Moral theology in search of a method: metaphysics or phenomenology?
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https://doi.org/10.15633/lie.61110Keywords:
philosophical ethics, phenomenology, metaphysics, reason, moral theology, faithAbstract
The link between faith and reason, theology and philosophy is neither external nor accidental; the word logos in the name of theology rather indicates the internal connection between the two kinds of cognition. Karol Wojtyła - John Paul II is one of the few theologians of the 20th century who was proficient in the use of two philosophical languages and methods: the metaphysical and the phenomenological one. The article shows how, in his early work – the 1953 habilitation dissertation, Wojtyła reflects on the usefulness of metaphysics and phenomenology for the ethical analysis of the acting subject – crucial for both philosophical ethics and moral theology.
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