The Premises of Catholic Education in the Pluralistic Reality of Poland, Europe and the Contemporary World

Abstract

The article is an attempt to indicate the premises of Catholic education and upbringing, the roots of which lie in Ancient Greece. Catholic education is not a simple extension of the Hellenic model, even though it recognizes the basic assumption of Hellenistic humanism, in which man is perceived as a wealth prior to all specifications belonging to humans. The specificity of the Christian reference to man is the recognition of the personal and supernatural dimension of a human being. It is associated with the integrating force of the function of religious Christian education. The article also presents some of the reasons for the loss of this integrating force and attempts to demonstrate the still valid Catholic ideological proposal in relation to the modern world.