Filozofia chrześcijańska wobec tzw. kryzysu wartości

Abstract

A man is a human being doomed to live in the world in which he faces alternative values. Therefore, the issues related to the values are constantly arousing a considerable interest on the level of philosophical reflection as well. It is hard to indicate such a philosophical system which would not deal with this matter. Every system introduces one or another hierarchy of values, or declares the lack of it. For a long time, in the Ancient Times and Middle Ages, a triad – Truth, Good and Beauty constituted a harmony of values complementing each other. This assumption of harmonious-natured values, since at least the times of Hume, has been superseded by the conflict-natured values statement accompanied by a subjective interpretation. A contemporary man negating the sense of philosophical thinking, in particular, theological one, is pursuing the sources of knowledge and values either in himself or in the empirical world. The issue of value classification is not, however, especially for the Christian reflection, a purely academic task with relatively small practical importance. The price of the lack of adequate attention devoted to this subject is, after all, a serious confusion over the contemporary axiological considerations.