Życie w cieniu Wielkiego Inkwizytora (Józef Tischner i Fiodor Dostojewski)
Life in the Shadow of the Grand Inquisitor (Józef Tischner and Fyodor Dostoevsky)

Summary/Abstract: The problems raised in the article concern the famous figure of the Grand Inquisitor, with whom we meet in the philosophical reflections of Joseph Tischner; of course, a figure taken directly from the pages of Fiodor Dostoyevsky's novel. This is not the only way to refer Tischner's thought to the "philosophical imaginarium" created by the author of The Brothers Karamazov. It is worth taking a closer look at what is hidden in the "shadow" that the Grand Inquisitor has around him. Considerations, nolens volens, must therefore refer to the "gifts" of the Grand Inquisitor: apparent goodness and freedom. In other words: we will ask for the figure of the Grand Inquisitor as – an alarming, still dangerous – "central figure of the modern philosophy of power." Both, Dostoyevsky and Tischner invoke questions that cannot be removed in a simple way, furthermore, in a way they invalidate this gesture, they continue to put us (and inevitably pose) against the danger of a political "illusion" in which the highest values remain at stake.

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