Błąd kulturowy? Próba analizy niektórych tendencji współczesnej kultury
Cultural error? The attempt to analyze some tendencies in contemporary culture

Summary/Abstract: The idea of a “cultural error”, which is included in the title, refers to the category of an “anthropological error”, which was formulated by John Paul II in his encyclical Centesimus annus. According to the Polish pope this error was the foundation of a faulty assessment of society and human role which was suggested by the Marxist philosophical and social system. The idea of a “cultural error”, which has been put forward in this article, is an attempt to formulate a holistic view of the cultural transformation process which started in the 18th century in the Enlightenment era and which has lasted up till now. This error consists in the negation of the possibility of the natural origin of the axiological sphere and in promoting the opposite worldview that all values (ethical, esthetic, epistemological), which put order into human thinking and acting, are the merely the result of the culture. This article is the attempt to present the panorama of those transformations, which result from this erroneous assessment of man (negating the vision of a human person as a being who is open to the transcendence) and his role in culture creation process.

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