Open AccessExistential questions – the absent dimension of Polish religious education
Author(s) -
Maria Szczepska-Pustkowska
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
acta universitatis nicolai copernici. nauki humanistyczno-społeczne. pedagogika
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2392-1242
pISSN - 0208-5313
DOI - 10.12775/aunc_ped.2019.006
Subject(s) - existentialism , meaning (existential) , character (mathematics) , dimension (graph theory) , meaning of life , epistemology , human life , sociology , philosophy , theology , mathematics , geometry , humanity , pure mathematics
I understand the category of existential question like S.G. Hartman broadly, assuming that everyday life is an indivisible whole, even if school education artificially introduces its division. Existential questions concern the fundamental conditions of human life and existence as such. They reach God, the beginnings of man and the world, the meaning and purpose of human life, the fragility of being, passing away, death or the existence of moral evil and good, etc. Along with questions about existence, man enters the very heart of all philosophical questions, and the efforts undertaken to this end are of a lifetime character and also concern the youngest. The purpose of this text is to reflect on the place and the role of existential questions in (Polish) religious education.