save, in this particularly objective attitude, any nationalisms (understood as specific ways of living for given local communities), from plunging into particularisms, elections, absolutising yourself. The universal nature of Hellenism, when it was blooming, was fully confirmed by the inception of the Christian religion with its common message indeed addressed to every man, and because of this was regarded as Catholic. This word itself, meaning universality, has the Greek indeed strongly philosophical background.

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