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Zgodnie z obecnym zwyczajem akademickim uczniowie, przyjaciele i koledzy dedykowali Księdzu Profesorowi Andrzejowi Maryniarczykowi Księgę Pamiątkową z okazji Jubileuszu 70-tej rocznicy urodzin i 35-lecia pracy naukowej na KUL-u.
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Apostasy is a phenomenon which is gaining strength especially in contemporary religious life in Poland. This paper addresses the issue of the moral dimension of apostasy. A definition of apostasy is the starting point of this analysis. Then conditions of departure from faith are presented. The first are objective con-ditions connected with the state of contemporary culture and philosophy. Contemporary thought is marked by philosophical nihilism, whose main manifestation is the abandonment of metaphysics. In the next part subjective conditions of apostasy are discussed, which basically derive from misconstrued human freedom. The phenomenon of apostasy is also affected by social factors. The discussion closes by drawing attention to the connection between the axiological crisis and apostasy. The paper seeks to draw attention to the moral responsibility of man for the act of apostasy. Man is a free being. A particularly sensitive area of this freedom is religion. Man’s openness to truth makes him open to God as the ultimate goal of man. Just as truth is the means of human existence, so also religion appears as the sphere of the highest values that give meaning to human life. From the philosophical, especially moral point of view, apostasy appears as a form of man’s escape from a deeper, and at the same time difficult, insight into the sense of his own life and the whole of reality.
Rocznik Tomistyczny
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2023
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vol. 1
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issue 12
205-232
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The metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas makes it possible to explain truly existing reality. A correct understanding of the world provides the basis for the strengthening of religion. The whole of creation as existing thanks to the Creator is good and beautiful. The absolute is the principle of existence of every created being. Man, as a rational and free being, sees its goodness, beauty and harmony in the knowledge of the real world. The philosophical analysis of all natural beings, and in particular the aspirations of man, leads to the recognition of God as the source and goal of all created beings. For man, God is the goal of striving and the fullness of happiness. The thought of Thomas Aquinas frees man from man from the bondage of mythology in its various forms. It also helps to overcome the gnostic and Manichaean understanding of the world, especially of mater as evil and of man as lost in an evil world. The world in good because it comes from God. Man also has the source of existence in God and in him he can find his own happiness.
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