The Critique of Liberal Capitalism in the Light of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński’s Personalistic Concept of Socio-Economic Life

Abstract

The subject of the presented article is the analysis of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński’s personalistic vision of social life in the context of the liberal capitalism concept. The author’s interpretation of the source materials aims to display Wyszyński’s praxeological and ethical reflection and place it in the context of the socio-economic aspects of human life, characteristic of liberal capitalism. The exploration of the above research will analyze the source texts and their reinterpretation using the inductive-deductive method. The above paper’s primary research goal is to show the moral message of Cardinal Wyszyński in the context of the Christian vision of involvement in socio-economic life and its application to the specific reality of contemporary public life. The author of the article asks whether the moral message rooted in the personalistic vision of the human person presented by Cardinal Wyszyński can be applied to the contemporary reality of social, political, and economic life, where liberal capitalism seems to be the dominant ideology of the Western world? The answer to such questions is essential, especially in the context of the revival of “collectivist” populism, which, combined with the ideas of the so-called “Ideological pluralism,” emphasizing the moral ambivalence of “liquid” postmodernity, becomes a severe challenge to the entire modern world