From Person to Community. The Theory of Participation According to Karol Wojtyła Cover Image

Od osoby do społeczności. Teoria uczestnictwa w ujęciu Karola Wojtyły
From Person to Community. The Theory of Participation According to Karol Wojtyła

Author(s): Wojciech Wojtyła
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Law
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej – Sekcja Polska IVR
Keywords: subject; society; self-agency; self-realization

Summary/Abstract: The article shows the category of participation as the key, proposed by Karol Wojtyła, to understanding the person-community relationship. The philosopher from Kraków argues that a person fully reveals themselves as a personal being only when they work together with others on the foundation of participation. The capacity for subjective participation, which forms part of the very structure of a person, both determines a personalistic nature of the acts performed by the person, and also enables them to fulfil themselves in relation to others. For Wojtyła, participation is the antithesis of alienation, and its affirmation enables overcoming both the antinomy between the individual and the community, and the one-sided concepts of individualism and collectivism.

  • Issue Year: 25/2020
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 103-117
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish