The Ongoing Miracle and its Historical Roots
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https://doi.org/10.15633/lie.2120Keywords:
solidarity, freedom, cooperation, revolution, trust, Hannah Arendt, Arista Maria CirtautasAbstract
Solidarity enhances freedom. Firstly, because it creates freedom‑friendly environments, and secondly, because it brings radical novelty into the world, in the form of intellectual, social and artistic revolutions. It is also a reservoir of mutual trust and responsible humanitarian help. All of these aspects were present during Poland’s ‘Solidarity’ revolution of the 1980s, which triggered the social and political transformation of the country in a non‑violent way. Now, the theory and practice of solidarity inherited since that movement can be treated as a regulative idea, still to be explored and extended.References
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