Sylwetki wielkich Polaków: Jacek Woroniecki

Abstract

A value of a national culture is determined by a level of personal culture of its representatives. One of the eminent individuals of the Polish nation is Jacek Woroniecki (1878-1949) – Dominican, theologian, philosopher, and educator in one person. A characteristic feature of Woroniecki’s intellectual life is uncommonly wide spectrum of approached issues. It makes impossible to qualify him as a representative of a narrowly understood specialization. Multithreads of Woroniecki’s works finds their reason in a deep symbiosis between his social involvement and his scientific life. He noticed a need of social care about the education of youth, especially on the higher level. He also warned the well-educated against a cultural regress and encouraged them to a permanent, intellectual, and moral formation. Jacek Woroniecki underlined a responsibility of the Polish Catholic intelligentsia for the future of Church and homeland.