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Sensitivity and motivation for social action in Karol Wojtyla’s thought

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Waleszczuk Z.
The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II
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2017
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vol. 7
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issue 1
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Sensitivity, as the ability to respond to internal and external stimuli, undoubtedly plays an important role in the social action of persons. Without this ability -as in the case of indifference- human being lacks a perception that is necessary in response to a specific emergency situation or a need. This article focuses on the teaching of Karol Wojtyla in his major work Acting Person, with a particular emphasis on the question of the motivation of human action. We want to reply to three basic questions related to the topic: Does this ability strengthens or weakens the culture of the Internet age, especially in Western European society? What is the primary motive of human action? Is sensitivity an essential motive and a factor of development of the person and society? What practical consequences we can draw from the teachings of the Krakow thinker about sensitivity? A person, as defined by Wojtyla, that is isolated, remains indifferent. Similarly persons who are hypersensitive hinders themselves to a mature participation in responsible love. The first quality (indifference) leads persons to flee from their duties. The second (hypersensitivity) leads persons to be overwhelmed by this challenge. The first we can describe as lack of feeling, the second as excessive compassion. The diagnosis of Wojtyla (it is more important to be than to have) remains very current and is an important stimulus in which direction to go to promote motivation for social action, and to build a society of communion of persons. Instead of an individualistic dominated competitive struggle of egos, we should try to realize a society in which the encounter of persons is characterized by mutual devotion in love.
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Die Ökologie der Person – Kantische Motive des Personbegriffs in Karol Wojtyłas “Person und Tat”

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Waleszczuk Z.
The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II
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2012
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vol. 2
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issue 2
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Apart from many legitimate concerns about ecology, the most important contemporary concern should be of anthropological nature and must address the human as a person (Benedikt XVI). What is man? Are human beings free? What should human beings do? These Kantian questions also describe the main starting points of Karol Wojtyła’s philosophy in “The Acting Person”. With regard to the importance of the question (ecology of man) our challenge is divided into three parts. Firstly, man is a person; secondly, his call is to liberty and lastly, responsible love is an emanation of personal dignity. In this manner the three important points in Wojtyła’s philosophy (person, liberty, love) are well characterized. The essence of man is his personal dignity as a source for the possibility of free (responsible) decisions – “the act”. The experience of morality is included in the experience of being a person. Wojtyła poses the question “how do I understand who I am throughout my acts?” Like Kant, the author emphasizes the importance of free will, conscientiousness as an obligation, which speaks to the conscious person. I determine myself through my own decision (person´s actions). For Wojtyła, participation in love is the basis of all human personal experiences. “Only persons participate in love”. Participation in the character of the other becomes – in the language of Wojtyła – “the choice of the other person in myself”.
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The Family – a Relic of the Past or the Foundation for the Future?

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Waleszczuk Z.
The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II
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2015
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vol. 5
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issue 1
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This article is a description of the current situation of the family from a Christian perspective and is divided into three chapters according to the method of the catholic social teaching: see judge, act. In the first part, a analysis of reality is presented, that is a sociological view of the situation of the family in the European countries. The outline of the situation of the family is shown in three dimensions (socio-cultural, political and economic). The second part briefly treats the Catholic teaching on the family, especially their social significance according to John Paul II.. The third part formulates practical conclusions to the question of what we can and should do to promote the family. It is the aim of Christian social ethics – as an instrument of evangelization - to draw adequate conclusions resulting in effective actions of Christians. It is about building bridges between theology and the challenges of the present. Without a doubt, the family is not just a relic of the past, as it was provocatively formulated in the title, but it is, and will continue to be, the foundation of the future.
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Justification of Greed and the Financial Crisis

