Kryzys uniwersytetu
Crisis of the University

Summary/Abstract: In order to show the contemporary crisis of the university, the article presents the original concept of the university, which originated in the Middle Ages and has been subjected to historical transformations. Part of this transformation was the gradual reduction of classical philosophy and theology from the space of university thought. Particularly significant was the demand for the elimination of faith and theology from public life expressed emphatically in Marxist thought. Marxism, by proposing to grant man the attributes of the Creator, actually brought man to a level below humanity. In the face of these external threats, imposed ideologically, the role of the synthesis of faith and reason proposed throughout history by Christian and non-Christian thinkers, and brought out in modern times by St John Paul II in his encyclical Fides et ratio and in the teaching of Pope Benedict XVI, becomes all the more clear. The de-emphasis of Pope Benedict XVI at La Sapienza University in Rome shows, at the same time, that contemporary threats to the synthesis of faith and reason can emanate from the human sciences themselves, which are becoming particularly susceptible to ideologisation and thus selfdestruction. This is confirmed by some contemporary currents in university thought, while at the same time pointing to the need to return to a synthesis of faith and reason that results in a realistic conception of man based on a realistic metaphysics.

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