Moralne granice kompromisu

Abstract

The author stresses the increasing tendencies for compromises, which may, unfortunately, blur moral limits. On the one hand he emphasises the need for various compromises; on the other he points at the danger to blur the boundaries between good and evil, and thereby to deform conscience. Pointing at the decency of compromise, the author shows on the one hand the necessity to distinguish evil itself from a person who commits evil. He focuses on the realism of the Christian vision of man, therefore the inner dilemma which makes that a person must sometimes go a long way to accomplish the ideal given by a moral norm. He refers to John Paul II’s “law of gradation” which cannot be mistaken with the relativistic conception of the “gradation of law” He lays special emphasis on the limits of compromise determined by the respect for the full dignity of the human person, his basic rights, especially the right to live. A certain novelty here is to interpret the issue of compromise in the spirit of a call for evangelical radicalism. The author believes that it is only in this light that the Christian may thoroughly recognise the moral and at the same time religious limits of compromise.