Mariański, Janusz (Papieski Fakultet Teologiczny we Wrocławiu, 2003)
In his text the author asks some important questions: is it possible to reconstruct the moral relations without having generally binding moral standards? Is it enough to have only situational, local moral standards? Does the coming of the postdeontological era equal to the realization of the culture of cinicism, manipulation and indifference? What does it mean to introduce a normative and binding relationship between people? The author goes then to give some answers to the problems he recognizes. In real societies there are many persons, social groups and institutions that not only maintain the religious, moral and social values (they live them), but also defend them and propose them to the others as the life values that can transform from the inside the society in general. In the process of revitalization of the moral values it is important to restore their original meaning and splendor. A certain mentality of the revitalization of moral values is needed as well as some forms of institutional ethics. The global thinking in moral questions needs a local support in concrete undertakings.
