“YOU ALSO GO AND WORK IN MY VINEYARD...” EDUCATIONAL ROLE OF WORK ACCORDING TO CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHERS: STEFAN WYSZYNSKI, KAROL WOJTYLA AND JOZEF TISCHNER

Abstract

In this article I present the educational dimension of work on the example of three Christian philosophers – Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, Karol Wojtyła (later Pope John Paul II) and Józef Tischner. Each of them emphasized the role of work as a factor determining upbringing, but also each of them presented work and the system of upbringing connected with it from a different perspective. All these points of view, however, focused on man perceived through the prism of God’s creation. Man, for whom work stood in the row of virtues, just as laziness stood in the row of sins. In the text I prove that the educational function of work, seen in the context of virtues, for Cardinal Wyszyński it was presented in the optic of love, for John Paul II in the space of faith, while Joseph Tischner preached it with a message of hope.