Asceza jako jedno z działań transgresyjnych w świetle myśli chrześcijańskiej

Abstract

The author considers both philosophical and psychological aspects of Karol Wojtyla’s understanding of the religious ascetism as a standard way of overcoming one’s own ego. The ascetism is presented: from the perspective of „healthy-minded” and pathological religiousness, against the theory of Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, in comparison with Karen Horney’s theory of neurosis, against the concept of „to be and to have” by Erich Fromm, on the plane of the axiological ethics in general and against suffering, and finally within the American version of vita contemplativa. The conception of the inner experience by Master Eckhart serves as a starting point for philosophical and theological discussion on the religious ascetism.