Abstract
In the article the author describes theoretical reasons that stood behind
Kołakowski's transition from being an orthodox Marxist to become an
actual leader of the polish revisionist movement. His intention is to
concentrate on those aspects of Kołakowski's thought that have not
changed, apart from any biographical and psychological reasons. (1)
First of those features is Kołakowski's inability of completability, the
anti-code disposition. (2) The second trait is the moral attitude, an
intention to influence on people's morality by convincing them that
social and internal (necessarily bound with social) changes are
desirable; that an existential calm demolishes morality. (3) Third
feature concerns the fact that Kołakowski did not attempt to create his
own philosophy, he was rather a historian of ideas, a skeptic, and a
critic.