Karol Wojtyła on Participation and Alienation

• Authors: Alma S. Espartinez

Abstracts

EN

This article examines Karol Wojtyła’s concept of participation and alienation by starting the discussion on his personalist anthropology, leading to his structure of the human community. Wojtyła’s personalist anthropology reveals to us the nature of the human person as a unique, unrepeatable personal subjectivity. According to Wojtyła, the human act takes us to the knowledge and understanding of the person’s interiority and simultaneously allows us to have a glimpse of the human person’s specific complexity. Then, I analyze the correlation between person-action in living and acting with other persons. Here, I attempt to demonstrate that if our existence has to acquire any human significance, it is that, rather than alienation, which makes such a unique experience possible. Finally, I explored the impact of the failure to grasp a genuine understanding of the human person and the capacity to participate in the humanity of other persons, setting a profound sense of alienation that dehumanizes us to our very core. This paper aims to answer the following questions: Given the actions that can be performed ‘together with others,’ how does the person’s acting with others affect the dynamic correlation of the action with the person? What is the significance of this participation for the personalistic value of the action? Why is alienation antithetical to participation?

Keywords

EN

Karol Wojtyła; human person; self-fulfillment; participation; I-You; We-dimension; alienation

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 33-59

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Alma S. Espartinez

• De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, Manila, Philippines
• Providence College, Providence, RI, USA

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Identifiers

DOI

10.26385/SG.120102

Biblioteka Nauki

2190121