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Waleszczuk Z.
The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II
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2013
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vol. 3
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issue 2
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The aim of this article is at first to answer the question of greed (the justification of this “virtue” in the modern economic system), which is meant, in the light of Christian social ethics to be the primary cause of the present economic crisis. In the three steps of catholic social teaching (see, judge, act) we want to interpret the signs of our time (present age problems) in the light of the Gospel (and the teaching and tradition of the Church). The relevant question we have to pose in our statement is: Why does catholic social teaching, in opposite to the modern view of economic and political science, object to a justification of greed? The third (practical) step of our explanations we can paraphrase with the question: what shall we do? The focusing on institutional reforms, the belief in arrangements which exclusively accentuate sociological key aspects and believe in changes of structures (in education, politics, economics and welfare) led not only to market crisis, but also to a crisis of culture. If the human being in his/her deepest dimension (the ecology of person) is suffering, then the Church cannot remain silent, because its mission and way is the person. Not until we – like king Solomon – turn to God and ask for help and the ability to judge between good and evil, just and unjust, shall we find a safe basis to lead us out of despair and disorientation into a more humane civilization of humanity and solidarity.
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The Categorical Imperative as Cornerstone for Human Dignity and Form of Revelation of God in the Work of Immanuel Kant and Karol Wojtyla

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Waleszczuk Z.
The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II
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2013
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vol. 3
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issue 1
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The aim of this analysis is to show the categorical imperative as the cornerstone of human dignity and form of revelation of God in the work of Immanuel Kant and Karol Wojtyla. The suspicious and distant attitude of Christian philosophers, as well as the Catholic Church compared to Kant has a long history. To this day there are only a few researches that analyse from this point of view (Kantian influences) the philosophical thinking of Karol Wojtyla. Though Kant identified the question of God as the cardinal question of our abstract rationality, he believed in God and future life, even in his lifetime he was underestimated, misunderstood and treated with hostility. The experience of duty is”ratio conoscendi” of freedom in Kant and Wojtyla. For the two thinkers the question of freedom is the basic category of there philosophies. Through which authority moral law challenges the human being? Kant and Wojtyla, both philosophers comprehend the highest authority as divine power which formulated the moral law before man. The “holy lawmaker” – God – reveals himself in the human act.
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Rodzina według św. Jana Pawła II

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Waleszczuk Z.
Roczniki Teologiczne
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2015
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vol. 62
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issue 10: Nauki o rodzinie
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The family is a place where man discovers his own dignity, where he learns the meaning of love. Family is a school of solidarity. The defense and rediscovery of the human person and his/hers determination to transcendence is, according to Karol Wojtyla, the most important question of our culture. Conjugal love in the image of communio personarum, is presented as the most perfect form of love. Wojtyla tries to describe this shortened spiritualistic view in a human-friendly and family-friendly way. In Pope's philosophy, the experience of me-and-you love plays an extraordinary role. In today's threat to the integrity of the family John Paul II realizes the most fateful dimension of self-alienation of modern man and brings it to the formula „culture of death”. On the other hand, the family is „the place where the culture of life – a school of solidarity – is represented”.
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Rodzina jest miejscem, w którym człowiek odnajduje własną godność i uczy się miłości. Rodzina to także szkoła solidarności. Ochrona osoby ludzkiej i na nowo odkrycie jej przeznaczenia do transcendencji jest – według Karola Wojtyły – najważniejszym zagadnieniem współczesnej kultury. Papież podkreśla, że miłość małżeńska w communio personarum oznacza najwyższą formę miłości. Duchowy aspekt w rozwoju człowieka, a także doświadczenie miłości między ludźmi są bardzo ważnymi wymiarami w filozofii K. Wojtyły. W dzisiejszym świecie, w którym istnieje wiele zagrożeń dla integralności rodziny, Jan Paweł II ukazuje najbardziej pesymistyczny wymiar samoalienacji współczesnego człowieka, który sprowadza się do „kultury śmierci”. Z drugiej jednak strony – jak podkreśla Papież – tylko w rodzinie człowiek uczy się solidarności i może się w niej rozwijać kultura życia.
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