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W artykule autorka, analizując i interpretując teksty Benjamina Constanta, dokonuje szczegółowej rekonstrukcji wyrażonej w nich idei wolności. Tekst ukazuje bliski związek między ideą wolności Benjamina Constanta a ideami wypracowanymi przez tego francuskiego myśliciela i polityka w pracach dotyczących religii. Pochodzące od Constanta znane rozróżnienia pomiędzy wolnością indywidualną a polityczną oraz pomiędzy wolnością starożytnych a nowożytnych uzyskują więc szczególne filozoficzne uzasadnienie.
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The author of the article by analyzing and interpreting Constant’s texts performs detailed reconstruction of the idea of freedom included in these texts. The author shows a close connection between Constant’s idea of freedom and of ideas developed by the French thinker and politician in his work on religion. Known classifications (made by Constant) between the individual and political freedom and between freedom of the ancient and modern thereby obtain specific philosophical justification.
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Berlin’s dichotomy of positive and negative freedom is, in academic quarters, such a well-discussed problem that any kind of attempt at a fresh interpretation confronts the real risk of developing what has already been said and, in that way, of losing argumentational strength. The aim of this article does not, however, consist in contributing to the debate about the viability of Berlin’s distinction, but in calling into question the stereotypical reception of the intellectual sources that Berlin was inspired by. In the framework of the line of traditions of liberal thinking, which, among others, Berlin himself identifies, is his distinction between two concepts of freedom, usually identified with the principles and intellectual meaning of the classification by the French enlightenment thinker Benjamin Constant. The mixing up of Berlin’s polarity positive–negative with Constant’s scheme of ancient–modern is probably a consequence of the numerous common points in the two conceptions. These, however, lead to the automatic perception of agreement even in those principles for which the level of coherence is questionable. The main aim of this study is, therefore, to indicate, firstly, the proven fact that for a consistent comparison of Berlin’s and Constant’s dichotomy one must examine, in addition to the commonly analysed relationship of negative freedom with modern freedom, the connectedness of the opposite poles in the two cases. Secondly, and more importantly, the thesis is advanced that, in its fundamental properties, Constant’s thinking goes beyond the liberal tradition and points towards Pettit’s republican principles of freedom as non-dominance. This conclusion ultimately leads to the recognition that Berlin’s and Constant’s division cannot be seen as homogenous.
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The article presents a reminder and an analysis of the phenomenon of Polish classical liberalism, which is a reception of thoughts of Benjamin Constant de Rebecque. In the so-called Kingdomof Poland, a specific quasi-state organism, founded from the piece of the Russian partition of Polandand created after the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Russian Tsar Alexander I gave the Kingdom the constitution, which newly nominated members of parliament demanded to bind. The opposition was mainly headed by the representatives from the provinceof Kalisz(the Kalisians) under the leadership of Wincenty and Bonaventura Niemojowski. After deposition under house arrest in 1825, Wincenty Niemojowski translated in one volume the basic works of Benjamin Constant, significant from the point of view of the parliamentary struggle, and later armed during the Polish November Uprising 1830-1831. The work contains extensive principle of separation of powers, a very mature concept of freedom, as well as a warranty catalog to public authorities, such as freedom of the press, or the independence of the courts, which Wincenty Niemojowski highlighted in his translation. Paradoxically, it was the widest reception of classical liberalism inPoland, where to this day, trends of modern political thought represented by political parties have not yet developed.
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Artykuł prezentuje przypomnienie i analizę zjawiska polskiego klasycznego liberalizmu będącego recepcją myśli Benjamina Constanta de Rebecque’a. W latach tzw. Królestwa Kongresowego, okrojonego z ziem zaboru rosyjskiego, specyficznego organizmu quasi-państwowego, utworzonego po Kongresie Wiedeńskim w 1815 r., car Rosji Aleksander I nadał Królestwu konstytucję, której przestrzegania domagali się głównie posłowie z województwa kaliskiego (kaliszanie) pod przewodnictwem Wincentego i Bonawentury Niemojowskich. Po osadzeniu w areszcie domowym Wincenty Niemojowski przetłumaczył w jednym woluminie podstawowe dzieła Constanta, istotne z punktu widzenia walki parlamentarnej, a później zbrojnej w czasie Powstania Listopadowego 1830–1831. Znalazła się w nim rozbudowana zasada podziału władzy, bardzo dojrzała koncepcja wolności oraz katalog rękojmi władz publicznych, takich jak wolność prasy czy niezawisłość sądów, które Niemojowski uwypuklił w swym tłumaczeniu. Paradoksalnie była to najszersza recepcja klasycznego liberalizmu na ziemiach polskich, gdzie do dziś kierunki współczesnej myśli politycznej, reprezentowane przez partie polityczne, jeszcze się nie wykształciły. 
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