WYZWANIA AUTORYTETU, CZYLI POSTSCRIPTUM NIEOBECNOŚCI JEDNEGO PRZYPADKU
THE CHALLENGES OF AUTHORITY, OR A POSTSCRIPT TO THE ABSENCE OF ONE CASE

Summary/Abstract: The article contains the claim that the space of the authority is open to anyone who does not treat it as a closed, and yet it is a reminder that in pedagogy it was defined and announced almost two centuries ago by Bronislaw F. Trentowski. This is not so much a reminder of his authorship but more of the size and timeliness of his authority, which, paradoxically, comes to us only today to be treated and understood “seriously”. According to Trentowski’s argument, in the education of man, we should not only avoid the cult of personality (or omni-authority), or an authority closed and reduced to a single overview of the world, but also we should not attribute to any authority all evil, seduction and exploitation; instead of removing “great significance” from the field of teaching and education, we need to saturate the space of interaction with diverse, conflicting, and complementary (in terms of content and form) authority figures. The hallmark of the greatness of the authority should be neither absolute unity nor absolute difference, but “differunity” (różnojednia) which not only ontogenetically points to the facts and values, truth and falsehood, or objectivity and subjectivity in the correct proportions, and explains their dynamic overall impact function, including the impact of others and the impact on others.

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