Problematyka filozoficznych podstaw pedagogiki w sporze Wydziału Filozofii Chrześcijańskiej KUL z marksizmem
The Philosophical Foundations of Pedagogy in the Dispute of The Faculty of Christian Philosophy of the Catholic University of Lublin with Marxism

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the philosophical foundations of alternative pedagogy in relation to Marxism. The subject of these reflections are the research activities carried out by the Department of Christian Philosophy of the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) during the time of communist rule in Poland. Thanks to the philosophical anthropology formulated at the department, it could, independently of the ideological indoctrination connected with the contemporaneous system of power, find its own necessary theoretical foundation. The paper is comprised of four parts. The first part presents the political realities of the dialogue. It is well known that KUL – the only Catholic university in any communist country – was an important center of Christian culture in Poland and that it implemented a model of education based on Christian values, even though it operated under strong pressure from the authorities of the People’s Republic of Poland. The second part of the paper covers the five stages of the running dialogue between philosophers at KUL and Marxists, an exchange particularly colored by the political changes that occurred in Poland in the years 1944, 1950, 1956, 1968, 1981, and 1989. The third part of the analysis is devoted to the model of integral humanism realized by KUL, with particular attention being paid to the role of research conducted in the Department of Philosophy. The article concludes with a discussion of the theses of philosophical anthropology formulated at the Catholic University of Lublin, selected for their differences regarding the three fundamental determinants of Marxism: materialism, atheism, and dialectics.

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