EN
The text is a sketch of the author's philosophical itinerary, beginning with his studies under the direction of Roman Ingarden, through his collaboration with Karol Wojtyla to the problems of the basic presuppositions of accepting and defending human dignity, as elaborated by Karol Wojtyla and Robert Spaemann. The author stresses the indispensability of a philosophy of the absolute as the main theoretical basis of democracy understood as a regime in which human persons are really respected.