Jednostka, społeczeństwo, demokracja w archetypie kultury polskiej: Jest problem czy go nie ma?
The Individual Person, Society, Democracy in the Archetype of Polish Culture: Is There a Problem or Not?

Summary/Abstract: At the foundation of European culture lies Socrates’ idea that the rules of social life must be based on “the essence of things”. At the threshold of modernity, this paradigm was replaced by Descartes’ cogito, where the I is the starting point: an individual person undertaking some economic activity (Th. Hobbes, J. Locke). However, the market is not everything (J.J. Rousseau, I. Kant). According to the archetype of Polish culture, things are different. It stresses the need to take into account “values”, which s the imperative of every individual and at the same time of the community. In the words of Lelewel, this is “the Polish dance”; the “crowd”. This is the archetype of Polish culture. Poland is “perennial tenderness” (Y. Haenel). Whether this may be a convincing position in reflections upon Polish history still remains an open question.

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