THE COMMON SENSE PERSONALISM OF ST. JOHN PAUL II (KAROL WOJTYLA)
THE COMMON SENSE PERSONALISM OF ST. JOHN PAUL II (KAROL WOJTYLA)
Author(s): Paweł TarasiewiczSubject(s): Philosophy
Published by: International Étienne Gilson Society
Keywords: John Paul II; Karol Wojtyla; personalism; common sense; Lublin Philosophical School; Thomism; metaphysics; phenomenology;
Summary/Abstract: The article aims at showing that the philosophical personalism of Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) stems from the common sense approach to reality. First, it presents Karol Wojtyla as a framer of the Lublin Philosophical School, to which he was affiliated for 24 years before being elected Pope John Paul II; it shows Wojtyla’s role in establishing this original philosophical School by his contribution to its endorsement of Thomism, its way of doing philosophy, and its classically understood personalism. Secondly, it identifies a purpose of Wojtyla’s use of the phenomenological method in his personalism and reconstructs Wojtyla’s possible answer to the question whether there is a link between moral sense and common sense in human experience.
Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
- Issue Year: 2014
- Issue No: 3 (suppl.)
- Page Range: 619-634
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English
