THE LIGHT OF CONSCIENCE AND THE POWER OF THE PERSON: JOHN HENRY NEWMAN REVISITED
THE LIGHT OF CONSCIENCE AND THE POWER OF THE PERSON: JOHN HENRY NEWMAN REVISITED

Summary/Abstract: This text seeks to present one of the most influential intellectual of nineteenth-century Britain, John Henry Newman (1801-1890). As the majority of his contemporaries he grappled with the Enlightenment legacy, i.e. the dominant role of the intellect and the secularization processes which followed in consequence. Newman sought to put the human mind on a new basis, that of an integral approach in which the human being is a composition of intellect and morality, reason and affections. It does not suffice to take cognizance of something. The human being is much too complex. He or she must take control over their own persons and makes decisions as integral (integrated) beings. John Henry Newman’s views are referred to Karol Wojtyła’s (John Paul II’s) intellectual stance.

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