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Liberalism - Totalitaryzm - Christianity. Moral Dillemas of Adam Krzyżanowski
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The article is an attempt to make the public familiar with unknown works of the eminent Polish thinker, Adam Krzyżanowski (1873-1963). It is based on an archival research, and most facts mentioned therein are published for the first time. The author tries to answer the question of what caused the name of Krzyżanowski to become in Poland a symbol of liberal values and his behaviour a symbol of the man of science worthy of highest respect. She presents the main ideas of his three books: The 20th Century, Christian Political Morality, and The Earthly Paradise of Communists. Krzyżanowski wanted to defend the man against the crudeness of the 20th century totalitarism, the pragmatic sophistication of policy and the myopia of successes of technique. He wanted to attain this through drawing the boundaries of democracy and liberalism. He found those boundaries in the personalist concept of Christian values in the sense of an imperative of the man's self-perfectioning. In this way he succeeded in avoiding the difficult statements to which the consequent liberals had to agree, like Hayek with his statement of non-existence of absolute values. Fighting against the totalitarism Krzyżanowski did not attack planning or idealize the market; instead, he stressed moral aspects of the solutions involved. (original abstract)
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