To Be, for a Human Being, is to Govern. The Personalistic Foundations of Authority According to Tadeusz Styczeń
To Be, for a Human Being, is to Govern. The Personalistic Foundations of Authority According to Tadeusz Styczeń

Summary/Abstract: The author of this article discusses the subjective foundations of social power. He does so on the basis of Tadeusz Styczeń's texts. The thesis of the article is that the basic condition for exercising social authority (i.e. public, State, and political power) is to retain authority over oneself, to be a free, truth-driven, and self-governing entity. Of the three types of authority included within the scope of social power, the article will place particular emphasis on political authority in a democratic society. Following the thoughts of T. Styczeń, the author attempts to provide an answer to the question of how to “translate” what constitutes the deepest identity of a person into the issue of self-governance, which is an important element in democracy, as the governing order closest to personalism.

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