Totalitaryzm a granice plastyczności człowieka
Totalitarism and the Limits of Man’s Plasticity

Summary/Abstract: Many of the modern anthropological conceptions (especially continental ones) have in common a strong conviction about the social nature of man and about his flexibility (Rousseau). Man should be naturally good and easily appropriable to take different shapes. This vision incited the constitution of a big plan consisting in creating a new man, which became a reason and justification for the totalitarian experiment. The experience of totalitarianism can be understood like a test verifying the plasticity of man. I share, in the present work, Leszek Kołakowski’s opinion that this experience shows finally that man is a malleable being, but his plasticity has its borders and the totalitarianism smashed against it. It means that human nature does exist.

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