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"Communality. In search of the binder for political community" is a study in the field of political philosophy. Its main idea is to analyze, interpret and systematize certain concepts which are present both in European philosophical thought and in cultural and political projects in Europe, and which bind together national and international communities. The study is carried out according to the criteria set by the author. For the sake of the study, a number of Polish and foreign philosophical texts have been selected, the importance of which enables us to capture both complexity and ambiguity of the problem. The foreign reflections on community are selected from the works of Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Thomas Aquinas, Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Alexis de Tocqueville, Soren Kierkegaard and Jürgen Habermas. The Polish philosophical thought on the issue is represented by Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, Piotr Skarga, Hugo Kołłątaj, Maurycy Mochnacki, Karol Libelt, Felix Koneczny, Leszek Kołakowski, Adam Chmielewski and Andrzej Szahaj. The political and cultural projects and visions of the European unification which are analyzed in the study, were developed by Robert Schuman, Jacques Chirac, Angela Merkel, the Wise Men Group, and by the following popes: John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis. By adopting the two sided approach to the issue of the binder: the foreign one (which takes into account the things which are or could be common to everybody within their national and international communities and which are also present in various streams of European philosophical thought) and the Polish one (which concentrates mainly on the question of national unity) the author tries to tackle the problem from two different angles. Their common denominator lies in the issue of community bonds. What makes them different, however, is that the European approach can be seen in terms of the diversity of concepts which have originated in different environments and for the sake of ...

The latter half of the 20th century in Central and Eastern Europe was the time of the birth of dissident thought searching for social and political formulas capable of facing up to the doctrine as well as the binding forms of Leninist-Stalinist versions of Marxism in their totalitarian and post-totalitarian shapes. Possible conditions for these formulas, as well as their more or less crystallised propositions were worked out by thinkers and activists of the democratic opposition in the Eastern Block countries; by the people striving to rebuild the subjectivity of the individual and the society, as well as the areas of autonomous activity which are due to them, and which constitute the basic attributes of the civil life – the prerogatives consistently destroyed by the totalitarian and post-totalitarian system. In the present sketch, not intending to take up an analysis of the philosophical aspects of all the trends of the Central-European dissident thought of the 1970s, which differently formulated both the issue of the subjectivity of the individual and society as well as the issues of the space of civil involvement in the sphere of public life , we intend to make the subject of this sketch an attempt at capturing, in a comparative manner, some of the aspects of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's thought, which seem to have made an inspirational contribution to the development of the European dissident thought of the latter half of the 20th century within the above-delineated scope of our research.

Ethos of the local government in the light of the social thought of the Catholic Church.

Organizacje i inicjatywy pozarządowe w sferze publicznej społeczeństwa obywatelskiego w Polsce po 1989 roku

The Common Good or the Interest? In Search for the Founding Stones of the Modern Society: Case Study – European Union
The philosophical reflection on the common good, as one of the primary normative principles, and in this sense also the "founding stones" of a well-structured social life, has a multifaceted, diverse range of proposed approaches and solutions and a well-documented output. Bearing in mind the centuries-long theoretical and practical importance and validity of this concept in the European thought and practice of socially and politically organized collective life, the subject of my reflections is to raise the question of the cognitive and normative importance and validity of this concept for today's Europe in the context of the European Union project contained in the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, signed on October 29, 2004 in Rome.