The Idea of the moral order in Middle Ages. Rom the history of forming the personal pattern of moral patrons of Poland Cover Image

Idea ładu moralnego okresu średniowiecza. Z dziejów kształtowania się wzoru osobowego duchowych patronów Polski Św. Wojciecha i Św. Stanisława
The Idea of the moral order in Middle Ages. Rom the history of forming the personal pattern of moral patrons of Poland

Author(s): Dariusz Makiłła
Subject(s): Cultural history, History of Church(es), Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Middle Ages, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne Diecezji Elbląskiej w Elblągu
Keywords: Moral Order; Law; Middle Ages; Personal Patterns; St. Adalbert; St. Stanislaus; Poland; Europe

Summary/Abstract: In the delivered paper is given a question concerning the notion of moral order with a special reference to law. The moral order – as we can notice – is existing in various forms of understanding. This view can be at the same time a cause of different dilemmas that source is usually a divergence in treatment of his determinants, what is connected with the question of ways leading to his achievement. These questions are set generally at the context of the construction of the notion of moral order. This is also a way to its fulfilment especially then when necessary is to appeal to special personal ideological samples which indicatingus with their personal examples for the grounds, principles of functioning of the order but also showing us their borders. In this case the figures of both saints of the Church, Adalbertand Stanislaus were – and it can be considered – that they still are – important not only towards the times contemorary to them, but also being the universal timeless norms. The moral norms, the both saints professed, had been crashed with reasons of law. The creation the patterns of both saints and this, what they represented, was a grounding the foundations for the ideological development of state and nation. They have been expressed their influence on human consciousness, for the structure of state and church, to exert an influence for the forming of nation commonwealth and being also a system of values binding and uniting the size of our civilization.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 475-483
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish