Category: Humanism in Eastern Europe
Humanists Meet in Poland and Russia
Last fall I had the pleasure of attending two conferences dealing with the need for humanism in Eastern Europe. The first, entitled “Humanist Visions of European Integration,” was held September 26 to 29, 1996, in Warsaw, Poland, and was hosted by the Federation of Polish Humanist Associations. Barbara Stanosz, editor of the journal Bez Dogmatu …
The Polish Church as an Enemy of the Open Society
In The Open Society and Its Enemies, first published half a century ago, Karl Popper distinguished between two kinds of economic-political systems: closed societies and open societies. The former have a semi-organic nature and place submission to authority among the highest values; the latter are abstract and impersonal entities that, by their very nature, “set …