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ELEMENTS OF RELIGIOUS WORLDVIEW VERSUS THE ANTI-CRISIS INITIATIVE FOR EUROPE IN THE POST-HUMANIST WORLD
Jadwiga SEBESTA1, Eugeniusz SZYMIK2
In Search of New Approaches and Interpretations
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (96-97) 2018, Publication date: 6 June 2018
Keywords: attitude towards crisis, religious ideas, moral restoration, world view
Abstract The present-day ideological decline entails a serious crisis of values, taking place against the background of civilisation changes. The exceptional economic achievements in the developed countries clash with the destabilisation of a thought which diverges from any coherent vision of a human being and the vision of his spiritual sources. Yet, such situation is a chance to raise the underlying themes of spiritual culture again, with the view of identifying universal non-devalued ideas derived from the purest sources of religion. Religion – its major themes, anthropological content and creative potential – may become the starting point for constructing anti-crisis development paths. The new chapter in civilisation requires a reference to ideas rooted in religion, but without confessional slavery, in such a way as to make what is important, common and untainted in the achievements of a mankind encourage a thought which builds order beyond divisions, fundamentalisms or empty intellectual disputes. Respect for a human being and nature, celebration of beauty, search for profundity, living a sacred life – these are some of the many aspects of the religious worldview which offers an opportunity of the renaissance of a human being in the “post-humanist” world.
Centrum Informacji Naukowej i Biblioteka Akademicka, Katowice, Polska
E-mail: jadseb@interia.pl
Wydziale Pedagogiki i Psychologii Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice, Polska
E-mail: gienekszymikpoczta.onet.pl@onet.pl