Jacek Kuroń - utopijny wizjoner czy twórca realnych programów politycznych?

Abstrakt

Jacek Kuron was a politician, who has found his permanent place in collective memory of polish nation. He cannot be forgotten in the reflection on the transformation that took place in Poland in XX and XXI century. He was an author of his own political program. Under the influence his own reflection and observations of the changing social and political conditions, his program was evaluating, but it remained coherent in the meaning of main values The main influence on Kuron’s political program had the changing social conditions, but its base was Kuron’s ideological beliefs. Kuron - for all his life - considered himself a man of the left. In the system of Kuron’s ethical and humanistic values, the main was human being - living and functioning in the society. Kuron as an author of political program considered his work not only in the categories of political visions, but he treated it as a realization of some kind of ethos. He used to treat the politic as a space of giving a testimony of values and political attitudes, connected to the term of the left, he believed in. For all his life Kuron was looking for such concepts, that would let him to its full implication.