Political Aspects of the 'Three Books' by Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski

The author tries to show that Frycz Modrzewski, from his first 'opusculum Lascius, sive de poena homicidii' - thanks to which he appeared on the stage of intellectual life of Poland - until his last pages of 'Sylvae', closing his work as a writer, did not cease to be a political author, even for a while. All his activity, especially as a theologian and the reformer of the Church, was subordinated to his political project, described in 'De Republica emendanda'. According to the author, this point of view, applied to Modrzewski's treatise 'Libri tres', refuses, very popular in scholar literature, but intellectually barren temptation to treat the work as an opportunity to take by the theologian certain position in the doctrinal debate of the Polish Church. Alleged political inspiration of this treatise brings him to a conclusion that Modrzewski's opinions on human free will, more elaborated in this work, serve to document the thesis - opposing to the Calvinian as well as Lutheran orthodoxy - that a human being has a natural capacity to achieve moral perfection in his human dimension.