Źródła współczesnych przemian kulturowych. Społeczno-religijne intuicje Jacka Woronieckiego OP

Abstract

In works of father Jacek Woroniecki, who was a great Dominican, priest and faith teacher, the particular role plays his deliberation on tendencies (trends) of culture and their influence on the shape of social and religious life. In his thoughts, Woroniecki, a moral philosopher and theologian, concentrated on the analysis of inspiration, which led to the rise of the twentieth-century cultural trends. What took place in modem philosophy and owing to it also in the widely understood culture, caused the domination of the subjectivistic tendencies. Descartes, Kant and Hegel are the philosophers who having moved the cognitive accent from object to subject, brought in the powerful ideological current of subjectivism and particularism into the culture. The continuation of incorrect attitudes indicated by the Polish Dominican may be noticed also in modem forms of communal and religious life. Sentimentalism, which Woroniecki wrote about, today takes the form of consumerism. Certain kind of fideism may be perceived in departure from institutional religions as well as in treating them in an-instrumental way and also in modem para-religious cultural observances. Nowadays the concept of culture has the quazi-sacral dimension. In his diagnosis, Woroniecki indicated also individualism and moral intellectual ism that today may be associated with subjectivism and relativism. Multiplicity of opinions and beliefs, so characteristic for present-day culture, appoints a peculiar way of understanding of the word “morality”, which in the contemporary post modem world first of all assumes a customary and pragmatic nature – particularly in concepts of Richard Rorty and Jürgen Habermas.