Kondycja moralna człowieka ponowoczesnego

Abstract

In Polish cultural press serious opinions appear (A. Zagajewski, K. Dorosz) warning against making culture banal and lowering the standards of both life and thinking. Under this impulse the author of the article points to the basic features of postmodernist thinking. It turns out that the opposition between the Enlightenment and postmodernism gets weaker in several key points connected with secularisation. A certain continuity of thought may be shown in such fields as the approach to history, subjectivity of man and differentiating between the good and the evil. Everywhere secularisation of thinking has produced negative results in defining one’s duty, one’s ability to make a sacrifice and overcoming one’s negative attitude. Seeing and experiencing God’s authentic Fatherhood, the Son’s deep Love and the Spirit’s elevating Strength is a Christian response to the negative and banal character of culture.