Akceptacja wartości ostatecznych przez młodzież szkolną w Krośnie na Podkarpaciu

Abstract

In the period of the unification of the continent as well as the global processes, people seek for universal values that could be the basis of future union if the nations. During the two thousand years of Christianity, the Church has established main rules that remain the same until today. On the other hand, they occurred to be flexible and easily adaptable to changing historical and social conditions. The extreme and instrumental values are closely connected and they come from differences between religions. Simone Weil tries to put them into one system which he calls “the process of becoming rooted”. The system is an inner hierarchy that allows us to keep the right direction of behaviour, having in mind transcendental side of life on one hand, and being in touch with every day life on the other, despite the fact these two exclude each other. In 1997 the author of the article, carried out a survey concerning the level of recognition of the extreme values. On the basis of the answers of High Schools’ students on Podkarpacie Province, he tried to define the place of religious values among the extreme values and what is the level of recognition of religious truths among young people in Poland.