Karol Wojtyła’s Philosophy of the Human Person as the Grounds to Defend Human Rights Cover Image

Karola Wojtyły filozofia osoby ludzkiej jako podstawa obrony praw człowieka
Karol Wojtyła’s Philosophy of the Human Person as the Grounds to Defend Human Rights

Author(s): Alfred Marek Wierzbicki
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: human rights; person; subjectivity of the human being; autonomy; transcendence; truth; freedom; prawa człowieka; osoba; podmiotowość bytu ludzkiego; autonomia; transcendencja; prawda; wolność

Summary/Abstract: The teaching of John Paul II clearly articulates the strain of human rights. The Pope initiates a dialogue with the Enlightenment tradition and develops the theological and philosophical foundations of the culture of human rights. Karola Wojtyła’s personalistic thought appears to be a very coherent and reliable key to understand the doctrine of human rights. Wojtyła stresses subjectivity and non-reducibility of the person as a concrete human „I.” It is both autonomy and transcendence that constitute dignity of the person towards other personal and impersonal beings.

  • Issue Year: 56/2008
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 315-328
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish