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Na drogach świętości. Intelektualno−duchowa sylwetka Karola Wojtyły–Jana Pawła II

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SZOSTEK, MIC A.

Ethos. Kwartalnik Instytutu Jana Pawła II KUL

2011

vol. 24

issue 1 2(93 94)

Speaking of the holiness of an eminent person is always risky, since holiness is in every case part of the sphere of the human being’s intimate contact with God, to which no «outsider» has access. I nevertheless dare present some – deeply personal – remarks on the subject of the holiness of John Paul II, because he himself as if encouraged it by the fact that he was living his life before the eyes of the world, accepting that he was constantly being watched by others. It was striking first of all that he practised responsible conscientiousness in the realization of the mission which had been entrusted to him and which he had accepted as his personal task. On numerous occasions Karol Wojtyła–John Paul II demonstrated that he perceived every challenge in his life as part of the mission given to him ultimately by God himself. In this sense, one might say, he did not distinguish the religious dimension of his life from what constituted the field of his work. Secondly, it was characteristic of him that he always sought the fullness of truth: even in the case of ideas he put under criticism, he would always explore them in order to find any elements that might turn out pertinent, and he wanted a vision of the human being and of morality that would take into consideration a broad panorama of approaches, opening one up to the fullness of God himself. Thirdly, and most importantly, John Paul II was above all seeking God and continually offering his life to God. His pontifical motto Totus Tuus evoked the holy Virgin Mary, but his genuine Marian devotion had a Christocentric bent: he considered the Holy Virgin Mary a paragon to follow and wanted to be stand− ing under the cross of Christ together with her, and – like her – to lead all hu− man persons towards Christ, who has genuinely loved them. Translated by Dorota Chabrajska Lecture delivered at the symposium “John Paul: The Calling to Holiness,” held by the John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of Lublin on 4 November2010.

O respekcie dla moralnej mocy prawdy. Niedo− kończone rozmowy z ks. Tadeuszem Styczniem

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SZOSTEK, MIC A.

Ethos. Kwartalnik Instytutu Jana Pawła II KUL

2011

vol. 24

issue 3 (95)

A landmark in the output of Tadeusz Styczeń, SDS, was his lecture “Freedom in Truth,” published in 1988. It was there that Styczeń for the first time stated that the recognition of a truth, even of a most banal truth, is so binding for human freedom that a betrayal of any truth stated by the subject and recognized by him or her as true is a violence done to this personal subject, who is rational and free, and this is so regardless of any other harm such a betrayal of truth might trigger. This precious idea, inspired by the events from the Solidarity period in Poland deserves a gracious and critical continuation, which was difficult for Styczeń himself due to his deteriorating health. The author of the article points to the fact that stating a truth is inescapably connected to its valuation and to the recognition that at the given moment precisely this truth, out of an infinite number of possible truths, deserves being known and recognized as true. However, the attempt, undertaken by Styczeń, to derive personalism from his analysis of a cognitive act of truth knowing will fail unless it incorporates the experience of knowing the value of the person and his or her dignity, «given» to the subject to recognize. Thus the aim of an ethicist must be to combine the «inner» experience of the subject’s freedom being bound by the truth he or she has recognized with the «external» one, which consists in knowing the value of the recognized being, in particular of a personal being. Translated by Dorota Chabrajska

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Na drogach świętości. Intelektualno−duchowa sylwetka Karola Wojtyły–Jana Pawła II

O respekcie dla moralnej mocy prawdy. Niedo− kończone rozmowy z ks. Tadeuszem Styczniem