Elementy kultury arystokratycznej w myśli o. Jacka Woronieckiego
Elements of aristocratic culture in the thought of Father Jacek Woroniecki

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to outline the relationship between the thoughts of Father Jacek Woroniecki and the classical patterns of aristocratic culture dating back to ancient Greece. Reaching into the genesis of the problem, the author presents individual stages of the shaping of the ideal of humanity, from the poems of Homer and arete of the nobility, through the classical form of Greek culture paideia to kalokagathia as the culmination of all virtues and the most difficult moment of megalopsychia as a true self-esteem by those who desire true greatness. The Greek model and its Roman continuation in the form of humanitas come into contact with Christianity. Here they find their perfection in the form of the concept of a person and the discovery of a transcendent, theocentric perspective. On the historical background, the thought of Father Woroniecki appears as a kind of synthesis combining both elements of the classical model of Greek paideia and Christian universalism. Father Woroniecki’s conception is based on the classical ethics of virtues, which having crystallized, constitute the basis of personality in the form of a strong character. The beautiful moral character as a result of the process of human improvement is at the peak of his similarity to God in a natural perspective and is the greatest temporal common good.

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