Prymat racji moralnych w życiu politycznym

Abstract

Politics understood as “a various kind of economic, social and legislative activity which organically serves to the growing up of common good” cannot do without some steps defined by the requirements of moral oder. The ideal, to which ultimately tends the dynamic coexistence of the two orders, is the specifically personalistic form of the very politics. One can accomplish this aim by way of a consequent transformation of the objective structures of the State into subjective. The ultimate criterium of evaluating politics is the good of a person as a being living in a concrete human society and tending to integral perfection. Thus this good should not be taken exlusively in its individual dimensions, but first of all, social, that is to say as personal good of the whole society. The factors which shape this participation in the spirit of justice are human rights and duties, and the social virtue of solidarity. Respecting person’s dignity and its rights creates bases for social and political pluralism. One can put it into practice while preserving at the base level a common consensus as for the principles of social coexistence, and at the same time, values which bear universal charakter, such as: human rights, common good, freedom, equality, citizen’s love, justice, solidarity. Social and political pluralism assumes also that these two fundamental citizen’s attitudes, ie tolerance and compromise, are widely accepted. These attitudes do not mean, in their essence, indifferentism in relation to truth or individualy professed truths. They mean a specifically form of personal and social relations at which bases there lies a will to respect the universally accepted values and love of social peace.