The Validity of Karol Wojtyła’s Philosophy Today

Authors

  • Grzegorz Hołub Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15633/lie.3939

Keywords:

Karol Wojtyła, project of philosophy, human person

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of the importance of Karol Wojtyła’s philosophy. He is shown as a thinker interested in the achievements of many philosophers throughout history, like Aristotle, St. Augustin, Thomas Aquinas, Immanuel Kant or Max Scheler. However, he is also presented as someone who undertook his own way of philosophizing focused on the human person. Therefore the article underlines Wojtyła’s dialogue with other philosophers at the time when he was developing his own philosophical standpoint. Moreover, his philosophy is shown as a discipline associated with real problems rather than with meta-philosophical ones. The article also discusses Wojtyła’s philosophy of the human person and how it can deal with anti-personalist tendencies in contemporary philosophy. Finally, the author considers some difficulties associated with the philosophy of Wojtyła and how it should be developed in the future.

Author Biography

  • Grzegorz Hołub, Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie

    Rev. Grzegorz Hołub, PhD, is Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Cracow, Poland. His areas of research include bioethics, environmental ethics, and philosophy of the human person. He published books on the concept of the person in the contemporary bioethics and on various particular problems of bioethics (Problem osoby we współczesnych debatach bioetycznych, 2010; Osoba w labiryncie decyzji moralnych. Bioetyka w perspektywie personalistycznej, 2014). He also works on the problem of human enhancement and as a result he published a book concerning this topic (Ulepszanie człowieka. Fikcja czy rzeczywistość. Argumenty, krytyka, poszukiwanie płaszczyzny dialogu, 2018). Prof. Hołub is additionally interested in the thought of Karol Wojtyła. He currently resides in Cracow, Poland.

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Published

2021-06-30

Issue

Vol. 27 No. 1 (2021)

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