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Aguas, Jove Jim S. Person, Action and Love: The Philosophical Thoughts of Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II).
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Cariño, Jovito V. |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | efore his elevation to the Chair of St. Peter, Karol Wojtyla had an active and sustained philosophic career as attested by his stint as Chair of Ethics at the Catholic University of Lublin; his graduate lectures that covered various themes and philosophers including Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, Kant, Scheler, Bentham and Hiume; not to mention his investigations on phenomenology and Thomism. His penultimate graduate lectures, in fact, on the subject matter of sexual ethics, given between 1957 to 1959, became the groundwork of his first book, Love and Responsibility. When he was appointed Vicar Capitular of Krakow, Wojtyla spent less and less time for his academic engagements save for those very rare occasions as when he took part in the Harvard Summer School in 1969 and in the International Thomistic Congress in 1974 where he drew the attention of the Jesuit Thomist Josef Pieper who in turn introduced him to an eminent professor of Regensburg, Josef Ratzinger, the future Benedict XVI. Despite, however, his intense pastoral preoccupations, Wojtyla found the time to put together his masterpiece Person and Act, later to be called The Acting Person. The book was the product of Wojtyla’s attempt to marry the Aristotelian-Thomistic notion of person to Schelerian theory of consciousness. Stated philosophically, it was a project aimed at overcoming the Cartesian bent of phenomenology by restating its inherent unity with the very objects of thought. His intellectual engagements, however, had to take the back seat when he was elected to the papacy in 1978 and eventually became a leading global figure of exceptional charisma and influence that was felt and appreciated even beyond the realm of the Catholic Church. John Paull II became such a towering figure it might not be too inaccurate to say that his pastoral gains as the successor of St. Peter easily eclipsed the contributions of the abruptly interrupted philosophic career of Karol Wojtyla. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.25138/11.1.b1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_20/carino1_june2017.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.25138/11.1.b1 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
