The Idea of Social Solidarity as a Manifestation of Basic Human Rights in Józef Tischner’s Thought

Abstract

The article is devoted to the theory of social solidarity and its interpretation in the context of human rights. The text compares a few selected issues dealing with social solidarity and appearing in the official teaching of the Catholic Church with Józef Tischner’s philosophical understanding of the problem. The author refers in his analyses to the selected encyclicals of Pope John Paul II and to Józef Tischner’s famous book The Ethics of Solidarity.

Keywords

• social solidarity
• human rights
• education
• work
• dialogue
• the catholic church