STWORZYĆ PŁASZCZYZNĘ WOLNOŚCI MYŚLI WKŁAD KAROLA WOJTYŁY W POWSTANIE WYDZIAŁU FILOZOFI CZNEGO PAPIESKIEJ AKADEMII TEOLOGICZNEJ W KRAKOWIE
CREATING A PLATFORM FOR THE FREEDOM OF THOUGHT: ON KAROL WOJTYŁA’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY AT THE PONTIFI CAL ACADEMY OF THEOLOGY IN CRACOW

Summary/Abstract: Karol Wojtyła was a member of the philosophical milieu of Cracow from the beginning of his academic carrier. After 1954, when the Faculty of Theology was removed from the Jagiellonian University, he became involved in maintaining and developing the intellectual life and traditions of Cracow. He initiated a number of research projects in the 1960s and 1970s, and he also promoted the development and integration of the academic community of Cracow within the former Faculty of Theology of the Jagiellonian University, which then became an independent and autonomous research and didactic unit. The result of that multifaceted activity was, among others, the decision of the Congregation for Catholic Education, in 1976, to establish the Pontifi cal Faculty of Philosophy in Cracow, sealed, in 1981, with the motu proprio Beata Hedvigis. In this article, I focus on the various forms of Karol Wojtyła’s activity which resulted in a dynamic development of Christian philosophy in Cracow and contributed to the establishment of the Institute of Philosophy at the Pontifi cal Faculty of Theology which later evolved into the Faculty of Philosophy at the Pontifi cal Academy of Theology in Cracow, the academic institution known today as the Pontifi cal University of John Paul II.

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