Po co uniwersytet katolicki?
Why Catholic University?

Summary/Abstract: The crisis of university is the occasion for cogitation on the specifics of university as university and as Catholic university. Three major phases of functioning of universities animated by special cognitive passion may be perceived in the history of Western culture. Within the first pre-university phase, the cognitive passion was focused on the reality around man and the attempt to ultimately account for it. Plato’s Academy and Aristotle’s Lyceum were the outcome of that approach. Within the second phase, the cognitive passion was focused on God, which specifically characterised Christianity associating Revelation with the capacity to comprehend reality. Within the third phase, university adopted the form of a polytechnic for which knowledge is most of all the power manifested as the passion of ruling over the world. That last phase has prevailed until today and constitutes the threat to the humanities. The humanities should be revived by means of regaining respect for truth and image of man as human being. And these two tasks should be incorporated into the mission of Catholic university.

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