Konserwatyzm bez metafizyki

Conservatism without metaphysics. The case of Konstanty Grzybowski’s interwar thought The aim of this article is the reconstruction and analysis of the political ideas that may be conceived as the components of Konstanty Grzybowski’s (Polish conservative thinker of the interwar period) conservative attitude. Grzybowski’s case is one of the most interesting among other conservatives in this period due to at least three reasons: his reluctant attitude towards Catholic Church, his acceptation for democracy (very rare among most of the Polish conservatives) and also his controversial decisions on his political affiliations in the interwar (but also postwar) period in Poland. The authors claim is that Grzybowski’s “peculiarity” results from the ideas that shaped his conservative attitude: the acceptation of political evolution, political realism and republicanism. This combination may be understood only by taking into closer consideration his philosophical background, especially the resignation of any metaphysical foundations of the political power that may follow from religious beliefs.