Moralny wymiar apostazji. Uwagi w kontekście filozofii klasycznej

Apostasy is a phenomenon which is ga­ining strength especially in contempo­rary religious life in Poland. This paper addresses the issue of the moral dimen­sion of apostasy. A definition of aposta­sy is the starting point of this analysis. Then conditions of departure from faith are presented. The first are objective con­ditions connected with the state of con­temporary culture and philosophy. Con­temporary thought is marked by philosophical nihilism, whose main ma­nifestation is the abandonment of me­taphysics. In the next part subjective conditions of apostasy are discussed, which basically derive from misconstru­ed human freedom. The phenomenon of apostasy is also affected by social factors. The discussion closes by drawing atten­tion to the connection between the axio­logical crisis and apostasy. The paper seeks to draw attention to the moral re­sponsibility of man for the act of aposta­sy. Man is a free being. A particularly sensitive area of this freedom is religion. Man’s openness to truth makes him open to God as the ultimate fulfilment [???] of man. Just as truth is the means of hu­man existence, so also religion appears as the sphere of the highest values that give meaning to human life. From the philosophical, especially moral point of view, apostasy appears as a form of man’s escape from a deeper, and at the same time difficult, insight into the sense of his own life and the whole of reality