Metapolityka – przykład nauczania społecznego Kościoła w koncepcji Benedykta XVI
Metapolitics for Example the Catholic Social Theaching in the Thought of Pope Benedict XVI

Summary/Abstract: RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The main research objective of this article is the analysis if the Catholic Social Teaching in thought of pope Benedict XVI belongs to metapolitics.THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The basic research problem is an attempt to answer the question if according to pope Benedict XVI his version of Catholic Social Teaching is part of metapolitics. There are two main methods: selection and interpretation. Selection of main texts of Benedict XVI that are in relation to the research problem and interpretation of these texts if this version of Catholic social Teaching belongs to metapolitics.THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: The article starts with the comments on the relation between politics and metapolitics. Next, define the term of metapolitics. Furthermore considerations on Benedict XVI` specific version Catholic Social Teaching and its belong to metapolitics. The article ends with recapitulate of the analysis relation between metapolitics and the Catholic Social Teaching in thought of Benedict XVI.RESEARCH RESULTS: The version of Catholic Social Teaching in thought of Benedict XVI as the ethic belongs to metapolitics.CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS: Pope Benedict XVI and his version of the Catholic Social Teaching recommends “that the formation of just structures is not directly the duty of the Catholic Church (…) The Church has an indirect duty here, in that she is called to contribute to the purification of reason and to the reawakening of those moral forces without which just structures are neither established nor prove effective in the long run” (Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est, n. 29).

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