Wolność liberała, wolność chrześcijanina

Abstract

The article discusses an original conception of freedom developed by Mirosław Dzielski: existential and metaphysical freedom, the latter fitting within the limits of the former. The article shows the difference between liberal and Christian understanding of freedom although freedom itself is shown as the ground where the great liberal tradition and Christianity meet and communicate. The article shows the route a Christian must follow in his thinking to be able, at least to some extent, to accept liberal freedom, but it also shows the route a liberal should follow to perceive the insufficiency of a negative conception of freedom and accept the reasons of Christian argumentation. One way or another the meeting of a “liberal” and a “Christian” always takes place within an area of freedom.