A great lesson of spirituality and humanism. Pope John Paul II at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris (June 2, 1980)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15633/ssc.3799Keywords:
UNESCO, culture, nation, person, ethos, love, hopeAbstract
A great lesson of spirituality and humanism. Pope John Paul II at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris (June 2, 1980). The speech given by St. Pope John Paul II at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on June 2, 1980 has a special place among his numerous addresses concerning culture. Referring to the cultural changes which took place in the last three centuries the pope stood up for the culture, emphasising that in an individual dimension culture represents the constitutive element of life of every man and, correspondingly, in a social dimension it provides a support for self-determination and for the freedom of nations. Formulating such a message, the pope referred to Polish experiences, in order to highlight even stronger the significance and the primacy of a person and to point out the subjective meaning of a nation and the ethical dimension of culture. In the papal message one can also find a call for cultural opposition against contemporary subjectivism and other tendencies heading towards the disinheritance of man and, by the same token, to the shutting of the door of universal horizon of hope and love, which is based on manifold human experiences from the past.
References
Autor de „Personne et acte” de Karol cardinal Wojtyla. Articles et conférences sur une rencontre du thomisme avec la phénoménologie, éd. G. Kalinowski, Aix-en-Provence 1987.
Buttiglione R., Etyka wobec historii, Lublin 1994.
Cottier J., Tommaso d’Aquino, teologo e filosofo, alla luce di „Fides et ratio”, w: Fede e ragione. Opposizione, composizione?, a cura di M. Mantovani, S. Thuruthiyil, M. Toso, Roma 1999, s. 187–194.
In der Fülle des Glaubens. Hans Urs von Balthasar-Lesebuch, Hrsg. M. Kehl, W. Löser, Basel–Freiburg–Wien 1980 (tłum. pol.: H.U. von Balthasar, W pełni wiary, tłum. J. Fenrychowa, Kraków 1991).
Jan Paweł II, Encyklika Redemptor hominis (04.03.1979).
Jan Paweł II, Encyklika Centesimus annus (01.05.1991).
Jan Paweł II, Encyklika Fides et ratio (14.09.1998).
Jan Paweł II, Przemówienie w UNESCO (02.06.1980), „L’Osservatore Romano” 1 (1980) nr 6, s. 1, 4–6 (wersja francuska przemówienia: Insegnamenti di Giovanni Paolo II, vol. 3, 1, Città del Vaticano 1980, s. 1636–1655).
Jan Paweł II, Przemówienie do Zgromadzenia Ogólnego ONZ (05.10.1995), „L’Osservatore Romano” 16 (1995) nr 11–12, s. 4–9 (wersja angielska przemówienia: Insegnamenti di Giovanni Paolo II, vol. 18, 2, Città del Vaticano 1998, s. 730–744).
Kalinowski G., L’impossible métaphysique, Paris 1981.
Koneczny F., Obronić cywilizację łacińską!, Lublin 1992.
Królikowski J., Natura czy kultura, czyli o co toczy się walka w dyskusji o gender?, Tarnów 2014.
Królikowski J., „Stała pokusa wiary”. Współczesne bałwochwalstwo i jego geneza, „Studia Teologii Dogmatycznej” 3 (2017), s. 89–105.
Lubac H. de, Memoire sur l’occasion de mes écrits, Namur 1992.
Marcel G., Être et avoir, Paris 1935 (tłum. pol.: Być i mieć, tłum. P. Lubicz, Warszawa 1962).
Marion J.-L., Étant donné. Essai d’une phénomenologie de la donation, Paris 19982.
Mariusz Wiktoryn, In Epistulam Pauli ad Ephesios, PL 8.
Paweł VI, Encyklika Populorum progressio (26.03.1967).
Raimond J.-B., Jan Paweł II. Papież w samym sercu Historii. Apostoł prawdy i wolności jako dyplomata i polityk, tłum. T. Olszewski, Gniezno 2000, s. 26 (tyt. org. Jean-Paul II. Un Pape au coeur de l’Histoire, Paris 1999).
Renan E., Qu’est-ce qu’une nation?, Paris 1882.
Sancti Thomae de Aquino, Expositio libri Posteriorum Analiticorum, Textum Leoninum Romae 1882 editum, http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/cpa1.html.
Sancti Thomae de Aquino, Summa theologiae, Schema operis a J. Morán, I. Gamboa, J. Medina et G. Bañuelos instructum more (wersja polska: http://katedra.uksw.edu.pl/suma/suma_indeks.htm).
Wojtyła K., Osoba i czyn oraz inne studia antropologiczne, Lublin 1994.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions, and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
