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Emigracja i cywilizacje: skarb cywilizacji
Emigration and Civilizations: the Treasure of Civilization

Author(s): Piotr Jaroszyński
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Fundacja »Lubelska Szkoła Filozofii Chrześcijańskiej«
Keywords: migration; culture; civilization; personalism; family; society;

Summary/Abstract: The author points out that the recognition of relation between migration and civilization is the basis for explanation of the specificity of human migration, significantly different at this level from migration of the natural world. Such recognition can help the immigrants in understanding of their own human situation in which they find themselves and perspective, what awaits them, not only in the individual but also in the family and national level. Migrating fact can mean the loss of personalistic culture, the loss of the family model belonging to some culture and a loss of model of society in its historical dimension. These are the dilemmas facing the man, and only a man. Such dilemmas do not stand in front of the animals. Such dilemmas are only human. And they are the greater, the higher culture one represents. Migration reveals its deepest meaning only in the perspective of personalism, only then you can assess which civilization is truly a treasure.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 23
  • Page Range: 5-15
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish