Miłość ojczyzny i wychowanie patriotyczne w ujęciu Karola Libelta (1807-1875)

Abstract

Karol Libelt was Wielkopolaninen, a meritorious educational and social activist of Wielkopolska, a participant of the November Uprising in 1830, a member of the insurgent National Government, a political convict from 1847. He belonged to the most prominent representatives of the philosophy of the Polish Romanticism. He co-created the so-called Polish national philosophy. He criticized Hegel’s thought. In place of the extreme philosophy of reason, he proposed a new “Slavic philosophy” which was to have the character of national philosophy. Poland played a significant role in it. Libeltʼs best-known sketch was the dissertation “On the Love of the Homeland”. In his analysis of the homeland category, he pointed to its most important component features: objective (material) factors, i.e. land, common space and the effects of common human activities; anthropological factors conditioning social bond based on the principle of kinship; cultural factors in the form of language, literacy, customs, beliefs and common history; existing political and social institutions; subjective factors found in people's psychological attitudes, social emotions, social sensitivity, etc. Libelt considered his philosophy to be an elaborate and philosophical synthesis of views that formed the output of philosophers and poets of the Polish Romantic era.