Moralność wynaleziona. System wartości i nacjonalizm
Invented morality. The value system and nationalism

Summary/Abstract: In the proposed text, I am discussing the rightist radical instrumentalisation of the term “ethics”; I am contrasting the nationalist radical/invented ethics with the universal notion of ethics. This paper presents the path followed by the notions of good, evil and ethics itself in the Polish national radical discourse in the 1930s. From Zygmunt Balicki, to nationalist poems, the national word, and thus the notions of ethics, strive for radicalisation of meanings, the carriers of which is the ideology if radical nationalism, and in this sense they support politics rather than universal ethics, from which – as I am emphasising – they are stolen by the totalitarian entity. The word used for the purposes of political loyalty is not only a carrier of relative ethical values but also a method of hiding them, especially those which are contradictory to the “nationalist” ethics.

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