Karol Tarnowski “Paths of damnation, paths of salvation”
Article published in: Thinking in Value (No 2) Agathology, pp. 18 – 32
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Article published in: Thinking in Value (No 2) Agathology, pp. 18 – 32
The concept of drama—the main category of Józef Tischner’s philosophy— condenses the heart of human existence, where the essence of drama is the possibility of ruin or salvation. “By taking part in some drama, man knows more or less clearly that, metaphorically, he has his ruin or salvation in his hands… Man might not know what in the final analysis makes up his ruin or salvation; despite that he can have awareness that something like this is at stake in life.” If that is the case, then the problematic of ruin and salvation is crucial for the dramaturgy of man and must envelop the totality of drama’s structure. Drama, for Tischner, is a composite structure that covers all of man’s elementary references in which his existence takes place. Tischner distinguishes three “openings” within it: opening up to the other person, the opening up to the scene of the drama (that is, the world), and the opening onto the f low of time. We should add to all of this the fundamental opening up to God and also the subject of the drama itself: existence, or rather the “axiological-I.”
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